Small vid from self-defence competition

[jekabs]

Hello all and greetings from Latvia!
I'd like to share with a small video from our wtf taekwondo competition in Latvia.
Me and my training companion made up a self defence program against axe (haha, we wanted something original) in ~6 training sessions. I'm 17 & he's 23, both 1st Dan. Messed up a little in a few spots, but overall we got 2nd place. Comments welcome!

soundtrack: pendulum - slam (

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[theletch1]

Excellent vid and great ukemi. One question though, why weren't ya'll disarming until after two or three attacks had been made with the hatchet? Was it just for demo purposes or do you teach a "knockout" blow without the need to recover the weapon?

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[dortiz]

Great job. You crammed a lot in to that demo. I really enjoyed it.

Dave O.

 

[jekabs]

One question though, why weren't ya'll disarming until after two or three attacks had been made with the hatchet? Was it just for demo purposes or do you teach a "knockout" blow without the need to recover the weapon?

very often we use a lot of self defence techniques without defending from any weapons or maybe from just a knife, but this time we wanted a pure defence from hatchet, and, yea, most of it was for demonstration purpose.