welcome back to another episode of
seeing fights
fight scenes breakdown
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i'm chad vazquez i'm logan love and we
have an awesome episode for you all
today we're breaking down one of the
biggest series ever squid game before we
continue heavy spoilers if you haven't
already watch this korean hit series on
netflix before watching this episode
with that being said we're looking at
the final knife fight between childhood
friends gi hoon played by ijung jae
and sangwoo portrayed by park heisu chad
would you eliminate me for 45 billion
won i would eliminate you for 45 dollars
all right oh steak knives are out yes it
is and they ain't here for eating
all right so here we go all right wild
throws and okay here we have a standoff
and in this case the standoff makes
sense right because they're two
untrained combatants unlike all the
other breakdowns we've done before now
standoff you meaning this uh situation
which both are trying to stab you
exactly okay they're trying to push
through okay and this is good gie hoon
is actually attacking the hand which is
creative it's good that he thought that
to do that and very smart league young
kicks the knife away yep sango takes off
his jacket because he's unarmed so he
wants to be armed with something
right i i don't know how that disarm
happened by sangwoo let's try to beat
him with his jacket
okay so sam was trying to eye gouge
gihon but the problem is there's no
floor or or wall being used for this so
in fact this lot happened here right
right knives use of a jacket and to my
point here this attempt to i gouge
another opponent let's let's break that
down and to be clear this is different
than all of our other videos these are
people that aren't trained and they're
fighting like people that aren't trained
let's talk about what they could have
done better if they had just a little
bit more training yeah let's do it so in
squid games both kihoon and sangwoo used
a steak knife and the question is is is
a steak knife a good weapon i'll tell
you why it's a great weapon because it
is light if you go to your kitchen you
get two steak knives and you have one in
what we call an ice pick grip and
another one in what we call a hammer
grip you're pretty well armed against an
assailant i'm not sure i would want to
go against an unhappy very angry
homeowner that's armed with two steak
knives because you can move very quickly
with these knives and cause great deal
of damage because they are pointy and
they are sharp so if chad came at me
unarmed with whatever he wanted to come
at me for so here i can do a cut and a
stab there's my grab here notice that it
opens him up and then i can proceed with
multiple attacks turning him into swiss
cheese as i run away so in this first
exchange we see a standoff between two
armed combatants that don't know what
they're doing so in this sense it
doesn't make sense that they would push
through someone who passes gihon over
this way and then immediately switches
so that he's in a choke position note
however gihon's right hand is completely
free so i could be stabbing the leg
i could be stabbing the clavicle right
here the shoulder but he ended up
slashing the hand which is still good
dropped the weapon and was able to
extricate himself was it realistic yes
again there were there were superior
things that gi hoon could have done but
that wasn't a bad choice by gihon so
what happened in this exchange is gi
hoon does a big telegraphing lunge and
sung woo ends up capturing the weapon
here he ends up capturing it so well
that he's able to release the cloth get
a good grip and it looks like it's kind
of hard to tell but he doesn't diss on
i'm assuming he just slams down the hand
and then does it just
is that realistic probably if two guys
aren't trained that seems pretty
realistic to me if i was gee hoon and i
had a weapon here
i would never do a straight lunging
thrust because i would want to misdirect
them first so i would do some sort of
fake so i'm coming in here i would come
at pi and then come in low or i would
come out from the outside and then come
in low or i would come in low and then
go hot so our producer just offered us
45 to actually do this for you guys he
gets 45 dollars if he disarms me i get
45 if i stab him i could use a good
lunch right sure let's do it all right
you ready let's do it okay i'm ready
so i'll start with my approach this i
have not trained with weapons work or
anything like that my logic was okay i
have a jacket cloth well let's use it to
the face just keep the guy away keep
them blinded while i back away because i
don't get near that knife that's my
first game plan it's just smack and run
that's that's all i got my life baby
that's legit but honestly when someone
is armed with an edged weapon the odds
are in my favor the best thing to do is
get distance and get as much distance
from you and the weapon as possible and
also look in a real life situation
abort don't be a hero don't try to
engage an actual weapon like this in the
context of our two characters
they have nowhere to go
so they have to so that's the case by
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for
fans who've been watching our episodes
we've covered eye gouging recently on
our punisher episode
one main big difference though is that
there's no wall as he's pushing and
trying to squeeze his eyeball through
kihun is moving i mean very clearly as i
push logan logan's moved backwards and
that's the problem if sung wu with good
training and his goal his intentions was
to purposely eye gouge any takedown to
put the man on the floor this could be
from here
double a takedown or something but
