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Impact training with melee weapons is essential. Feeling real impact teaches your body how to absorb and control force. It conditions your arms to resist shock and builds the strength needed for real strikes. But more than that — impact changes the trajectory and flow of a strike. You have to adapt end-motion, stay fluid, and go with the force. That’s something you can’t learn from air strikes or theory alone. You also need to learn what the force of impact feels like, so you understand what kin

The Infantry Melee Weapon Combatives curriculum has a list of core qualities, The so called "pillars of close combat" including Efficiency/Simplicity, and Rapid Neutralization. These characteristics are perfectly demonstrated during the shovel defense against a stick attack. » Rapid Neutralization: Learn the art of rapid neutralization – the ability to swiftly and decisively handle threats, a skill perfected through military close combat training. » Efficiency and Simplicity: Embrace the efficie

How to conserve the momentum of strikes using melee weapons » As I already mentioned in my previous videos, dealing with top-heavy melee weapons involves managing the leftover momentum in the after-movement, conserving it, and using it for the next move. It's also important to consider that, besides the brake strike where the strike stops at the target, heavy weapons often strike through the target, creating this curved after-movement. In a future video, I will also demonstrate what happens when