Posted on September 8, 2009 at 10:23 pm in News by Bob Breen
The urban knife day was a great success. As usuall those attending had a great time. We mainly focused on knife defence showing all the various knife tapping methods. The reason for tapping is that you can’t deal with the knife in the position it’s in and have to move it to a position where you can disarm or throw or lock. Alternatively, it’s for when your attempt to block or grab hasn’t worked and it’s moving. Tapping helps you control his arm and allow you time to tie him up or finish. After lunch it was disarms and finishes then ending in sparring games and pressure testing.
We had a number of old black belts in attendance, in particular Steve Eldridge who hasn’t trained at the Academy for twenty one years. He loved it. As usual the day was a mix of hard training and fun. Knife is always the hardest thing to learn mentally. Often you are exhausted mentally afterwards as there is so much to take in, and at speed. I think all of us went home and slept afterwards. We plan the next one in February and also are looking at doing knife seminars all around the U.K.
