Real Knife Scene – “Can I borrow your Klever Sir?” KarambitKnives,com

Towards the ending of the Martial Workshop show-reel I always wanted to show how scary and difficult it really is when faced with a knife. The problem with most MA Training videos is that the person is not usually going for the other person with any real intent and fake knives are usually being used. You can however, see real or ‘live blades’ being used in some Philippine style videos, but again they are usually being applied in very control ‘drill-patterns or formats’.

I want to do the opposite and show really how difficult it is when faced with not only a real or ‘live-blade’. but at long range as someone is coming in to bridge the gap. If an attacker pulls at knife at a closer range it is indeed much easy to grab/intercept the blade before the attacker gets any real attack patterns forming; thus making some kind of disarm (maybe) possible. But at long range one is faced with a whole different animal. simple answer is firstly, “To get the hell out of there!”, but if that is not possible, then “Get an equalizer, fast!”. Whats an equalizer? A chair, a stall, a stick, another knife, move behind another lager (key-word being LARGER!) object; essentially, anything which you can put between yourself and that knife.

In this show-reel there are some fake knives being used for “demo” purposes and some knife drills are also displayed, but we did produce a shot one ‘Real Knife’ scene. (Warning: If facing a knife you will be cut in close range, but what I will say, is having been in that situation and seen several more, this is the better and safer method apart from not being there at all. I see many people teaching knife defenses or training on YouTube but ‘have they even faced a real knife at lest once (even in training!)?’ Either way, the above is “safer” option. Long or complex take-downs and disarms can get you killed; very different when the guy is swinging that live blade fast, with real intent to cut you up and in real-time with no set pattern/s, rules or per-arranged form/s.

This is a rather large klever which is a lot more common in South East Asia (which is were our camp is currently based since 2004, but this method can, of course, work on other blades with-in context. Blade “fighting” is a mind-field and one that you really never want to being walking into for any reason. This is a great drill to try to get as near as one can not to mention a real rush! Further more, there is no such thing as ‘knife-fighting’ per-say, only knife survival, its not a fancy drill or pattern or game, but a one way ticket to a lot of pain or death, which is why it is always recommend the above method over others (if possible!). Keep it real and enjoy the mayhem. ©themartialartsworkshopbangkok2017

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