Which video?
Edit: You mean this Fitch Vid? This one?
As an example Its bad, and let me explain why I think so.
Fitch is leaning for a shoot, leading with his face.
Guy with knife:
Feint to body/hand, hook to the head. (stab) Slash to eyes.
Let him duck and shoot for the hand, move it and stab him in the back, cut his throat.
End it before wrestling starts.
When the wrestling did start, he's got Fitch in A guillotine.
No Knee to the Head, no punch to the face to make him turn loose the knife?
This is for War?
Fitch:
Feint shoot, jab to the eyes, punch to the face. Then grab knife, and shove it up his ass.
This is the ARMY's Self Defense for a knife class!!!!
The Army, that means this is for War Fighting, this is for killing not fucking around.
And there's two facets here:
#1 What to do when your unarmed and the other guy's going to kill you with a knife.
#2 If you're down to just your knife how do you kill this fucker quick.
The instructor needs to be coaching both ends and explaining this stuff, Even at level 1.
Maybe they do all this later, (I sure hope so)
But just what we're seeing here, this is not good. Why wait to reveal the stakes here, to introduce feints and strikes?
What's a good way to beat a submission or hold on the ground? Punches, eye gouges, biting.
All's fair in War.
You gotta have face protection so you can play this game correctly.
You gotta be open to understanding the game you're playing here.
You can't choose your opponent, and you can't assume he's a dunski.
That's like assuming you'll be ok in a gunfight cause the other guy's prolly going to miss anyway.
You need to look at as the knife guy too, how do you beat the schmuck trying to take your knife and kill you with it?
And if someone comes up with a more effective way, (some things fencers do) You wanna know that too.
Not trying to be an asshole here, I think maybe you just didn't look closely enough at the vid.