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If they were attempting to slash your knife hand it is a technique called "defanging the snake". It is usually the first and most basic disarm in Kali. In this case (knife fighting) you are attempting to slash the weapon hand which in many situation would cause the weapon to be dropped or the opponent would be very hesitant to be on the agressive because of damage done to the knife hand. Defanging the Snake can be used in any aspect of Kali. Stick, sword,empty hand,staff etc. can all employ the use of defanging the snake.
If they were trying to get a hold of you knife hand (which I suspect they were) they were attempting a disarm or trying gunting. Too often I see overconfident Kali sparrers try disarms and IMO disarms are only functional when you get in tight to your opponent. Just like in wrestling you can't shoot in when you are too far away or you'll be sprawled on.
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Daniel The Philipino Guy tried both. We ended up doing circles around each others knife gaurds alot. When he was teaching the Kali stuff to me, he made out like he was left handed, mysteriously when we sparred he turned lefty. He was trying to pull a fast one, I think. He was actually almost, (about a **** hair close) as good as me at moving tight around the opponents hand I thought. I really couldn't get the drop on him there, and we'd cancel out. It probly looked like we were doing twurls around each others hand. This was about the first minute of actual contact, because for like 4 minutes he kept trying to circle round me, so I started cutting off his circle and trying to herd him into the corners of the room. I could tell he was being serious about not wanting to get hit by some goon off the street. After the twerly-wherly stuff didn't get nowhere I started going High and low on him, I'd feint like a jab to the midsection, and retreat really low, catching him behind the knee on the way out. WHen I could see he was looking for that I'd straight jab him, and it would land, cause I had him thinking leg! I remember really screwing with him on the distance thing buy changing the depth that I held my knife at him. I pull it back and move in a little, then I'd move back and stick it out there. With all the other chaos going on he started to forget how close I reall was, so I never had to lunge or anything.
The thing is too, if you're right handed and the other guy is a lefty, it pretty much makes it a your hand against his hand deal. In other words the back hand is farther back from the action out front.
Probly after 5 minutes Daniel was just trying to make a killing shot, cause he was tired of trying to disarm or whatever. On his face it was like, ok fuck this guy I'm gonna get him.
At that point it turned into what looked like more or less a sparring match between to fencers.
Like when you see a Kung Fu guy get in a Street fight. Pretty soon he's just punching and kicking and wrestling. All the extra stuff goes out the window.
We did 20 minutes of this at the end of which he was like fuck, where is this guy going. He started trying to do some of the stuff I was doing. He stopped reacting to the feints. Might have been too tired. He started staying on line more. But he never held his point pointed at me. He held it steak knife style.
Then Tim the owner jumped in and he decided he could slash at my hand and get me that way. His move was like a backhand fly swat flick.
I remember noticing that Tim was really fixated on getting that hand of mine. So he just ket trying that flick. Over and over, and over. Like, "If I just do it better, it'll just work!!"
Everytime he'd do that I'd just pull it back like a fly rod, and put it right back where it was. Then after about 30 seconds and 45 flicks I had his timing, and intead of pulling up and back I just dropped it down, he went over the top, and I pulled it back up and sliced the inside of his wrist. ANd he just kept on. and kept on. My timing got better and better, until I let him flick out, and got right inside and sunk the blade right under his armpit cutting upwards and then slapping the blade upside his neck. The look on his face was pretty neat.
Since I was the dickhead who came there challenging I had to let him say enough. And I was pretty tired.
I don't know what I was thinking, Mousel's is one of the most pragmatic places to train in Houston, because the do Boxing, wrestling, BJJ, muay Thai, Kali etc etc etc; There's no bowing; I figured they'd take it stride and say man, you should come here some and we'll pick up on what your doing and then beat you, and send you on your way, But they were like, Ok your hour of privates are up, Kindly get lost!..
They did ask about the fencing mask. I think after that, they might have started sparring with fencing masks, and rubber applegate knives.
They were just presented with an approach they hadn't seem before, and didn't realize what to do, other than the same ol shit I guess.
They told me I'd have to pay by the hour if I wanted to hang out there, so I said fuck it and left.
I actually started fencing to get more out of the knife class I was going to take from John Perretti the Old Battle cade and UFC match Maker.
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That ended up not happening I finally quit fencing and toof to Motocross.
Wouldn't mind going back to Mousel's to take their Boxing class for the fitness workout.
That's it.