Yup, preservation of your training partner comes into play. We use riot baton gloves on the ramp up ;)

Thanks for your observations:) In all my years of police work, I never met a samurai walking down the street. I have been attacked with pool cues, hockey sticks, grass hockey sticks, a tire iron and a broken chair leg that almost cost me the use of my left eye. In this presentation you see my young assailant using a piece of scrap wood he found and I’m using an old piece of a wood dowel I took out of a closet.. Improvised weapons someone might pick up on the street or in a house. After a career as a Soldier humpin’ rucks and decades of kicking samurais’ in the head this old man has bad knees However I do have a very special walking stick I had made one that a katana would not be able to cut through... ;)

Thanks for the comment, this is a portion of our training that involves impact weapon on impact weapon, as we cover all aspects of combatives empty handed and weapons/improvised weapons. And yes I'm an old man with buggered infantry Knees, I do often walk about with my Shillelagh stick

​@@RSMWolfeEvery man of a certain age that I see walking around has a stick of some sort. They're not stupid or wasting energy. Very odd comment though for a guy named "billyclub9863". Ironic and less creative than at least 9862 other people.

lots more to come :)

​@@RSMWolfe thank you sir! Waiting in line...

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@@RSMWolfe That will do. Thx

Thanks for your comment and concern. Yes on my course we go over alternate methods of striking including but not limited to : palm strikes, knife hands, hammer-fist battering ram... and so forth We include areas of the body you should avoid with a closed fist, as yes, you could break your hand. However. The boxing stance and basics strikes are the foundation and best delivery system to adapt other skills off.. so we teach to hit hard and fast and penetrate force. It's incredibly easy to swap out a closed fist to a palm strike if you are taught right with a good foundation.

@@RSMWolfe Understood, thank you for the reply. I assume the enemy is wearing body armor.

Well as we have said all along " how you train, is how you react" an old school military statement we harp on.

@@RSMWolfe Thank you for the reply. I am big on subconscious conditioning, to the point where when doing gun disarms, we don't hand the weapon back and forth to each other, as an example.

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I don't think you know who this man is...

He was putting his weight forward where it would be hard for his opponent to arm lock him.

talking about pulling a knife out if he relieves pressure

A TWINKIE like you WOULDN'T make it ....There's only alive or DEAD...ON THE STREETS.....

@@johnketchun2816 LOL

Thanks for comment and yes we have more than a few solid MMA guys and gals on my courses. They embrace the tactics we talk about in this video appreciating the mind/body connection required to attack. They embrace better the cross over from a sports mindset to the street mindset we’re talking about here. I would say better then those who are use to playing tag in the ring and/or follow a more mystical style of martial arts training mindset. Keep in mind military combatives was and is still the first true mixed fighting system and good MMA types bring lot of those solid skill sets on course and I love it.

Put a real knife in the equation and no MMA fighter who wants to keep his limbs, organs and life intact will show up.

@@giqwaju3691 Thanks for the comment. From my years of patrolling the streets no one shows up to a knife fight these days like the 'good old Jim Bowie days'. Most assaults are butcher and bolt, no-one regardless of training is prepared for that very real violence. I think we all need to stop talking about these incidents like it's a scene from a movie. Training for this hurts and it's hard if it's real but having said that, again from my experience as a cop and soldier, is you survive a knife attack and that should not be left up to luck, but rather specific training that teaches you to manage the attack and take care of the threat! :)

Thank you sir for life and death reality that you preach in these times......unless you're ready to go the Wall don't put hands on Anyone