SIRT Training Knives
Mike HughesDescription
Mike Hughes and Britt Lentz of Next Level Training introduce the SIRT Training Knife. It’s a dedicated training knife that you can use to train for knife defense in a realistic and practical manner.
They developed it to fill a need in the world of knife training. Mike and Britt saw that among existing training knives, there wasn’t one that is the size of a pocket knife. The SIRT Training Knife is the size and feel of a pocket folding knife, though it does not fold.
When researching training knives, Mike and Britt also learned that knives made of steel or hard plastic are not appropriate for training with bags because they rip up the bags too much.
Force-on-Force Training
The SIRT Training Knife is designed for knife defense, not knife offense. With it you can train your knife skills in a safe and realistic manner. The SIRT Training Knife is great for scenario training where one or more people are armed with a knife. Unlike other training knives, the durable but bendable blade allows you to jab, stab, and slash forcefully without harming yourself, your training partners, or the blade. After any type of strike, the blade returns to its original shape.
It’s easy to differentiate the SIRT Training Knife from real knives due to its orange handle and black blade that bends easily. This durable rubber blade stands up to abuse. The Next Level Training development staff bent it hundreds of thousands of times to test it. It’s built to last.
Practical CQB Training
Mike and Britt demonstrate how useful the SIRT Training Knife is for extreme close-quarters fighting when one person has a gun and one has a knife. When charged up close by a person with a knife, can you get to your gun in time? This exercise can help validate your firearms training by using the SIRT Training Knife as part of your defensive training gear.
Retail price of the SIRT Training Knife is $19.95.
Hi, I'm Mike Hughes, Next Level Training. Hi, I'm Britt Lentz, Next Level Training. We wanna introduce the SIRT Training Knife. This is a dedicated training knife. So you out there, can actually train some knife defense, very practically and very realistically. One thing we found in the industry is that there was not a training knife the size of a pocket knife. And what we did over and over again is we looked for one, and we couldn't find it, so we decided we're gonna develop one. This knife does not fold. It stays eternally open, but it is the size and feel of a pocket folding knife. Another thing we heard from the industry is that you cannot train with bags well enough. If you're using a steel or even a harder plastic, when you're jabbing it with real life, real thrust into a bag, you rip the bag up. That's one thing we wanted to put into the industry. And this is how we came up with the SIRT Knife itself. With regard to force-on-force training with a knife, this is really more for knife defense than knife offense. So when you have realistic force-on-force training, with proper safety checks and protocols, you wanna have a blade, a fake blade, so to speak, that you can really do some work on without damaging the blade itself, you know, the fake blade, or the participant in this drill. In this case, we have a very special material that can fold up, alright, and it will crumple on itself. Some training blades are, actually they're dull, but yet they're very rigid, causing bruising, damage, non-sustainable training. This will collapse. Not only does it collapse, the equipment itself will last. We've done pretty extensive testing of seeing what kind of endurance we can get on bending, bending. We've done a few tweaks in the design. So the longevity on this product will just well-out last your training. As you can tell, over and over again it will withstand hard jabs, hard stabs, reflates itself, go right back to normal over and over again. So we're not gonna talk training right now. Let's talk about validation. So if we're at some distance with a knife, alright, can Britt really get his gun? This is where some real practical training you can do with your partners and your buddies. So if I really come in with the knife, and I know we're very close right now, can he get to his gun? Well, probably not, alright? Okay, we can get very quick trainings like that. And he's gonna get some feel that, well that's, that probably didn't go well for me. It sucked. Okay? These are a little bit pointy but not too pointy to make the training unsustainable. So we strongly recommend safe practices for your force-on-force buddy training. But validate just really what you can do, and how your gunplay can be truly defensive against a knife.
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