This comprehensive course offers a modern, combat-effective system of edged and impact weapon methods seamlessly integrating with empty-hand combatives. Drawing from Filipino martial arts (FMA), military combatives, and law enforcement defensive tactics, the course trains participants in the essential skills to fight with and against sticks and knives in real-world engagements. Through structured progression, students will learn to read, measure, manipulate timing, control distance, and attack from multiple angles across all fighting ranges—including striking, trapping, clinching, and ground engagement. The course strongly emphasizes weapon-to-weapon, weapon-versus-empty-hand, and transition drills to ensure readiness in chaotic, high-stress encounters.

Key Topics Covered:

-Weapon attributes, characteristics, and handling.

-Fighting measures and distance management.

-Weapon ranges, spatial control, closing, and creating distance safely.

-Timing and counter-timing, intercepting, evading, and disrupting attacks.

-Weapons-based angles of attack and exploiting lines of entry and escape.

-Single and double stick strategies, tactics, and techniques.

-Knife strategies, tactics, and techniques.

-Trapping, limb control, immobilization, deflections, checks, parries, and disarms.

-Weapon retention, transfers, and transitions between stick, knife, and empty hands.

At the end of this course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and understanding of the strategies, tactics, techniques, and dynamics of armed combatives.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for anyone looking to learn, practice, and become effective and efficient in the use of blunt and edged weapons.

Duration:

Live: 3-day (minimum 6 students).

Prerequisites:

Unarmed Combatives or equivalent training.