The full curriculum — knife, gun, and club
Built exactly like your free guide: React · Distract · Control · Disarm. Short videos, one move at a time, drilled slow so it sticks — hundreds of variations across every position.
Specialist Track · $27 / month
The whole academy, one clean move at a time.
The Specialist Track is the full knife, gun, and club curriculum — built exactly like your free guide, taught in short videos you drill at your own pace. One sub-course unlocks every month, and every level you finish comes with a certificate that proves it.
$27 / month · Cancel anytime · 14-day money-back guarantee
Why this track
This is the curriculum people travel to the Academy to learn.
Everything taught on the mat at Weapons Defense Academy — the same progressions, the same drills, the same standards — filmed one clean move at a time and available from anywhere. Your guide handed you four defenses. This is where the other several hundred live.
What you get
The complete system, at a pace you control
The curriculum you’d come to the Academy to learn, self-paced from anywhere — for less than a dollar a day.
One sub-course unlocks every month
Month 1 starts where your guide left off: Knife Across the Throat, taught across ten short videos. Months 2–4 cover the side of the neck, the stomach, and the throat — every position the blade actually shows up in.
Certificates that mark real progress
After four months you earn the Weapons Defense Specialist Level 1 certificate. Keep going and the full track runs 24 months, six levels, and six certificates covering realistic knife, gun, and club encounters.
Train on your schedule, anywhere
No live-class commitments, no schedule to keep. Watch a short video, drill the motion slow with a partner, repeat. Ten minutes a day is enough to make a technique yours.
It bolts onto whatever you already train
It’s not a new religion. If you already do karate, boxing, Krav Maga, or nothing at all, this fills the one gap almost every system leaves open — the weapon that’s already on you.
Upgrade to the Accelerated Track anytime
Same curriculum, unlocked twice as fast, with live coaching every week. Start here at $27, and if you catch the bug, move up whenever you’re ready — nothing you’ve earned resets.
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Love this stuff keep showing these little defensive moves over and over.
Most of the time I think videos like this are bullshit but I believe this guy could actually do this without getting killed.
Spent over forty years in martial arts and combatives, and I must say these are the best weapons defense vids on the internet. Salute and thanks for the knowledge.
You look so natural true to life as if you were born marcial arts fighter.
Awesome stuff, teaching and practicing with family... tough times ahead potentially.
Very informative and nicely displayed, thank you W.D.A.
Phenomenal video and teacher, this instructor relaxly clothed as a normal citizen explains the correct principle and strategy better than these traditional GI cladded wannabes that many times miss the point.
He takes time to explain what is the principle that makes the technique work and the general strategy. No foreign languages, no meaningless mysticism, no crazy salutes, no crazy clothing just pure knowledge.
It kind of reminds me of when a Tech genius billionaire called Steve Jobs showed up with a black T-shirt and jeans expertly explaining a masterpiece of creative technology, very relaxed, very casual, no fluff.
This Gentleman understand the concept or the principles. It's not just for train a bunch of random techniques; going deep inside the reason why we do things the way we do.
This type of knife defense if so important. And It's so easy once you practice the right technique.
Being a correctional officer for 25 years; True a good knife fighter won't attack you like that. However when you're in that position this technique work great. I use this particular technique all the time. Works every time. GREAT TECHNIQUE GUYS!!!!!!
Hello my friends, since I found you here on YT I have read the comments of some people, they are saying that your technike don't work but honestly don't care.
I'm a fighter, I am with fighter every day and we are having a lot of fun testing your way to do things. Like I said in another occasion: It works, purely! So thank you for sharing with us.
So awesome! I never considered taking a weapon class like this but will soon.
That was awesome and this method bears the ring of truth, in my experience.
I'm a musician by training among other things. Enjoyed seeing you get close to full speed here. But I see where your actions are tied to an internal Rhythm and I'm the beat that you decide to hit the drum you hit the drum and the gun is in your hand.
Bro this old man is str8 killer I love it teach me the ways your a OH.
I have seen a few videos these last few days and I am quite impressed. You take your time to explain the principle instead of showing random techniques, I come from the world that the principle is the main thing, the technique is an illustration of the principle.
Can you do a brief video on your background it seems quite solid, well learned. I see other instructors attacking techniques from other systems but they do not show them correctly that only shows that they do not understand the principle behind the technique.
Another great video. Thank you for breaking this down. Practice, practice, practice.
Keep it up. I like the pinky move. Not sure how secure I am with the right hand grab. I honestly don't know how loose a man's fists are when surprised. Either way... impressive techniques that I have never seen before, and that is rare.
As a Hapkido practitioner, I appreciate this and would like to see more of these detailed videos. Thank you.
Good stuff - keep'em coming!
Excellent techniques...I love it...
These posts and self defense techniques are enormously helpful and empowering. Please keep posting!
Great training video. It's so painful. Be careful with your partner. Don't break their wrist's.
