Instruments

AMOK courses offer tactically-sound and legally-

defensible use-of-pen solutions to escape from threatening or violent encounters.
Countering Unarmed Attacks (2 hours)
This course covers how to hold pointed instruments, handling actions, striking actions, targeting,
countering unarmed strikes and grabs, and then releasing wrist grabs to your empty hand,
releasing wrist grabs to your pen-hand, releasing throat grabs, and escaping headlocks.
Countering Knife Attacks (2 hours)
This course presents a highly sophisticated response method to knife attacks using only three
moves to Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and execute Disabling strikes.
Pens and Points for Self-protection Overview (4 hours)
This course presents vital elements of Managing Potential Attackers and proceeds to counter
attempted Strikes or Grabs. It continues countering Knife attacks using only three moves to
Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and execute Disabling strikes. This course
finishes with Disarming and an introduction to Post-engagement protocols.
Pens and Points for Self-protection Certification (6 hours)
This course presents Pre-Engagement topics that include Types of pens and pointed
instruments, Carry/Conceal, Handling, Striking, Legal Use of Force, and Managing Potential
Attackers. The physical Defense topics include Accessing, Countering Strikes or Grabs,
Countering Knife Attacks, Disabling, Disarming, Takedowns, and Recovery. The training
concludes with Post-engagement topics that include First-aid, calling 911, and effectively dealing
with first responders to achieve the best possible outcome.

Flashlights for Self-Protection

AMOK courses offer tactically-sound and legally-

defensible use-of-flashlight solutions to escape from threatening or violent encounters.
Countering Unarmed Attacks (2 hours)
This course covers how to access a flashlight, different ways to hold flashlight, handling,
strobing, striking, targeting, countering strikes, preventing grabs, and then releasing wrist grabs
to your empty hand, releasing wrist grabs to your light-hand, releasing throat grabs, and
escaping headlocks.
Countering Knife Attacks (2 hours)
This course presents a highly sophisticated response method of using your flashlight to counter
knife attacks using only three moves to Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and
execute Disabling strikes.
Flashlights for Self-protection Overview (4 hours)
This course presents vital elements of Managing Potential Attackers and proceeds to counter
attempted Strikes or Grabs. It continues countering Knife attacks using only three moves to
Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and execute Disabling strikes. This course
finishes with Disarming and an introduction to Post-engagement protocols.
Flashlights for Self-protection Certification (6 hours)
This course presents Pre-Engagement topics that include Types of flashlights, Carry/conceal,
Handling, Strobing, Striking, Legal Use of Force, and Managing Potential Attackers. The physical
Defense topics include Accessing, Countering Strikes or Grabs, and Countering Knife Attacks,
Disabling, and Disarming. The training concludes with Post-engagement topics that include First-
aid, calling 911, and effectively dealing with first responders to achieve the best possible
outcome.

Baton for Self-Protection

AMOK courses offer tactically-sound and legally-

defensible use of a baton for self-protection solutions to escape from threatening or violent
encounters.
Countering Unarmed Attacks (2 hours)
This course covers how to access a baton, handling actions, striking actions, targeting an
attacker, protecting from strikes, and preventing grabs, and then releasing wrist grabs to your
empty hand, releasing wrist grabs to your baton-hand, releasing throat grabs, and escaping
headlocks.
Countering Knife Attacks (2 hours)
This course presents a highly sophisticated response method to knife attacks using only three
moves to Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and execute Disabling strikes.
Baton for Self-protection Overview (4 hours)
This course presents vital elements of Managing Potential Attackers and proceeds to counter
attempted Strikes or Grabs. It continues countering Knife attacks using only three moves to
Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and execute Disabling strikes. This course
finishes with Disarming and an introduction to Post-engagement protocols.
Baton for Self-protection Certification (6 hours)
This course presents Pre-Engagement topics that include Types of batons, Carry/conceal,
Handling, Striking, Legal Use of Force, and Managing Potential Attackers. The Defense topics
include Accessing, Countering Strikes, Countering Grabs, or Countering Knife Attacks, Disabling,
and Disarming. The training concludes with Post-engagement topics that include calling 911 and
effectively dealing with first responders to achieve the best possible outcome.
Knife Use for Self-Protection

