In law enforcement training they have a subject come at you with a rubber knife from across a large room. It’s amazing how quickly that rubber knife is in your ribs.
It was sarcasm on my part.
I am well acquainted with the Tueller drill.
You are correct sir. When I was in prison, we practiced this. The dude with the knife succeeded more often than not. We rarely got our pepper spray or baton out fast enough. I was not successful, not even once. Now, I just keep my trusty bolo knife sharp. 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDpIi5QNpw
The short of it is, if someone is charging you with a knife, from 21 feet or less, your either going to be in the hospital suffering from a knife wound, or you'll be dead.
Widely known as the Tueller drill, after the LEO who first started doing it. Popularized by noted lethal force expert Massad Ayoob. I’m reading his book Deadly Force right now, which is a follow up to his notable earlier work In the Gravest Extreme.
Page 68 here is an excerpt from his book talking about the Tueller drill origins and details:
http://tinyurl.com/luxt3qz
“In law enforcement training they have a subject come at you with a rubber knife from across a large room.”
The Tueller drill.
They ran a Teuller drill in the last qualification course I shot, a number of police cadets and spouses also taking the course and having a real need to impress on them that an attacker with a knife need not be within arms reach to be a deadly threat.
Imagine the guy with the rubber knife's surprise when I didn't draw my weapon as he closed, so he came in for his kill, whereupon I had both knives out of my pockets and open, one in each hand, and went after him, hard and fast, screaming AYO GHOKHALI! And my knives were not rubber ones.
The class instructor hit his whistle before I made any actual cuts, and kind of wryly observed, Well, there's a technique I've never seen before....