Video: Knife Professional Analyzes Film Knife Fights

We love motion flick as a lot as anybody, however they’re hardly ever illustration of actuality. Hollywood likes to exaggerate particulars for dramatic impact, and sometimes spreads outright falsehoods resembling the parable that barrel cacti are an amazing supply of water for survival conditions. Their illustration of weapons is commonly particularly foolish, with weapons that blast dangerous guys throughout the room and by no means must be reloaded. Nevertheless, there are nonetheless a number of films that put within the effort to get particulars proper. In a current video on the Zac within the Wild YouTube channel, edged weapon combatives teacher Adam Boyce of Spartan Mode reacts to a couple well-known (and notorious) film knife fights.

In regards to the Professional

Adam Boyce spent 7 years as an assaulter and sniper on a Particular Response Staff (SRT), and he presently works within the coaching division for a authorities company. He additionally travels all through the USA to show defensive techniques lessons to most of the people, specializing in edged-weapon combatives. Adam is a licensed teacher for Martial Blade Ideas, the coaching group based by Offgrid contributor Michael Janich. On high of all this, he is additionally a knife designer.

Motion Film Knife Fights

Above: “I can beat you! I do not want no gun!” cries Bennett earlier than difficult Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character to a knife duel in Commando. You possibly can in all probability guess the end result.

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Adam and Zac sat down to look at clips from eight films, together with over-the-top ’80s motion flicks like Commando, trendy films like John Wick 2, and timeless classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child. Between the predictable critiques of inaccuracies, Adam identified a number of sensible components that confirmed the manufacturing groups did some homework.

Above: This struggle from The Lengthy Riders features a knife combating approach that seems to be traditionally correct — wielding a Bowie knife in a reverse grip for protection. This allowed the defender to parry incoming strikes along with his Bowie’s backbone (typically protected by a brass strip) and guard, with out damaging the reducing fringe of the knife. The partial secondary edge might nonetheless be used for counterattacks.

Take a look at the video beneath from Zac within the Wild:

For extra info on Adam Boyce’s coaching programs, go to SpartanMode.com.

Written by Patrick McCarthy