I'm quite interested in knife-defense, and, actually, this is one of my primary reasons for learning FMA.
However, I just can't seem to make my knife-tapping work against a fully resisting opponent at speed. It works in training, but as the speed increases I can't seem to be at the right place at the right time. It seems that one has to turn the body to meet the knife and get offline (because you're parrying with the opposite arm), and it just takes too long to get there/reorient like that at speed.
It seems that either I miss the weapon hand entirely, don't get there in time, or get there with weak structure (because I didn't turn enough) that doesn't stop the attack. I also don't seem to be able to acquire the knife with a tertiary hand parry. Oddly enough, it's much easier to grab, though, and I have great success just grabbing it with no thought of parrying or technique.
I'd like to make tapping functional, though, and "debug" my technique and/or practice, if you will. I suppose that it may just be that I need to practice it much more, and slowly increase the level of speed/adversity. But, it concerns me that it's completely nonfunctional for me right now. I've trained this a number of times under different teachers, so I wasn't under the impression that my technique is that off, but...
Any tips from your experience as to how to train this / what I might be doing poorly?
However, I just can't seem to make my knife-tapping work against a fully resisting opponent at speed. It works in training, but as the speed increases I can't seem to be at the right place at the right time. It seems that one has to turn the body to meet the knife and get offline (because you're parrying with the opposite arm), and it just takes too long to get there/reorient like that at speed.
It seems that either I miss the weapon hand entirely, don't get there in time, or get there with weak structure (because I didn't turn enough) that doesn't stop the attack. I also don't seem to be able to acquire the knife with a tertiary hand parry. Oddly enough, it's much easier to grab, though, and I have great success just grabbing it with no thought of parrying or technique.
I'd like to make tapping functional, though, and "debug" my technique and/or practice, if you will. I suppose that it may just be that I need to practice it much more, and slowly increase the level of speed/adversity. But, it concerns me that it's completely nonfunctional for me right now. I've trained this a number of times under different teachers, so I wasn't under the impression that my technique is that off, but...
Any tips from your experience as to how to train this / what I might be doing poorly?