- All right, gentlemen.
Each of your weapons will now be tested.
And up first, the kill test. Doug.
The Spanish navaja, an iconic folding weapon from history.
It's even said to influence the American Bowie knife.
To see what kind of lethal damage your weapon will do,
we'll take your Spanish navaja then deal killing
blows on this deer carcass.
Matthew, you're up first. Are you ready?
Oh, yeah.
OK, Matthew.
Nice and solid work right here.
But I'm still recovering from an injury.
So please welcome Anthony Palmer.
Anthony is one of the chief instructors of Marcaida Kali.
Today he will have the pleasure of wielding
your Spanish navaja.
My biggest concern going into testing
is the sharpness of my blade.
[music playing]
Your blade is beautiful.
And it's also solid in its feel.
It lacerates easily.
You can see it chopped right through the spine.
Now, one of the pieces here came flying out during the test.
But in terms of the sharpness and the wieldability
of your blade, it will kill.
- Oh, yeah. - OK, Wade.
It's your turn.
You ready? - You bet.
Wade, I can hear the mechanism working in there.
[music playing]
The thud of that deer carcass hitting the floor
is absolutely the sound of $10,000.
I feel like I'm ahead.
That's where I want to be.
I want to win it.
All right, Wade, your blade is sharp.
Thank you.
The one issue is it's kind of rickety
here, even while it was being wielded.
But despite being rickety, it's deadly and it will kill.
Thank you.
DOUG: Next up is the strength test.
Ben.
To test the strength and durability of your edge
as well as the overall construction,
I'm going to smash into this bamboo
with your Spanish navajas.
Matthew, you're up first. Are you ready?
Oh, yeah.
I'm looking at Wade like he is one up on me.
I have to outperform him on the strength test
if I'm going to win this competition.
[music playing]
Well, Matthew, this thing's one hell of a chopper.
It held together beautifully.
There was slight glinting that happened up here near the tip,
but it's pretty darn sharp.
Very well done.
Thank you.
Wade, you're up next.
Are you ready? - Yeah.
[laughing]
I'm ahead, he's ahead, I'm ahead, he's ahead.
We've been this way the whole time.
It's a battle.
I want to win it.
[music playing]
[bleep]
(WHISPERING) No, it's broken.
[bleep]
Wade, we have a problem.
On about the third strike, things started
to get kind of loose and that torquing
and the stress made your scales pop off.
The only thing holding the cutting end to the handle end
are these thin brass sheets.
And I don't have confidence in their strength.
This blade has lost its structural integrity.
It's no longer safe to test.
Wade, due to the catastrophic failure of the structural
integrity of your weapon, we cannot
continue testing that blade.
So I have to ask you to please leave the forge.
I thought I could beat down a door with that thing, but, you
know, apparently you can't.
I should have put more weight in the liner just
to make the whole handle section much more strong.