I know I'm going to ramble on in parts, so bear with me...
In fist fighting, and in shooting, we've been taught to go for center mass. Always go for the big target to minimize sighting errors.
When knife fighting this is not necessarily true.
Never ignore targets of opportunity. Why settle for blocking a strike when you can render the attacking limb useless?
Use the empty hands and your legs to create openings.
Here's an example:
(Earth blade)
Attacker goes to stike with a right.
You do a block with your left at the wrist (not a grab, a block just behind the wrist)
As you block, your right (with the knife) slices through the bicep. Don't stop the motion.
After passing through the bicep, reverse your movement direction, bringing the blade point first into his throat. ( you are between the throat and the spine)
Variation:
Instead of slicing through the bicep, bring the blade straight through the rotator cuff, top of the shoulder.
You can now either do the stab with the knife to the throat, or collapse your knife arm and do an elbow strike to the head or the jaw line.
Variation two:
punch the knife fist into the solar plexus. As you make contact, bring your arm up and past his neck, blade into flesh the whole time.
Variation three:
Same as two, except bring knife straight up sternum into chin. Reverse direction and plunge knife at the top of the ribcage by the adams apple.
Hows that for a single technique with a few variations?
Get a training knife or a piece of frim rubber or foam to practice with.
More to follow.
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