Cold Steel's.....T-Rip?

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I didn't come to stir up but put my two cents that CS has always had bad advertising as it has always been the type to appeal to mall ninjas. This doesn't mean others can't get more from it or see through the show to the product. It is just to me a long standing mark against CS as a brand and if we are going to compare the past to present it invites those who never liked their advertising. My view disagrees that these new ones, granted limited to the 2 videos linked in thread, are worse than the videos of the past I would put it on par with those before. CS definitely had good products when Lynn had the company though my interest in their stuff was never that high and dropped off near completely when Lynn left so I am a bit of an outsider. I stumbled into the thread as I thought maybe T-Rip was a new product and was curious about that.
 
jbmonkey said:
at first I disliked them but then came around once I saw the pepper spray ones. those were the best........so entertaining on so many levels........
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Never knew CS made pepper spray..just watched one of their videos and they are very entertaining.

Lynn washing his burning face after being sprayed...
"What do you think of your product?"
"I love it!" 🤣

I think the chinese war sword impressed me the most..at the five minute mark,they cut two pigs into little pieces with ease.


Question is, how do i justify buying a chinese war sword?
 
GAGL said:
Never knew CS made pepper spray..just watched one of their videos and they are very entertaining.

Lynn washing his burning face after being sprayed...
"What do you think of your product?"
"I love it!" 🤣

I think the chinese war sword impressed me the most..at the five minute mark,they cut two pigs into little pieces with ease.


Question is, how do i justify buying a chinese war sword?
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cut clean through the meat 👢 too.

I have the machete version...use it for fun taking down weed trees and such.

answer to your question is......just cause....
 
PirateSeulb said:
I didn't come to stir up but put my two cents that CS has always had bad advertising as it has always been the type to appeal to mall ninjas. This doesn't mean others can't get more from it or see through the show to the product. It is just to me a long standing mark against CS as a brand and if we are going to compare the past to present it invites those who never liked their advertising. My view disagrees that these new ones, granted limited to the 2 videos linked in thread, are worse than the videos of the past I would put it on par with those before. CS definitely had good products when Lynn had the company though my interest in their stuff was never that high and dropped off near completely when Lynn left so I am a bit of an outsider. I stumbled into the thread as I thought maybe T-Rip was a new product and was curious about that.
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I came at you a little too harsh there, that’s appreciated that you explained. Thank you.
 
GAGL said:
I think the chinese war sword impressed me the most..at the five minute mark,they cut two pigs into little pieces with ease.

Question is, how do i justify buying a chinese war sword?
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jbmonkey said:
cut clean through the meat 👢 too.

answer to your question is......just cause....
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I have an original version with the black and brown leather sheath. Amazing fit and finish and razor sharp ! So well balanced I can swing it with ease with one hand. When you hold it you feel invincible. Hey, there is your reason, to feel invincible !
 
Your Name Goes Here said:
I have an original version with the black and brown leather sheath. Amazing fit and finish and razor sharp ! So well balanced I can swing it with ease with one hand. When you hold it you feel invincible. Hey, there is your reason, to feel invincible !
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if ya were being attacked by meat boots, you would be invincible with that in your hand.....proven in the video......
 
Chris_Texas said:
Don't laugh, these days ANYTHING is possible!
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true very true...

my laughing is I just love the meat boots. the idear of chopping off feet in boots makes me chuckle...not cause it never has happened or never needed to be done or anything like that..just how crazy the world we live in, is......
 
PirateSeulb said:
appeal to mall ninjas
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IMO , Quite the opposite !

LCT and his crew were serious martial artists and prided themselves in designing , realistic testing and production of great value at reasonable prices .

Cold Steel has seen much service in the real world and has been well proven .

My take on "mall ninja " = inappropriate , ostentatious carry of questionable junky weapons .

The old CS videos were decent proof displays as well as sales vehicles , unlike the new cynical GSM versions .

GSM just wants to sell , and don't care how or what . Huge difference in my book .
 
The use of term "mall ninja" is generally stupid and belligerent.

I was reluctant to use it when referring to the upcoming abominations CS refers to as "shuriken," but those are so ridiculous they can't avoid the term.

Jerks on gun forums believed an obvious troll, Gecko45, was real and serious. They were really gullible, mostly because they wanted to believe him. They focused all the things they disagreed with about the gun community onto this false person and turned him into a symbol of everything they hate about fellow gun people. They made stupid claims like the see such people "all the time" when in reality they probably saw only a few people on a few occasions who acted less ridiculous than "Gecko45" did when he trolled them.

I run into people with strange ideas on occasion, but nowhere near the frequency these dopes claim to.

