Don't look to cutting connective tissue or muscle for non-lethal tactics.
Oh, I know what bio mechanical cutting is.......I just don't understand looking for a lack of emphasis on it.
Doesn't teach it as a go-to
Again, one has to question, why?
You ask as if you have an answer in mind...
With so many knife systems coming out of countries like the Philippines, Indonesia or South Africa, is there any system that requires a high quality blade?
The specialists I've spent time with tell me that face attacks are more reliable, and translate across edged weapons of varying quality and make.
I'm well aware of the reality of knife attacks. I'm just looking for systems that have already extracted what's pragmatic from traditional systems such as FMA or Silat.
I really don't know much about all the specific systems. I've seen a little bit of silat, FMA, Piper, MBC, and Libre.
I'm just trying to sort the systems available for study, preferable something that's been modified based on modern fighting experiences.
So, again, do any of those systems require a high quality blade?
FMA and MBC seem to place heavy emphasis on directing limbs into a blade to disable them. It would be harder to do with smaller and less sharp edged weapons.
Sure, if you are in a duel, I want to disable your limbs from hitting me because they might be carrying a weapon. If you aren't "knife fighting" and most real world engagements aren't, then you don't need to do that and you use the knife on more important targets. And quite frankly most systems aren't showing it publicly because it looks band and also it isn't complicated, it takes no training whatsoever to kill someone with a knife. I never really understood the appeal of training for killing unarmed people, it is like training to club baby seals.
I'm referring to situations where you see the attack coming and have your weapon ready to draw, or already drawn.
How is that not "dueling?" Does the other guy know that you have a weapon? If he doesn't and he treats you as being unarmed there (and he has a clue about using a knife) there is a really good chance of mutual death.
I'm well aware of that. I'm just diversifying to improve my training and understanding of the threat. Again--I'm looking specifically for systems that are aggressive, don't have tradition to extrapolate from, and whose principles are applicable to pointy objects with or without a proper blade.
