What edged weapons training system are you using to give unquestionable, immediate, and accurate results on your offensive and defensive combative skills? How do you validate and measure your training progress and readiness for real-world scenarios?

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The No Lie Blades Instructor Team combines years of real-world experience, skill and creative ideas to continually develop the best training tools and educational courses available. Each of our high impact programs offer rapid, effective, and instantly measurable skill improvements, with course curriculum custom-tailored around your unique tactical objectives, course attendees, and training agendas.

Our training programs are designed to work with the unique strengths of the individual, to ensure each operator reaches their full potential through life-changing mental and physical transitions that make an instant and measurable impact to personal combatives. No Lie Blades is able to relate to a broad spectrum of knife aficionados, by focusing our training curriculum on ingraining reflexive actions into conditioned responses, instead of “techniques” that may prove useless or potentially fatal within real-world situations.

Training with No Lie Blades immediately and continuously heightens awareness to life-saving factors such as unrealistic blocking methods, range considerations, target acquisition, and the most important benefit - learning the true dangers of knife fighting.

Course objectives can include but are not limited to:

Introduction to Edged Weapons lethality.
How to handle a committed predator possessing an edged weapon.
Verbal stop and directive commands.
Execute compounded effective strikes.
Injury counter-measures.
Mission completion skills.
Cuffing and control techniques.
Multiple attacker neutralization techniques.
Team system survivability.
Situational awareness for high-risk room entry.
Drills for building edged weapon survival skills.
Application of drills for personal skill development.
Edged weapons attacking skills.
Close and confined quarters combatives.
Blade concealment and imprint signature awareness.
Weapons retention skills.
Anatomy education for disabling target locations.
Personal knife carry-and-deployment training.

The most effective knife combatives training program in the world.

NLB Edged Weapons Introduction Seminar

NLB introduction training is designed to give you the tools to build a strong edged weapon knowledge base. Training concentrates on awareness and pre-incident indicators; empty hands vs. edged weapons, knife vs. knife, footwork, timing and combative range sensitivity. The No Lie Blades training blade is used exclusively as a tool in our seminars to turbo charge your survival skills. With the undeniable evidence that the training tool leaves, the reality of an individual’s offensive & defensive effectiveness is quickly realized. Reality based scenarios are designed to heighten awareness to the lethality of an edged weapon encounter. Unrealistic cutting angles, ranges of combat and defensive methods are quickly recognized.

NLB Edged Weapons Advanced Training Program

The No Lie Blades Advanced Training Course is designed to enhance and build upon the skills that were developed in the NLB Edged Weapons Introduction Seminar. This advanced course of instruction also looks at edged weapon carry and deployment options, multiple knife carry, and knife versus ground combatives. Cohesion drills, coordination drills, and reality-based scenarios play a big part in this high impact advanced program.

NLB Instructor Certification Training

Our instructor certification training is designed to "Train the Trainer”. It is available to civilian and military personnel that currently hold an instructor level certification in Law Enforcement, Military, Private Security or Martial Arts (verifiable black belt or equivalent), and qualifying individuals who also hold a certificate from NLB Advanced Training. No Lie Blades has a global presence within the Combat sector, providing education for the Military, Law Enforcement, Protection and Combat Martial Arts communities. If you are a dedicated professional and recognize the importance of real-world, reality-based training, and are interested in being part of the No Lie Blades experience, then this is the training program for you.

No Lie Blades Edged Weapon Certification Programs have been put together from the collaborative and collective team work of dozens of top combat and martial art instructors worldwide.

The No Lie Blades training tool and programs are used by Global Law Enforcement, Military and private security organizations. We respect the privacy of these agencies, so if you would like information on which agency is using the NLB system nearest you, please feel free to email us at hankh@nolieblades.com or call at 1-610-442-5539.