Episode #397: Adam Boyce on Defensive Knife Use (MBC)
Release Date: 01/18/2025
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Adam Boyce is an authorized Instructor of Martial Blade Concepts and one of only a handful of MBC Instructors in the entire world who travel to teach seminars.
Adam's previous career experience has included being an Assaulter and Sniper on SRT (Special Response Team) for nearly 7 years, following which he has spent the remainder of his career working in the training department for a government agency.
He is a Defensive Tactics Instructor, Pistol Instructor, Rifle Instructor, Shotgun Instructor, and Knife Designer, he has multiple years training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts, he earned a Bachelor of Science from Idaho State University in Training and Development with an emphasis in Adult Learning and is fluent in Spanish. A perpetual student of self-defense Adam is continuously looking for and testing the best self-defense methods and practices. Adam believes the best instructors are those that continue to learn, and you can find Adam not only teaching others but attending multiple seminars taught by other instructors throughout the year.
His career experience make him a natural fit for training LEO and Military in which he excels and loves but Adams true passion is helping people of all ages, sizes and physical capacities gain critical skills and knowledge to defend themselves and the ones they love. As an instructor he follows the MBC credo "you don't have to fight like me, you just have to fight well".
To book Adam to teach a seminar, send an email to adam@spartanmode.com
Instagram @spartan.mode
www.SpartanMode.com