Contact Weaponry Demonstration: 2012

Moderated and Performed by Modern Agonistics Practitioners

Contact Weaponry for Survival, Experimentation & Sport

The demonstrators introduce themselves and their specialty.

Adaptation Notes

The moderator addresses the two big issues facing empty-hand fighters and skilled weapons practitioners who take up full-contact weaponry.

1. Empty hand to broken hand

2. The non-contact proximity distortion

Sparring Sets

1. Rattan knife

2. Rattan Stick

3. Rattan Stick & knife

Survival Set

The moderator addresses the relative lethality and behavioral trends for edged and blunt-extension weapons.

1. Rattan Stick versus steel knife

Experimental Combat Sets

1. Polypropylene dagger & steel buckler

2. Steel knife & steel buckler

3. Polypropylene sword & shield

4. Machete & shield

Sport Combat Sets

1. A stick-fight [2-minute, 5-point split self-scoring]

2. A submission stick fight

Q & A Session

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Edged Weapon Defense Seminar

By the author of The Logic of Steel: A Fighter’s View of Blade & Shank Encounters

This seminar concentrates on the context, behavior, methods and outcomes of edged weapon encounters. It is intended to benefit the person concerned with defending against and/or with an edged weapon.

The Environment

1. Exceptions

2. The likelihood and behavioral nature of edged weapon encounters

3. Legal prejudice & the blade as taboo a weapon

4. Disparity of force considerations

Edged Weapon Types

1. Razors

2. Shanks

3. Folding Knives & Cutlery

4. Sheath Knives & Swords

Edged Weapon Uses

1. Holding, Showing & Warning

2. Parrying, Pummeling & Throwing

3. Slashing or Stabbing

4. Slicing & Stabbing

Edged Weapon Postures

1. Leading

2. Overhand

3. Ready

Countermeasures

1. Awareness and avoidance

2. Improvised defensive weapons

3. Grappling options and considerations

4. Running away!

Question & Answer Session