Slashing versus stabbing, knife tactics and their relevance

In combat marksmanship, shot placement is incredibly important and more often than not it is the determining factor in lethality. No matter the caliber of bullet or model of firearm, the location on the body where the round strikes determines how much damage is done with the exception of scenario-modifying circumstances. It is the same […]

Blade Brothers Knives: Forged in war

Blade Brothers Knives is a small veteran-owned business in Ukraine that specializes in high quality knives designed for various combat applications. While they have a very wide selection to choose from, each with its own purpose, I will focus on the three that I chose to acquire. BB Knives was born from the war between […]

Martial Blade Concepts: Effective modern self-defense for everyone

Martial Blade Concepts (MBC) is a modern science based edged-weapon system designed to provide it’s practitioners with a court defensible means of self-defense using low profile tools legal in all jurisdictions. That is a big mission statement, but Michael Janich delivers. Janich was a Soldier and an intelligence officer with DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency). He […]

Navy SEAL Kills Pirate with a Knife

I recently attended a shooting course taught by a former Navy SEAL. A small portion of that course covered some basic combatives (7 yards and in). When you’re 7 yards or closer to the bad guy you are considered to be within combatives range. Within this close distance things happen fast, really fast. You may […]