Combat blades and the Gerber Ghoststrike

I held my Mk18 at low ready and waited for the signal. I felt a push urging me forward and my team-mate on the opposite end of the door pushed it open forcibly, I took one, then two steps the dark room, my night vision turned the room an eerie green, lighted by the IR […]

Unconsciousness and death from edged weapons

Recently I read an article on surviving an edged weapons attacks, where the writer spoke specific to knife wounds as they related to unconsciousness and death. I found this quite troublesome given the fact that his numbers just did not reflect the empirical experience/data that I have witnessed over my 23 years of being a […]

Improvised weapons – The UST Spork Multi-Tool

Now when you teach combatives, as I do, and when you have faced a few bad guys as a law enforcement officer and special events security professional, you see what others may not. When I saw this little tool I immediately perceived it as being a very useful and discreet non-dedicated or improvised weapon. This […]