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Analysis of the combat mechanics of five schools
When working with different knife fighting traditions, one inevitably notices that each school is not just a set of movements, but an encrypted culture. Stances, trajectories, ways of entering a duel, and even vulnerabilities reflect…
The knife as a litmus test of the psyche
When talking about knife training schools, people usually discuss technique—the most visible, “above-water” part of the iceberg. But in reality, something else is more important. Beneath the surface lies the psyche. It is the psyche…
Historical comparison of knife and razor crime schools
When you look at different knife schools (Italian, Spanish, Canarian, Latin American, Russian), it seems as if they are isolated phenomena. But if you line up the chronology, it becomes clear that all these schools…
Death at three o’clock in the afternoon. The physics of Navaja
A feint is not just an optical illusion. It is a blow to the cause-and-effect relationship. Kozyrev argued that cause and effect are connected not only by a straight line in the past and future, but also through a “timeless state.” When a master makes a feint, he creates a false cause. He throws a phantom event into space-time. The opponent’s brain, accustomed to the linear logic of “I see movement – I expect a strike,” catches this false cause and begins to construct a consequence for it — it begins to block a non-existent attack.