Knife Fighting: A Practical Course by Michael Janich

Author:Michael Janich [Janich, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Martial Blade Concepts LLC
Published: 2020-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Withdrawing your knife after a successful thrust can be a chore. The proper withdrawal technique, known as a comma cut, makes it much easier and safer. The comma cut combines a hard push off with the free hand and a simultaneous pulling and rotating of the knife hand. This not only frees the knife blade but greatly enlarges the wound channel .

Although, in general the two-hit rule stands, there is one exception to this rule that will allow you to get in an extra cut or sometimes even two during a brief clash. This exception is the abanico combination cut described in the chapter on basic cuts and thrusts. The speed of this technique can allow you to use it as if it were only a single cut.

A well-executed double tap should result in your blade cutting deeply or getting stuck deeply into some vital part of your opponent’s anatomy. While this will be highly unpleasant for him, it will not necessarily prevent him from continuing his efforts to carve on you, either while you’re still in close or as you withdraw and break away. To protect yourself from this, you need to learn to break contact safely. This is done by using a combination of a push off and, if recovering from a thrust, a comma cut. Refer to the chapter on basic cuts and thrusts for a detailed description of these techniques.

I have already emphasized that you should always practice and be prepared to take the fight to the very end: the death of your opponent. If, based on the situation, you decide to stop the fight short and vacate the area after wounding your attacker, it’s your call. If you decide up front that you’re going to have to kill your attacker, once you’ve wounded him, continue cutting him for as long as you safely can to finish him off. If your first few cuts found their mark and you back off, you will have to close with him again if you decide to finish the job. If he’s pumping blood all over the place, you could hang around and wait for him to bleed to death, but that’s both inconvenient and uncertain. Moving in to finish the job with the knife exposes you to greater danger, especially if he’s still armed.

If your opponent is already down, an easier and safer solution is to stay at a distance and stun him with a few well-placed kicks to the head. When the kicks have him sufficiently dazed, you can safely move in and finish with the knife. If your attacker is still on his feet, a solid kick to the knee will put him down. Then you can follow with the same drill.

It is curious to note that, in addition to the obvious danger of suffering bodily injury when confronting someone with a knife, these days there is a whole new danger to worry about: AIDS. As we all know, AIDS can be transmitted by mixing blood with an infected person.

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