Tag: knife fighting

ON KNIFE STRESS DRAWS (and other weapons)…

Getting the weapon off of-from-out of your carry sites with your everyday clothing wear is important training. In this generic, free-from-formal art subject, in my four major hand, stick, knife, gun Survival Centric combatives courses doctrine, we really worry about…the quick draw. There are separate training module topics. Within each topic are different citizen, police and the military concerns-methods. The variations are simple. Know-follow the laws and rules of engagement. Crime is crime. War is war. Screw that up and be jailed, and-or sued, and-or dead.

SABER GRIP VERSUS REVERSE GRIP

“WHERE THE POINTY END STICKS OUT.“There is some, to, too-much time spent in the military, martial […]

YOU DID IT! HE DROPPED THE KNIFE? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

YOU DID IT! HE DROPS THE KNIFE! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?Convergence knife. Knife combatives. Converging the law […]

MILITARY KNIFE RESEARCH COURSE by Hock Hochheim

A few years back now I wrote the missive tome, “The Knife Combatives” book. No brag, […]

PRACTICED AT THE ART OF DECEPTION. FAKES AND STRING THEORY!

A string! One great fake that opens a hole, then one stunning blow, then a tree-step […]

HAVE I FALLEN ON THE KNIFE? BIG MISTAKES I HAVE MADE TEACHING MY KNIFE COURSE OVER THE DECADES

Or…How To, or How NOT To, Maintain a Popular Knife Course Through time, the who, what, […]

THE “MUST HAVE BEEN IN FIGHTS” INSTRUCTOR STANDARD?

I stumbled upon yet another character on the web that criticizes knife instructors (in general) and […]

THE POINTY END (of Knives and Bullets)

Like our Hoplite above. He stuck the pointy end in first, but then, what happens next? […]

FIGHTING KNIVES, FRUITS TO NUTS?

  Notes on Paring Knives, Kitchen Knives for Knife Fighting? This is my knife, there are […]

Hock the Filipino Gringo of FMA

Okay folks. Bare with me. I have a few martial ranks through the years, (like a […]