Garrison Fighting Knives

[Plasma]

Limb manipulation in Knife Combat should be secondary to slash/counter slash and stick. A knife like this misses the point completely. Not to mention the fact using this knife as personal tool seems ridiculous.

[Lord Skeletor]

My whole mindset when it comes to edged weapons is thus:

1. Any edged weapon is better than none
2. If you're going to rely on edged weapons (any style/design), you need to train.
3. If you think knives are retarded; you should still train in their usage/defense.
4. If you're going to carry one...might as well carry 2-3.
5. If you're from the "School of #3", I really need to share some pics and real-life anecdotes of why you are the actual retard and that you need to give a lot of respect to any edged weapon.

That thing looks like a fishing tool "gone bad"---however; until you have seen whatever form/style of fighting that it was designed around (or its actual designed application), I'd withhold immediate judgment on it.

PS> If I saw you with something like that; I too would think that you were either

a) A Klingon
b) "That guy"

[Mr. Machette]

Klingon warriors have been using those to devastating effect for centuries.

In the real world however...

[omoplatypus]

i like rope handles........

other than that, it looks gayer than sirc's porno collection.

the only people i could see buying that POS are "modern" ninjers, and airsoft larpers gone full retard.

[gregaquaman]

Would be pretty easy to test out either buy the trainer or get hold of a y shaped peice of wood and see if you can get more hits on a guy than with a normal shaped knife.

I think that would become a cut yourself knife though.

I did have a google look and couldn't see any sparring just phil elmore doing really slow drills

[Cassius]

Things I've used a knife as while deployed:

Hammer
Chisel
Prybar
Stake to help me get my footing back
Among other things
Oddly enough, I've cut plenty of things with multiple knives, but not a single one of them was a person

Knives are tools, first and foremost. This "knife" is not practical for anything.

[omoplatypus]

Oddly enough, I've cut plenty of things with multiple knives, but not a single one of them was a person

Knives are tools, first and foremost. This "knife" is not practical for anything.

yeah, but that's because you're a ranger and not a green beret like rambo was. if you were like rambo, you would use your gigantic penis envy knife to stab people.

or maybe i'm wrong and i should feel lucky that more than one military guy has chimed in about knives on this thread.....

[Permalost]

Here's some videos of it in action:
YouTube - Garrison fighting knife demo

YouTube - Garrison Fighting Knives

[wetware]

"Circumcising the wrist, removing his weapon hand."

And... right. What does he think the thing is, a lightsaber? I don't think this thing has the mass or is anywhere near sharp enough to sever the bones of the wrist just by pivoting around it like that. Additionally, a more conventional fighting knife can be used to do everything he shows in this video with the exception of actually catching a wrist on the blade. Of course doing that requires those nice big telegraphed movements we all love so much.

My biggest problem with it is this: It looks like blade on blade contact to the outer edges would channel a blade directly into your hand. Other problems are the chisel grind and the fact that it must be horrible tip heavy due to its shape. The chisel grind issue is a bit of an antiquated one, I admit. It used to be that a chisel grind was the mark of a low-quality knife and that stigma has never left me, despite manufacturers like Emerson using chisel grinds. But whatever. I certainly won't be buying it.

[Carpe Noctem]

If I was in the military and THAT GUY, I'd rather carry my bigass bowie knife strapped to my leg.

If I take a bowie, it'll stay in my assault pack. Biggest knife I carried on any deployment had a 6" blade and it was more than enough. Too big and you won't want to carry it. If you're stuck on a FOB, there's no real occasion to use it. Big knives are cool, and I like them a lot, but there's an upper limit of practicality in the real world.