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Martial Arts Topics / Re: Die Less Often: Interface of Gun, Knife and Emtpy Hand
« on: February 11, 2007, 04:26:28 PM »
I am posting this at Crafty's request. It is the text of an Email I sent to him about the private session he taught for a small group of us on Fri January 19th in Memphis TN and the regular session he taught for the Warrior Talk Symposium that weekend. It refers to a session taught by Michael Brown titled "Fighting in the Clinch in a Weapons Based Environment". The climax of the 2 hour block (which I got to take twice) was two against one assaults by 2 of Michael's instructors wearing FIST helmets and MMA gloves.
"That weekend showed a lot about how there are concepts that translate between stick, knife, gun and empty hand. For instance we take our stick guru's work in the Kali false lead. It not only is useful in stick and knife fighting, but we see from Gabe's work that it has gunfighting potential too with getting one off the X and out of the way of incoming fire/incoming blows. It also translated well in Michael Brown's clinch class. In my 2 on 1 "assaults", both times I "zoned" to the left side of the left adversary while throwing a strike to his face to cause him to pause. This put him between me and the other guy as I moved to "flank" the first guy. From there I accessed tools and solved the problem(stabbed and shot them!).
Now at the same time, several folks got "sandwiched" between the two assailants when they did not get to the "outside" of one or the other. But the Kali False lead and triangle footwork made fighting 2 guys at the same time much easier to accomplish since I was able to get "around and outside" the 1st and then just have to fight one at a time instead of getting wrapped up by both.
Just thought you might find this interesting. "
By using the KFL I felt like I had a little "head start" on getting to the outside and then being able to use one guy to shield me from the other guy as I worked to acquire better position and acquire a tool to deal with the disparity of force.
"That weekend showed a lot about how there are concepts that translate between stick, knife, gun and empty hand. For instance we take our stick guru's work in the Kali false lead. It not only is useful in stick and knife fighting, but we see from Gabe's work that it has gunfighting potential too with getting one off the X and out of the way of incoming fire/incoming blows. It also translated well in Michael Brown's clinch class. In my 2 on 1 "assaults", both times I "zoned" to the left side of the left adversary while throwing a strike to his face to cause him to pause. This put him between me and the other guy as I moved to "flank" the first guy. From there I accessed tools and solved the problem(stabbed and shot them!).
Now at the same time, several folks got "sandwiched" between the two assailants when they did not get to the "outside" of one or the other. But the Kali False lead and triangle footwork made fighting 2 guys at the same time much easier to accomplish since I was able to get "around and outside" the 1st and then just have to fight one at a time instead of getting wrapped up by both.
Just thought you might find this interesting. "
By using the KFL I felt like I had a little "head start" on getting to the outside and then being able to use one guy to shield me from the other guy as I worked to acquire better position and acquire a tool to deal with the disparity of force.