Cold Steel Sarong!?

that guy looks like he just got attacked after starting in on some mad soft core s&m....

(not dissing the use of cloth weapons - just looks weird having them cuffed to the guys wrists...)
 
This takes the old joke of the martialartist who stopped to take off his shoes before the fight a step further.
"Hang on Mr. BG whilst I get undressed a minute. BTW, could you give me a hand tying this end to my wrist ?" ;)
 
Coming soon : The Cold Steel - Tactical Flipflop
(Insert picture of tough guy holding a luminous green flipflop with pink daisy printed on the front) :D
 
The use of the kilt, or feile beag, as a devastating psychological warfare weapon is well demonstrated in Braveheart.

Some minor tactical issues comes to mind: You're walking down High Street in Goat Knob, Wyoming, wearing your sarong, fielding the complimentary remarks and admiring glances of the populace. ( :rolleyes: )

Up walks Mr. Nasty. He casts an aspersion on your sexuality and hints that your mother may have swum after troop ships. You feel obliged to admonish the cad.

1. At what point do you strip off your sarong, knot it and tie it round your wrists?
2. Are you wearing Cold Steel tactical underwear? Please provide a link to the product.
3. If the answer to (2) above is No, is this a defensive tactic in itself? Are you relying on nature's own intimidation?

Cynical minds want to know!

maximus otter
 
looks like it would be perfect for Erotic asphyxiation, or in my case
Autoerotic asphyxiation. :footinmou
 
LOL , great responses , especially
(Insert picture of tough guy holding a luminous green flipflop with pink daisy printed on the front)
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made me almost choke on my morning Joe lol.
I do tend to overall agree with Mongo-man though , we in the West are used to our style of weapons , sort of hard to put creedance in something as purty as that there Sarong but , in the hands (or wrists) of someone who knew how to use one , I wouldnt wanna be choked. :D
 
yog said:
This takes the old joke of the martialartist who stopped to take off his shoes before the fight a step further.
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About 15 years ago a I was talking to a lady who was bragging about her son's Katate skills. She told me he was a black belt and always wore slippers so he could kick them off before a fight. She thought it was a great idea. :eek: I thought he should learn to kick with shoes on. :D

As for the sarong, IMO it makes sense as a training aid to practice flexible weapons, much like how we in the Bujinkan use a kusari-fundo. Few people will really carry a kusari-fundo but instead use any flexible object they find such as a jacket. I'm pretty sure that is the intent. Carrying a sarong would be a little wierd and wearing one would be really stupid.

I don't know why they imply that it is the popular fashion in the Philippines. Last time I was there guys wore pants or shorts. Maybe some remore tribes wear them but if you went around Manila dressed like that people would think you're weird.

It would be funny if some jerk like Dorkman (see the sticky on "The good, the bad, and the ugly") puts in in a paranoid weapons book and airport screeners check each sarong for the Cold Steel pattern since the CS sarong is a weapon and a regular sarong is not.
 
you'd think that anything you could do with a sarong, you could do more effectively with twisted fishing line or carbon/titanium wire.
 
ayzianboy said:
you'd think that anything you could do with a sarong, you could do more effectively with twisted fishing line or carbon/titanium wire.
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Wouldn't that hurt to hang on to? And possibly be seen as a concealed weapon?

Who cares if CS is getting into the clothing business? Other knife companies sell T-shirts, right?
 
Danzz said:
Wouldn't that hurt to hang on to? And possibly be seen as a concealed weapon?

Who cares if CS is getting into the clothing business? Other knife companies sell T-shirts, right?
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well, not with your bare hands. you'd have a brass knuckle type setup or something on each end, with the wire attached in between.

concealed weapon? well yeah, but you figure if you're gonna choke a guy, concealed or not... :P
 
I've not trained in the use of a sarong, but in other arts I've trained in using flexible weapons to strike and grapple. In grappling, we usually used our belts, jackets, or lengths of rope. The sarong should work the same way. I have no intention of buying one but someone who studies an art that uses them to train might want to. While wire would work for choking it won't be the best tool for some grappling techniques and in either case your training partners won't like training with a wire.
 
ayzianboy said:
well, not with your bare hands. you'd have a brass knuckle type setup or something on each end, with the wire attached in between.

concealed weapon? well yeah, but you figure if you're gonna choke a guy, concealed or not... :P
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the reason your going to carry a serong is because it will be readily at hand, something you dont have to spend time getting at. its a peice of clothing, something that is seen, and yet not seen as a weapon.

to cary a piano wire with a nuckle gaurd set up is to ask for a life sentence. you may as well carry a gun, becuase at least with a gun your gonna be able to plead self defence - its a normal reason to carry a gun, people are used to it. when a court room full of jurors see's a piano wire - they think you inteded to kill someone at some point. they see a serong - they dont think anything
 
we do have people wearing sarongs in singapore, and i for the life of me can't imagine people stripping down to use it as a self defence weapon
 
youd have to unbuckle and remove it first. and good luck trying to do that in a fight

i figure the serong is an easy way for cold steel to make money. all it is is a peice of fabric, and by selling it as a weapon they tap into an easy market.
 
You know, I'd think that the last thing a man named Lynn would do is sell a unisex skirt.

For $44, you can buy a cotton skirt for use as a flexible weapon (or be a traditionalist and use it to conceal another flexible, um, nevermind) or, for $1, you can buy three bandana-style handkerchiefs and have flexible weapons with less required explaining.
 
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