Empty hand self-defense against weapons – Download + Streaming – EN

Description

This is part 3 of 3 videos, that GM Datu Dieter Knüttel recorded during his seminar in Vancouver, Canada in June 2025.

In this video, GM Datu Dieter Knüttel teaches empty hand  selfdefense against weapons, here against stick and knife attacks.
Against the stick, several disarming, locking and takedown techniques are demonstrated and taught in great detail.

Very interesting are the parts, where effective hair pulling is explained and also verbal selfdefense is something, that one shoud know about.

The knife part is a continuation form the reavtive knife system, where more disarms and takeowns are demonstrated and taught from the tranisiton position, that was explained in the 2nd videos from the Vacouver seminar 2025.

This is a great video to get new techniques and concepts for the defense against weapons.

A lot of information was covered and you find the details of the content in the list below.

The video has chapter markers.
If you watch the video with the VLC player, go to playback and then chapter and you can choose the chapters like a menu of a DVD.

Here the content of the video:

00:00  Intro
00:33  Welcome
00:49  Empty Hands against a stick
00:57     – Defense against strike #1
01:04        – Closer hand or 1st doublestick series empty hands
01:16        – Straight armbar – hand on the shoulder
03:03           – Details about the armbar
04:34        – Standing centerlock – hand on the shoulder
06:57           – Variations, how to bend the ellbow
07:59           – Details about the standing centerlock
09:27        – Strip disarm and wristlock
09:56           – Details about the wristlock
11:36           – Communication: tell him what to do
12:42           – Applying the wristlock to other situations
13:25           – More details about the wristlock
15:16        – Disarming with the thigh
16:36        – Disarmings with and without recovering the stick
18:30           – Swing the arm through for the disarming
21:02        – Disarming with the thigh from the other side
21:52     – Defense against strike #12
22:08        – Disarming with the thigh
22:44        – Takedown by pulling the hair
23:16        – Followup variations
24:30     – Applying different locks after the disarmings
26:18  Pulling hair effectively
28:04     – Pulling circular
30:47     – Grabbing hair at the side of his head
31:41     – Bring the hand to your thigh
32:35     – 3/4 grab
35:02     – Twist after grabbing and pulling
35:34     – Defense against different attacks with pulling the hair
37:08  Verbal selfdefense
38:00     – Do you have a problem?
39:48     – What are you looking at?
40:32     – Being ready, but hiding it
41:30  Knife defense
41:39     – Review of the Reactive knife lesson
42:58     – Disarming with a push
45:18        – Details about the disarming
46:58     – Wristlock with backwards throw
48:23        – Details about the wristlock
51:56     – Wristlock with disarming against the knife
53:15     – Compression lock with disarming
55:44  Info
56:13  End

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Grandmaster Datu Dieter Knüttel

Dieter Knüttel, M.A. in sports science is Modern Arnis chief-instructor for der DAV of Germany and European Modern Arnis Representative (1996 -2001) of Professor Remy A. Presas.
He 1received the title of DATU and the rank of Lakan Anim, 6th Dan Modern Arnis from Professor Remy Presas in 1996, as 4th of 6 persons and the only person outside of the USA who has received this title.
After receivinhg his 7th, 8th and 9th Dan in the Philippines,  on Septemer 24th  2016 it was publically announced in Dortmund, Germany, that he has awarded 10th Dan, Lakan Sampu by Grandmaster Roberto Presas, 10. Dan Modern Arnis.

Dieter Knuettel is involved with the Filipino Martial Arts since 1978 and he has been teaching FMA/Modern Arnis seminars since 1980 all over Europe, in Australia, in the USA, in Russia and even in the Philippines.

He is one of the most experienced Modern Arnis Masters worldwide.