Tomahawk A.O.C. Video

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Tomahawk A.O.C.

Check this video out. Its my mentor Scott Babb creator of the Libre Fighting System, he has a very different take on tomahawk techniques.
 
He's very fast! His hawk's edge would have to be razor sharp to get the full effect from those slicing attacks. It just seems like all those slicing moves can be avoided, if you just go for the head and neck area right away. I'm just asking, because I'm no expert by any means.
It's as if he's using knife techniques, when he could just go for the kill shot. Why cut a guy up, when you can just spike his head?

I guess the faster the attacks, the more likely you are to land more of them?
 
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Scott teaches us to go for multiple targets on the body, his background is in arnis and a few exotic street based combatives. His incredible skills with the eskrima stick and knife is evident in his work with the tomahawk.

When it comes to the hawk i think a single or duble strike that immediately neutralizes is best, but i can see the logic of what Scotts hatchet work comes from, since he is working with a fighting hawk that has a knife edge and not as heavy at the head as an axe might be.
 
He's very fast, and it's a cool vid, but I am doubtful it would be as fast or fluid with a live blade. In my own personal experience practicing on soft media, the head-heavy weight of the tomahawk prohibits the speed and transitions shown here. He's weilding the trainer as if it were a long knife. They just don't handle the same. Also, 'hawks with hooking edges can get caught up in targets and snag on loose material or clothing. Again, the movements and direction-changing are slowed considerably. I don't think the average person would be able to pull off 1 or 2 consecutive strikes like that unless they were very strong, or had a very light tomahawk.

I have only practiced on tires, foam mattress toppers, thick rolls of paper, and other home-made targets so it's just my limited observations. FWIW/YMMV
 
I watched Scott's other A.O.C video and he's crazy fast with the kamagong!
Now i'm curious is there going to be a collab of RMJ Kestrel and Libre Fighter?
 
He is so fast with his striking that any perceived shortcomings in the technique would be overshadowed by the number of hits on the target.
 
I have tried out some of these moves on a hanging log i have set up in my back yard, if your using a light hawk like the Graymatter thats not as head heavy than some of the other hawks i have, maneuvering it fast like that from target to targe is not that hard to pull of.


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Looks like a Kali-based method of edged fighting. Much like these guys:
[video=youtube;sJneBsF2MRU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJneBsF2MRU[/video]

It's definitely an interesting technique, which if not using the full advantage of each blade pass, will at least overwhelm and confuse any opponent.
 
Nice videos... but I've been around long enough to know that everything looks fast and fluid in demos :)
Cutting air and resistive media are 2 very different things.

I am a great believer in making stuff simple tho - whack the dude with the axe in the face / head / neck and repeat as required. I've only got limited time for training so I don't have much capacity for fancy stuff, as much as I do enjoy it.
 
That looks to be a very fast and aggresive method. Not sure it would be as adaptable to my preferred longer 2 ft hawk though since the mass displacement would be farther from your grip.
 
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