U.S. Army's Basic Hand To Hand Fighting of World War 1 (Silent film)
This is interesting footage of basic hand to hand combative drills from WWI.
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KNIFE DEFENSE IS DECEIVING I have seen a lot of knife defense over the years. Some good, most astonishingly bad. The issue with knife fighting is most fighters don't understand is what I call the Hand vs. Weapon Paradox . When you first learn to protect yourself from a strike with an empty hand you are taught to block the oncoming attack with the standard go to defense for your system. There is nothing wrong with this. As you advance in your training you generally find that blocking the strike is far less important than attacking the unit (attacker) as a whole. When I teach new students we work on breaking the habitual mindset of having to block an individual strike and attack the whole unit (attacker). This rule remains the same for defending against edges or bludgeoning weapons. SO JUST DISARM THE KNIFE, RIGHT? The Hand Vs. Weapon Paradox (which I explain in an earlier post ) holds that in order to defend against the...
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