Keeper,
your questions are based on the video clips you saw right? it would be hard to explain but most of the knife to knife drills you see are really training you for emptyhands vs knife. Having a knife in your hand not only forces you to be cleaner with your moves but also give you an added agrressive attitude that you should have when you are faced with an armed opponent rather than have a passive/defensive attitude when unarmed. As a knife wielder what would you rather face? The Knife tapping drill you saw is a drill to teach you coordination and movement. You attack and then guide the limb. because it is a drill the hidden strikes are not shown . Actually what you see is the BASIC Start point of the drill series. As you progress in skill it get s very aggressive. At the early stages we just want you to learn how to move and get out of the way or guide the attack . Later on as you progress in skill it gets nasty and aggressive and all the moves become attacks not just countering evasive moves but you have to start out somewhere and this keeps it safer in class.
In actual knife to knife fighting you take bits and pieces of the drill and apply it in real time where both are skilled and such close quarter drills when both fighters are skilled results in one thing..mutual destruction. Knife to knife drills or the combat segment of Pekiti Tirisia is quite different than the drills you just saw. If you train the way you fight so you will fight the way you train then knife to knife drilling does not follow the rule of getting in and getting out (3 secs) To stay in and flow adds to more chances of getting countered or stabbed.
Hope this helps.
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