Before I get started dear daily fail goons and other tabloid writers this video is for entertainment
purposes only and not intended to promote violence in any way shape or form
Now of course you would understand that if you weren't so busy writing sensationalist bullshit about topics
They haven't bothered to research properly I can assure you that spreading
Judgemental misinformation is a lot more harmful than any of these weapon tests. Thank you
All right, so here's the drama dagger 2.0
You may know that the first version that Joeg at the Slingshot channel made
Caused the whole DailyMail drama and trouble with Youtube for a while
Then he sended to me or tried to at least.It got lost in the mail
Mysteriously vanished never to be seen again, and he made a second one
This one actually arrived so I did some tests with it, and I'm going to talk about the practical aspect of it
so like a regular review and I
Want to point out that even though there will be a few negatives that I'll talk about this does not mean that I'm ungrateful
In the slightest, okay?
I very much appreciate especially that he put this much time and effort into making it twice and then send it to me
So thanks again. Joerg. You know that I appreciate it, and I like it a lot. There are just a few
practical issues that I want to point out based on the tests that I've done okay, so
first off just for fun several people pointed out that it looks like a dick, the handle. and
you know it happens occasionally that people say that and
My only response is you watch too much gay porn didn't you?
Because in a lot of cases what they say, it looks like a dick doesn't at all unless they're so obsessed with
Penises that they see them everywhere
But let's face it this state. Yeah, okay, okay? You've got a point
This this really looks like it um
There might also be one of the reasons why I don't like the handle as much as I could
No, seriously. It's really just about the shape is
It's better for Slingshot in my opinion. I mean you can tell that
he's used to making slingshots obviously it's the Slingshot channel who would have known right and
This is you know very much that sort of shape if you have a V-shape here
You pull down at the aptus this would work just fine for a dagger. It's a little strange
It's a bit unconventional. I very much liked how well finished the wood is it's also really pretty wood
It's nice and dark. You can see the grain very well. It's really finely polished
nice and glossy and he designed it with a
specific purpose in mind it is intended for use in the sort of Hammer Grip and
with an upward thrust like this and
That that's really what the handle made me facilitate
However, there is a reason why in the historical European manuals that cover dagger fighting you
Generally see this grip here the icepick grip so it's just for education obviously this was not designed with
Historical Dagger fighting in mind, but just to explain a little bit the nuances of this design, so in
Historical times the clothing they wore especially during renaissance
Was a lot sturdier than what we have nowadays. You know this kind of stuff is really flimsy
Whereas they had fairly thick clothing that was much stiffer
It's actually not easy to stab through so this is one of the main reasons
Why they show the icepick grip because you can generate a lot more power
This way now of course you saw Joerg stab through the stab resistant vest
And I mean you've seen him his is pretty big and he's very strong
but if he did that with an icepick grip he would have been even more effective because
if you think about it, and an upward thrust like this is working for one against gravity and
also, you cannot really bring your weight to bear so this is driven mainly by the Arm you can put some rotation into
It of course in rotate the hip into that that's always good using your core muscles
but you cannot
Drop down your weight the way you can with an icepick grip
Now if you look at this footage here from the test you can see the difference
So it's turning into it now pushing off with my legs and in trying to drive it as much as possible
with the larger muscles as opposed as just the arms however with the ice pick grip I can also drive with the legs and to the
Core rotation while at the same time engaging the back muscles more and dropping my body weight into it so that
Results in a much more powerful thrust you can see the difference here in
Penetration also for comparison here you can see Richard Marsden doing the same kind of stab in a pretty
Relaxed way he just casually steps forward and jams it down with not a whole lot of force
But it still goes in quite far in fact the result is comparable to an overhand stab with a lot more muscle power involved
Once again 'Daily fail', this is not giving people
Instructions on how to shank anybody this is from a historical perspective
Calm your tits ok I think it would actually be better if the grip was not as specialized
Like in this case here. This can be used either way and
either Grip works just fine
Again this way you can put the thumb up on the blade for more control
Things like that you have plenty of options here
You can switch to this sort of grip and it makes sense
Especially in this case because it doesn't have an edge so you don't need to feel exactly where the edge is
It's for thrusting anyway also. I found that even though Joerg said that the icepick grip wouldn't be good with this
It's actually pretty ok I personally preferred this way
I mean the finger grooves don't line up as well. This way as they do with the other grip
But it's still perfectly adequate. Oh, the other thing is he was talking about
shaping the grip here in a particular way to
Not make it hurt too much when you stab like this because this pushes down
Particularly if it pushes down on the bone here that can get very painful and he was trying to minimize that
however
If you have it this way around here you've got the fleshy part of the meat of the the palm of the hand
This can take a lot more abuse this can absorb the shock way better
And this is not going to hurt whereas this you've got the bone right here
and there's really only skin on top of it there isn't any meat like it is here, so
Again this for really powerful thrust if you don't want to injure yourself or hurt yourself then this is actually
more effective than this now all that being said I understand why he shaped the grip the way he did for the intended purpose and
For that this does definitely work better
than this for example
I mean in this case with the with a disk-guard right here if you were to throw a really hard thrust
This would right up against the disk-guard and yeah this would hurt
Definitely, so this would be for powerful thrusts this kind of grip would definitely be better
Otherwise this would minimize that a little bit because then you don't have this part of the base of your thumb
Jamming into the grip
But I mean it would still jam your finger into it, so it's better
but you know this is still more comfortable to use for that kind of purpose and
Just the way it conforms to the hand definitely feels nice
So the way the handle protrudes this would be good for striking because it's tapers a little bit
And there's enough mass enough material here that you could strike effectively without breaking it easily also
I think this design might be quite good for throwing
I should probably try that next time because it is quite smooth on this side here and
but curved so if you throw it with a no spin, technique, and
Slide the same finger across here to give it some counter spin
This wouldn't have a lot of friction
This should actually work quite nicely
As far as the spike is concerned well, it's a spike. It works hollow ground is certainly effective at
getting
Maximum Penetration depth yeah, I know make it jokes you can see right here
It goes easily into the plastic bone analogue which by the way isn't terribly realistic
It's just what I have but when pulling it out you can also see the cross-section quite nicely
Obviously this would be good against armor, and it doesn't require any maintenance really I mean a spike like this,
What can go wrong if the material is too soft then the point could bend
But it´s a pretty hard feel and even though it tapers quite a bit. It's not a needle point at the end
there's enough material there to
Be pretty sturdy
So not a problem there and even though apparently a few people were skeptical about the plywood he used in the glue
Nothing wrong with that. It's absolutely rock-solid
It's also really tight
There are no gaps I can see or feel anywhere everything is completely smooth
I said it's nice-looking work
And it looks like it might serve a dual purpose for the ladies and some guys I
mean since smooth enough anyway, whatever, so I
Might modify this a little bit now grinding out the finger grooves
Just make it smooth, and then maybe grind this down a little bit as well
just to make it a little straighter like more like a
Standard Dagger grip I think that would work a little bit better
But otherwise yeah
It was really cool to play around with this said spikes are interesting and the way they perform and everything is always impressive
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I
Said I appreciated despite my criticism of the handle Shape I
Definitely had fun. Trying it out. I hope you had fun. Watching the video. Let me know and have a good one
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