AMOK courses offer tactically-sound and legally-

defensible use-of-knife self-protection solutions to escape from threatening or violent encounters.
Preventing Strikes and Grabs (2 hours)
This course covers how to access a knife, different ways to hold knives, handling actions, striking
actions, targeting an attacker, protecting from strikes, and preventing grabs.
Escaping Grabbing Attacks (2 hours)
This course covers how to access a knife, different ways to hold knives, releasing wrist grabs to
your empty hand, releasing wrist grabs to your knife-hand, releasing throat grabs, escaping bear
hugs, and escaping headlocks.
Escaping Knife Attacks (2 hours)
This course presents a highly sophisticated response method to knife attacks using only three
moves to Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and execute Disabling strikes.
Overview of Knife for Self-protection (4 hours)
This course presents vital elements of Managing Potential Attackers, Accessing, Handling, and
proceeds to counter unarmed Strikes or Grabs. It continues countering Knife attacks using only
three moves to Receive the incoming strike(s), Control your attacker, and execute Disabling
strikes. This course finishes with Disarming and an introduction to Post-engagement protocols.
Certification of Knife for Self-protection (6 hours)
This course presents Pre-Engagement topics that include Types of knives, Carry/conceal,
Handling, Striking, Legal Use of Force, and Managing Potential Attackers. The Defense topics
include Accessing, Countering Strikes, Countering Grabs, or Countering Knife Attacks, Disabling,
Disarming, and Takedowns. The training concludes with Post-engagement topics that include
First-aid, calling 911, and effectively dealing with first responders to achieve the best possible
outcome.

Knife Defense

AMOK Knife Defense courses present the

problems and solutions regarding empty hands knife defense from capable attackers. As always,
we include the always-present “what if” factor so you’ll have contingency actions to keep things
progressing in your favor.
Introduction to Knife Defense (2 hours)
The course objective is to establish a “pyramid of priorities”: engaging your protective actions,
how to counter-strike, when to grab, releasing the blade from their grasp, and finishes on how to
control your attacker while you recover his weapon.
Counter-Striking (2 hours)
This course presents how to manage changing tactics (attacks delivered singularly and in
combination) that are either Jabbing, Fluid, or Rigid in their delivery, as well as countering Grab-
n-Stab tactics. Counter-striking without being struck in return is challenging and necessary to
diminish an attacker’s capability thus presenting opportunities to escape or disarm them. Without
solid counter-striking, disarming an attacker is unlikely.
Disarming Forward Hold (2 hours)
This course presents three ways to catch a knife in motion, how to disarm an attacker when the
knife protrudes from the top of their hand, and how to turn the knife back on them or dislodge it
from their grasp.
Disarming Reverse Hold (2 hours)
This course presents three ways to catch a knife in motion, how to disarm an attacker when the
knife protrudes from the bottom of their hand, and how to turn the knife back on them or dislodge
it from their grasp.
Resolving Hold-Ups (2 hours)
This course presents how to escape from common hold-up positions in which you are threatened
with a knife or grabbed and held at knifepoint from the front, rear, or from your left or right side.
This course helps you understand the reality of the risks involved when attempting to escape so
you can better judge the situation which aids in more effectively deciding when and how to act.
Knife Defense Overview (4 hours)
The course objective is to employ threat management in the pre-engagement phase, establish a
“pyramid of priorities”: engaging your protective actions, how to counter-strike, when to grab,
releasing the blade from their grasp, and how to control your attacker while you recover his
weapon. This course finishes with solutions to common hold-up positions.
Knife Defense Certification (8 hours)
Taking the 4-hour overview to a more functional level of adaptation with additional drills and
contingencies, this course objective is to employ threat management in the pre-engagement
phase, establish a “pyramid of priorities”: engaging your protective actions, how to counter-strike,
when to grab, releasing the blade from their grasp, and how to control your attacker while you
recover his weapon. This course continues with solutions to common hold-up positions and
finishes with post-engagement topics that include First-aid, calling 911, and effectively dealing
with first responders to achieve the best possible outcome

