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Under the Blade

Officer deploying knife in weapon retention training I post these with a strong caution. They are GRAPHIC and for some may be quite disturbing. People are seriously injured and stabbed to death in various circumstances in the videos below. Fair Warning. This is not "Knife Porn." They are representative examples of how actual fighting - more often simply assaults - with edged weapons occur. I feel that it behooves those of us who purport to be practicing effective methods for using and dealing with edged weapons - classical or contemporary - know what actual violence with them looks like.  In my career as a police officer, I attended many stabbings and dealt with the aftermath, and saw the video evidence of many more. I have had friends and colleagues stabbed, including one who suffered what a medical examiner said would have been fatal wounds during a chaotic ground fight with a suspect had he not been mistakenly killed by other responding law enforcement.  There are plenty o...