Facing a knife attack when unarmed is perhaps the most challenging of all personal safety situations. Knife defense is a critical aspect of personal safety, involving techniques and strategies to protect yourself from potential harm in a knife attack. Effective knife defense emphasizes situational awareness, allowing you to identify potential threats, take preemptive measures when possible, and employ effective reactive measures when forced to defend oneself.

This program presents key principles that include:

1. Recognition skills
2. Preventive actions
3. Protective actions from knife strikes
4. Protective actions from grab-n-stab attacks
5. How to injure your assailant without exchanging strikes
6. How to catch an arm in motion
7. Various means of grabbing
8. Ways to force your assailant to release the knife
9. Takedowns when they are appropriate

Developing proficiency in these skills empowers individuals to respond effectively in high-stress situations, prioritizing personal safety and minimizing the potential for harm.

This program aims to achieve the best possible outcomes in violent circumstances. To do that, we must become tactically sound and legally defensible from criminal prosecution and civil suits. This program covers three phases of self-defense: Preparation before an attack, self-defense when under attack, and post-incident protocols after an attack.

1. Considerations on using a knife for self-defense
2. Reasonable use of force
3. De-escalating conflicts
4. Managing challengers
5. Confrontations with criminals
6. Knife types and selection
7. How to draw, deploy, and handle a knife
8. How to strike in forward hold
9. How to strike in reverse hold
10. How to access during unarmed attacks
11. How to access during knife attacks
12. How to access during grab-n-stab style of attacks
13. Defensive use of the knife in a forward hold
14. Defensive use of the knife in a reverse hold
15. What to do immediately following an attack and
16. What to do if you are arrested for defending yourself

Unlike dance-like methods using flowy drills that don’t resemble fighting, AMOK! activities are fight-based with broken rhythm and true intention – just as in real fights. It goes against the logic and purpose of training to practice in ways that don’t resemble the actual event. This program presents the five vital activities  over 30 lessons and covers:

1. Tactics – attacking, countering, isolations, and unpredictability
2. Dueling – Paying tactical consequences for mistakes
3. Sparring – dueling in different configurations for adaptation
4. Practice – activities  to improve your functional skill
5. Training – activities to improve your physical attributes

AMOK!’s Tactical Knife Fighting program will teach you how to dominate and gain control in chaos and train you to become functional faster than any other method. This program contains everything in the Core Skills program plus fourteen additional tactical skills with 85 lessons and covers:

The course covers 19 tactics (listed below) a total of 85 lessons:

1. Handling –how to carry, draw, deploy, and handling techniques

2. Gripping - the pros and cons of different grips             

3. Striking  - how to strike in forward and reverse hold

4. Accessing – safely draw & deploy while under attack

5. Tactics –attacking, countering, isolations, and unpredictability

6. Dueling – Paying tactical consequences for mistakes

7. Sparring –dueling in different configurations for adaptation

8. Practice– activities  to improve your functional skill

9. Training– activities to improve your physical attributes

10. Footwork –gaining advantages through counter-footwork

11. Countering – detailed progression of counter-striking

12. Reverse Hold– details on the particulars of reverse grip

13. Impact Striking– adding hand strikes and kicks into your knifework

14. Quartering– tactics for controlling position: inside/outside, high/low

15. Set-ups – setting Up functional bridge traps

16. Timing Traps– exploiting opportunities during free exchange striking

17. Adaptation– managing a spontaneous environment

18. Disarming – catching a moving hand and causing them to release the knife

19. Takedowns– using your knife to assist or effect takedowns