Gents and ladies,
Some of you are likely familiar with this product, but I thought I'd put it out there for those of you who aren't. It's called Shocknife, and it was created in Winnipeg, Canada, by a police officer who found he couldn't generate a fear response or test stress response in training with the rubber and wooden knives typically used for knife-defense training. So he tried the idea of creating an electrified training knife.
The earliest version was little more than a cattle prod shaped like a knife, but the latest incarnation - Shocknife - is fully adjustable and creates a genuine sensation of being cut. It's fully adjustable, and at its lowest setting feels like getting a paper cut; at full-out it feels like you're being cut to the bone. It's not designed to cause paralysis, as a taser is, but is indeed a localized pain response designed as a punitive measure for poor technique. As a consequence of poor judgment.
I'm linking to a video aired on the product, on a local TV station. The first instance of the product name in this link also contains a link to the company website. It's worth checking out.
Canuck
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Some of you are likely familiar with this product, but I thought I'd put it out there for those of you who aren't. It's called Shocknife, and it was created in Winnipeg, Canada, by a police officer who found he couldn't generate a fear response or test stress response in training with the rubber and wooden knives typically used for knife-defense training. So he tried the idea of creating an electrified training knife.
The earliest version was little more than a cattle prod shaped like a knife, but the latest incarnation - Shocknife - is fully adjustable and creates a genuine sensation of being cut. It's fully adjustable, and at its lowest setting feels like getting a paper cut; at full-out it feels like you're being cut to the bone. It's not designed to cause paralysis, as a taser is, but is indeed a localized pain response designed as a punitive measure for poor technique. As a consequence of poor judgment.
I'm linking to a video aired on the product, on a local TV station. The first instance of the product name in this link also contains a link to the company website. It's worth checking out.
Canuck
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