Session 1: Fixed and Folding Knife Fundamentals

• Lecture: 
  • Legalities
  • Ethics
  • Considerations for EDC knife selection
  • Training knives overview
  • Knife carry concerns
  • How to draw your weapon quickly, safely, and effectively
    
    
• Lab:
  • Knife draw
  • Defense 
  • Attack
    
    
• Debrief

Session 2: EDC Edged Weapon Deployment

• Lecture: 
  • Brief summary of legalities and ethics
  • Drawing and deploying the knife during hostile conditions
  • P.R.O. Method of self-defense
    
    
• Lab:
  •  5 basic strikes and targeting 
  • 5 strikes with knife draw
  • The concept of “Slashing to thrust and thrusting to slash”
  • Silat Square Concept
  • Stabbing
    • Forward Grip
      
    • Reverse Grip
  • Slashing
    
    • Forward Grip
      
    • Reverse Grip
      
      
      
• Debrief
  
  

Session 3: EDC Edged Weapon Efficiency and Movement

• Lecture:
  • Brief summary of the legalities
  • Physiology of the target and medical implications
    • Stopping power 
    • Lethality
       
• Lab:
  • Review basic angles of attack and how they relate to the targets
  • Triangle footwork: What and Why
  • Zero Pressure
  • Footwork drills for skills 
  • Footwork drills with knife
  • Free Flow
    
    
• Debrief
  
  

Session 4: EDC Edged Weapon Failure Consideration

• Lecture:
  • Brief summary of the legalities 
  • Why you shouldn’t be weapon fixated and should have backup “weapons”
  • What is the "Alive Hand” and the “Alive Body” and how that relates to knife fighting
    
    
• Lab:
  • Alive hand
  • Elbows, Knees
  • Folder as Pocket Stick/Kubotan
  • Empty hands to edged weapons draw practice, incorporate angles of attack, Silat square and footwork
    
    
• Debrief
  
  

Session 5: Final Review and Training Considerations

• Lecture:
  • Review of law
  • Review of ethics
  • Review of mindset
    
    
• Lab: 
  • Stealth draw
  • Fight to draw
  • Draw to slash/stab
  • Footwork
  • Draw from different positions (e.g. prone, supine, etc.)
    
  • Pocket Stick practice
    
    
• Debrief
  • Aftermath of a violent encounter
  • Daily training considerations
  • Future training considerations (knife vs. knife, knife vs. firearm, knife vs. blunt weapon, knife grappling, double knives, force-on-force training and improvised edged weapons)
  • Final comments, questions, and concerns