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Originally Posted by Halls
Well then just get a couple trainers and flail around with your buddies and you can call it knife fighting.
Kali is the primary system used in any knife training, knife fighting or knife defense. As much as you don't want to learn footwork it is the most important part of any knife sparring. Tuhon Gaje (Pekiti-Tersia) trained footwork for 8 hours a day for 2 years (Pekiti guys correct me if I'm wrong) as a child before picking up a knife or stick.
Also what most people don't realize is that stick, knife and empty hand are all interchangeable. Whatever you can do with a stick you can do with a knife or empty hand.
Lastly, because someone has a tribute to Bruce Lee has no bearing on how profiecient of a teacher he is. Guro Inosanto has many tributes to Bruce. Is he a bad instructor? Is the BJJ instructor with pictures of Helio Gracie on his wall a lame instructor because of them?
Again I encourage you to train with an instructor. Could you learn BJJ or Muay Thai well with only the use of a videotape? Otherwise, there are no tapes on knife sparring, fighting only knife defense.
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You are right about the learning knife fighting from video tapes.
however,
I think bruce lee is an overrated action star with limited fighting skill. He never tested his skills in a real fight that we can see (i.e. on video); i've read his books and bio's and heard about all his "fights" but they are all hearsay.
I don't respect anybody with a bruce lee "shrine" unless they trained directly under him, for many years. I'm stick if people with bruce lee syndrome....