How much stick/ knife training is really necessary???

[TridentOne]

You don't want to only focus on technique, even though you may only train for fun. For instance with sticks, your hands need to feel the sticks banging or your likely to run into problems if you need to use a stick for SD. Technique is nice but hard practice is necessary to get used to the banging and adrenaline.

 

[Langenschwert]

Simply put, if you want to learn how to deal with weapons, you've got to learn how to use them. If you think that training "knife defence" once a week is going to cut it, you're dead wrong. If you're really serious about using your unarmed training to fend off a knife attack, then it's something you've got to train every day. There are so many ways a knife weilder can mess up a skilled unarmed MAist it's not even funny. Remember that even today, 60% of stabbings are fatal.

So the answer is: if you want to be prepared to use it for real, you've got to train it LOTS.

Best regards,

-Mark