The native Siberian closed the distance and reentered with a massive downward slash. Reece blocked it by striking his attacker’s forearm with the shaft of the tomahawk and, in a move he’d learned studying the Filipino martial arts, hooked his opponent’s arm with the beard of the weapon, swinging it down and away. The violent motion ripped his tomahawk down his opponent’s arm and through his knife hand in a move known as “disarming the snake.”
