What Makes You Move?

If necessity is the mother of invention then weapons are the grandmother.  That is to say, bring a weapon into the equation and suddenly strategy seems way more necessary.

What strategy?  Slipping to the outside is good.  Controlling the triceps, hip, shoulders or head is good.  Softening up the attacker is good.  Taking the knife out of the equation is good.  All these “good” things are made much easier by cutting an angle.  Don’t square off against the guy with the knife.  Get to the side, get to the back – get a better position.

If it takes the club or the knife to inspire you to cut those angles properly then simply pretend that every fist is a knife and every foot a club.  Make angling a necessity early so that when it is truly necessary, it’s nothing new.