The first Ultimate Edge Seminar is over and it was a success. If you missed it don’t worry, we’re planning on having more.
The day began with a welcome and lecture by Frank Wagoner and I on safety guidelines and use of force considerations. Let’s face facts; anytime you put a knife into play the law considers it deadly force, no different from using a firearm. You best have your legal ducks in a row if you want to survive the entire incident without doing some serious time.
Once that was over Frank had the floor for military knife combatives. He began with knife selection and carry suggestions and then rolled into techniques. The morning passed quickly as everyone worked hard. We finished up with a short session on throwing using everything from cheap steak knives to Ka-Bars.
A break for lunch and it was time to move on.
The afternoon was Spike’s. We covered the basics of my Practical Knifecraft seminar, much of it taken from Kali via Comtech. The group covered developmental drills such as banda banda, hubud lubud, cover and slash and others. Once folks had the drill down we’d isolate a portion and work it with a more combative aspect.
The day ended all too soon for everyone. The only complaint was that the seminar was only one day. In the future we will try to correct that.
We got some great feedback that I just had to share with you. Here’s two samples.
I also wanted to take a moment to say thanks for a great training day. I learned a lot and am glad I made the drive. Thanks !
I'm looking forward to the next one.
- Matt L
First off I just want to tell you how much I enjoyed the training.
I thought the concepts in your material built on Frank's techniques very well.
It was also nice to have the conceptual training after the technique based stuff since sometimes people have a hard time learning concepts at first.
I thought the material was very well communicated by both Frank and yourself.
You both kept the pace fast but avoided the rapid fire shotgun style of instruction that can be hard to remember later.
Bill B.
