Posted on 12/02/2016 12:06:17 PM PST by w1n1
You read it right!
Come to a Fred Mastro seminar and take the Funker Tactical Challenge: Block a throat cut attempt and your seminar is free! Some folks took them up on that and well…see for yourself! It’s done with a plastic knife, for safety purpose.
Funker Tactical sponsored Fred Mastro seminar by providing this “Throat Cut Challenge”. The result is pretty fun to watch and can only speculate that Funker Tactical and Mastro got the idea for this challenge from the late "Bruce Lee".
Bruce Lee in his younger days before making it big in Hollywood. Used to attend the big martial arts tournaments and demonstrated his lighting punch. His punch was unstoppable, he would have top black belts try to block his punch.
From a self defense perspective, Mastro demonstration offers insights. The main idea is to raise your awareness and respect that range and how vulnerable you are when a person is going to sucker punch you, with or without a weapon in hand. See the full footage here.
Action beats reaction.
It is a nice, visual confirmation of that lesson.
First learned it 45 years ago.
If you see your opponent with a knife, would you really stand your ground? You would back off a greater distance. Smarter people would even run and seek defensive weapons while running.
Idiocy ...
This demonstrates what I learned in the Amphibious Warfare Counter Insurgency School 47 years ago. Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arm’s length.
I’ve heard exactly the same thing.
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