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.

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