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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Inktober Day #18 - Dwight McLemore's/American Fighting Congress' "Window of Combat"

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Continuing my research into knifefighting and combining it with drawing a picture a day, here is Day 18th's drawing. The focus today is on Dwight McLemore's/American Fighting Congress' "Window of Combat" which is like the Box Theory of my 2 previous pictures. In case you missed them:



From "Bowie and Big-Knife Fighting System" (2003)
By Dwight C. McLemore
Pages 89-90


2ND PICTURE CAPTION

Application of window of combat - principle of inside and outside the box. Both fighters are inside the box.

NOTES

  • Cocncept as taught from W. Hock Hochheim's American Fighting Congress
  • Imaginary rectangles bounded by shoulders and hips.
  • Some Renaissance masters of defense defined this concept as a circle of opponent's vulnerable points.
  • On the dark side, the area is from which opponent can fire both accurate thrusts and cuts at you.
  • When inside the box or window, be aware that you have to 'deal with the steel' by parry or feint to obtain an attack opening inside the window.


P.S. Props to my friend 'casteel' for the reminder of W. Hock Hochheim's/Col. Dwight McLemore/American Fighting Congress' "Window of Combat" when I posted the Inktober Day #16- "Box Theory" by Terry Trahan sketch I drew.

DIGRESSION:  I highly recommend all of Col. Dwight McLemore's books - love them all! And with Paladin Press shutting down their business towards the end of November, you can buy them at 55% off if there is inventory left.



My drawings for Inktober 2017 - drawing at least 1 pic each day in October:


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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Inktober Day #17 - Bob Kasper's 5th Principle of Knifefighting - "Stay in the box."

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Yesterday for Inktober, I drew Terry Trahan's Box Theory. Today, Day 17 of Inktober, I research Bob Kasper's Box Theory and drew a picture.

I like this book so much, that I have both the hardcopy and the PDF! Below is my copy and paste of Kasper's 5th Principle - "Stay in the box."

Truly hope this project has helped you in your Sojourn of Septillion Steps!


My previous drawings/notes on Bob Kasper's Kni-Com in case you missed them: 


Bob Kasper's "Sting of the Scorpion" (2009) page 54

5. Keep your knife in the box.

From draw to finish, your knife should stay in the “box.” The box is an imaginary field drawn from your body to your adversary’s body. The ends of the box are made by rectangular planes on the front of your body and the back of your opponent’s body. The top of the box reaches from the top of your head to the top of his head. The bottom of the box is from your groin line to his groin line. The sides of the box are shoulder width from head to groin, reaching out to the plane on the back of the adversary’s body. There is nothing to strike on the outside of this imaginary box, so don’t leave its confines. When your knife leaves the box, you are looping your technique, which makes it more telegraphic and easier to intercept. Keep your strikes compact and efficient. Stay in the box.


My drawings for Inktober 2017 - drawing at least 1 pic each day in October:


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Friday, August 23, 2013

Vunak's Top 50 Combat Secrets Ch. 13

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Chapter 13 : The Secret to De-Fanging The Snake


When two street fighters are engaged in a edged weapons match, 99 out of a 100 times, the victor will be the person who understands “De-Fanging the Snake”. When we use this expression, the snake refers to the opponent and the fang refers to the weapon. So de-fanging the snake simply means, cutting the opponents weapon hand(once the tendons and ligaments are severed in the hand, the snake is defanged, at this point one can kill it or let it go).


Approximately 1 in 100 weapons fighters actually know and apply this principle. And if you are lucky enough to be one of those people, who know to attack the opponent’s weapon hand you will be in the 1% of people that are victorious in combat.


Lets say out of 10,000 legitimate weapons fighters, the top 1 % of these folks, all know the principle of de-fanging the snake. So that would be 100 people. Now lets say you take 1 person out of this 100, and teach this person our “flash-light” principle. He would beat the other 99 people, 99 out of 100 times.


De-fanging the snake and then applying the “flash-light” principle together will make a world class knife fighter. So by now, you must be asking your self, what in the heck is the “flash-light” principle.


Most individuals that pick up a weapon, usually hold it incorrectly(As if they were boxing). This incorrect method of holding a knife not only points your weapon directly at your own face, it simultaneously leaves your hand wide open for an attack. In order to prevent this, we point the tip of our knife directly at the opponent’s hand. Now when the opponent tries to cut your hand, he gets his own hand cut. The tip of the knife serves to protect your hand. When the opponent sees this strategy, they will cease coming in directly, and start tacking in at different angles. So in order to prevent this, we simply imagine our knife as a flash-light and we attempt to illuminate the opponents attacking hand. Where ever this opponent moves their hand, the tip of our knife follows. It is important to note, that this action need only take place at the wrist. The rest of the arm should be snuggled up and actually touching the body.


When one’s knife hand is about a foot from the body and one’s arm is touching the body, and only ones wrist is moving, continually following the opponents weapon hand, in conjunction with Mohammed Ali type of footwork, this is as close to an air tight defense that one can posses. Now out of this continual movement, combined with our flash-light principle, if we want to apply offense we simply lash-out and cut the opponent’s hand. Most of the time this is an angle 2 trajectory. That is an extremely quick snapping motion, however it is imperative that the knife returns back to the flash-light instantly. If you can picture the scene, one is way out in long-range, dancing around with foot-work like Mohammed Ali, the knife is close to the body, and moving independent of our footwork, and there is an occasional lash out at the opponent’s hand, de-fanging the snake, and return back to flash-light.


So we have footwork, faking, flash-light, and the occasional defang.


Training Drill:


After 30 years of various evolutionary training methods, I can give you the single best. Yes the bulls-eye of all training methods with a knife. Buy a laser pointer, duct tape it to your knife, spar with whomever, and log several hours keeping their hand illuminated. After several hours of this type of sparring, you will notice that your wrist appears to have a brain of its own, moving in one direction and your feet independent of the wrist will have a brain of they’re own moving in yet another direction. When two of my very top knife fighters, say Cruse and Singh, are engaged in sparring, it usually takes between 5 and 10 minutes for somebody to score 1 point. And if you think about it, putting so much emphasis on defense, is a logical paradigm when you are fighting with a razor. Welcome to the world of world class.




Please check the Table of Contents for links to other chapters of this Online Book.


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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Tony Blauer - CWCT (Closest Weapon, Closest Target)

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Tony Blauer on "Closest Weapon, Closest Target" - performance enhancement!


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