how you doing guys my name is Chad I'm here at t1G and today we're going to be
talking about some different considerations when we're looking at
knives I'm not going to get into the whole aspect of what makes a fighting
knife and what does it but we're going to be talking about how to open them
under duress it's fine if you got a knife on you it's fine once it's open
but a lot of people can't do that transition from in their pocket or
wherever they're holding it out to actually using it so that's kind of what
we're going to talk about have a couple of just a small sample of knives down
here if you look at a lot of these ones nowadays they like a lot of the spring
action switchblade ish type knives and I'm not bashing one knife over the other
I'm just saying hey look at the pros and cons between different knives with what
you're going to be using it for if it's nothing but for cutting wood and steaks
and fine have you a utility knife if you say you're going to be a knife fighter
then it needs to lean more towards an actual knife that supports that type of
use so if we're looking at like push buttons or spring activator or anything
like that understand it yes they're fine but it does go off of a spring over time
Springs where out break get loose whatever if I'm looking at a knife
personally I try to carry more of a fighting-type knife so when I'm looking
at the knife some of the considerations I take into account are when the spring
goes down if it doesn't open do I have a secondary way to open it or at that
point does it become a blunt instrument that I hold in my hand and then it start
wrapping you in the head with it to get a desired result so that's some of that
that's a like a assisted opening some of your other ones or more of your
mechanical type openings where you actually have to do something physically
to open it besides just pushing a button these are the ones I tend to carry a
little bit more for me it works a little better and there's no springs or buttons
or anything for dirt to get in wear out break whatever
if I don't open this then it's on me that's where the repetition of your
training needs to start to come in and it's not just hey I've done it 2,000
times it needs to be done properly for your perfection of your technique that
you're trying to do reality is is the fastest way to get a knife out and into
play is to have a fixed blade there is no opening there is none of that stuff
to go along with it there's nothing to worry about spring wise it's just pull
it and do whatever you're going to be doing with it whether it be in a bad
situation cut me rope tape whatever okay but those
are the faster ones the only problem is is they're a little harder to conceal or
hide or even wear around on you sitting down standing up getting in cars out of
cars so that's why a lot of people tend to carry folders and that's what we're
going to be going into next is actually talking about how to get to a folder get
it out and open and ready to work under duress alright guys so now we're
actually going to talk about how to open a folder if I have it there's a couple
of different things you could do me personally I like to have it in my
pocket as it sits like this which is called tip down there are different
types of knives this is a training knife that you can kind of get anywhere online
look them up that way if I am practicing with it initially I'm not getting the
cuts and dropping a good knife on the ground and chipping up the blade and
everything else but it does have different alternate positions that I can
put this clip if I want to carry it tip up if I'm left-handed then I can put
them on the other side you'll notice that on mine I actually put skateboard
tape or grip tape to help facilitate the draw so when we're talking about doing
anything whether it be drawing a gun drawing a knife or doing any kind of
action to get it into play there's kind of three things that I go by one is I
need to facilitate a movement to help me draw it okay I either need to combine
movements to help make it faster or eliminate movements that can be taken
out that are not needed for a certain draw so when I look at that and take
those three things into account that's kind of how we here typically do our
drawing over knife so if I have it in my pocket it can't come back
to the types of pockets are types of pants that you're going to be using blue
jeans which are kind of cut down in a cross are typically your best ones
because it doesn't have a slant cut pocket if you're wearing some of your
five Elevens and things like that we know that in that slant deep cut pocket
the knife can kind of get turned twisted and everything else but if I'm trying to
draw my knife under duress the first thing I need to do initially is just
reach down and slap myself in my pocket in the region of where my knife would be
what that does is it lets me know where it's at if you think you're going to
come straight down and get into it right off the bat maybe but it's not an every
time thing okay because it might mean the knife might have been shifted during
your scuffle or whatever so I'm going to slap my pocket from there I'm just going
to drive my thumb in and down then I'm going to come up to what's called a
tabletop position notice I'm keeping it close to my body I don't want to have it
waving around out here to where it can divertly get hit knocked out of my
hand I'm trying to keep it close to my body at this point a lot of people will
tell you to go blade side back to at least get it open while I'm trying to
fend with this hand a half a dozen to one half there's the other every
situation is different alright guys what I'm going to do is
take it away from my body so you can see it a little bit better on this one you
can see that the mechanical opening is this nub that sticks up off of the blade
are you going to do is take your thumb on it and like you're shooting marbles
could date some people if they know what I'm talking about they're okay but all
it is is a mechanical opening of you opening the blade once it's open from
here then I would turn it and get into whatever grip I'm going to be holding
whether it be a hammer grip saber grip or if it was a double-edged blade a
complete grip depending on my training or what I'm going to be trying to do
with the weapon so step by step real slow as initially I want to slap my side
of my pocket kind of find out where it's at drive my thumb in and downs draw up
and out to the tabletop open and in turn and get to the grip that I want from
there it's whatever techniques that you need to follow on with if you have any
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