A Cut Above with Addy Hernandez

I thought I'd link this video for two reasons. The first one you can probably guess, the second one is that Hernandez demonstrates a disarm I read about in an 1890 newspaper article about knife fighting, which I quote almost in its entirety in the book. It describes a technique in which, when your opponent thrusts forward, you cut at the inside of his wrist with your knife hand, while hitting the back of his hand with the other. This should cut the tendons, disabling his hand.

Another reminder of me of why I look forward to making my way to my dotage without getting into any knife fights.

Heyrosa De Cuerdas Knife Techniques

Interesting video showing eskrima knife techniques demonstrated by instructor Raylan Cubcuban of the Heyrosa De Cuerdas School in the Philippines.What makes this video especially interesting is that as the eskrima masters hone their deadly art in the foreground, life goes on busily in the alley behind them, where people watch from their stoops, laundry dries, dogs bark, a rooster crows and an unseen child laughs gleefully.