Took a good knife class, Seattle area...

[EmGeeGeorge]

Took the basic defensive folding knife class from these folks, found it to be a great class, and I had some combatives training already from military and LE training. Great instruction, good hands-on drills, and changed my thoughts on what to carry knife wise and why. Instructors included former Army SF guys(and an Army SF medic/MD who could really talk about knives and flesh, as he's a surgeon as well). For 20 persons in class there were 5 instructors. They give a group, military, or LE discount if you ask nicely.

Here's a link.

http://insightstraining.com/view_course.asp?courseID=5

 

[conw]

Cool...how did it affect your thoughts?

 

[EmGeeGeorge]

Just on what type of knife to carry, why auto/assisted aren't the best for defensive purposes per se, & I'm pretty sold on the Spyderco Delica and the Blade Tech knives. Serrations are a no go on defensive knife. Lotsa little details that I never thought about, plus a pretty cool meat cutting drill that allowed students to try different knives on meat under layered denim.

Also the manner in which how you cut your target... And I knew this before but basically the ideology that the only time the guy should ever know you have a knife is when he starts bleeding.

The phrase of the day was "make spiral cut ham" if that is any indication.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Congratulations!

That's a great training facility, you did well to choose them IMHO. If one of those retired SF guys was John Holschen, you did better than good with that class. I knew John while he was still on active duty, teaching at USAJFKSWCS SOMTC, and took a week-long knife class with him (he was a student too, but could have easily taught it) at JFK. John's one of the most impressive folks I know in both the hurt-'em and the fix-'em business, and like so many SFers, is an outstanding instructor.

 

[sidheshooter]

Ive been coached by Greg Hamilton before: nothing going on there is likely less than first class.

I'll have to get out that way and take that class myself. My budget for knife seminars for the first part of the year is going to an upcoming Michael Janich class, but I think I'll put the insights course on deck for when time and $ allow.

 

[zhyla]

Serrations are a no go on defensive knife.

Why is that? I've heard it both ways.

Edit: did a search, and there seems to be a lot of opinions on this. Nevermind.