[Fabrice]

Reviving this thread since no one really gave an answer 😉 from my perspective I would say that are all valid option depending on the situations. Meaning that depending of your foot/leg angle, you can use different part of your leg to do it. With Randall, we often did it with a hooking from the inside of the foot. This can be use to grab the leg to intensify the throw.

I also seen some silat videos where the use the outside of the leg rather of the inside to sweep from the outside.

[Fabrice]

Hello everyone.

Christopher, You are right about the fast pace at which real knife attack happen. And as you point out, the best defence you can have is the ability to recognize the tell-tail of a knife attack.

In Executive protection training, you learn to observe and identify potential movements and the first thing you want to keep your eyes on are the hand of the person you suspect/confront. As soon as the hand disappear from your sight, i.e. it reach into a pocket or get behind their back, you must be ready to react the moment it apear again if there is a weapon in it. Also scan the belt line and pocket opening for any knife clip showing. When I was working security in Bars, I often “pick pocketed” knife from people to “safe keep” until they leave the bar.

Always assume there is one more weapon you don’t know about yet and keep your guards up.

To link this to KTS training, you might have noticed that we often slide our hand on our body. This allow to train the reaching and grabbing of our own weapon while fighting without doing an extra movement or needing to disengage. It also make its use more stealthy and difficult to notice for our opponents.

[Fabrice]

Hi Christopher and Steve.

Thanks for the info. Looking forward to the later videos to see how you combine both method of movements.

Have a great day.

Fabrice

[Fabrice]

Hello everyone. Im reviving this thread to bring in a bit of info from my first KTS teacher, Randall Goodwin.

Strategically speaking, the place one will turn on the foot will affect his distancing (particularly in kicking scenarios). If one turn on the heal, his body central line will remain at the same place and he will simply rotate around his current vertical axis. But if one is turning on the ball of the foot, his vertical axis will also move horizontaly the same length as the space between the ball of the foot and the heal. I hope my explanation is clear.

Have a great day.

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