Urban Combatives On the Sharp Edge 3 DVD Set by Lee Morrison (Preowned) (PAL)
If we take a look into current UK statistics relating to knife crime, we can see that the equation is made up of multiple variables.
Starting with youth or yob culture, it is clear that within the last 2 decades young people have become a lot more de-sensitised to violence in general, so much so that incidents of both knife carry as well as knife violence have been seen in youths from as young as 11 right through teenage years and beyond.
In addition to this is the influx of multi-cultural society in the UK with people from all over the world, coming to the UK to live and work. All of whom come with their own ideas and beliefs regarding what's acceptable in terms of violence, which has been seen time and again, to include knife carry and usage as a cultural acceptance.
Add to this, incidents of domestic and gratuitous knife violence often fuelled by alcohol, drugs and metal illness and you can see how a large percentage of reported violent offences in the UK have involved some kind of edged weapon. Such statistics have shown this to be the case to such a degree, that during any potentially violent confrontation we should expect a weapon and/or an accomplice.
Current UK laws are under review (with a view to imposing much harsher penalties for those caught carrying a knife since the recent current boom of knife related tragedies such events have triggered frequent knife amnesties all over the UK, where knives and weapons of all kinds could be handed into any police station across the Country with no questions asked, in an attempt to get them off the streets.
But the solid fact remains that its not knives and similar sharp items that are the problem. Any and all such things are simply tools, place even the most ferocious looking knife into a draw for a hundred years and it won't hurt anyone. It is an individual's INTENTION to harm another that turns that tool into a weapon and no amount of amnesties or random searches will take away INTENTION.
If intention is present then you could wreak havoc with a pencil, a piece of ripped tin or a shard of glass.
"On the sharp edge" makes no bones about the fact that no one system of martial art or Combatives holds all the answers, in terms of a fail safe method of dealing with a knife unarmed! What it does offer is education and a heightened awareness to the problem.
In addition to this, it offers a logical physical response borne from live experience and the acid test of stress training. This programme is presented in a progressive and workable format and is intended for use in conjunction with and active training programme.
You have no business attempting such physicalities lightly without tenacious practice, unless out of an act of sheer desperation!
Publication date: 2007
PAL Format Notice: This DVD set is in PAL format, the video standard commonly used in Europe and other parts of the world. PAL DVDs will play on most computers and many modern DVD/Blu-ray players, but may not be compatible with some U.S. DVD players. Please check your player's PAL compatibility before purchasing.