Tactical Knife Combat

Our flagship course with which we earned our

reputation, this course emphasizes full-on knife-to-knife battle tactics needed to defeat a
determined and capable foe. The entire course is done in real time so there leaves no
question as to how the material functions in combat. Suitable for both civilian defenders and
professional operators; no experience or prior training is needed to attend.
Introduction 2 hours
TACTICS: Identifying each of the Attacking and Countering Tactics; Isolating Single, Combo,
Fake, Grab, Back-up, Hold-Ground, Grab, and Disarms; and being Unpredictable by varying your
Stationary or Geometrical Guards and not repeating tactics. The purpose of Tactics is to know all
the Moves.
FIGHTING: Fighting has Consequences so you will explore a progression of Dueling that reflects
those consequences offering widening margins of error from No touch, to Free-Hand, to Blade
Hand, to Leg, 2-Torso, and Grabbing. The purpose of Dueling is to gain Experience.
 Overview 4 hours
TACTICS: Identifying each of the Attacking and Countering Tactics; Isolating Single, Combo,
Fake, Grab, Back-up, Hold-Ground, Grab, and Disarms; and being Unpredictable by varying your
Stationary or Geometrical Guards and not repeating tactics. The purpose of Tactics is to know all
the Moves.
FIGHTING: Fighting has Consequences so you will explore a progression of Dueling that reflects
those consequences offering widening margins of error from No touch, to Free-Hand, to Blade
Hand, to Leg, 2-Torso, and Grabbing. The purpose of Dueling is to gain Experience.
SPARRING: When fighting, fighters will change their lead leg; the hand in which the hold the
weapon; from forward to reverse hold or vice-versa; their height and their breathing will change
too., Sparring fights through all of those various Configurations so you become familiar with
them. The purpose of Sparring is to Experiment.
Certification 8-hours
TACTICS: Identifying each of the Attacking and Countering Tactics; Isolating Single, Combo,
Fake, Grab, Back-up, Hold-Ground, Grab, and Disarms; and being Unpredictable by varying your
Stationary or Geometrical Guards and not repeating tactics. The purpose of Tactics is to know all
the Moves.
FIGHTING: Fighting has Consequences so you will explore a progression of Dueling that reflects
those consequences offering widening margins of error from No touch, to Free-Hand, to Blade
Hand, to Leg, 2-Torso, and Grabbing. The purpose of Dueling is to gain Experience.
SPARRING: When fighting, fighters will change their lead leg; the hand in which the hold the
weapon; from forward to reverse hold or vice-versa; their height and their breathing will change
too., Sparring fights through all of those various Configurations so you become familiar with
them. The purpose of Sparring is to Experiment.
PRACTICE: AMOK employs a unique fight-based practice mode whereby, while sparring to
maintain authenticity, you are able to apply desired tactics and even specific techniques while
remaining in a state of natural adaptation. The purpose of Practice is to gain skill.
TRAINING: AMOK employs a unique fight-based training mode whereby, while sparring to
maintain authenticity, you are able to apply specific techniques so you can improve your personal
capacity with regard to distance, timing, and mechanics. This course also covers solo training
exercises to reinforce striking and footwork coordination. The purpose of Training is to improve
capacity.
Focus Courses 2 hours
 Sparring Configurations
 Practicing Attacking Tactics
 Practicing Countering Tactics
 Training Striking and Footwork
 Disarming Forward hold
 Disarming Reverse hold
 Advanced Faking
 Advanced Countering
Accessing Weapons

