Backup Weapon - Endura Wave vs Matriarch 2 Wave

Just got a matriarch 2 with wave, what an awesome knife and the wave feature is amazingly fast.

Endura wouldn't have a chance.
 
Cool story bro, I smiled when I read it... and saw the load out. I too carry PS and a Disector blackjack in addition to all the other crap. Cant have too many options!

wasatchdan said:
I have a quick war story to tell about the Matriarch and its usefulness as a self defense blade.

About ten years ago, I bought my little sister a first gen Matriarch as a self defense knife. She was sixteen at the time, and I wanted her to have a decent knife she could use to protect herself from the hordes of predators that my big-brother sensibilities imagined were lurking around every corner. My sister is very pretty and even at that age, the guys were coming out of the woodworks. So I wanted her to be safe.

I made a wooden trainer for her to use, and for a month, she and I would practice Jim Keating's Civilian/hawkbill fighting techniques, which were very good and easy for her to remember. She got wicked fast at deploying her Matriarch, and I felt better knowing she had the means to protect herself.

Fast forward ten years. My sister is divorced now and took up with a new boyfriend. He's kind of a useless little tard, which is her type, so what can I say? New boyfriend is a student at the University and lives in a house with a half dozen other people. Now, despite my dislike of her new boyfriend, his one redeeming feature is that when she stays over with him and he leaves in the morning for his classes, he never fails to leave her Matriarch next to her pillow while she's sleeping. This is important.

So about six months ago, my sister is asleep over at the BFs house, when one of BFs new roommmates, some douche who'd been in the house for only three or four days, opened the bedroom door and woke her up, wanting to go to breakfast. This is a middle age guy--drunken, unemployed; a practically homeless wreck who was only able to live there because of the charity of the landlord. My sister told him to go away and to shut the door so she could sleep. He kept bugging her about it, though, so she finally gave in and told him she'd get up in half an hour and go with him. That seemed to satisfy him and he went away.

A few minutes later, she woke up to the roommate groping her in her sleep. So my sister did what any woman does when she wakes up to someone molesting her. She yelled WTF!!! and tells him to get the hell out. He stood up and started taking off his clothes, telling her how "this is going to happen" and "he needs this." My sister rolled to the other side of the bed next to the wall and starts looking for her phone, screaming at him to get out. He didn't. Asshole.

She got her hand on the phone and started to dial, but he lunged across the bed and grabbed her arm. She wrestled with him while simultaneously hunting around for her knife, somehow getting hold of it and she flicked the blade open. She screamed at him that if he didn't get the F**K OUT she was going to cut him.

He didn't believe her. He said, "You ain't gonna do s**t" and started trying to pull her across the bed.

So that was when my sister used those old Comtech techniques I'd taught her all those years ago. All that practice paid off, since some of it was still in her muscle memory, thank God. She pulled her hand back and into her chest, stretching his arm out. Then she pressed the Matriarch into the inside crook of his elbow and prrrreeessssed down. That nasty, curving talon of a blade dug into his arm and left him with no other place to go as she drove him right down into the bed, helpless. From there, she was able to negotiate from a position of power as he tried desperately to not move at all. Every time he made any kind of movement, the Matriarch's blade just dug in more. That blade is a damned bear trap--once your in, you ain't getting out. And she kept the pressure on while she dialed for her help.

It turns out, the only damage he had was a neat little row of puncture wounds from the teeth and a line of lightly cut skin, but nothing more. Just pressing the serrations into his arm did the job. Pain compliance at its best, and mind you, this guy was mildly drunk at the time and he still got the message.

So suffice to say, my sister is an even bigger fan of the Matriarch than she was before. We've actually begun to practice again, just in case.

The day of her ordeal, she sent me a cryptic text that said she need a stabbier knife. It turns out that while she will never be without her Matriarch, she also wanted a fixed blade that would be easier and faster to deploy in a f*cked up tangle. So I got her a Ka-bar TDI, which can still utilize the same Comtech techniques she knows, only it can handle thrusts and stabs easier and is very instinctive to use. Now she carries her TDI crossdraw and her Matriarch in its customary spot, clipped to the top of her boot, with a can of Saber Red on her keys and a Foster Brothers sap along for the ride.

