Table of Contents

• • CHAPTER 1:
  • THE SUPREME TRAINING TOOL

• • • CHAPTER 2
    • KNIFE CRIME: “I feel like Superman”

• • • CHAPTER 3
    • ENCOUNTERS AT THE EDGE
    • “Tver was a border zone”
    • “To use a knife was considered shameful”
    • “What could I do against a knife?”
    • “My body wasn’t ready for it”
    • “Mikhail could see to that depth”
    • “Mikhail teaches movement”
    • “5,000 Cossacks”

• • CHAPTER 4
  • KNIFE IN YOUR HAND
  • Foundation: Familiarity, Dexterity, and Strength
  • “Why are you carrying it?”
  • “The shape of the knife is the shape of your psyche”
  • “5 levels of fear can be observed”
  • “The weight of the weapon should disappear”
  • “My arms draw the knife all by themselves”
  • “You draw the knife and nothing changes”
  • “Working distance is the distance that allows all options”
  • “Your draw and stab are on movement, not tow”
  • “Place the sensation of your entire body into the knife tip”
  • “Learn to use the blade tip”
  • “Light pokes are really important”
  • “When it’s knife against knife, both may die”
  • Those ‘Miracle’ Disarms (Only Vlad Can Do?)

• • CHAPTER 5
  • KNIFE IN YOUR HAND – DRILLS
  • Tension the Fills and Tension that Restricts
  • Relaxation, Precision, Depth
  • Drawing the Knife
  • Keeping the Knife
  • Throwing the Knife
  • KNEES: Disappearance
  • Sword Healing
  • Sword Feeling

• • CHAPTER 6
  • AT KNIFE POINT
  • “Try to see everything”
  • “That’s not a knife”
  • “Stages of Mobility”
  • “Are you sure you can run away?”
  • “Do you know how to walk fast?”
  • “You escaped but you locked yourself”
  • “The knife’s movement toward you is like a wind”
  • “You body has to remain straight”
  • “You have some ability to fight back”
  • “A real blade makes you move much more effectively”
  • “He embodies the picture in his mind”
  • “Fear is death”

• • CHAPTER 7
  • AT KNIFE POINT – DRILLS
  • Knife-Based Warm-ups
  • “Work from contact”
  • “Fighting is like swimming”
  • Sensing the Carry
  • Sensing the Attack

• • CHAPTER 8
  • The Edge of Awareness (Work Sets)
  • “Both people and weapons can emanate threat”
  • “There are two basic questions”
  • “What feeling do you have?”
  • “Don’t create anything”
  • “They have some mission inside themselves”
  • “Everyone has a different location of fear”
  • “Find a person who’s always hiding”
  • “How do you find your condition in martial arts?”
  • “Get out”
  • “How did the knife get into his hand without you seeing it?”

• • CHAPTER 9
  • Awareness
  • Intention
  • Sensor
  • Decision
  • Weaponization
  • Reaction
  • Detection in a Crowd
  • Concealment and Crowd
  • Condition
  • Mobility
  • Feeling
  • Emotion
  • Surroundings
  • Multitasking
  • Escalation
  • Presentation
  • Response

• CHAPTER 10
• LIVE TO TELL