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Combat Use Of The Double-edged Fighting Knife

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This small booklet provides a very brief glimpse in to a variety of related topics. There is almost no information whatsoever on techgniques or training. This book would only be of value to someone who barely knew what a knife was, let alone how to hold one.

One would expect much more from Rex Applegate...the main plot of the book revolves around how Applegate made a new knife that improved upon the Fairbairn-Sykes knife of World War Two fame; Applegate spends most of the book trying to sell his design, the Applegate-Faibairn combat dagger. The book gives a bit of knife fighting history and a few basic do's and dont's.....my advice, don't.......

This booklet it's only a brief collections of hints extrapolated by the books of Col.Applegate. It's a promotion for the Applegate/Fairbarn's combat knife too. No use for the beginner, no use for the expert, just a bit of history.

Sometimes good things come in small packages. This book (actually a booklet)is only 40 pages but it has some valuable basic information for anyone interested in knife combat. It is not a comprehensive text and does not show how to perform the thrusts and slash techniques. It does cover the basic stance, basic knife grips, history of the Applegate-Fairbairn knife and vulnerable areas of the body. In conclusion, this book was written by the late Col. Rex Applegate, which makes it a little bit of a collectors item.

Rating: 3 stars. Joseph J. Truncale(Author: Tanto-Jutsu Official Manual of Bushi Satori Ryu)

it had good begininer information but ended rather slow the pictures needed help

El libro no trae nada de informacion importante es una perdida de papel. Y como si fuera poco tiene algunas paginas en blando en el medio.

I felt the words were too vicious in description for me. I am a knife thrower, but a hobbyiest and I found this written like a hunter killing a deer.