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Snake Blocker & The Babe
Selling Survival: Episode 13: Knife Fighting
© 2014 James LaFond
JAN/3/14
I just viewed this brief YouTube Doomsday Preppers video by National Geographic, the video magazine channel that sends a gorgeous Asian-American babe into the worst American Prisons, escorted by guards who seem to expect to be mobbed by a hundred horny killers at any moment—kind of like their version of shark week.
Apache weaponry expert ‘Snake Blocker’ is interviewed by a witless brunette at what I think was a pepper spray trade show. The Apache in denim went outside on a deck with the little lady and went over some hand clinching and knife binding techniques, predicated on empty hand versus knife and knife versus empty hand. Who knows how much stuff he showed her and how far down the film was edited. What it amounts to is just enough to get yourself killed.
Snake Blocker is in the business of marketing his Apache heritage. It might strike you as phony at first. But keep in mind that this guy was a U.S. Special Forces soldier. [Note a reader correction in the comments section below.] You can find him on the Apache versus Gladiator episode of Deadliest Warrior. On the three versions of that show that I saw involving Native American weaponry people, they proved much more adept at using their weapons than most of the talent tapped for the series. This guy is a nut, and a real badass with the blade.
Most likely his skills are military and FMA based, and he is just applying himself to resurrecting his martial heritage like the European historical swordsmanship crowd. I would love to spar with this guy with blunt steel. What I would not do with him is throw knives. He showed incredible—more like ridiculous—knife throwing skill on the Deadliest Warrior. As far as the lame knife defense demo on the deck with the babe, I am either inclined to think it was heavily edited, or, he did what I would have done: made up an excuse to clinch with the babe. He got his hands on her. Mission accomplished—admit him to the Man Cave.
One point of interest for my fiction readers: Snake Blocker is the person I patterned the fictional character Joseph White-Feather after, the commander of a team of time-travelers in Of The Sunset World.
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Snake eater     Jan 15, 2014

Correction**** He is not by any means a soldier, or much less Special Forces. He is a logistics specialist in the Navy, who worked at the post office during his Afghanistan tour.
James     Jan 15, 2014

Thank you for the clarification.

In cases like this I like to keep my mistake standing with a note in brackets pointing to the correcting comment. I appreciate you setting me straight and I am wondering if I transposed two experts from the Spike series in my mind. I do not have the means to view them again, and am curious as to whether this was my mistake or a mistake from the TV show.

Was I correct in remembering him from the Apache versus Gladiator episode of The Deadliest Warrior? Or was I recalling some other expert that was billed as a special forces soldier. Did I confuse him with the lead guy from the Spartan Team?

And didn't his technique remind you of Chris Sayoc's FMA?

Thanks.
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