This training Shiv is a great idea from Brainstorm CanAm. It gives positive feedback to students from an all-top-common threat to Law Enforcement and Corrections Officers.
A graduated pressure spring embedded into the handle allows the rubber “blade” to retract upon impact then instantly return to the ready position. A soft tip, with marker, will illustrate your hits during realistic training. It is the rare event that the defender is not cut or stabbed in a knife attack. The SHIV allows you to practice real life techniques and preserve a margin of safety in you scenarios. After attack first aid and real world discussion of the “injuries” adds realism to your classes.
More made up acronyms, sort of like pogue/POG. “Shiv” isn’t an acronym.
You caught that too?
So “shank” actually stands for something? And “knife?”
“Self Honed Implement Of Violence”
But this is neither “honed”, nor a “Implement of Violence”.
It is a spring that holds chalk at the end.
And on top of it all, it cost $89 bucks!!!!
Whats wrong with the rubber ‘training knives’ where you can chalk the edge of,then use,to register your ‘cuts’,for somewhere in the neighborhood of $9.99-$20.99??
As fellow SSD readers are fond of saying,and a phrase which I am going to steal,”seems like a solution in search of a problem”, and a poor one at that.
It’s a training tool, offering a safe alternative to a SHIV which they define as a Self Honed Implement Of Violence. Perhaps at your agency, you guys just shank each other with the real thing during training.
Or they could use ShockKnives, another Canadian device for torturing and inflicting terror and suffering on trainees. Prior to getting ours, we were really low-tech and just used washable markers.
Those things are great, we had them in one of the units I was in, always a joy to train with.
learned about them midway through a fight at the combatives schoolhouse at Benning while grappling and the instructors decided to spice things up and toss it in the ring…
Literally 4 seconds on google yields this:
“probably from Romany chiv ‘blade.’”