Ralph Mroz
Co-founder and Training Director
Police Officers Safety Association
Mr. Mroz is a police officer in Western Massachusetts, currently assigned to his county’s counter drug/gang task force. He is an internationally recognized authority on defensive tactics, firearms training, and training methods.

After two hours with the knife, this is by far one of the coolest training tools I have ever looked at. As soon as the Shocknife was activated, students displayed a noticeable stress reaction. Their hearts started racing and breathing rates increased. All participants told me that they felt an adrenalin rush. I noticed that motor skills deteriorated as participants began to defend against the Shocknife. I highly recommend getting the Shocknife for your training toolbox. I believe it constitutes one of the most important tools that you can add to make your practice more realistic and effective. The entire group praised this as one of the best defensive tactics classes that they had ever taken."

Sgt. Paul Britt
DT Instructor, Rockwall Police Department, Rockwall, Texas

"If you want to take your reality based training to the next level, I would highly recommend the Shocknife. This exciting new technology is the closet thing to the 'real thing.' With proper guidelines in place, the Shocknife will definitely increase the effectiveness of student learning, enhance the learning environment, and maximize students survival skills. The Shocknife is the 'next generation' in fundamental teaching aides for maximizing students confidence in their survival skills."

"... take your reality based training to the next level..."

Dr. Darrell L. Ross is the author of the renowned book “Civil Liability in Criminal Justice” and is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at East Carolina University. Dr. Ross is also an experienced and respected Defensive Tactics Instructor.

“I put the Shocknife® through its paces and found that it performed as designed and intended. Law enforcement, military and corrections trainers will benefit from this advancement in edged weapon training. The fear of getting touch/shocked will induce a mild state of fight or flight, insure that the students respect the blade and inoculate them to the possibility that in the middle of an assault by a knife armed suspect you can’t stop despite the pain of a cut, you must keep going and win the encounter. That is a great benefit of the Shocknife®. With the Shocknife® the feedback is instantaneous, you know right away when you’ve been “cut” and despite the pain, you keep going.”

Kevin R. Davis
DT Instructor, Akron Police Department
Mr. Davis is a full-time law enforcement officer assigned to the training bureau. A 23 year veteran of law enforcement, he was a Team leader and lead instructor of his agency’s S.W.A.T. Team.

"I see a LOT of different technologies and training concepts enter the Reality Based Training marketplace, and when I first heard that there was a new training knife coming out, my first thought was 'oh no, not another marking knife!' As the original co-founder of SIMUNITION® I have always believed in the power of the possibility of a pain consequence for tactical error. So when the concept of the Shocknife was explained to me, I thought 'finally - here are a couple of guys who really "get it" ... I hope this thing works!'

"...exceeds my expectations... an essential training tool..."

After having had the opportunity to work with it, I wish it would have been available before my book went to press! The Shocknife actually exceeds my expectations. When used properly within the confines of a well established and tightly controlled realistic training environment, the Shocknife is an essential training tool that finally gets trainees to pay attention to the dangers of edged weapons. No other technology (with the dangerous exception of an actual blade) that I have worked with creates such a realistic response from the students when faced with an edged weapon in the training environment. Before the Shocknife, we have had to rely upon training knives that, at best, had an edge that could be coated with a marking substance to demonstrate where the student had been 'cut' during an after action review. While the concept of a 'marking blade' is useful and has its place in the training continuum, it does not create any fear or risk aversion on the part of the student during the actual training event since there is no possible pain consequence to their tactical errors. Student behaviors change IMMEDIATELY once the Shocknife is introduced into the training environment.

I believe that the Shocknife is an essential piece of equipment for any serious Reality Based Training program. As with any other piece of gear, however, it is essential that training staff be properly educated in the effective use of such a technology so that it doesn't simply become a cool new toy or a torture device to be used on the students. If you have a well structured training program and competent instructors and role players, then I whole heartedly suggest you buy the Shocknife as an essential addition to your training gear."

Kenneth Murray
Co-Founder of SIMUNITION® and author of the book "Training at the Speed of Life - The Definitive Textbook for Police and Military Reality Based Training"

Just a brief intro. My name is John Harris I retired 3 + years ago from Federal Corrections in Canada. I was a senior manager at a maximum security facility during my latter years. I worked my way up through the system from Correctional Officer, Member of and IERT team, Intelligence Officer and staff trainer. I have been involved in training Correctional Officers as well as Senior Managers. I retired 3 years ago after over 30 years in Corrections having served at most every level of security. After the three years of retirement, I entered the field as the Course Manager for the Correctional Officer Cadet training program at the Atlantic Police Academy in PEI. In the Correctional Officer Training program, we are introducing many scenarios to help Cadets practice the skills we are trying to teach them. Some of those scenarios involve an Officer being confronted by a hostile Offender who is in possession of a knife and is waving the knife in a threatening manner towards the staff. When we did this with "simulated ' Knives made of plastic, the tendency was for the Officer to not feel any big threat and they would usually try to go for the knife or disarm the offender. They did not have much fear of a "plastic" knife. However, I recently had the opportunity to observe the same correctional officer Cadets in a scenario where the knife used was the SHOCKNIFE (which had been demonstrated to them in a prior class). The difference was fantastic. All of a sudden they were faced with something real that would sting a lot if they came into contact with it. During de-brief, I heard comments like, "Boy, did that ever bring the "tunnel vision" into play." "All I could see was that knife." "When I saw that knife, I sure did not want to try to touch that thing". "When he came at me with that knife, my heart rate just went off the scale, just thinking about it, I can still feel my heart pounding"

What the SHOCKNIFE did was add an excellent element of reality to the scenario and it sure made them think of those other options. I am impressed with it and would not hesitate to recommend it to any similar training facility. In fact, I will be mentioning it to a trainer that I
am familiar with in the Federal Corrections program out here in the Atlantic region.

Thank-you for providing this great training device.

John Harris
Inspector, Atlantic Police Academy
Correctional Officer Cadet program.
Holland College, P.E.I

“No longer will knife self-defence be just an exercise, It will be training”

Chris Collins
Sgt - Training
Halton Regional Police Service