Brownie Popping a Knife?

I believe you are referring to inertia opening, which fellow forumite (and self-professed knife fighting expert) brownie0486 refers to as "brownie popping"...

There are several ways to do inertia opennings (or to "flick" a knife open)...Michael Janich demonstrates many of these techniques in great detail in his Fighting Folders video (he demonstrates opneings into forward grip, reverse grip, and the Spyderco drop).

RL
 
I believe if you want to see this maneuver, just refuse to buy a box of cookies from the next Brownie/Girl Scout that shows up at your door!:D
 
Good way to prematurely loosen a lock if you don't have a real reason to do it.

Done forward and reverse for yers, never thought of the spyderco one(probably because I just bought my first spyderco), but makes sense. took all of one try to figure it out. :)

Overall, tend to be rather useless. I'd rather carry my .45 personally. :D
 
Hello everyone,
RL:
The Brownie pop is not an inertia opening of the blade as suggested. Nice guess though. I'm not a self professed knife fighting expert. I do train LE and civilians as the adjunct instructor at S+W however. The FBI DT instructor has taken what he got from three days at S+W and put the techniques to use for his agents he is assigned to train in NYC.

I have also trained PD's, swat officers in private settings as well as civilan classes. That doesn't make me a knife fighting expert, it only means I have the ability to impart certain knowledge of the defensive blades which has been gleened from Master at Arms James Keating and the riddles I have attended.

It does wear the knife prematurely as another sugests however and have had to send an Elishewitz back for repair after several years of performing this action type of openings.

The people who have been shown the technique do find it much faster than other forms of opening the blades, though it won't work on smaller blades like the delicas. The blade needs some mass to it.

With the technique, the blade opens immediately upon the knife clearing the pocket. No wasted inertial motions are necessary.

I have privately sent instructions to several forumites relative the technique on the High Road forum and all agree it's the fastest at getting the blades into play from clipped to the pockets on responses received.

Mine are out and open in sub one second times starting from hand on the knife clipped to the pocket. Basically if you touch the knife at the ocket it is opened and in play immediatetly. It requires no fine motor skills which can fall apart in "startle mode".

The name for the technique I developed came from James Keating himself at the first Riddle I attended way back when he saw the technique I had developed. Before that, it was just the way I had developed over the years opening the folding knives I carried.

I actually showed him with two at once from both sides when I was requesting some double knife drills. I was able to produce them that way but did not know what to do with them once they were out. He was quite surprised at the speed and lack of movement to open that way and decided to name the technique [ one he had not seen before ].

Garageboy: Doubt you'll find it on Google. It is not anything thats registered under that name. It's something I developed for myself years ago that happens to be extremely fast.

You might say, it gives you an "edge" against the opponent when in startle mode at the outset of an altercation.

So there is the history behind the technique and how it came to be named. It will not be disseminated enmasse over the forums.

Brownie
 
Aw.

Here I was hoping after half of the article brownie... that i could also learn this trick!

:(
 
Hotrod,
email me at bladesrus@comcast.net

Here's an excerpt from a private email I got back from a forumite recently relative the "pop". Keep in mind this person is new to the technique and of course gets faster with muscle memory.

"Whoa!!! That's FAST! I just came from the knife shop at the mall and tried out a Benchmade AFCK and the guy almost crapped! He was showing me how he snaps open a Benchmade axis lock using the Griptilian. So, I said, "Let me try something here" and did the pop and bam! Guys eyes bugged out!"

Brownie
 
Brownie taught me the "Brownie POP" a few months ago, and it is by far the fastest way to get a blade out and into action I have ever seen...it does not depend on exagerated movements or something getting hooked on material to open. The blade POPS open with the knife securely in your hand and on the way to the target. While the more I practice the faster I get, I was able to consistantly POP the blade open within an hour of learning the system, and I think that under stress conditions I would be able to perform the POP even faster.

Looking forward to your California knife training class in November Brownie!
 
email sent. I know your inbox is probably getting full by now, but I hope you have time to share this. Thanks.
 
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