When: Saturday April 13.   Attire: comfortable street clothing and shoes.

Our Defensive Knife curriculum was developed to provide a simple and intuitive training program that will quickly make the student more efficient in deploying and using a knife in a modern defensive context. The program does not focus on tactics alone but aims to develop the proper mindset to empower the student to manage fear and apply the skills learned in the event of a lethal threat.

The SFKD Fundamentals course covers:

• Training in Context/Plausibility Principle.
• The law about knife carry and use in self defense
• The body’s natural survival reactions to danger
• Body mechanics
• How to Grip the Knife
• Deploying the knife: the Draw
• Three Main Tactics: Stab, Slash, Strike
• Balance and efficient transfer of power to target
• Three main factors in Knife Defense
• Tactical Anatomy
• Targeting Strategy
• Closest Weapon-Closest Target concept
• Fear Management Tools
• Mindset Development
• Dynamic skills development for plausible contexts
• Evaluation of the ability to apply the skills learned through Force on Force scenarios

When: Saturday April 4.   Attire: comfortable street clothing and shoes.

Our Defensive Knife curriculum was developed to provide a simple and intuitive training program that will quickly make the student more efficient in deploying and using a knife in a modern defensive context. The program does not focus on tactics alone but aims to develop the proper mindset to empower the student to manage fear and apply the skills learned in the event of a lethal threat.

The SFKD Fundamentals course covers:

• Training in Context/Plausibility Principle.
• The law about knife carry and use in self defense
• The body’s natural survival reactions to danger
• Body mechanics
• How to Grip the Knife
• Deploying the knife: the Draw
• Three Main Tactics: Stab, Slash, Strike
• Balance and efficient transfer of power to target
• Three main factors in Knife Defense
• Tactical Anatomy
• Targeting Strategy
• Closest Weapon-Closest Target concept
• Fear Management Tools
• Mindset Development
• Dynamic skills development for plausible contexts
• Evaluation of the ability to apply the skills learned through Force on Force scenarios

The SFKD 2 days course covers:

• Training in Context/Plausibility Principle.
• The law about knife carry and use in self defense
• The body’s natural survival reactions to danger
• Body mechanics
• How to Grip the Knife
• Deploying the knife: the Draw
• Three Main Tactics: Stab, Slash, Strike
• Balance and efficient transfer of power to target
• Three main factors in Knife Defense
• Tactical Anatomy
• Targeting Strategy
• Closest Weapon-Closest Target concept
• Fear Management Tools
• Mindset Development
• Dynamic skills development for plausible contexts
• Intro to multiple assailants dewfense
• Intro to ground defense with a knife
• Evaluation of the ability to apply the skills learned through Force on Force scenarios

Safer Faster Knife Defense (SFKD) is a unique knife training program that teaches simple, intuitive tactics that can be applied in the widest variety of plausible scenarios.

Here are the most plausible scenarios where using a knife is justified in the context of LEO/ CCW :

• To defend against an “in holster” weapon grab.
• To defend against a weapon grab while in the ready position or at extension.
• To defend if he/she cannot access the sidearm (for instance, by being pinned against a car or a wall, or on the ground on their strong side.)
• To defend against “The Mount” position (on the ground).
• These scenarios might develop against one assailant or multiples, while standing or on the ground.

Take all of those plausible cases and their variations and it becomes plain to see how things can get complex and even complicated very quickly!

It’s important, then, to have a training system that remains consistent across all these variables in order to deal more efficiently with the increasingly complicated scenarios.

This principle is at the core of SFKD: the same skills and tactics that we use to defend against one assailant while standing can be applicable and easily adaptable to multiple assailants, on the ground, or any combination of the two.

This allows novice students to develop essential skills quickly while helping the more experienced students to streamline their defensive skill-set to the essential.

Obviously defending against multiple assailants is more complex than defending against a single opponent.

Luckily we don’t need to learn a new set of skills to defend against them, but we do have to adapt them to this new context.

Another important consideration is the ability to manage fear and not let the number intimidate you.

This course is designed to teach the students the appropriate mindset and strategies that will enable them to apply the skills developed in the SFKD course to multiple attackers.

When: Saturday May 25   Attire: comfortable street clothing and shoes.

Our Defensive Knife curriculum was developed to provide a simple and intuitive training program that will quickly make the student more efficient in deploying and using a knife in a modern defensive context. The program does not focus on tactics alone but aims to develop the proper mindset to empower the student to manage fear and apply the skills learned in the event of a lethal threat.

The SFKD Fundamentals course covers:

• Training in Context/Plausibility Principle.
• The law about knife carry and use in self defense
• The body’s natural survival reactions to danger
• Body mechanics
• How to Grip the Knife
• Deploying the knife: the Draw
• Three Main Tactics: Stab, Slash, Strike
• Balance and efficient transfer of power to target
• Three main factors in Knife Defense
• Tactical Anatomy
• Targeting Strategy
• Closest Weapon-Closest Target concept
• Fear Management Tools
• Mindset Development
• Dynamic skills development for plausible contexts
• Evaluation of the ability to apply the skills learned through Force on Force scenarios