Don’t Get Knifed! - Empty Hand Against the Knife (EHAK)

Course Description: If you want to learn how not get stabbed or cut, learn from someone who trains to stab and cut.  In this class you’ll learn principles of the EHAK Strategy:  EHAK STRATEGY: (1) Recognize threats early (2) Fend and survive (3) Break contact to either deploy better tools (4) Survive & recover from bad initial encounter (5) gain control and countervail.

Topics: Patterns of knife attacks & case studies, recognizing and countering pending attacks, guarding-fending-parrying ongoing attacks, controlling and countervailing, applying EHAK strategies against guns (or more accurately, gunmen.), and  Surviving the knife attack to get to your gun.

Length: four hours

For prices and upcoming course dates, check the schedule page.

Prerequisites: None.

Required Equipment: Clothing suitable for training and physical contact (athletic shoes and some form of eye protection is recommended.).

Optional Equipment:

  See the general policies page for suggestions on food, drink, clothing, etc.

Taught by: Chuck Rives, Affiliate Instructor Martial Blade Concepts. Chuck Rives is an Affiliate Instructor, for Mike Janich’s Martial Blade Concepts. Chuck lives in Amarillo, Texas and is an Emergency Manager for a Federal Government Agency.

Facility: A-Zone Range

Additional information: Martial Blade Concepts(MBC) is an edged-weapon training program specifically designed to meet the needs of today's concerned citizen and armed professional. MBC emphasizes the development of “all-purpose” defensive skills. Rather than learning a large number of specific techniques to defend against specific attacks, MBC focuses on perfecting a few proven techniques and learning how to apply them to literally hundreds of different defensive situations. Through this easy-to-learn method, students develop defensive proficiency very quickly and have both the ability and the confidence to employ their skills after only a brief period of training.
Martial Blade Concepts is founded and lead by Michael Janich.  You may have seen bits of the Martial Blade Concepts system on the THE BEST DEFENSE with Michael Bane - On the Outdoor Channel.
You can see a good intro to the Martial Blade Concepts in this YouTube video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVIwy7btyF0)