Train. React. Survive.
Upcoming two-day sessions in Norfolk, Virginia
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (both days)

MB- fight to survive - combatives training.jpg

***Real knife attacks are deadly, frenzied, and hard to stop!***

Movies and games glamorize knives and distort reality. Real knife attacks are fast, chaotic, and often lethal. You rarely have time to draw a weapon; even if you do, you’re likely hit before you can counter. An attacker needs little skill to kill — you need extensive skill to survive.

Learn to predict, react, and save yourself with OR without a blade. Combative Edge 1 provides the techniques and mindset-development to survive the chaos of bladed combat. You will gain the ability to stop deadly knife attacks and competence with your own blade.

Combative Edge 1: Knife Fighting & Knife Defense Seminar

Knife fights differ greatly from gunfights. Knives are ubiquitous, cheap, never run out of ammo, and can kill as surely as a bullet. Learning to predict and stop a knife attack greatly increases survival odds. Many everyday carriers collect blades but few train to use them. If you carry a defensive tool, it is important to be both responsible and proficient with it.

2 Days of Training

On Day 1, you will learn the realities of surviving an edged weapon attack. The vast majority of knife attacks are AMBUSH ATTACKS. This means that there is a high probability that when one happens, you won’t have your weapon system deployed in time. Learning to STOP the attack using devastating empty hand counter-attacks is the goal of Day 1.

Day 2 gets into the meat and potatoes of our edged-weapon fighting system. You will learn important blade-centric skills like the best places to wear and conceal one, grip positions, body postures, and angles of attack. Students will be drilled on fixed blade and folding-knife deployment, footwork, and agility which will be pressure-tested in peer-to-peer sparring and micro-fights with role-players.

Based on the RIVE Knife Combat System, we’ve taken the BEST techniques from multiple knife-fighting disciplines to create an effective, intuitive, and easy-to-learn system that you can use the day you leave the class. Combative Edge is more than just a martial system, it is an experience.

Frequently Asked Questions

- Anyone above the age of 18 that is a US Citizen.
- Those legally permitted to own, shoot, or handle firearms with a clean criminal history (Free of DV and Felony Charges).
- Those mentally able to own, shoot, or handle firearms that have not had these rights limited.
- Those able to pass a background check to ensure they are legally permitted to be around firearms.
- Those physical and medically capable of standing, kneeling, and laying down to shoot firearms for extended periods.
You will be learning BOTH empty hand combatives and knife fighting techniques
CE1 is a very physically active class that involves sparring, calisthenics, running, and more. We aim to level the difficulty of the class to each of the students in attendance as best as we can. We have had people of all physical capabilities (some with disabilities) take this course.
All you will need for this class is comfortable activewear, 2 white t-shirts, a learner’s mindset, and some water. We will provide ALL of the training gear you will need for this class.
We welcome you to bring your knives and gear so long as they are used when instructors allow, and must be inspected prior to use. We will be providing training knives so it is not necessary to bring one.
Yes. A certificate of completion for Combative Edge 1 will be emailed to you at the end of this class.
Rive is a combination of multiple martial arts. Concepts from FMA, BJJ, wrestling, HEMA, and more have been used to build our system.