clench tape down where we can simply
grab squeeze the back and
trip in this fashion
and put the man on the floor from there
his next goal is to get the mouth
position this is mouth in a very
effective combat position on the ground
what's happening here well one with my
body weight i am pinning my partner down
to the floor with the assistance of
gravity my position and mother earth my
partner's not going anywhere from here
now i can use my hands freely to grapple
i gouge or probably what i'd recommend
striking open palm not close fists you
might break your hand
or better yet elbows
okay well he's not going to need that
jacket anymore
just wild punches yeah again you know
untrained people so they're just just
going at it just feeling it out not
really thinking
okay
we have a headlock here by sung wu and
he's holding to it okay this is cool
this is interesting when you look at
most street fights or even for the our
viewers here you maybe have been in a
hands-hand street fight yourself we hope
not but yeah you notice that men and
women
have a similar approach when untrained
they grab the head
they pull the head to the floor to pin
the person and beat them
that's what it is it is instant
grappling is an instinctual form of
combat that every person all of you that
are watching the show right now have if
you ever were to engage someone and you
just had a fight off the top of your
head kihoon approaches this in a very
interesting way he brings the fight to
the floor let's break this down there's
some cool stuff here to comment on and
let's show a an optimal way to approach
this even though there's some logic to
both our companions in this scene you'll
find that headlocks come from untrained
people that throw wild punches but
remember they're also a bit scared and
getting knocked out so it's natural for
punches to be thrown to a point where
two opponents when they collide one of
them naturally wraps around the head
to a headlock to pull the man down to
the floor to punch him here all right
the big question how's this person get
out one scenario logan has my headlock
and he has in a way where it's a bit
loose there's there's some space here
maybe because i turned my jaw downward
well everyone if there's space here i
can take the same side hand go within
that space bring the palm to my head and
open up slightly to get my head out and
create space that's assuming if the
headlock is a bit loose now what if
it wasn't and we're talking that thing
is just locked in tight it's right in
your neck and you're just you're not
getting out there gihon actually did
something quite smart in this case he's
suplex
but since i'm not being paid what's it
45
million billion won don't worry if i was
this guy would be launched i would be
like
we're not doing that right now so here's
a much more efficient way of bringing
the fight to the ground because kihoon
was right his logic was right bring the
fight to the ground in order to get out
let's look at it i'm going to control
logan's waist whether with one hand
or two
i'm going to take a step to the side
straighten my leg
and knock the man down it looks like
this
as you can see
i have two hands free now so if my
opponent is very stubborn and doesn't
let go
it has a strong grip i can use my hands
to
start high percent spine like so using
my chest to go forward and bring my hand
back in the same way
i did before
when i was standing and i was doing with
a loose headlock
it looks like some kind of has a mount
position but yeah but his legs are so
spaced there but again untrained here we
are okay he took the back okay all right
so some mincing here right sangwoo is
using his jacket to strangle cajon
okay not on the floor
okay no hooks right now so he could spin
so that's the problem song who because
he's not using his legs allows kihun to
get out because he can move all right so
sees the back and uses some good logic
here tries to apply a strangle using his
jacket and when he does he goes around
the throat of kihun and they fall back
like so right and so sang was really
strangling now what happens here he
doesn't use his legs if he had some
basic grappling training he would have
his legs involved right away because
sangwoo did not have his legs involved
gihon had a lot of space and mobility to
turn towards his opponent and get top
position which allows him to escape so
what could seongwoo have done better to
address this issue i would cross my legs
right underneath one armpit
one side of the shoulder
like so i might be able to use it to
hold him still as i pull maybe apply a
strangle i don't know how well he had
around the throat so i can only comment
so far here but worst case if this
doesn't work i can always just let go of
it and proceed
to
an arm bar a juju katame from here and
that's the great thing about having your
legs involved in that position you can
switch to other weapons that are nearby
so chad would you prefer to choke
someone just barehanded or with a tool
if i was in that position i would just
keep it to where i know
what to do best
let go of the tool and use my body i can
get better results much faster because
this that's just how i'm trained so
screw it throw it hands involved right
i'm good position guys have a knife
let's do it that'd be my answer makes
sense
a little scramble no nothing crazy here
so far until
steak knife okay so
just dab gi hoon in the left thigh oh
and he's followed up with another shot
to left abdomen that's gonna hurt and
i'll leave a mark for tomorrow but there
are probably better targeting areas that
sangwoo could have used as a rule of
thumb whenever you want to target
someone with a knife you're looking for
the folds of the body or the interiors
of the body what do i mean so if we look
at this this is the exterior of chad's
thigh what would be a better thing here
we have an interior
more nerves are here more blood vessels
are here the femoral artery is here on
the inside of the thigh what else do we
have here we can also have the back of
the knee in this scene sangu penetrated
the left thigh from the outside of gihon
and then did a stab into giuhun's left
abdomen so what sang could have done
instead of stabbing on the outside you
could have stabbed behind here and
instead of stabbing on the left side
note that the liver is on the right side
right have you ever taken a liver shot
oh yes i have and how does that feel it
feels like a aggressive cramp inside
your your organ yeah right it's annoying
so this is what he could have done had
he had just a little bit more training
okay so gihon just threw seongwoo down
by the throat somehow he's screaming in
pain yeah that would be screaming in
pain too
oh soccer kick to the head
gi hoon is not having a good day what's
very
vicious about the game the extremes are
growing where they're changing as a
person so now it's pushed these two men
at a point where they have to eliminate
each other guys will go way back for
money but is that is that true though i
mean i for me i don't think it would be
money i just wouldn't want to die so if
it had to be between me and you the
question is is it's both playing a role
right right it is why you're there
you're there to
get money and people have been
eliminated because of that and then yes
there's a mixture of survival so it
changes how you approach your
relationships with people around you
given the situation yeah i think that
for me the bigger impetus would be
surviving i i don't want to be killed by
anyone let alone a friend yeah so they
were all in agreement with that guys
would you agree okay so now i'll take
the money yeah yeah they would too we
all would do right
kihun stops a stab with his left hand
literally yeah
so someone's over kihoon he's holding
off okay oh bite oh oh no no oh my gosh
that's brutal oh and spits off a piece
of
someone's
ankle that stab would you think that
would have held i don't know i don't
think so you know what let's definitely
break down that because there are many
options open to some and to add to that
the amount that sangwoo had over gihon
it left opportunities for gihon to do
some things if he was slightly trained
from a possible certain culture at
ashikarami pakistan look into what that
is and how to apply it here sangwoo
managed to plunge his knife into gihon's
hand let's say there that's the plunge
in question why didn't he just tear it
down because i have an edged weapon
inside someone's body so this is what i
would say to do pull this knife down
ripping open the entire palm extricating
the weapon and repeat to finish the job
now that we all have that disturbing
image in our head thanks to logan's
details here let's go back to what's
happening with uh
gihon what a trained person would do is
acquire a position called ashigorami
it's just a japanese term that refers to
leg entanglements it's a concept and
system that has an attacker use their
legs to control their opponent's legs
for
sweeping
and also leg locks so let's take a look
from here this space i'll hip my butt
out to the side giving me an angle
using my free arm i'll block this leg to
get my knee through
right to the hip
my outside leg or foot rather will come
over to make contact to my knee as you
can see i have a strong bite on the leg
from here
we have a couple things i can push logan
down this angle to knock his butt down
so i can hopefully pull the knife out
and get
top position
or and pushing logan away and in hopes
of also pulling the knife out at the
same time and get my hand free
as i do so i can use my leg to push his
belly
bring my knee down which everyone
creates what's called heel exposure for
those are not familiar with this i will
use this connection around the heel
as a means of ripping the leg apart
this rotation will work the ligaments
here and my hip extension can hyperson
the knee which will also rip more
ligaments so i'm attacking two joints
the ankle and the knee with what's
called a heel hook or more specifically
an outside heel hook these are two
strong options that a bottom person in
this case kihoon could have used to get
out of that pin and ashikurami system
so squid games final battle remember the
key context to this whole thing these
are two
untrained men that have to engage each
other in combat under that context logan
what do you think if it was me and i was
these guys
i i would do the same thing i don't know
what i would do differently would you
have done anything differently chad i
think the logic the instinctual fight
logic of ancient people was demonstrated
well as we went from one scene to
another very well from the knife to the
jacket to the hand tan to the grappling
there was a logic to it one of the
things i liked was the headlock that's
what guys do who are untrained do they
go into headlock and similarly with the
weapons just these wild swings these
barbarian sort of like attacks that's
what people do when they're untrained
when i first started doing knife work i
did exactly that i didn't know what i
was doing as you get better they're very
short and they're very narrow tight
movements these guys look like two guys
that didn't know what they were doing
but they were trying to survive overall
i think given the context i thought it
was a great fight scene i would give it
an a can i am with you i think a's are
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