While I've carried nearly thirty different Spydercos over the years, with waved Enduras being EDC'd at the moment, I have to say that my sister's Matriarch is the best $60 I've ever spent. It kept my sister safe, and worked exactly as intended. Jim Keating's old Comtech methods worked just dandy. No one got hurt (mostly), no one went to the hospital, and she is safe. Pretty good job for a knife that I've read some ignorant people mocking in other threads as a useless blade.

Thanks, Spyderco, you saved my baby sister. :thumbup:
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I say The Matriarch. The knife is made for self defense purposes specifically in mind for the individual who is not trained in knife fighting. The blade's length and shape should intimidate and God forbid you get into a situation where the knife is your last line or only line of defense, the knife is made to bite HARD even in the hands of an amature.
 
I agree, the waved Matriarch was the way to go. I just picked up a Civilian and got one of those Kydex neck knife holsters for it off eBay. The holster came in on Friday, and I happened to be going to a party on Saturday so I wore it under an outer shirt.

About midnight this guy who was extremely drunk started waving a knife around in the kitchen, scaring everyone in the house. I heard the commotion from downstairs and went upstairs to see what was going on.

He came lunging at me from across the kitchen, holding the knife straight out like a battering ram. Ironically, I'd watched the same James Keating video a couple of times Friday night. I took a limited amount of martial arts about 25 years ago and I understood what Master Jim was trying to get across.

As he came at me from around the kitchen table I back stepped around it, away from him, while reaching underneath the shirt and drawing the Civilian. As I presented it he was almost upon me, and I prepared to roll block his arm and hook cut the shit outta his forearm. Seriously.

ONE DAY after getting a self-defense system and preparing to use it by watching the training video, here I am.

When he realized I was no longer backing up, but was now coming toward him with that wicked-looking blade (he was committed, and I had let him commit by yielding to him, just like it said in the video by backing up so I knew my opening move, just like in the video) he suddenly dropped the knife with a scared shitless look on his face, backed up across the other side of the table as fast as he could saying "please don't cut me with that" several times. He went from a**hole to being really fearful in literally moments.

I picked up the knife he dropped, told him to "get the £#%! out of the house NOW!" in a really loud tone and he ran out the kitchen door so fast he left his coat. And it was 22 degrees outside.

I put the Civilian away, dropped the other knife in the sink and went into the living room. The 10 people or so crowded in there wondered what happened so quickly, everyone was pretty shook up. I pulled out the Civilian, showed it to them and you should have seen the look on their faces. A friend of mine (one of that group) said "Jesus John, no wonder he ran, that thing's freakin' wicked!"

None of us had any guns, we were drinking at a Christmas party. No one saw anything like that coming. And I did not either. We were a bunch of 40-50 year olds at a Christmas Party after having been to dinner.

But I can tell you, I did NOT go upstairs thinking "I'll save the day, I have a Civilian!" I went upstairs because I thought I was going to physically help stop a fight that had broken out and in an effort to help our host's house from being damaged.
 
I would get a small fixed blade if possible, but I do carry a Endura 4 with the wave and love it as long as you train to deploy the wave feature in numerous ways which is not hard. I think either would be good as a defensive blade.
 
Being right handed and knowing I will have to retain my ccw with that hand. I would go with the Endura wave serrated. Easier to stabby stabby!
 
I carry a Endura Wave, Streat Beat, and a HAK. So I have folder, fixed blade, and neck knife all covered, lol. Im going to rotate a Matriarch Wave in and see how that works, but I like that the Endura looks more "normal".
 
We already know what they look like, but many of us often enjoy looking at photos.
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Waved Matriarch2, watch the James Keating video a couple of times and never look back.

Sorted.
 
I have a civillain but sadly it is not legal to carry. After reading this thread and your stories I may be getting a waved matriarch soon as well. You da man Sal!
 
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