Concrete Jungle: A Green Beret's guide to Urban Survival by Clay Martin

Author:Clay Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2020-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

7 Edged Weapons Secrets of the

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Stabby Things

Knives have their own chapter due to the fact that they are so misunderstood. Of al the weapons available, this one has the most nonsense applied to it. To start, I have bad news: there is no such thing as a professional on this one, but plenty of amateurs get it right every day.

The critical weakness of knife training is that we have no way to test it. With hand-to-hand, those things exist. If you think your 37th level chain belt in Kung Fu means you are unbeatable, drop by your local MMA gym. They wil indulge you; just take a mouth guard and know you may get your feelings hurt. With gunfight stuff, we can also test the technique. Cops shoot people everyday even if they don’t always shoot wel . Over the last twenty years, we on the military side have shot tens of thousands of people. We can also use a clock and targets. If some magic to do otherwise existed we would have adopted it by now. I would chal enge you to show me one modern knife instructor that has kil ed a man with a blade. If we are going to talk about being an actual subject matter authority, it shouldn’t be virgins talking about sex. For that matter, I only personal y know two SOF guys with knife kil s and I asked every time I taught a class. Of those two, neither had any real background in knife training. One guy stabbed him through the top of the head and the other “buried the knife in his chest to the hilt.”

Into this arena come the charlatans, fil ing the vacuum with

garbage. The more exotic sounding, the better. Without some method of sorting diamonds from bul shit it is quite difficult to say who is legit.

So why are we even bothering with a knife?

In my opinion, knives are drastical y underrated. We haven’t seen a lot of them used in the GWOT for two primary reasons. First, SOF real y lost its knife culture around the mid ‘80s when we transitioned to a pistol culture. For our Vietnam veteran forefathers, knives were a commonly used weapon. Men like “Bul ” Simons had literal y dozens of knife kil s, some of which are even mentioned sporadical y in medal citations. Second, rifles real y improved in reliability in the ‘90s, which means using any kind of secondary weapon is abnormal nowadays. Knives actual y made quite a comeback around 2007 as the CQB fight heated up in Iraq. The SOCP (Special Operations Combatives Program) dagger is a shining example. Mostly intended as a “get off me weapon” to get to your pistol, it is a knife nonetheless.

For you, a street fight needing lethal force is unlikely to see you with a rifle and pistol, at least in the early stages of a conflict. Your pistol may jam, run out of ammo or just be inaccessible.

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