Kerambit : effective or flashy?

I agree, though you must admit, for a weapon that gives up distance and stabbing for a whole lot of power in cutting, it has gain quite a following outside of it's usual place of practice.

 

Hey it's Douglas! I wonder how he is? I hope he logs on to MAP again.

 

I've never trained with him persoanlly, but a very good friend of mine (Ausslander/Mad Monk) has done some sessions and rates him highly - just a casual look at his mechanics impressed the heck off me!

 

Very true. As with many things, I have Guro Dan Inosanto to thank for my introduction to the kerambit.

 

try a biro

 

Yeah, not too good at cutting really...but thanks for playing

 

Seems simple enough, pointy end goes in bad guy, you hold the blunt end right?

 

The pen or the kerambit? Kerambits are pretty crap at stabbing!

 

What's the pointy bit for then? :[

 

Eyes?

I think you can stab with 'em it's just not what they are designed for...It's primarily a slashing weapon.

I've hardly used one, but I like what I see!!!

 

You can indeed stab, the motion is like a punch, i.e. the point of the blade points in the same direction as your knuckles during a punch.

 

You CAN, it just isn't that good comparatively....slashing? Now that's another thing altogether!!! When was the last time you saw a tiger stab with its claw?

 

Indeed, but I do find that the punch-stab is quite an unpredictable motion. I'm a big fan of this weapon, mostly because it feels really natural to wield and you don't need much modification to make it work in the same way as you would use your hands when unarmed, though I guess that's style specific.

A few vids:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R47XXT2tIbM"]Silat Suffian Bela Diri - Kerambit 1 - counters & takedowns - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPrnIj14KU"]Silat Suffian Bela Diri - KERAMBIT 2 - Close Quarter Blade (IJsselstein, Holland) - YouTube[/ame]

 

Ripping, at the risk of being overly descriptive. It's a claw, essentially.

 

A veloceraptor claw

 

He is so cool!

Anyway, you get the pic! Best slicing cqb weapon i have ever gotten cut with.

 

Have you tries training with ama guro jun de leon of kali de leon over at toronto?

 

I'd think a big advantage to the kerambit would be that it's really hard to disarm? Somewhere on the internet, I came across Pat O'Malley explaining a training session that was about hitting hands, because 'armed or not, it's the hand that hits you.' Lots of FMA players and silat players like to defang the snake and I think it would be possible to fight on with a kerambit with a broken hand, while a knife would simply be dropped. Also hard to 'snake' or 'strip' a kerambit.

 

Well, if that kerambit is hanging on a broken finger, or on a finger attached to a broken hand / wrist, I really think you won't be doing much useful with it any more. The pain of bone on bone will be severe. So much so that gripping that knife and using it for contact will probably be the last thing on your mind.

And with a broken finger or hand, the swelling of the finger inside that ring will be bad as well.

 

Too far for me to go...it would actually be quicker to fly to the states