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Mormegil
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I don't do as much knife sparring as I'd like, as I don't do much FMA anymore (less time and money right now), so I may be way off base. But here goes:
I made an interesting observation (or at least in my case). While knife sparring somebody with no real training, I noticed something. When I have a knife, I find it less likely that I will disarm a knife wielding attacker, compared to when I am unarmed.
My theory goes - If an attacker has a knife, and you don't - they will likely go for main body targets, requiring commited attacks, which are easier to grab and control.
On the other hand, if you have a knife, they will be less likely to attack main body parts, and only go for "defanging the snake" (in FMA terms), or attacking the attacking limb to effectively disarm me. This means, less commited attacks, more feints, and hence harder to get a hold of or control of the attacking limb.
In addition to these, if I have a knife, I feel "safer" staying outside, and "whittling" away at my attacker, hit their hand, forearm, etc. But if I am unarmed, I feel safer trying to control the weapon / weapon hand, and I am more likely to grab.
Does this make sense? Anybody agree, disagree or can add anything?
I made an interesting observation (or at least in my case). While knife sparring somebody with no real training, I noticed something. When I have a knife, I find it less likely that I will disarm a knife wielding attacker, compared to when I am unarmed.
My theory goes - If an attacker has a knife, and you don't - they will likely go for main body targets, requiring commited attacks, which are easier to grab and control.
On the other hand, if you have a knife, they will be less likely to attack main body parts, and only go for "defanging the snake" (in FMA terms), or attacking the attacking limb to effectively disarm me. This means, less commited attacks, more feints, and hence harder to get a hold of or control of the attacking limb.
In addition to these, if I have a knife, I feel "safer" staying outside, and "whittling" away at my attacker, hit their hand, forearm, etc. But if I am unarmed, I feel safer trying to control the weapon / weapon hand, and I am more likely to grab.
Does this make sense? Anybody agree, disagree or can add anything?