<h2>The way we train that in the Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) is — after we've got a pretty good level of training — we introduce them to that concept and then we give them a 100,000-volt stun gun to grapple over. We can put it in somebody's pocket, nobody in the class knows who [and] they fight. If the guy can get his knife out, somebody pays the piper.<br/></h2><p><strong>Using Modern Army Combatives for Realistic Self-Defense Moves</strong></p><p>At some point during the training, one guy will get [the knife] out, the other guy pushes away and then you have — which <em>is</em> a very realistic scenario — bad guy with the knife, good guy without [a] knife. Now how do you defend yourself from the person with the blade? The first thing is, you don't want to be engaged. If he gets a hold of me with [his left] hand, then he's just going to play 'sewing machine' and I'm going to have a hard time defending [against] it. So I want to stay as far away as possible. </p><p>What happens is he's got to extend to get to me, which means [his knife] arm is open to attack. So using the principle that I want to stay as far away from him as possible, the first thing I'm going to do is strike him and try to get [the knife] out of his hand without becoming decisively engaged while it's difficult for him to grab me. </p><strong>Three Modern Army Combatives Alternatives</strong><p>If [the knife smack] doesn't work, I might get sucked in more. Techniques become more effective as they become more dangerous, so one technique I might use is to strike the back of his hand and strike the front of his blade, which will hopefully bring the knife through the weakness in his grip. </p><p>If that doesn't work, a technique that is slightly <em>more</em> committed is to strike his wrist and the back of his hand, which will bend his wrist, and as the wrist maxes out, the fingers become weaker [and can't] hold the grip. </p><script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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</script><p>Now if those things don't work, another thing I can do is as he comes toward me, I can pull him toward me off his base. Once I've pulled him off his base, strangely, techniques that you see in various other martial arts that people — who don't know much about the way a fight <em>really</em> happens — think aren't going to be effective actually <em>are</em> effective a lot of the time because of how committed he is to the attack.</p><p><strong>The Role of Commitment in Modern Army Combatives Training</strong></p><p>If he's going to stick me, he's going to have to really come for it. So I want to pull him off-base and, at this point, I can do many different techniques — and what makes them work is the fact that <em>he's</em> really committed. And so we practice that with <em>fear</em> in me to not get stabbed and commitment on [the attacker's] part to stab me.<br/></p><center><h2></h2></center>
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