KNIFE GRIPS for Self Defense | ARNIS ESKRIMA KALI

[Music] [Music] paul ingram here with colley center what's happening buddy hope everyone is having a great week and uh getting some good kali training in today's video i'm gonna be talking about some of the different or more common knife grips so make sure to hit the subscribe button smash that thumbs up button if you like training the knife if you think knife skills are important to have also leave me a cool comment below i always love reading you guys cool comments and uh i usually try to get back to everybody you know within that first 24 48 hours if i possibly can so let's go ahead and grab a training knife and let's get training first probably one of the most common grips you're gonna see in knife work across the board is our forward grip and it's our hammer grip and our forward grip the hammer grip and the forward grip is where we are forward grip is the blade is obviously moving forward and in the hammer grip the thumb wraps around the blade so you see this a lot especially with some of the thrust and all this stuff this is one particular method of gripping now you're going to see this very common across the board in most martial arts they're going to slash with it and they're going to thrust with it and that's really what the knife is really all about now here in cali his here at colley's center and a lot of other styles and systems that i've trained in over the years we actually like to utilize more of a saber type of grip instead of this hammer grip and the reason for it is well there's a lot of reasons for it so you're going to notice a difference right away that if i'm gripping in this hammer grip you're going to notice the tension that is right here in my form right there you could see that i'll get a little closer if you can't see it but when i go into the saber grip you're going to see how automatically that starts to relax a lot more hammer grip saber grip and you can see how it relaxes a lot more what does that mean when we are gripping our muscles and our muscles are contracted what does that mean overall is that going to give us more endurance or is it going to create more fatigue in a shorter amount of time the more that our body is under tension time under tension we're gonna be fatiguing our body so we're automatically starting to lose endurance and as the muscles are more engaged that means we're also losing one of the most important components of any type of fighting really but especially when it comes to the blade which is speed and because we are gaining fatigue and we're losing speed we're going to be gassing out a lot faster so the saber grip allows a little bit more relaxation in the wrist and in the form which increases endurance right away and because of the uh relaxation of the muscles we get a lot more speed so in the forward grip let's talk about some of the basic techniques that we can apply obviously we have our slashes here and we have our fluid slashes that come all the way through the center line we also have our broken hacks right there as well that hit to the center line and retract we have our thrust we have our broken thrust just like this which are more kind of jagged jabbing type of thrusts and we have our fluid thrust that are going to go all the way through the center line also we also have that third basic tactic of the jab which is almost like a quick flick of the blade and there's a few different types of variations and manipulations for this you know we can jab it out with the tip of the jab tip of the blade right there that's one of the most common ones we can also kind of roll cut it right there we're roll cutting the blade right down onto the target of the opponent right there and you're gonna see that these techniques can start to transition into one another when you understand the forms and you have the proper knife handling skills common grip number two is the ice pick grip or the reverse grip now commonly when i see martial arts working on this particular grip i see them using this hammer grip very similar to the ford grip and you know this is okay here with uh with the ice pick grip with the reverse grip or also known as pical and the reason for it is that we are going to naturally start to lose speed however in the exchange of losing speed we are gaining more power because these motions are more derived from the downward motion so you got more gravity more force of gravity on your side which is going to increase a lot more power but by the nature of it you are probably going to be a little bit slower in the reverse grip than you are in the forward grip so one little thing that i want to make sure to point out here at kali especially here at kali center we do not utilize the hammer grip in the reverse grip this is okay if you've got a guard on your knife maybe you're using like a big hunting type of bowie knife or something like that but for the most part most of us probably are not carrying you know that type of you know hunting or combat knife that's going to have that type of guard on it and we're probably most of us are going to be walking around with some sort of folding knife maybe like a spyderco benchmade cold steel something like that that does not have a hand guard on it so it's going to be really important what we do here with our grip is we take the thumb and we put it on top of the knife what we call capping the knife this way when the knife is capped when you are applying your tactics and techniques you go to hit and for whatever reason that knife just stops gets stuck but the momentum of your hand keeps going right you don't want your hand to slide down and ride on that blade and then you know cutting up your fingers and all that type of stuff that's that's not a good day and so we cap the knife in the reverse grip that way that's going to keep that knife secured in that grip so if you were to hit something and that knife was to stop your hand is not going anywhere regardless if there's a handle a guard or not now this is you're gonna notice that i have the blade edge facing the knuckles blade edges on the outside this is a grip that we utilize in kali and this is really good for different types of slashings obviously you can still thrust and jab with it and all that stuff there's another grip that we also use in kali in the reverse grip and that is with the blade edge on the inside still thumb caps the knife now the reason why we have it on the inside this is our primary grip when we are in the