Knife Safety and You

Everyone knows (or should know) about the four gun safety rules.

However, most have no clue about the fundamentals of Edge and Point (E&P) safety.

We attempt to outline the most important ones below:

1. Respect the E&P: Even if it looks like it can’t cut or pierce, you have in your hands a potentially lethal weapon which, given enough force, can and will hurt
2. Don’t have the E&P directed towards your body or its appendages: Stabbing or cutting yourself counts, and it SUCKS. Have the point facing the enemy as much as possible
3. Protect your support hand by being mindful of its position in relation to the E&P holding hand: If you are using the support hand to strike, grab, and/or manipulate your opponent(s), make sure it is safe from your weapon. This might entail you stabbing a less favorable target to avoid stabbing/cutting yourself and/or unbalance the opposition is ways that protect you
4. The E&P is not the weapon: Don’t be knife-focused, do what has to be done when it’s called. Upon so if your tool gets jammed or is dropped, you keep fighting.

For E&P training, we offer specific courses and seminars in Libre Fighting, Libre Fighting Reaper Method, Libre Fighting Straight Razor, Pyper, as well as Criminal Blade Methodologies. We also teach knife defense tactics under the name "On Edge, On Point". Contact us for more info.