KNIFE FIGHTERS PROGRAMS

“Never bring a knife to a gunfight, you say? Until you draw your gun, put a round in the chamber, point it at a combat effective target, pull the trigger and they stop coming……it’s still a knife fight.”  — Alan Moore (ATS Instuctor,  Instructor – Spartan’s Quest Center for Combat)

One of the distinct advantages the knife has over the gun is that America has become a “gun culture” where the knife doesn’t have as much respect as it once had. Today, with the emergence of several schools of blade craft, we are seeing a Renassiance of knife work throughout the world. The trained knife fighter understands their advantages and disadvantages over the “gun guy” who walks around carrying a gun but is clueless about the knife fighter’s mentality along w/ the damage he can do in a short amount of time.

We seek to remedy that at Ares Tactical Solutions.

Drawing on the various styles of blade work across the globe, instructors at Ares Tactical Solutions bring you a comprehensive knife fighters program designed to bring you up to speed w/ todays advanced bladework. These courses are a MUST HAVE for gun carriers as well so they may understand the dangers they may face from a determined, violent attacker. The knife fighter’s advantages lie in the ignorance of those not willing to learn their craft.

Some of the different topics covered in various blade craft programs include:

• Target Aquisition (templates, vitals, etc)
• How to Carry and Conceal
• The “Dark Side” of Knife Fighting and Concealment
• Does Your Knife Suck for Fighting (best brands, styles, etc)
• Lethality vs Incapacitation
• The REAL Fairbain Timetable of Death for Knife Wounds
• Attacking Structural Targets and Their Locations
• How to Defeat The Gunfighter
• Throwing (can you be 100% on every throw? We’ll show you how!)
• Knife vs Knife (does dueling exist? We say YES! Learn how)
• Different Grips and Stances (fencer, reverse, pikal, apache, etc)
• Disarms for Knives and for Guns
• Mass Attack Scenarios
• How to Disappear (yeah, that’s what we actually mean)
• Common Cutting Patterns and How to Defeat Them
• Fast Draw
• Learning Distance and How to Cover it Effectively
• MUCH MORE!

See why people have raved over our different knife fighting programs here at Ares Tactical Solutions! Our “no nonsense” approach to knife work has wowed onlookers for many years now. Simple, effective and quite deadly have been the staple of this solid foundation we have sought to build. Everything we teach has been tested for accuracy so there is no questioning as to the effectiveness of the material taught. Our goal is always to see if it fails in our evaluation before it is suitable to teach in our program!

Stay tuned for more updates for different classes in our Knife Fighters Program under the Class Schedules!

H2H TRAINING PROGRAMS

There is a clear advantage held by the criminal in todays society…….the element of surprise. Typically, the first move is on them and we are left in a reactionary state. Since our weapons are typically concealed(military excluded), most deaths occur in violent encounters because the person became a victim of their own “weapons tunnel vision”.

This is where “H2H Combatives” comes into play!

Our combatives program draws on various martial art styles to create a sound, empty hands base for the average person. No katas, pajamas or punching air! Instead we take the trainee through a comprehensive combatives program which prepares them for any challenges they may face with real attacks drawn from real scenarios! Most importantly, we use this combatives mentality to learn to access other options such as escapes and weapons transitions.

Some of the topics covered in various different programs include:

• Threat Assessment
• Conflict Resolution
• Science Behind the “Sucker Punch”
• Simple cover system that protects from most punches
• Target Aquistion (learning to only need one good strike)
• Closed Fist vs Empty Hand (pros and cons)
• Combative Clinch (from the cage to the concrete jungle)
• Combat Effective Takedowns (throws, trips, spins, etc)
• Control (hold them down till the cops get there w/ little effort)
• Ground Combatives (dismantle your opponent from the ground)
• “Quick Kills” (designed to put someone down and out in a hurry)
• Standing Submissions and Chokes
• “RIPS” (most brutal way of “submission fishing” known to man! This ain’t BJJ!)
• Knife and Gun Disarms(all tested live w/ simunitions so NO BS!)
• Effective Trapping (find out what works and what doesn’t)
• “Ballistic” Style Punching (power generation from the arms)
• “Organ Destruction”
• MUCH MORE!

Don’t get so caught up in the “I’ve got a weapon so it makes me invincible” mode! If anything, you NEED these combatives to deal with the threat BEFORE going for your weapon. Don’t end up another statistic who got caught up in going for their weapon before handling the immediate threat in front of them with empty hand combatives!

Get trained now so that no matter what……you are always armed with the knowledge of H2H combatives!