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Karambit story #1

I was carrying my Emerson Karambit in my right front pocket in reverse-grip and I was sitting in my car waiting for my girlfriend to arrive and I decided to give the new knife a look. I put my left index finger in the hole and pulled it across my lap to wave it open! The wave DID work and it sliced my jeans clean across the front! i almost castrated myself! Twas quite a scary moment. I was laughing and crying then I went home and changed my pants. I will NEVER do that again.

Karambit story #2

So I had just taken my new Emerson Karambit out of its box and I had seen some videos on youtube of people Karambiting and I thought it was easy and I would be a natural. Wrong. I put my index finger in the hole and started twirling. I spun the Karambit upwards and the blade jabbed itself into my wrist, giving myself a new piercing! That is another thing I will never do again.

Karambit story #3

This one has less to do with injury but more of embarrassment. It was the day after I got my Karambit and I was on the bathroom at work. I was looking at the full-wall mirror and I saw the Karambit hole sticking out of my pocket. I was thinking, "Oh yeah, I'm so cool I have a Karambit! I wonder how I look when I'm flipping it around for no reason!" So I waved it open and started twirling it. And a few seconds in, who walks in the door? My co-worker (who works in the same room as me). I put it away and lets say that we didn't have quite the same relationship after that little moment.

Tom

:eek: Dude i feel for you but at the same time its retards like us that are the reason they make pratice modles

I just recieved my E4 waved and im not kidding when i say it was the first action that kinife made i stuck it in the pocket of my nylon cargo pants with the legs that zip off i pulled that ***** out of my pocket with alittle too much vigor ripped a two or three inch hole in my pocket and put a footlong slice in my couch at the same time im such a dumb *** :confused: :confused:

:spyder: I totaly have this topped. I put a 8" slash in the shower curtain practicing MBC moves on the toilet. Got it replaced before the wife got home then left the old one right in the trash for her to find. D'oh! :rolleyes: :spyder:

I put a 6" gash in a curtain once - not enough environment-awareness while twirling a k'bit... but waves? Never sliced anything I wasn't supposed to .

Why twirl a karambit? :confused:

:spyder: Usually it's not twirl as much as extend for specific techniques, such as ripping the perp from anus to penis. :spyder:

Yes, extend and retract. Do it all the time. It's this twirling thing that has me wondering. :)

Rex G wrote:Why twirl a karambit? :confused:

So you can do stuff like this:

http://www.albokalisilat.org/advanced.html
http://www.albokalisilat.org/more_karambit.html

Read the explanation on the uses of spinning in the text associated with the first video. If you still have questions, PM me. Take care and train hard.

The only kbits I play for twirling with are rubber/plastic trainers, with life blades only out and in moves.

He, he, tell me about it. Sometimes I find myself kinetically opening the Gunting (well, the LLC actually, but you got the idea) on the leg :eek: Yes, I know this is a totally no no, and I try to avoid this as much as possible, but sometimes I simply get carried away...
Fortunately it was only the drone so far, but one never knows... :o

Thanks for the links. While I am no karambit expert, more like a practiced beginner, I have trained a little bit with Steve Tarani, and do carry karambits regularly. I even had a karambit in one hand, and a pistol in the other, for a brief moment, when I had to reach out and pull-cut a bungie cord securing the rear doors of a stolen van, using the extended grip. The nice thing about the ring is that I didn't have to pause to close the folding karambit; I just left it in place when I positioned my support hand in case the van was found to be occupied by bad guys. When I see stuff like "twirling" associated with karambits, I like to ask why. That's all. :)

I also will speak up when someone says karambits are only good for slashing. Sure, a karambit can be used to slash, but with its excellent leading point, it is far better used to thrust and hook. :)

There are many different systems of kali and silat, with many different usages of the karambit defined within the styles. In some styles, spinning cuts are not taught, in others they are. In Albo Kali Silat, spinning cuts are utilized, though the "bread and butter" of karambit usage is cutting using the same motions you would use to throw an elbow strike if you were unarmed. No worries or problems regarding the question--it was a good question. Most people who spin karambits are doing it because it looks flashy; they usually feel pretty cool right until the point where the blade bites into their wrists. Spinning, for combative purposes, is an advanced move.

As to the karambit in one hand and handgun in the other---well, I've recovered some pretty trashed stolen vehicles in my time, but I never found one that had to have the doors wrapped with a bungee to keep them closed. I found several where the doors were not capable of being opened, and some with duct tape securing some parts of the vehicle though. Sounds like the thieves trashed that van pretty thoroughly.

Rex G wrote:Thanks for the links. While I am no karambit expert, more like a practiced beginner, I have trained a little bit with Steve Tarani, and do carry karambits regularly. I even had a karambit in one hand, and a pistol in the other, for a brief moment, when I had to reach out and pull-cut a bungie cord securing the rear doors of a stolen van, using the extended grip. The nice thing about the ring is that I didn't have to pause to close the folding karambit; I just left it in place when I positioned my support hand in case the van was found to be occupied by bad guys. When I see stuff like "twirling" associated with karambits, I like to ask why. That's all. :)