Hock Hochheim's Combat Talk Forum

The big ten levels to be covered one Sunday a month starting in 2016

Year of the Knife!
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As always..thank you for you time.

Force Necessary: Knife!  Course Overview

Level 1: Introduction to Ways of the Knife. Stress Quick Draws

Level 2: Support the Knife! While Holding. Dodge/Evasion Drill.
            Closed Folder Strategies and the Pommel Strikes Module

Level 3: Saber Stab Module.
             Military Quick Kills Module Part 1

Level 4: Reverse Grip/Ice Pick Stab Module.
             Military Quick Kills Module Part 2

Level 5: Saber Slash Module.
             Military X Knife Fighting Part 1

Level 6: Reverse Grip/Ice Pick Slash Module.
             Military X Knife Fighting Part 2.

Level 7: The Spartan Combat Module and
             Dueling! Crossing Blades

Level 8: The Chain of the Knife Module and
              The Claw of the Cat Module

Level 9: Death Grip of the Knife Module

Level 10: The Knife “Black Belt” Test

Level 11: Intensive Knife Ground Fighting Module
Level 12: Intensive Push Dagger & Fist Knives Module
Level 13: Intensive Double Knives and Stick and Knife
Level 14: Intensive Knife Speed, Skill and Flow Drill Mastery
Level 15: ...and up: Upon Personal Development and Request
Level 16: etc on specialized topics


Basic Journeyman Instructorship after Level 3
Advanced Instructorship after Level 6
Specialized Instructorship after Level 9
“Black Belts” on and after Level 10

I was reading one of the posts about Force necessary with the Stick. Hock, what would your breakdown be in the foundation of first 10 levels in learning the knife?

Knife Combat - Knife Takedowns - 2 parts by Hock Hochheim
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Knife Takedowns covers takedowns with and while holding a knife. For the unenlightened, unsophisticated and untrained, it is hard to grasp the idea of grappling and takedowns while holding a knife. The sarcastic joke is just to "stab the person until he falls!" Not that simple. Not that crude. In the real and troubled world of fighting criminals and enemy soldiers there are a host of reasons and means why a defender must take an opponent to the ground for lethal and less-than-lethal ends. What are these?
Learn these reasons and means:
- How the "tenacity of life" keeps them on their feet
- How the "diminished fighter" can be grappled.
- Learn the basic knife takedown principles.
- Learn the Takedown Body Chart.
- Learn the Joint Crank and Joint Lock Progression and how and why knife applications may or may not work with them.
- Learn numerous knife combat scenarios involving grappling skills.

Knife Takedowns and Grappling represents Level 8 in Hock's Knife Fighting Series.

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Knife - Speed, Flow and Skill Exercises and Drills - by W. Hock Hochheim (This is the first video of a two video set on this subject.) Hock teaches the classic speed, flow and skill knife drills that originate from various military and martial arts sources. They are all here for you, demystified, simplified and dissected in the way Hock is famous for worldwide. Learn the patterns and insert, 1/2 beat options. Here they are all together in one place. Hock took the time to demo many other drill/exercise formats and their options and inserts that have never been filmed before.

- Dodge/Evasion Edged Weapon Exercises
- Statue Knife Exercises
- Critical Contact Knife Exercises
- Grip Changer Exercises
- Counters to Common Blocks and the Outside Invasion Knife Series
- Panananstas Saber vs. Reverse Knife Workout
- Windmill Exercises (vertical and horizontal circles, chains and hubads)
- Give and Take Knife Exercises
- Sumbrada Knife Exercises
- Ground applications for all of the above
- Learn well over one hundred inserts, tips and advice

"These are isolated exercises as well as complete drill patterns. They prepare you for the encounter. I am NOT a fan of over-drilling at all, especially at the expense of other important training! So, I won't be emphasizing those aspects. 'All roads lead to Rome' and all these exercises lead to the combat scenario." - Hock Hochheim

