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Anyone have any strong opinion of weak lead vs. strong lead when knife fighting/edged weapons engagement? Long ago, I was taught the weak lead approach as depicted in one of the pictures on the Gutterfighting site. (The Applegate Method). I understood and appreciated what I thought was the reasoning behind it, and considered it superior due to the mindset of protecting the weapon at all cost. That said, over the years I've trained quite a bit in Kali and have very much changed my tune. After once completely adopting the weak lead concept, it was a struggle for me to adopt Kali's approach. My training partners and I have sparred many times in various combinations of weak vs. strong, and haven't found a single reason for utilizing a weak lead. We're all heavily biased toward the strong side due to our Kali backgrounds though.
Help me consider the valid points of the weak lead.
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