Spiking your target - 1st master deployments and dealing with the knife.

In a prior article, we talked about Fiore's  dagger, and how it gets used. Today, we'll expand on that concept a bit.

I'll let the video do most of the talking, but i want to label this here.

In this class we are doing two types of dagger deployment. One is against the random assault, or the hold up. This is a classic approach to anti-dagger training. The flaw here is that while a good tool to teach the concept, the position is far too static. This is not a game of battle ship, where in we stand and duke it out.

The Second set of drill will take the concept taught in the first, and see if the students can apply these techniques in a more dynamic, less co-operative environment. Now I want to be clear, this is not scenario training, nor is it sparring. This is simply creating a situation where all the pieces are moving, and the agent is not compliant.

Here is an example of a "controlled context drill", which is NOT sparring, but allows the studet to begin to explore the situation, not just the technique at hand. (ALEX here has freedom to use any technique he knows, which is a fair number)

https://youtu.be/R9GST5CM0wE



Now, feel free to use you imagination to build on this drill or create other situations with which to deal. My favorites are when the player have reached a neutral bind, sword on sword, and one of them transitions to the dagger.