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The Invading Knife by Hock Hochheim
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The Invading Knife video covers invading into a dueling, squared-off opponent with you attacking both with your knife and/or your free hand, into his “closed,” prepared fighting stance as he stands ready. "This video has been called a "hidden gem" by many, as it has been buried inside a multi-video series for some time. As a result, most people did not know it even existed. But it is too important a subject matter to remain lost there. So we are breaking it out into its own theme identity and entity." - Hock Hochheim

This production covers invading into a dueling, squared-off opponent with both your knife and/or your free hand. This involves attacking into the “closed,” prepared fighting stance, mostly dealing with the outsides and back hands of the enemy’s arms as he stands ready. Therefore, the video covers tactics and strategies from the ready position, through the invasion tactics and on to the first significant strike assault. Once into close quarters many more tactics open up, specifically those CQC movements inside the arms, then possibly takedowns and other finishes.

This video includes:
- Deceptions to Attack
- Strike from movement, luring, baiting, fakes and more...
- The Science of Obstructions
- Basic Invasion Training Drills Progression
- The Big Nine Knife Invading Skill Sets

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Knife Combat - Crossing Blades! DVD or Download
Practical, Modern Knife Dueling by Hock Hochheim

"I hope you will NEVER be in a knife duel. But it still happens in some form or manner. I do not want to glorify or over-emphasize the knife duel. But sadly it must be covered. I reluctantly do so. This is a comprehensive, scientific collection and distillation of the world's knife and short sword dueling methods, for the modern, practical practitioner. I have been working and collecting these methods since the 1980s. Here they all are for you, all in one, streamlined, concise, demystifying film. No flash. No dash. No compulsion to replicate historical systems or pontificate on historical minutiae. Generic tactics. Just simply? How to duke it out with knives." - Hock

You will learn:
- Who? What? Where? When? How? Why? Are you in a duel?
- The Support Arm
- Minimization of Wound Theory
- The stances of motion
- The Combat Clock as a simplified foundation
- The 4 Arm Attacks Standard
- Edge Aware Theory
- Diminished Fighter Theory
- Dueling saber and reverse grip attacks, basic and advanced
- Combination Strikes
- Dueling from "the Shields"
- Dueling from Deception
- The Fake! Via the basic and advanced Combat Clock
- Strike the limbs standard
- Working the Xs and "Charging the X" exercises
- Luring-in exercises
- Hitting the stances
- Ambush, Dodge and Evasion Dueling Exercises
- Shadow boxing solo and shadow boxing apart
- Dueling sets of 3, 2 and demo of CQC 1
- Sparring - How to Develop your own dueling style

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Rattlesnake! Knife Ground Fight Seminar by Hock Hochheim

In May, 2014, Hock conducted a semi-private, 6 hour, knife ground fighting session in Texas, meant to be a crash course on the subject. It was filmed by Run N Gun Media and turned into this one-hour production.

In it you will learn:
- The big 3 knife ground fight situations
- Who, what, where, when, how and why of knife ground fighting
- How and why we hit the ground
- Fundamental ground maneuvers
- Ground stress draws
- Cut loose exercises
- Training for impact exercises
- Ground catch exercise sets
- Ground leg guard/shield
- Destruction pump stab
- Flinch responses to catch set stabs
- Lefty versus righty problem-solving
- Various ground releases
- Ground knife disarm options
- Ryan series solutions and counters
- Scenario exercises
- Training drill options
- ...and more.

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New! Push Dagger Training Film - DVD or Download
A Crash Course in Fighting with a Push Dagger Knife

The ubiquitous push dagger has been around in some shape or manner for centuries in various countries, militaries and martial arts. So deadly, so efficient, so ominous-looking, it is illegal almost everywhere. And then, with this illegality comes the lack of available training for its use when needed in self defense, crime-fighting and war. W. Hock Hochheim has researched the knife (and these other "punching" and "hammer-fisting," “fist knives,” and offers a practical and tactical training course for its maximum use in everything from applications to standing and ground combat scenarios.

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