Due to the fact that the term is made up of projections by those who use it, there is no real definition or criteria on what makes a knife, gun, gear, etc. "mall ninja" since everyone has different, often opposite, criteria.

This stupidity spilled over into the knife community as well. People see, on rare occasions unless they hang out with the wrong people, people with strange ideas about knives. Then they imagine which knives people like this would use, and apply it to knife companies they don't like such as Cold Steel or TOPS.

The vast majority of the time I've seen it used on Bladeforums was just attacks on companies the posters hate or member who use knives from these companies. There is no substance to their claims.

This has been going on since those gullible gun forum members were fooled by "Gecko45," but I thought this stupidity was on its way out.
 
I got the idea the girl was Stickman's daughter but I have no proof of that. If she isn't things are a bit on the creepy side as she seems quite young. I have never taken the demonstration vids by Cold Steel very seriously even if they do make a large variety of tools some very good in quality and usefulness.
 
DocJD said:
IMO , Quite the opposite !

LCT and his crew were serious martial artists and prided themselves in designing , realistic testing and production of great value at reasonable prices .

Cold Steel has seen much service in the real world and has been well proven .

My take on "mall ninja " = inappropriate , ostentatious carry of questionable junky weapons .

The old CS videos were decent proof displays as well as sales vehicles , unlike the new cynical GSM versions .

GSM just wants to sell , and don't care how or what . Huge difference in my book .
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I love that they made ridiculous products that just… work. I wouldn’t trust a $50 tanto knife made by anyone else. Cold Steel Kobun? Heck yeah.
 
D DocJ appealing to "mall ninjas" doesn't mean the people in the ads aren't actually properly trained. To mean any advertising that has a "Look at this cool action" vibe when using edged tools and/or weapons would appeal to those one would tend to view as a "mall ninja". It could be argued whether CS ads were intended to appeal to such customers.
 
Not what "one would tend to view," but what YOU view.

Most people don't even know this stupid term, and most who do can't agree on the meaning aside from "something I don't like."

People who use this stupid term often have contradictory views on what makes someone or a product "mall ninja."

I was actually accused of being one by an anti-gun Bladeforums member because I mentioned carrying a handgun CCW.

I highly doubt Lynn Thompson intended for his ads to appeal to a ridiculous made-up term constructed by gullible forum members in the mid-2000s when he published his first ad in the early 1980s.
 
I believe B Benjamin Liu is right, the term Mall Ninja is used by fanboys of one brand to cast aspersions on fanboys of another. But there are some CS items that just aren't all that practical and are more just cool/fun to play with. Sword machetes come to mind, also spears, clubs, war hammers, etc. I like all that stuff, and I think it was part of Cold Steel's DNA and appeal. So, if people want to call me a Mall Ninja, I embrace it. And yes, I may have one or more books on Ninjitsu 🥷
 
Gecko45 claimed to be a "Tactical Security Enforcer," which was his term for a mall security SWAT team.

His first post was about whether or not he should take ceramic plates to his vest in order to stop .308AP.

The "ninja" part that the people fooled by him used to make the term was due to his claim to have special boots that allowed him to walk up walls.

They actually believed this guy was for real and not messing with them even though each response was more ridiculous than the last.

For some reason none of them questioned his claim to be able to respond to mall emergencies in a time of either 8 or 10 minutes (I forgot which.) They did not realize that for someone already stationed in a mall that is a very long time and not a "rapid response."

The funniest thing is that on gun forums, all the posters who use the term would be considered "mall ninjas" by people who don't like their guns or gear, or by people on Bladeforums who oppose any firearms. A 1911 guy and a Glock guy might call each other by that term while considering their own guns "practical." Maybe people on gun forums who don't like knives call anyone who does "mall ninjas," though I'm not sure about that part.

There was a clueless poster on a gun forum who accused people who trained in knife defense as being like Gunkid, though he had no response when I told him that Gunkid hated knives and was a "gun only" type. Gunkid was the "Armored Wheelbarrow" poster, and unlike Gecko45 he really believed his posts. He'd do strange things like go to a primitive survival forum and post a response to a thread on primitive bows that bows are stupid and a silenced .22 AR-15 is better.

I guess it is better that Gecko45 has all these followers and not Gunkid. lol
 
I think "mall ninja" came from the days of the bad ass kung fu stores in the mall. Us early Gen X'ers were pretty cool in every way, but buying a ninja suit and nunchuka (I believe this is the proper teenaged American Ninjitsu spelling) made us even more badder asser ;) We were the coolest generation by far. The older guys were in Vietnam, but we had throwing stars and Vietnam movies😆.
 
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