Wu Ji Quan Fa Empty Handed Knife Attack Counters Part 2

Name: Wu Ji Quan Fa Empty Handed Knife Attack Counters Part 2
Start: 2026-06-20T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-06-20T14:45:00-06:00
Location: Draper Kenpo and Martial Arts

Schedule

Sat Jun 20 2026 at 01:00 pm to 02:45 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Draper Kenpo and Martial Arts | Sandy, UT

Seminar 3: Wu Ji Quan Fa Empty Handed Knife Attack Counters Part 2

WHEN: June 20, 2026 from 1pm to 245 PM
WHERE: at the Draper Kenpo Martial Arts Studio at 720 E 10600 S #4, Sandy, UT 84094
COST: $50 Walk in the door. $40 with pre-registration through emailed RSVP to [email protected] or by phone call to 801-403-6077 by June 10, 2026 . If enrolled in regular training ask your instructor about active student discounts.

Details: This Knife Defense Seminar will quickly review part one and continue forward in the exploration of powerful, brutal and fast approaches to countering realistic knife attack scenarios. The Wu Ji Quan Fa approach is about realism and practicality. While success in real self defense scenarios requires each practitioner to put in the work to put the approaches they learn into practice when it counts, training at ineffective approaches makes any work put in on those approaches as work lost. The Wu Ji Quan Fa approaches taught are ones that when you put them into practice they will get the job done.

Learn power concepts, targeting, mindset, strategy and tactics for use with striking, kicking and grappling techniques examples. As many of you know, our basic mindset is "make the attackers decision to attack you the worst decision of their lives". We will illustrate how to put this philosophy into practice when facing arguably the most fearsome scenario in self defense.

In part one of this series we discussed tactics used to respond against a surprise knife draw and assault. The predominant knife attacks usually allow for opportunity to burst "ahead" of the attack with a counter attack to the non-weapon side. We will briefly review and expand options for this tactic covered in part one of the series.
In part 2 we will also explore when we are unable to burst ahead in our counter attack and have to get "behind" the knife attack itself.

INSTRUCTORS: Taught by 5th Step Senior Instructor Kyle Whiteley
About the Instructor:
Taught by 5th Step Senior Instructor Kyle Whiteley who has over 25 dedicated years of martial arts training experience. Kyle is an instructor with an unwavering focus on practicality. Having trained for over 25 years in Wu Ji Quan Fa Gong Fu and promoted to the highest ranking of 5th Step under the late great Grandmaster Tom Garriga, Kyle also has training experience in several other combative programs through his professional experience including Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP), Utah POST Academy Defensive Tactics, Executive Protection Combatives as well as grappling, boxing and several other types of athletics that round out his martial arts experience.
Kyle has professional work and training experience of nearly 20 years combined as a Police Officer, Soldier, Personal Protection Specialist (Body Guard), and Armed Security Officer in roles that require knowledge and proficiency in use of force. He is able to draw from that experience combined with his extensive martial arts training experience to provide approaches that are fast and effective in the moment of crisis but also which consider the legal ramifications of self defense which are often overlooked or misrepresented by many self defense trainings.
Kyle uses an approach to instruction that allows people to improve and relate to what is taught even coming from a wide variety of backgrounds. Kyle has taught people new to all of it and people that are highly experienced in various disciplines of martial arts. Kyle has a passion for being a lifelong practitioner of the martial arts and shares his experience from that perspective rather than from a guru perspective.
Kyle as an instructor holds a philosophy that a teacher can only provide clear instruction, well organized drills, and productive feedback and after that all learning after that is self-learning. 10% of the process at most is from the teacher and 90% or more always has to come from the student. Kyle when teaching rejects the guru role but rather looks at it as being an experienced guide to a territory of combat that no one has ever fully conquered. His goal is to share effective and efficient approaches to solving extremely serious and consequential self defense scenarios.