Cold Steel VDWEP Training DVD, Warrior's Edge Set

For anyone that actually trains for knife defense or in any blade-based martial art, "The Warrior's Edge" by Cold Steel's Lynn Thompson is a must have. I have been training in Kali and Silat for 15 years and this 3 DVD set has allowed me to take my training to the next level. As anyone who has done knife sparring knows, the flow drills and closer simbrada-range stuff goes out the window when it's knife vs. knife. The adrenaline starts pumping and you start going into basic gross-motor movement and skill as physical or emotional exhaustion sets in. These videos teach you how to train the basic skills in a way that lets you get really good with consistent practice. Lynn Thompson shows practically(in my opinion) how less is really more. You won't see X-blocks or anything that might get you killed. You won't see flashy dojo ballerina moves either. What you get is about 6 hours of hardcore instruction that is a distillation of literally years of training into a single resource. There are also some very cool things you won't see anywhere else. If training the knife is your bag or if you "think" you know knife defense you need this video set. If you are like me and have trained a martial art for many years it will help you recognize dangerous habits you may have developed and fill a critical gap in your training. If you are a beginner to training the knife, this instruction is formatted so you can take your time as you develop your skill. All of the pieces of information you need for a solid foundation are in there.

Its just great!!!I have been practicing japanese Martial Arts for more than 18 years and i have seen more than a few vids on knife fighting, but this is the first time that i see a video explaining the complete curriculum of a knife fighting method step by step from easiest to hardest (Note that i use the word method because i think it could be usefull for and adapted to any other fighting practice or style). IT REALLY TEACHES YOU HOW TO FIGHT AND PROTECT YOURSELF WITH A KANIFE IN REAL CONDITIONS NO NON SENSE.One should always train Martial Techniques under the guidance of a qualified instructor and no video is gonna change that, but with this video, both instructors and novices alike could become very skilled knife fighters. Also, i admire the fact that Lynn C. Thomson (President of Cold Steel) himself explains and shows every technical aspect of the curriculum.without trying to sell his knifes every 5 minutes.I dont award it the 5 stars though, because - being Lynn Thomson the source of credibility of this video - all the attention centers on him as he talks, for long periods of time on some occassions, so i had to be very patient knowing that the content is very good.I would recommend to the producers: 1.- A female co-host (OK it could be a male co-host if you dont wanted it to look like an infomercial), 2.- Some female sparring partners, 3.- Explain how to apply some of the techniques to dangerous situations in which women could be usual victims, 4.- Lynn Thomson could narrate in VOICE OFF while other persons execute a few techniques, 5.- I would have inserted between techniques some examples of them being applyed in real scenarios (soldiers fighting in the jungle or in the desert, uniformed police officers using defensive tactics against a knife, a nurse using a knife to repel a knife assault in a dark parking lot, etc I KNOW ITS A LITTLE 80 BUT I LIKE IT), 6.- I would invite an important knife fighting instructor from the military to portray his opinion about some of the tecniques (Like in a discovery channel documentary), and 7.- I would have finnished with some testimonials.

This DVD set is perfect for knife training.

Sure...buy it if you like watching a big hefty guy wearing ac/dc shorts and swinging a glow-stick around aimlessly while real martial artists humour him and pretend because he's the guy with the bucks. I'm no pro, but I didn't find anything interesting here. It's likely that the five star reviewers work for him too!

This is an odd video set. The instructor, who is apparently the owner or president of Cold Steel Knives, seems to know about knife technique, but manages make those techniques into an endlessly complicated activity.What makes the video set truly odd is the relish he seems to take in all the various kinds of damage one can do with a knife. This leads me to suspect that he's either a sociopath or, more likely, has never been in a real knife fight. I believe most people who have actually used a blade in earnest are far less sanguine about what a knife can do.There is another serious weakness here. Although he occasionally in the course of the series tells the viewer not to use a knife in less than lethal circumstances, he also on several occasions tells us to perform actions that would most likely lead to our playing soap tag in a penitentiary shower room. On one occasion he has us using a knife on several unarmed miscreants because they're beating us up. I'm sorry, but that is the use of lethal force against unarmed people even if we only want to hurt rather than kill them. In another instance he shows us a disarm of a knife fighter and tells that then we should kill him with our knife. Again, the police would not look sympathetically on such behavior. It goes on. In the end, I suspect this all Walther Mitty stuff...the imagination of an ineffectual man run rampant.Additionally, the instructor's voice is unpleasantly without resonance and his accent is rather uneducated. If you really want to learn about knife fighting, start with Marc MacYoung, then proceed to either Paul Vunak or Mike Kanarek or both.

will never meet Jim Bowie in person but would have loved to.Big fan of his knife and its usage>Cold Steel id to appaerently with this outstanding vid! thank you