It is a vital skill to safely introduce your

weapon while under attack because many situations, if not most, begin as a one-sided attack
that the defender must initially manage empty-handed until they create a moment to safely draw
their weapon to dissuade or repel a renewed attack. Accessing courses take four distinct tactical
solutions to counter the varying dynamics presented by attacks made by the blade, with grabs,
unarmed attacks, and shoot-ins.
Chaotic Knife Attacks (2 hours)
Safely producing a weapon during changing knife attacks that include countering jabbing strikes
with cross-punching, hard committed strikes with blocks, and fluid combinations with parries,
and how to create distance and/or time and draw & deploying your weapon.
Grab-n-Stab Attacks (2 hours)
Safely producing a weapon during grab-n-stab attacks that include countering grabs made to
your wrists, inside elbows, outside elbows, and throat, and how to create distance and/or time
and draw & deploying your weapon.
Empty Hands Attacks (2 hours)
Safely producing a weapon during empty hands attacks that include countering hand strikes,
kicks, and grabs, and how to create distance and/or time and draw & deploying your weapon.
Shoot-in Attacks (2 hours)
Safely producing a weapon during shoot-in attacks, this course explores struggles
that progress through stages of being taken down, and finally ending up on the ground, as well
as the underlying groundwork positions, transitions, and maneuvers to draw and deploy your
weapon.
Overview (4 hours)
Safely producing a weapon during varying types of attack includes how to recognize cues of
an impending attack, and how to counter chaotic knife attacks, grab-n-stab attacks, empty hands
attacks, and shoot-in attacks, to draw & deploying your weapon.
Certification (8 hours)
This course covers pre-engagement threat management, blade handling, salvaging
ambushes, how to counter chaotic knife attacks, grab-n-stab attacks, empty hands attacks, and
shoot-in attacks, to draw & deploying your weapon. Also covered are post-engagement topics
that include First-aid, calling 911, and effectively dealing with first responders to achieve the best
possible outcome.
CQ Pistol V Knife Attacks

The AMOK CQ Pistol 8-hour program does not

teach the fundamentals of handling firearms and is intended for people who already possess
functional handgun skills.
Cues of Knife Carry and Accessing
How to recognize the pre-attack cues of knife attackers in their methods of concealment during
the approach, various readying positions, and when attempting to access a concealed weapon.
Accessing V Grab-n-Stab Attacks
How to safely access your pistol and neutralize your attacker during fully committed grab-n-stab
tactics when grabbed by the wrist, elbow, or throat.
Accessing V Committed Knife Attacks
How to safely access your pistol and neutralize your attacker during committed knife tactics
delivered singularly, in combination, and “sewing machine” type of attacks.
ECQ Pistol V Chaotic Knife
How to neutralize knife attackers with a drawn pistol in ECQ engagement utilizing blade-based
actions that include counter-striking with the pistol, disruptive firing making use of various cant
firing positions designed to eliminate muzzle sweeping when you check hand needs to be
forward of your muzzle, controlling angle of incident in ECQ populated zones, and trigger-guard
disarming.
Retention and Disarming
How to retain your drawn pistol if grabbed by a strong capable attacker and EQC disarming, with
special attention given to a properly-held two-handed trained adversary.

AMOK Licensing: Our Model of Success

Our unique program will train and license you as a Self-Protection Specialist operating on a
nearly expense-free all-profit model of doing business. We are the world’s only edged weapons
company that trains our Specialists to meet professional standards. Unlike martial arts
credentials that hold no real-world value, being professionally licensed puts you on a new level of
doing business and opens a whole new range of opportunities. We’ve been doing this
successfully for over 25 years so we have worked out every step of the process.

Low Overhead
Monthly costs are the low licensing fee, business cards, and course certificates. Gas is factored
into your rates.
High Profit
In setting your own rates, you never have to work for less than what is worth your while, and you
pay ZERO % of earnings to HQ!
Freedom
With no fixed location and schedule, being mobile gives you complete control, liberty, and
freedom over your commitments.
Selection
You can select just one or any number of programs or courses you wish to become licensed.
Self-Paced
You decide the rate at which you move through our self-paced, step-by-step program to get you
set up and working.
Target-able Clients
Being mobile makes marketing far easier than being fixed because your clients are very
specifically target-able. You won’t need to become a social media whiz just to stay competitive
because your clients are identified and located with a simple Google search (i.e. enter “fitness”
into Google maps and red flags pop up).
No Experience Required
No previous experience of any kind is required. You just have to be 18+ years old and want to
make others safer.
Ideal for Martial Arts Instructors
An ideal alternative for martial arts instructors who want to teach self-protection without the
difficulties of running a school and for school owners who want other courses to teach and with
which to interface with the general public.
New Adventure
There’s so much more to our comprehensive training and marketing program that provides you
with the tools of success. We offer training, business coaching, your listing in our website’s
Directory, marketing tools, and business-in-a-box with documents and templates to do business,
and more.
Contact Sotis@Amok.Global