PALADIN TRAINING & PROTECTION
Paladin Training & Protection saves lives and careers by providing next-level knife defense training to US military, law enforcement, corrections, and security personnel. This training is a cut above other knife defense courses on the market because this empty-hand defense system conditions students' startle flinch response to evade and counter surprise knife attacks in close quarters without conscious thought, when the distance and reaction time needed to effectively draw and fire a handgun or taser are not immediately available. This empty-hand defense system is also effective against unarmed assailants.
THE NEED FOR KNIFE DEFENSE TRAINING
Approximately 1,000 law enforcement officers are assaulted with a knife or other cutting instrument every year in the United States according to the FBI's LEOKA statistics; with many of those assaults resulting in permanent injury and sometimes death. These statistics do not include the number of correctional officers and security officers that are injured or killed each year by knives or other cutting instruments. This is why agencies should invest in providing ongoing empty-hand knife defense training to their officers. Unfortunately, in the United States, empty-hand knife defense is one of the most neglected skill sets in which officers receive training. The naïve delusion that carrying a handgun negates the need for empty-hand knife defense skills has permeated American policing and the security industry to the detriment of far too many officers. Administrators and training officers need only to visit the OFFICER DOWN MEMORIAL PAGE to see the many law enforcement officers and correctional officers that have been killed by stabbings over the years in the United States.
Knife attacks occur in close proximity and often without warning. Every arrest requires officers to place themselves within cutting distance. Officers unskilled in empty-hand techniques for evading knife attacks have a significant disadvantage in the fight for survival. As illustrated in the video links below showing an incident that took place in San Diego in 2022, even static situations involving suspects armed with a knife can quickly become dynamic. No matter how many backup officers are available, when the plan fails and less lethal tools fail, officers are forced to rely on their own individual empty-hand skills to avoid getting stabbed before they can create enough distance to utilize their firearm.
Train for the fight of your life!
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Video depicts real-life deadly force encounters involving knife attacks
KEEP YOUR COOL AND YOUR CAREER
In addition to increasing an officer's ability to survive an edged-weapon attack, this training also increases an officer's confidence and ability to remain calm to better de-escalate potentially combative persons armed with a knife. This substantially decreases the frequency of use of force incidents for officers and their agencies as well as the likelihood that deadly force is used when it is not yet needed. Officers attending this training are far less likely to panic and prematurely shoot someone armed with a knife when it may not yet be justified.
Compare the officers' knife defense skills in the two videos below for instance. In the first video, the officer performing the knife disarm demonstrates a high level of empty-hand skill that is attainable with consistent practice. The second video, unfortunately, is yet another countless example of an officer losing a career and a family losing a loved one due to a lack knife defense training.
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Video depicts real-life deadly force encounters.