Fight Hacker: Uncut (FH-3) | September 5-6, 2023 | Fort Honey Badger, Jacksonville, TX

“Uncut” reality of mitigating bladed encounter- without unnecessary baggage of cultural heritage and weight of the “system”. 

Forward Training Concepts “Fight Hacker: Uncut” (FH-3) is a two-day (16-hour) instructional class focused on an interdisciplinary approach to concepts, principles, and skills for surviving and prevailing in a bladed encounter. 

Concepts and skills of movement, workspace, structure and gap management are paired with understanding of biomechanics and offensive blade work. These are geared to start building robust, pressure tested abilities to survive initial contact and create opportunities for proactive work, weapon deployment or disengagement. 

Topics:

Day One (8 hours)

• Understanding of distance and angle management between the combatants. 
• Workspace and gap manipulations in context of bladed encounter. 
• Mobility and control. 
• Short work applications. 
• Conflict Management. 

Day Two (8 hours)

• Weapon access and deployment.
• Knife disarming vs wielder disabling. 
• Attributes of competence. 
• Pressure testing and stacking. 
• Posture, timing, cadence. 
• Pro-active blade work. 

The class will follow the pattern of reverse engineering from the problem endpoint, to solutions along the process, then back to the very starting point. Each component of solutions will be demonstrated, explained, practiced and pressure tested. 

This class involves evolutions of elevated levels of contact between the practitioners, segments of live fire practice, and controlled segments of live blade work.