This is simply the best Knife Awareness educational DVD set I’ve seen. It includes graphic photos from real life knife attacks, real life stabbings captured on film, professional medical advice on dealing with knife injuries, simulated scenarios, training tips and advice, seminar footage, and much more. To date I’ve viewed many different edged weapon programs and have my reservations about the reality application of most of them if not all. I never thought I would see anything to equal the original ‘Edged Weapons’ video of the 90s but this set from Lee Morrison is good. The best I’ve seen of what’s currently available.

Jamie O’Keefe – Self Protection

 ON THE SHARP EDGE

 A UC Publishing Production for 18 years or over only

This 3 disc, 3 hour program is designed as both an educational and instructional tool, to supplement and enhance a student of competent Combative instruction. We accept that no one system holds all the answers to dealing with the knife threat from an unarmed perspective. Some of the information available, although showing improvement from yesteryear still borders from methods that would be practically suicidal to attempt right through to some progressively workable concepts. What this program aims to do, is to first educate then introduce and implement some of the most workable ideas in this author’s opinion.  Such opinion is based on 25 years of training, research and pressure testing built along side the foundational experience gained from the accumulation of live edged weapon experiences that I have been involved in including lessons learned from the things I did right and just as importantly the things I did wrong. Take from whatever you find useful, but most of all take on board the fact that incidents of knife violence are becoming a huge part of every day life.  If we weren’t a knife carrying culture before in the UK we are fast becoming so now. Get educated!

Topics include:

Disc one:

Introduction/contributing factors to blade related incidents/the Definition of a blade weapon/Bladed article display/the consequences of a knife attack/A Knifer’s M.O/Concealment, access and deployment/real knife attacks on CCTV depicted as a learning tool/Body Language Cues recognition/shutting the threat down before the knife is in play.

Disc two:

Dealing with the blade out and in play/what are our options?/Training and teaching models/Counter knife principles/Offensive use of the blade from street bastardizations to advanced knife play/Counter knife progressions/Options, debate and demonstration.

Disc three:

Offensive counter tools/Cover, crash & counters for slashing & thrusting attacks/UC counter knife workshop footage/dealing with retraction and continuous attack/into the realms of non-compliance/dynamic scenario training/static knife hold up threat/worse case scenario ambush!/Mindset & mental conditioning/Emergency medical management at the scene/an expert opinion/visualization & crisis rehearsal/debrief/summary

And more…