reverse grip at least here at collie center and some of the other styles and systems of filipino martial arts that i've trained in and the thought behind that is number one the primary tactic of the knife is the thrust not the slash the slash is very good and it causes a lot of flesh damage and it can be very very effective in neutralizing the opponent but the thrust just neutralizes the opponent much faster the thrust gets all the way down into the organs into the blood supply and goes all the way down into the bones and when you start hitting bones that starts really slowing people down or if not stopping people right in their tracks right there so we can still slash with it it is looked more as a weapon retention type of purpose where maybe you had a primary weapon or somebody wants to grab on to you or something like that and now you can utilize that blade edge on the inside to get their hands off of you or you know if you are carrying a firearm or something like that and someone puts their hand there you got weapon retention right then you can draw that knife and clear their hands you know a lot of different applications for it but that is one of the thoughts one of the ideas of the blade edge on the inside also when it comes to fighting multiple opponents meaning there's you know just you by yourself and you've got three or five or more people that you got to deal with we want to start looking at utilizing weaponry because we need to equalize that playing field and even though this is very good and it's very fast right on this forward grip we're gaining speed but we don't have as much power and we really want to utilize that power here of that piccolo grip so we can clear any incoming punches and grabs and you know anyone trying to go in for the takedowns right everything is leading with a thrust you know from on top where we have all this power raining down on our opponents instead of with the forward grip where now we're leading with the hand on the slashes which somebody can a lot more easily get underneath you know into this form right we're exposing the form a lot more we're giving our opponent more of an entry on the way in and our thrusts are very good but they're kind of coming up so they're a little bit below the radar and sometimes when you start thrusting especially on that low line someone may not realize that they're you know getting uh getting opened up and they may still be able to pick you up and slam you on your head and all those really you know nasty things that can still happen to you and then just bleed out in the process so that's why in the reverse grip we consider this grip for when you are kind of by yourself maybe you are dealing with multiple opponents you know or it's more like weapon retention or anything like that so again punches start coming at you right you can clear your face clear that area while obviously maneuvering with footwork and all that and you got the blade edge that is cutting its way down but it's also cutting into the thrusts and when you start thrusting those hands and you're thrusting those bones and everything hands tend to slow down and again if somebody's coming in for a takedown right they got to get past the thrust they got to get past the blade that sharp edge and the tip of that knife okay and uh it's just it's a little bit more scary you know i know it's easy to to say like oh if someone took a knife out i'm gonna pick them up and slam them and break their arm and all these things but it's a whole different world when you know you're actually you know reality facing the knife and especially facing somebody that knows what to do with one of these things and they got the will to use it all right so just to recap three basic grips that we utilize here in kali especially here at kali center we have the ford grip which is a little bit more of the saber grip if i got a student that likes to train in the hammer grip that's fine i'm not going to sit there and be like oh no you're doing it wrong it's your kali it's your training if you want to do it your way then do it your way if you want to try it how how we suggest to do it then try it out that way maybe you'll like it maybe you don't and then we also have the reverse grip we got the blade edge on the outside which is kind of secondary for the call grip and then we have the blade edge on the inside which is the primary for the pecal grip both either way whatever you prefer make sure the thumb caps the knife so that way when you hit if the knife stops your hand stops too and doesn't slide down and then you're you know cutting your thumb off or your fingers halfway off or anything like that then you gotta pick up your fingers and you know whatever so remember on that reverse grip we got the cuts we got the throttles we got the hooks the traps the weapon retention all that stuff however again on the ford grip the pro is the speed the con is we're a little bit lacking in power the reverse grip the pro is the power and we're lacking a little bit in the speed so a little bit of give and take all right if you guys want to get more in-depth training with the knife if you want to start learning the forms for the right knife handling skills so that way you never risk you know hurting yourself running your own weapon into yourself or anything like that and then starting to learn how to apply footwork with your tactics how do you start applying the knife you know against you know in short range and quarto range at largo range long range how do you bridge the gap how do you get from corto back out how do you start engaging multiple opponents head over to colleycenter.com and check out my knife fighting course i got the link right below in the description so make sure to check that out i also have a coupon code for anybody that's interested in grabbing our knife fighting course that is special only to this video so if you catch this video i'm going to go ahead and have that coupon available for three days 72 hours because three is a powerful number in collie so if you want to grab that course check out that link in the description grab that coupon code that discount and uh get training on your knife tactics and skills all right make sure to hit that subscribe button if you enjoyed this type of lesson on the knife if you want to see more knife stuff smash that thumbs up button so that way i know we're on the same page leave me a cool comment below so that way i can read it 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