Mindz_I: Only a small segment of footage that was taken at a RI class in the recent past. I don't allow filming in the classes as a rule but he wanted the double pop for his website. I'm linked there for defensive knife training so I allowed the pop short clip. Not sure if he put it up on the website yet or not.
memnoch: The technique has seen the light of day for years, but not on an open board. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course, and please keep in mind I did not at anytime ask people to request this. They read some of the threads and heard about the pop through the website knife testing where it was mentioned.
To my thinking, it is something I developed years ago for my own use. I can choose to share this with others or not. It's not something you can catch watching it being performed, much too fast for the eyes to see what the hands are doing. As I have disseminated this to others here, as well as students in the classes over the years, I believe I'm furthering the cause toward enlightenment of others including the actual defensive techniques which have brought novices to a level of acceptable proficiency where defense with a knife is concerned.
I have no control over information disseminated by others on open forums, nor do I care whether others post information that perhaps should not be released for various reasons.
Is it not my choice to whom I let this out to? I'm not sure it's anyones choice but mine concerning the dissemination of the technique.
It may be argued, as you have, that the BG's get enough of whats out there to not worry about something like this falling into the wrong hands. I can certainly relate to that and agree to some extent with that observation. In those instances, I am not the one disseminating the material. In this instance I am, and there is the difference. I could have chose to keep this from others completely and refused requests for an explanation entirely. I have not done that here. I have furthered others blade knowledge.
The criminals do not know how to perform this now and it is the goal to not let them in the future. Having been LE for 9 years I would not want the bangers to have this out on the streets enmasse as it then increases the threats to officers. I know this because I have worked the streets and there are enough threats out there now to officers without giving the BG's more advantage by my hands. Let me ask you this sir, do you work the streets day in and day out, facing the dangers from bangers on every corner? Do you face potential injuries and death at the hands of the sh%theads in inner cities routinely? Have you ever watched the prisoners practice knife/shiv in prisons?
I have, and I can tell you that this will not be in their bag of tricks through my doing.
fishface5: Keep practicing.
Rich357: I have no exsperience with the axis locks and so can not answer your question. The AFCK linerlock is extremely fast with this however.
Samuel: The life you save may be your own. Having worked the streets for years, I had this in my bag of tricks and counted on it's speed of deployment to save my butt. I could access the knives much faster than the carry firearm. If attacked by knife, my unarmed and knife skills would have been used until I created the time and distance needed to safely draw the firearm. So yes, the technique is something to be afraid of in the hands of a BG who would do you harm in lieu of arrest.
Do you practice presentation of your firearms so that you can draw and fire in shorter times when under threat? You may not but others certainly practice diligently at presentation times for a reason. Defensive presentation speed under attack not important? I know guys who practice with their gun of choice religiously to gain .20 seconds on their presentation of the weapon, they feel it is VERY important to be able to get their weapon of choice into play as soon as they recognize a threat. No different with the knives here.
As you state, it should not be disseminated to the general public. Others here feel it should be brought out to everyone. Somewhere in the middle is where I sit on this. Is that a bad thing?
Instead of people offering their opinions relative my not putting this out on the open forums, they could just not ask to know the technique and let others do as they wish as well. Many have responded with positive results at the increase of speed in presentation with their folders using the pop. Not everyone has been successful at this but then I did not expect that to be the case as the students have difficulty at times as well.
I'm sure the ones who have increased their presentation speed with this have appreciated learning something they did not have in their bag of tricks previously. I've taken my skills through years of training and practice and offered up a valid technique most have not seen or heard before. I have therefore increased their chances of survival if they ever need to get that blade into play to save their bacon. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so, and I don't think they would disagree with me.
Everyone have a good week.
Brownie
