Skip to content
Menu
  • Original Short Fiction
Menu

Tag: knife fighting

Blade Drills: Perfecting the Snap Cut & Thrust

Posted on 9 October 20239 October 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

  Lately I have been working on some drills with my small “hideout” waist-carried fixed blades: Benchmade CBK and SOG Snarl.   Training Notes: Since both of these shivs have an unconventional grip (CBK is a syringe type, the Snarl a single-finger loop, raptor-claw design), striking is a bit more unorthodox than if I were…

Continue reading

Know Your Weapons: Folding Knife Lock Types

Posted on 8 October 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

The Essential Guide to Knife Lock Types   Great overview of various type of locking mechanisms on folding knives. My 2 Cents: if you are going to carry a knife for self-defense, carry a small fixed blade. It’s just as concealable (if you wear it correctly) and there is 0% chance of failure as there…

Continue reading

Creating a Boot Knife

Posted on 7 September 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

Creating a Boot Knife  

Continue reading

One Mind, Any Weapon: South African Dad Fends Off Carjackers With a Knife

Posted on 22 July 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

South Africa: Badass dad fends off pack of carjackers with just a knife…   When the Chips are Down and the Dindu’s are at the Door (literally) You’re gonna have to FIGHT with whatever you got handy. Never forget the most important word in ANY FIGHT whether it be GUN, KNIFE or FIST is still…

Continue reading

Knife “Dueling?”

Posted on 13 November 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

KNIFE DUELING? I have never been a fan of the term “Knife Fight” or “Knife Duel” simply because in all my years I have never seen one, except in Hollyweird. Anything involving a knife in the real world has always been Fast, Bloody and most of the time DEADLY, which is why I have been…

Continue reading

Ground fighting against a knife attack

Posted on 3 April 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

Ground fighting against a knife attack   Solid web site and information. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!  

Continue reading

The Key to Cutting Deep

Posted on 13 December 2019 by The Tactical Hermit

The Key to Cutting Deep   A very eye opening and practical article from Mike Janich. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!

Continue reading

Solitary Knife Fighting

Posted on 20 October 2018 by The Tactical Hermit

Solitary Knife Fighting One of the more practical articles on how to train to defend yourself (not “fight”) with a knife I have read in a while. Make no mistake about it, using a knife as a defense tool is gritty, ballsy stuff, so you need to be REALISTIC about your training and your expectations….

Continue reading

Blade Training: The Illusion of Proficiency

Posted on 16 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The Illusion of Proficiency I will sometimes open seminars by having students emulate real-life knife tactics used by criminals, working through a handful of techniques that I have picked up from various sources over the years. The point of the exercise isn’t to train these techniques for self-defense purposes, but rather to illustrate the glaring…

Continue reading

First Rule: Always Assume they are Armed!

Posted on 4 September 2014 by The Tactical Hermit

[youtube=http://youtu.be/wQIAFeC10cY] Today’s lesson boys and girls involves ALWAYS ASSUMING YOUR ENEMY IS ARMED! As we see in the above vid, these two “loss prevention clerks” did not, and it almost cost them both DEARLY. The only saving grace in this incident was that the alleged shoplifter with the knife was UNTRAINED and UNMOTIVATED. As CO’s…

Continue reading
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next

Tactical Hermit Substack

Recent Post

  • Happy White Father’s Day!
  • The Surveillance State: Hackers are tampering with USB charging stations at Airports
  • Hidden History: How Israel Acquired Nukes
  • In Times Like These You Gotta Laugh To Make it Through…
  • Technology: Don’t Always Bet Against Older and Slower!
General Franco (2008-2024)

Book of the Month

Fellow Conspirators

Area Ocho

American Partisan

Western Rifle Shooters Association

Brushbeater

Von Steuben Training and Consulting

CSAT

Politically Incorrect Humor and Memes

Freedom is Just Another Word

Prepared Gun Owners

Fix Bayonets

The Firearm Blog

BorderHawk

Cold Fury

Don Shift SHTF

NC Renegades

Big Country Ex-Pat

The Bayou Renaissance Man

Bustednuckles

The Feral Irishman

It Ain’t Holy Water

Evil White Guy

Pacific Paratrooper

Badlands Fieldcraft

Riskmap

Stuck Pig Medical

Swift Silent Deadly

Spotter Up

The Survival Homestead

Bacon Time!

SHTF Preparedness

Sigma 3 Survival School

The Organic Prepper

The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Homestead

Texas Gun Rights

The Gatalog

Taki’s Magazine

Defensive Training Group

The Trail Up Blood Hill

No White Guilt

Europe Renaissance

Vermont Folk Truth

The Occidental Observer

The Dissident Right

Daily Stormer

American Renaissance

Blacksmith Publishing

Arktos Publishing

Antelope Hill Publishing

White People Press

White Rabbit Radio

White Papers Substack

Viking Life Blog (Archived)

Identity Dixie

The Texian Partisan

Southern Vanguard

League of the South

The Unz Review

Dissident Thoughts

The Third Position

Renegade Tribune

COPYRIGHT NOTICE/DISCLAIMER & FAIR USE ACT

All blog postings, including all non-fiction and fictional works are copyrighted and considered the sole property of the Tactical Hermit Blog. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in the short stories and novelettes are entirely fictional and are of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or organizations or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, The information contained in the articles posted to this site are for informational and/or educational purposes only. The Tactical Hermit disclaims any and all liability resulting from the use or misuse of the information contained herein.

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any of the companies that advertise here. 

Much of the information on this blog contains copyrighted material whose use has not always been specifically authorized by the rightful copyright owner. This material is made available in an effort to educate and inform and not for remuneration. Under these guidelines this constitutes "Fair Use" under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. The publisher of this site DOES NOT own the copyrights of the images on the site. The copyrights lie with the respective owners.

© 2025 | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme