I just got "invited to leave" a b-ball game because I clubbed their power forward with my ASP to steal the ball. What? it takes a lot of skill to dribble and move while swinging a club!
Actually, Guro Inosanto mentioned this distance at the August Instructor Camp in LA. He said to a few of us who were pestering him and asking questions that for Leo Gaje, the distance was 21 feet. For him, it was more like 24...
Harley, I didn't realize that it had come from Tuhon Sayoc, though. I wonder if that includes their particular method of closing the gap...something I started referring to as "the assault rifle of Kali" after my NYC trip. We've drilled that here a few times, and our guys regularly cover about 18 feet very clean in random type drills when the person who is armed is anonymous. I've never tried it from the standpoint of knowing who's armed and where they are, though. I think I'd be too tempted to intercept with a bullet before the guy ever moved. "No officer, he didn't really threaten me with the knife, but he might have, and it's a chance I wasn't prepared to take."
Mike
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