Why Large Folding Knife for Self Defense?
People come at you and cause trouble because they know they can beat you up with whatever they have in hand, or threaten you with a gun/knife to make you obey their orders. If you show them you are not weaker than them, you usually give them a bad day and they either flee or pee (in their pant).
Imagine this, you are the robber or street punk, and you walk toward a medium size guy wearing jeans and t-shirt and you pull your "switchblade" (3.5" blade) and ask him to pull out the wallet. Now the next second you heard a CLICK and there goes a 7 inch blade folding knife deployed in that guy's hand, you saw it, and you panic, you wet your pants... isn't that just great? What are you going to do now? Hand over your wallet to him instead? Or put your stupid dumb blade back and say sorry you were just joking around?
Fear factor is one big thing we cannot avoid. Yes it applies to the victim but also to the bad guys. If you can make the bad guys fear first, you might avoid a lot of hassle. Just like when some robbers try to threaten a guy with a knife, and end up the guy pull out a gun, that's going to be funny eh?
Longer blade, long reach!
The longer the blade, the longer reach you get, while they can't get you! This theory is easy but hard to apply in real life situation when people are all freaking out. Well, let's put the "training" factor aside and pretend we can all fight like Jacky Chan. But now the fear factor kick in again. When the robber saw your 7" blade, do you think they will even think they can stab you with a 3" blade without throwing it or getting cut first? Now you put them into big time hesitation and doubt about their little knife thing.
Deployments, most important practice!
A lot of cool features like the "wave" feature on Cold Steel knives gives you the option to open these big blades by clinging it against your pockets... but then it's not the choice for me in a self defense situation. Let's take a look at this!
The wave feature, thumb stud, thumb pad, etc. yes they work and they have their value, but it's not preferred by me in a combat situation because they always point the blade out of the target range. My choice will be to make sure the blade opens and point directly toward the target and so it stop the guy from jumping forward and hug you like in WWF. Now if they jump forward toward your knife, they will be sure to become a SHIT-KA-BOB...
Anyone, question? I don't think you can beat this 1 second deployment and attack combo right? Hope you like my tips! By the way, carrying a 7" Espada XL isn't heavy at all, it feels very natural and very good in the jean's pocket! I am loving it and having a hard time swapping to the Rajah II! Gosh, this is so fun!
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