Hey WW-looking this over as well. Don't have much to say, except Hocks quote summed it up, "if you never seen knife fighting before, prepare to be dazzled. If you have, then stock up on the No Doz."
The knife hand moving, good idea. The multiple slash/stabs, good idea. But to call it a prison or street knife fighting style is a stretch for me. When I see it, I think Mantis Kung Fu. It I was to put together my combos like that, I'd be missing a lot of grabbing and stabbing time. Even as a sparring system, it seems to be focusing on a lot of hand waving and less focus on closing the gap for a kill, just enough time for the bad guy to switch to his concealed carry auto and blow off the head...
What to do against this guy, throw in a handful of dirt in his face...or, do like we do in the CQCG-evade until you can enter with eye attack on the end of an over-committed slash. With reverse grip, what works for me is to intercept before it comes at you or when passes by you. The other thing I might do is a quick long range groin kick and intercept 2 on 1 the knife arm once it is dropping to redirect back to me.
Basically, once you work slow to fast unarmed against this kind of "mantis" knife, you realize how adrenaline will help you intercept the pattern in real-time.
Take care over there WW!
