Where did your interest in bladed weapons training come from?

I have always been fascinated with edge tools since my early childhood, nothing in particular which I can point too drew me to them. I have never studied any one discipline but instead melded and borrowed from many arts. My strongest influences come from a local instructor who is very good at teaching for self-defense keeping in mind gross skills prevail. My only regret is I didn't begin earlier in time to pick up on MA in general.
 
I've always had an affinity for weapons. Even since I was very young. Wasn't exposed to it too much until I could pay for my own training starting at 16. Been doing it ever since.
 
oldbadger said:
To list a few, the old Zorro Tv series, the Daniel Boone show (which always started with him throwing a tomahawk and splitting a tree), there was a Three Musketeers cartoon for a little while, Robin Hood stories, pirate movies...all things that convinced boys that knives and such were cool.
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Isn`t it sad that kids today have to look to cars that turn into giant robots as thier saturday morning heroes?
 
Chosen-frozen said:
Isn`t it sad that kids today have to look to cars that turn into giant robots as thier saturday morning heroes?
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it is. i was a big Tarzan fan.

one of the first bad cuts i ever got was after sticking an Old Hickory kitchen knife in my belt, 'like Tarzan'. :)
 
Well, I went to a Military Academy (Where I was a border) during grade school. I was taught & started competing in boxing when I was 7 & continued from there.

At about 14 or so, I was learning Ishin Ryu from a neighbor instructor & he was learning Kendo, which he then taught me. From there, I continued in the MAs (Kenpo & San Soo), until finally settling into JKD, then continuing & teaching it (Specializing in stick fighting), & now Krav Maga (Where I've taken LE instructor courses).

I've been into knives & swords for nearly 30 yrs now.
 
Every day there are articles about people being stabbed. I hear it is the most common way to be murdered these days in my country.

I became a late believer in the paradigm of "how will you ever be able to fight against an opponent with a blade if you do not know how to fight with a blade yourself"

The more I learn in training with the blade, the more this paradigm makes sense to me.

I have a need to know my "stuff works" - and pressure blade training situations are the best way I have found yet to give me this confidence - should I ever be unfortunate enough to meet an attacker armed with an edged weapon.

Heh as a side note what does this "confidence" mean-
1. Run
2. Run
3. Run
4. If 1,2 and 3 fail or arent possible, then maybe do something else.
The beauty of learning edged weapons for me is really understanding this stuff!!! Not fooling myself!!! etc etc
 
Two main sources:

1. When I started training in Filipino martial arts I often heard statements like "the stick is just a substitute for a blade," etc. While this is generally true of a lot of FMA's it's also true that sometimes the stick is just a stick. Hence if I picked up a stick I would use it as a stick, etc.

2. One of my teachers makes the point that you should train the stick "as if it were a blade," and shows various adjustments that you can make re. timing, distancing, body mechanics, etc. that make the transition from stick work to blade work a lot easier.

Best,

Steve
 
My Uncle Charlie who served WWI, and saw the Gurkhas in action, and whom brought back a couple knives of some Germans he killed in the trenches, WWII and Malaya Gurkha Officers who were friends of my Dad, and teachers at school of whom some had been in WWII in, in the SAS, Commando's Gurkhas etc. so a fair few stories over the years!! And of course seeing the Gurkhas themselves demonstrating their skills when I was young lad, great stuff.
 
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