Funker Tactical Has Called Me Out!?
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I’ve got around 20 years of solid Kali under 3 different disciplines, Judo, kickboxing, some MMA training. I practice with knives regularly and own your course. I also have been a long time subscribe of Funker Tactical. They do mostly good work. Not sure why he’s picking apart your demo reel except he probably saw you ragging on a clip in it he didn’t like which was probably a flow drill. Odds on money is he didn’t like the Pekiti Tirsia bit, though realistically they are a very solid knife foundation to work with.
I’m just gonna throw that my experience is your course is well suited towards defense, particular elements more than others. I loved what I got for my money; good value overall. Good lessons. Especially liked the breakdown based on video footage and percentages. Was solid and 10/10 would recommend. I think you two should probably just do a skype call and work out your differences, problem solved.
In the World of Knife Defence, If you believe you can, you can, if you believe you can’t, you can’t. Practice a lot, to see what works for you.
Your dumb trav your only mma not knife defense
Stupid and bs
well if these flow drills aren’t meant to simulate fights then why do them. I’m with you Trav this stuff is useless.
I believe you, Trav, before I’d believe this Mother Funker. By the way, who does his hair?
Three observations: 1) Your video is the only one I know of that shows or even presents a plausable, working defense against the most common “SEWING MACHINE” attack, especially when the attack is done in a real-time, real “force-of-attack” in what John Perkins and others describe as THE MOST COMMON real life knife attack. Furthermore, I have not seen any label grab scenarios in any knife defense videos – thank you for including. 2) APPLES AND ORANGES: The Funker Tactical person shows knife-on-knife attacks; this is NOT what you (Trav) taught. Obviously, there is a very big difference; like Grand Canyon vs my irrigation ditch. 3) This same commentator did a youtube video advocating NOT wasting time practicing defenses against knife attacks since so few knife attacks are fatal! And a bonus #4: I have never seen any defense video (save John Perkins’s) where the knife attacker lunges at the victims eyes, head, or slashes the victims hand, then grabs the victims arm/sleeve and then goes for a more fatal blow lower on the body or elsewhere (slash to the neck or slice to the area at the rear or side of the knee). Guess this never happens in the real world except to ex-cops or correction officers who describe just such multiple incidents they’ve “cleaned up”.
Yeah I dunno man. Flow drills didn’t help me when I took JKD and Kali.
Sparring is just so different. I’d like to see a trained “knife master” spar with a boxer who has only picked a knife that day. I bet the results would surprise you
They are straw making you because the bullshit you deconstruct (knife disarms)is i have personally seen permote.
We must be grateful to the guys at Funkers for their research on the matter, they can get very good things out of it, they have good concepts, but in my opinion they are “lame”, I agree with the concept that as soon as you grab the armed arm does not let go (always making sure that the hand knife is not changed), but sometimes things are not so simple, and the recourse of a good blow after or before (if possible and you see it coming) of the attack of knife is a resource more than good. Conclusion: you have to be prepared for as many circumstances as possible and train! especially in stressful situations (tired, low light, screaming, in the rain …..). The visualization that the great Trav has commented in a context of humor, do not throw it on deaf ears. Protect yourselves and yours. A pregnancy