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I had the opportunity to train with Greg Alland last night because he came to the school I train at and gave a seminar. Greg covered all kinds of things, drills, sparring, disarms, Segitas and Knife. I am only going to highlight the knife training.
Greg emphasized putting your body into each of your knife attacks. I know this is a common martial principle but I can tend to get lazy on this. We practiced this.
He breifly reviewed the C and O's and how no one can defend against your C and O's.
He showed a really cool move he learned in the Philipines where you can be from a distance and lunge a knife into an attacker. I would think this would be very effective if you had multiple attackers. It is a way to extend your reach by several feet.
We practiced the footwork and Greg told us how a Filipino warrior using the footwork fought up to 12 attackers.
Greg taught us that disarms are foolish against a knife, he said that someone with a knife will never give up their knife and if you dont have a knife the smartest thing is to try to deflect their arm if it is coming at you and run. If you have a weapon you cut the attacking arm and try to get off as many stabs/slashes as you possibly can to stop the guy.
He also talked about grabbing the knife and he said that once you have been cut, you will grab the knife to stop it from coming at you. I thought I'd add this bit of reality that Greg added to the discussion phase of what he was showing us because I had never given thought to this before, or that I might do it to defend myself.
He mentioned how some guys who go looking for a knife fight might be wearing a leather brace with spikes in case they are grabbed. I never heard of a brace with spikes so I thought I'd mention this cause it sounded a bit wild.
Greg showed how to hold a double edged sword--he showed us with a kris.
He also showed a way to stab which rips through the body as opposed to just sending in straight stabs.
Greg covered more and we practiced more, but this is what sticks most in my mind.
Greg also encouraged us to take the moves that we liked and are most comfortable with from the system and make them our own. He told us that we are not to look like him that we will end up with our own style.
Greg also announced that he will be bringing Nene Tortal from the Philippines to do a series of seminars here in the States. Greg also will be coming out with four more tapes and one of the tapes will be on the Segitas that he showed us at this seminar.
Greg emphasized putting your body into each of your knife attacks. I know this is a common martial principle but I can tend to get lazy on this. We practiced this.
He breifly reviewed the C and O's and how no one can defend against your C and O's.
He showed a really cool move he learned in the Philipines where you can be from a distance and lunge a knife into an attacker. I would think this would be very effective if you had multiple attackers. It is a way to extend your reach by several feet.
We practiced the footwork and Greg told us how a Filipino warrior using the footwork fought up to 12 attackers.
Greg taught us that disarms are foolish against a knife, he said that someone with a knife will never give up their knife and if you dont have a knife the smartest thing is to try to deflect their arm if it is coming at you and run. If you have a weapon you cut the attacking arm and try to get off as many stabs/slashes as you possibly can to stop the guy.
He also talked about grabbing the knife and he said that once you have been cut, you will grab the knife to stop it from coming at you. I thought I'd add this bit of reality that Greg added to the discussion phase of what he was showing us because I had never given thought to this before, or that I might do it to defend myself.
He mentioned how some guys who go looking for a knife fight might be wearing a leather brace with spikes in case they are grabbed. I never heard of a brace with spikes so I thought I'd mention this cause it sounded a bit wild.
Greg showed how to hold a double edged sword--he showed us with a kris.
He also showed a way to stab which rips through the body as opposed to just sending in straight stabs.
Greg covered more and we practiced more, but this is what sticks most in my mind.
Greg also encouraged us to take the moves that we liked and are most comfortable with from the system and make them our own. He told us that we are not to look like him that we will end up with our own style.
Greg also announced that he will be bringing Nene Tortal from the Philippines to do a series of seminars here in the States. Greg also will be coming out with four more tapes and one of the tapes will be on the Segitas that he showed us at this seminar.
