yeah, after 30 years of CLF, you'd think i'd know the difference between a spear, staff, or escrima stick. I'm talking about GRIP. and the possibility of losing your weapon.I've studied escrima extensively also, and while their principles and body machenics are sound it is slightly different from a spear, so what works for a small blunt stick might not hold true to a sharp tipped long weapon where you have to sometimes switch grips (to deal with different angles of impact). The spear is long and "bladed" touch weapon that doesn't necessitate heavy trauma to cause an opponent to bleed.
If i'm holding a spear and start my stab and he hits my spear with reasonable force and my grip isn't proper, i can and have seen many people lose their spear from the lead hand because of the grip they used while stabbing.
however, mixed with my previous spear, staff and escrima training one thing is for sure, escrima taught me how NOT to lose my weapon, or i'd be dead. because of my escrima grip training you won't be able to knock a spear out of my hands now. so, i'm not talking anything other than the grip while using a spears stabbing motion.
so how often to you lube up your spear to imitate blood and simulate a combative situation to master the switching of hands while holding a lubed up spear? i'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to see a video of you or anyone doing this. it would be awesome.It is good to take effective training methodologies and implement to to other methods of combat that we do, but we must understand the differences between different methodoloies to maximize effectiveness. If done haphazardly as I have seen many people do (in the name of "cross training") without proper understanding, critial reason, and practical experience, one would end up making each method they practice less effective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELMPdQHOwaA