POLL: Choking up on Ricasso or even edge - who does it?

[Wartstein]

So: Please don't generally condemn things you obviously never tried for yourself. An approach like this is one of the reasons for silly knifelaws in many places.

Oh come on. You can't compare silly knife laws to us saying people shouldn't grab a knife by the edge. Wow :rolleyes:

You say a sharp edge won't cut unless there's a slicing motion, but there is always a very real chance for a knife slipping a little. It's why people like the highly textured FRN bi-directional grip. It's why many people like the textured g-10 over smooth g-10. Because knives can slip. And if you have one of your fingers on the edge itself... :eek: This seems more like a peeing contest of who can do the most dangerous thing with a knife "safely".

All I'm saying is advertising a potentially dangerous knife "trick" as a viable grip can definitely lead to people getting cut if they try it.

It´s not that I am offended by your reply, really not, but rather a bit surprised how imprecisely and mispresented you´re quoting me
Also surprised, which motives for me discussing this topic you obviously assume.

I never "compared silly knife laws to you saying people should not grab a knife by the edge".
WHAT I actually said is: GENERALLY the appraoch to a priori say certain things were stupid and dangerous, without obviously knowing what you´re talking about out of own experience ( and again: Even in this poll more than 10 % of voters actually DO this "stupid thing", the majority of those frequently and comfortably) - that approach GENERALLY is also one that can lead to enacting "silly" knife laws by people who most likely don´t have personal, real experience with the matter.

I really have no idea why you´re comparing the discussion of a viable and really not unsafe technique (if you know what you are doing), used by myself for many years without ANY problem whatsoever and obviously also by quite a few other experienced knife users to a "peeing contest" and call it a "knife trick". That´s rather childish imho. And most likely you just talking about things you don´t do and know by yourself.

And your "highly textured grip" example misses the point. Sure a grippy handle is a good idea generally and for many tasks. But choking up on the edge in a controlled manner for tasks, where this makes sense is really safe, usefull and in THIS certain tasks better suited than grabbing the knife on the grippy handle.
Knives DON`T slip when doing such tasks choked up on the blade. And I know that and what I am talking about, cause I´ve done it more than a thousand times. Without ANY problem.
Really, the risk that a comp. lock knife opens in the pocket and you get cut is higher than getting cut when choking up on the edge when this is suitable for the task.