Recon knot mastery: Training, tips, and techniques for BRC success
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Recon knot mastery: Training, tips, and techniques for BRC success
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In our Recon Method, battle techniques are concrete answers to specific attacks. They follow an open and adaptable blueprint. In this video, you can already see that using the same bunker block, I can apply different ripostes—depending on the end status of the defensive layer. You also see me taking a big step, but if the opponent is closer, I skip the step entirely or use a wooden elbow instead of the two ripostes I showed. The concept is simple and adaptable—just as it should be—because the dy
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In our Recon Method, battle techniques are concrete answers to specific attacks. They follow an open and adaptable blueprint. In this video, you can already see that using the same bunker block, I can apply different ripostes—depending on the end status of the defensive layer. You also see me taking a big step, but if the opponent is closer, I skip the step entirely or use a wooden elbow instead of the two ripostes I showed. The concept is simple and adaptable—just as it should be—because the dy
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Two solid 1-fire techniques (riposte). | Recon Method
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Two solid 1-fire techniques (riposte). | Recon Method
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We use techniques from early 20th-century manuals as a template. In this case, we build a defensive system around them, which we call the Bunker Defense. This system is also applicable to mace, shovel, and weapons of opportunity. Here, we present some extra variations. That’s what we do at Recon Sparring: we take the most functional and effective HEMA building blocks and adapt them where necessary for modern self-defense and close combat. | Recon Method
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We use techniques from early 20th-century manuals as a template. In this case, we build a defensive system around them, which we call the Bunker Defense. This system is also applicable to mace, shovel, and weapons of opportunity. Here, we present some extra variations. That’s what we do at Recon Sparring: we take the most functional and effective HEMA building blocks and adapt them where necessary for modern self-defense and close combat. | Recon Method
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One of our standard battle techniques (reaction to an attack). Block inward strike with a supported bunkerblock. Then the first counterattack, the rhino thrust an optional follow-up. | Recon Method
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Cat. Sticks and Stones – using blueprint techniques also applied to other tools. The creative mind finds allies in all things. | Recon Method
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Keeping your self-defense techniques small and focused is key. By practicing them intensely, you make them reliable and instinctive, ensuring that in a high-pressure situation, you can trust them to work effectively. Quality over quantity means better mastery and confidence. Techniques in the video: -The Rhino: with the point -Reaper: cutting motion with the edge -Z-Strike: horizontal, longer strike with the edge | Recon Method
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These axe striking techniques are also applicable to the shovel, baseball bat, and many other melee weapons. That’s how we constructed our curriculum—using a Blueprint System where a select group of weapons represents many similar weapons and weapons of opportunity. That’s what makes the Recon Method and IMC the go-to systems for adaptive melee combat skills. | Recon Method
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Concept BUNKERING - for short distances. | Recon Method
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A typical recon-sparring construction using building blocks from hEMA and adapting them to today's needs. Power ice-pick attack versus Hook-armpit control and transition to an armpit Frame. MORE context/explanation? Use this link for a longer video -> https://www.facebook.com/reconsparring/videos/386967256749163 | Recon Method
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Precision strikes are fast, accurate and focused attacks without almost no preliminary movement, and they can be done from all angles and stances. The goal is to minimize interception while being very efficient in your attack. No big winding-up and just a small space needed to get the knife to the target. It's in-and-out and the job is done. I end with a different type of cut. We call this the area cut, and it's a bigger motion with a different tactic. This can be used for shielding yourself dur
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3 bunker blocks -> two ripostes | Recon Method
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» The 'Passing By Counter' refers to a defensive technique used in Recon, different martial arts or combat situations, where the defender counters an opponent's attack by moving during the end phase of the attack, immediately after the attack. Typically, this involves evading the strike while positioning themselves to strike from an advantageous angle. Sometimes, as shown in this video, you read the distance correctly and need little to no evasion because the opponent misses the strike due to he
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The inspiration - the source. | Recon Method
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Defense against a downward and inward blunt initiative. | Recon Method
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Blinding tactics in specific scenarios. See comments for more information. | Recon Method
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Just one of these strikes needs to connect, and it's over! An important part of our approach is power development. Not swinging dumb, but with control and tactically. You don't want to fight endlessly in a self-defense situation, just going for this bone-breaking strike...and it's all over. That is how you use a top-heavy melee weapon. Using the right biomechanics is what we teach people. Like a smooth kinetic chain, using effective mass or dealing with the left-over momentum. Our curriculum con
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This is a 1-fire response: one efficiënt flow of defense and attack. We use a typical HEMA-style Hook Block to stop the incoming strike and gain a moment of control. From here, you counter—either with a quick stab and disengage, or with a follow-up: high stab, low stab. Fast, clean, and direct. | Recon Method
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This is just a safe, blunt trainer, but these moves remain almost the same when using a hammer or a shovel. Pell training is important for impact training, strengthening your structure on impact so no power leaks away. | Recon Method
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The importance of powerful strikes for self-defense! In a real altercation, you cannot rely on winning a fight by points; you need to make every strike count. Using dynamic mass is essential for creating power, as it pulls or pushes the strike into the target. Note how my weight distribution is in synchrony with my strike. There are many scenarios where you may only have one chance to connect, so you don't want to miss that opportunity to end the fight or even save your life. ===================
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Of course, during winter we train outside—also when it's dark or raining. Get used to the elements and build a connection with nature. The techniques shown: Defense against a forward thrust: 1» 12 o'clock bunker block 2» Riposte Defense against a forward thrust: 1» Inward parry 2» Riposte 3» Follow-up * The use of the support arm is important, as you can see. | Recon Method
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This 'through' method gives you the ability to manage the generated power in the after-movement. No need to worry about a big opening when missing because the next one is already underway at 100 mph ;). So, there's no waste of energy while using the momentum to set up other techniques, which can also be defensive ones. Also, take a look at the way I'm holding it: the ring grip, holding the bat like a shackle. Understand that there is no opponent involved, no context—just demonstrating one strike
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