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**Tactically Sound. Legally Defensible. Professionally Delivered.**  
Training that works under pressure, aligns with department policy, and holds up in court.

**Edged Weapon Fundamentals**

Core mechanics for carrying, drawing, controlling, and striking with precision under pressure. Builds the foundation for every blade-based engagement.

**Defensive  
Duty Knife**

Practical deployment and control skills for uniformed personnel who need a reliable, duty-safe response to sudden assaults at dangerous ranges.

**EQC Pistol   
v. Knife Attacks**

Extreme-close contact skills for engaging edged threats while managing line, timing, retention, and firing positions in confined violent encounters.

**Enhanced Firearm Retention**

Applying the duty knife as a to stop active attempts to grab or forcibly disarm the officer’s firearm during sudden, high-pressure, and violent encounters.

**In-fight Accessing  
v. Grab/Stab**

Tactics to break clinches, stop repeated stabs, and deploy your own weapon inside entanglements where space collapses and speed decides survival.

**In-fight Accessing  
v. Slash/Thrust**

Solutions for high-speed cuts and linear drives, giving you pathways to clear attacks, seize initiative, and access tools against nonstop pressure.

**Unarmed Knife Defense – FWD Hold**

Focused responses to forward-grip assaults, using position, pressure, and control tactics to survive rapid, committed stabbing and cutting attacks.

**Unarmed Knife Defense – REV Hold**

Strategies tailored to reverse-grip threats, addressing rising slashes, hooks, and deceptive angles with direct, pressure-tested countermeasures.

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## The Edged Response program is endorsed by IALEFI. We taught at the 2024 & 2025 Annual Training Conferences and will be at the 2026.  [More info here](https://www.ialefi.com/training-course-calendar/annual-training-conference/)

 

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