Hock Hochheim's New Knife/ Counter Knife Combat Book

Hock has released his new Knife / Counter Knife Combat Book to coincide with my recent posts on Knife Fighting...Nah! Just kidding. Hock has released the new book of his own accord as we've been psychically willing him to, using our Special CIA Jedi mind powers.

This tome may well become the new textbook for knife enthusiasts, with it's 1750+ photos and 291 pages of information.

As Hock says on his website:-

“As a police officer, both Military and in Texas, people have died in my hands, arms and before my eyes. As victims of the knife, I have had to investigate their woundings, maimings and deaths. I have arrested these attackers in the act or hunted them down afterward. I have been to dozens of intense police, Assault and Violent Death Schools conducted by leading forensics specialists from around the world.

Since 1996, each year, I've taught combatives in 40 cities in 13 allied countries and examined the performances of thousands of soldiers, police and citizens. I have been a paid consultant for The US Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Marines.

Plus, I am an avid, lifelong, obsessed student of crime, violence and military history. Through the years, all this has given me a certain unique perspective about edged-weapon combat, human learning and individual, athletic performance.

Knife/Counter-Knife combatives is extremely situational. It's chaotic, wet and ugly in a way few people, even most knife instructors, can ever imagine. It is often trained haphazardly and ignorantly with over-simplistic, dueling practice or endless, arsty, looping drills, or worse, totally ignored. Then, vital parts of it, such as knife ground fighting are often omitted, or treated like sporty, high school wrestling matches.

Military, police, martial arts and the aware citizenry - I am all of these things, yet none of these things. While each group knows things about fighting, survival, crime, war and violence, no one group captures the essence of knife combat in this mixed-weapon world, or matches it with fast-breaking, training psychologies, physical methodologies and cutting edge tactics and strategies. I bridge this gap. I assimilate and organize. We evolve to face the cunning criminal and the enemy soldier. Inside a continuum of weapons, we use the knife to save our life and our way of life."

To purchase this book, go to Hock's webpage on the book, here.

Pictures and text are all from Hock's website and copyright to Hock Hochheim, and are used under the fair use provisions for academic purposes only.