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The SHIV

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.

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9 Responses to “The SHIV”

  1. Ex11A says:

    More made up acronyms, sort of like pogue/POG. “Shiv” isn’t an acronym.

  2. Craig says:

    “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.

    • SSD says:

      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.

  3. Bill says:

    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.

    • Jon, OPT says:

      Those things are great, we had them in one of the units I was in, always a joy to train with.

      • Nick says:

        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…

  4. Casey says:

    Literally 4 seconds on google yields this:

    “probably from Romany chiv ‘blade.’”