The ways to survive goes beyond martial skills. You also need to work with weapons like knives to be able to survive any combat. Combats and fights are actually internal things. Similar to the way you learned how to dance, learning martial skills like knife fighting techniques must take a great deal of motivation to survive serious attempts to your life.
In truth, knife attacks never meant to just ask for a fight. Most of the time, such attacks are intended for assassinations. They are intended to kill. In most instances, knife attacks are cold blooded and well calculated. This explains why the use of the knife in fights is very seldom claimed as consistent with self defense. In this light, learning knife fighting techniques provides you with instructions on how to immobilize or kill your opponent. Similar to the idea of combats, it is geared towards achieving one upsmanship. What’s more challenging is that such techniques are often designed to deal with knife against empty hand, gun against knife, or knife against club situations because knife to knife matches almost never happens, not on the real world in that case.
One of the basic things that you should learn about knife fighting techniques is the various styles and tricks of holding a knife. Learning these techniques is mainly focused in developing offensive and defensive grips of knives. Through there are more grip style variations; you can fight with knives using either forward or reverse grip techniques.
Hammer, saber and Filipino grips are the main variations of forward grip. Wrapping your hand and making a fist around the handle of your knife gives you the hammer grip. Placing your thumb on top of the handle or on the flat of the blade gives you the saber grip position. The Filipino grip is basically a modified hammer grip where the thumb is positioned along, in contact with or floating above the spine of the knife. Forward grips are used to gain more finesse and longer fighting range.
Variations of reverse grip include the regular and ice pick grips. The regular reverse grip or reverse grip edge out is done by wrapping your hand around the handle, making a fist and positioning the thumb at the capping handle with the edge of the knife facing away your forearm. This is also called the murdering grip. Do you remember the shower scene in the movie "Psycho"? To do the ice pick grip, you basically do the regular reverse knife grip but with the edge of the knife facing the forearm. Reverse grip is often effective in knife against knife combats as it strike powerfully with closer proximity between you and your opponent.
With real life attacks, you must know certain facts about knife fighting techniques. First, do not ever assume that you will have enough time to draw your weapon. Remember that an assailant with a knife is in for a kill, not for a fight. You should practice drawing your knife effectively in place and in position at an incredible rate of speed. Since knife fighting is dangerous, do not ever allow yourself to be cornered. As a human being, you are given the intelligence to strategize and even use deception to your advantage. It is actually difficult to corner anyone who is determined to leave, or shall we say live. Commit to your course of action, stay focused and fight at your full capacity if an attack is inevitable.
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