So so so real! Not like all of these outerspace super commandos showing bullshit that will get you deleted! Thanks for this keep up the awesome work!
I really have to laugh-not at the video or the techniques being shown, but at the comments, most of which are from people who have zero training.
A lot of people have a bunch to criticize about these techniques but I'd like to hear what they have to say when their joints are being manipulated and their wishing their toes were just a bit longer to try and alleviate the pain.
Very detailed. Thank you. Greetings from Hurth near Cologne, Germany.
Outstanding.
I'm practising navaja Style Fight since the early 80's and have still the opinion that you better don't fight a person with a knife even if you have also one. If you can better leave but sometimes you can not leave the situation so you have to fight against a knife.
I'm thankful and proud we have someone like you, teaching us great methods to protect us from mayor injuries, so thank you. I'm a big follower.
This is great. You'll get the comments saying this never happens in a real fight' etc. But if you look at real footage of situations, this is Exactly the sort of thing that happens, being threatened with a blade at odd angles. Love it.
This guy I love him. He's one of the real gems. Thanks for being so darn candid! It so much fake stuff on the tube and every where. How can I become a student?
Excellent and thank you from the U.K where knife crimes are predominant. I will practice with my 27 years and older sons using ONLY A SAFE NON HARMFUL stage knife. Cheers guys.
Train anywhere
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Your membership works in the members app for iPhone and Android — and in any browser. Watch a breakdown on your lunch break, drill it with a partner that night, and pick up exactly where you left off. Every video, every course, every certificate travels with you.
- Free members app for iPhone and Android
- Short videos built for training on the go
- Your progress syncs across every device
Who’s teaching you
Twenty-five years spent on one thing nobody else teaches
Vince Waterhouse is a 10th-degree black belt with more than fifty years in martial arts. For the last twenty-five he’s refined a single specialty — disarming an attacker when the weapon is already within arm’s reach or on your skin. He trained in Shanghai, founded the Weapons Defense Academy, and teaches these exact disarms to over a million followers. The Specialist Track is that curriculum, taught his way, one short video at a time.
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The Specialist Track
$27 / monthCancel anytime · no contract
- The full knife, gun, and club curriculum
- One sub-course unlocks every month — starting with Knife Across the Throat
- The Weapons Defense Specialist Level 1 certificate after four months
- Six levels and six certificates across the full track
- Self-paced — train anywhere, on your schedule
- 14-day money-back guarantee on your first payment
Want it faster, with live coaching every week? The $97 Accelerated Track unlocks the same curriculum twice as fast.
The guarantee
Drill it for two weeks. Watch the first videos, work the first disarm slow with a partner, feel the technique click. If the Specialist Track isn’t for you, tell us within 14 days of your first payment and we refund you — no hard feelings. That’s how sure I am.
— Vince
Questions
Before you join
Do I need any martial arts experience?
No. If you already train — 20, 30, 40 years in, or a professional — this bolts directly onto what you know and fills the one gap almost every system leaves open. If you have zero training, that’s fine too, sometimes easier: we start you at the top, weapon defense first, and everything else falls into place below it.
I’m not big or strong. Will this actually work for me?
Size and strength matter when nobody’s trained — the bigger person wins that coin flip until training enters the picture. This system is built on leverage and physics: where to strike, what to grab, how to put a weapon hand in a position it can’t recover from. A small person can drop a much larger one with a finger and a fulcrum. Strength is the last thing you need once you understand the motion.
What exactly unlocks each month?
One sub-course per month. Month 1 is Knife Across the Throat, taught across ten short videos. Months 2–4 cover the side-of-the-neck, stomach, and throat knife positions, and after four months you earn the Weapons Defense Specialist Level 1 certificate. The full track continues through 24 months, six levels, and six certificates covering realistic knife, gun, and club encounters.
How is this different from the $97 Accelerated Track?
Same curriculum, different speed and support. The Specialist Track is self-paced with one sub-course unlocking a month. The Accelerated Track unlocks it twice as fast and adds live weekly coaching with real-time correction. If you want the fastest way to get good, that’s the one. If you want a steady, affordable pace you control, the Specialist Track is built for you — and you can upgrade anytime.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. It’s $27/month, no contract, cancel whenever you want. And your first payment is covered by a 14-day money-back guarantee — drill it for two weeks, and if it’s not for you, we refund you.
Do I need a partner or any equipment?
Just a willing partner to drill with — it doesn’t have to be a trained martial artist. The rule is simple: start slow and soft, the person being worked on controls the pace. No equipment required to begin.
Who is Vince Waterhouse?
A 10th-degree black belt with more than fifty years in martial arts — the last twenty-five spent developing a single specialty: disarming an attacker when the weapon is already on you. He trained in Shanghai, founded the Weapons Defense Academy, was named Grand Master of the Year, and teaches these exact disarms to an audience of over a million followers.
Start the real education — $27.
Four defenses showed you it’s real. The Specialist Track is the whole system — every weapon, every position, one clean move at a time, at a pace you control.