Fun with the gunting...

[Bolo]

So, me and BOK...or I mean, BOK and I, were at work, bored doing inventory counts, while I stumble upon a fairly stiff piece of foam packing blocks ( the type you line the walls of boxes that carry fragile stuff). So, to take a brake from cycle counts, we pull out the gunting, to demonstrate...
"Why you shouldn't Kin Op a live Gunting on a leg" (or any thick body part for that matter).

Ya, we know... You'll get cut. But how cut you ask?...
well, we held out the piece of 12"x12"x2" foam, facing square to us, and positioned the ramp on the top center. then with just enough pressure, we Kin Opped the gunting(with much ease might I add).

Results: after examining the piece of foam thoroughly we found that the G cut through 1 7/8" of the 2" thick foam. Now if that was a leg, whew!...serious consequences.

Well, now, were looking to get a piece of meat and an old t-shirt to get a better feel of cutting cuz I remember one of the G instructors mentioning traing with it. we'll let ya know when we do...

Be Strong.
~BoLo~

 

[BOK]

That was a most interesting and even pretty suprising experiment. I had no idea the blade was capable of cutting that deep just on a KinOp.

Makes me think just how very lucky aXed was not to get cut when she tried it on her leg when I first got mine and we knew almost nothing about the Gunting.

The meat cut should be a very interesting one when we get around to doing it.

Besides what Bram and the rest of the G instructors have taught us there's still a lot about the Gunting that we're discovering ourselves through training and experimentation.

 

[FC Yuk]

I did a similar experiment while at work. Took one of those thick cardboard tubes for the swords. First, KinOp it a couple times, definitely some damage done. Then, I just used the ramp to slam it into the tube......no problem, went right in and that wasn't even with full force.

The experiment with the meat sounds kewl. Definitely, we should give it a try.

 

[dialex]

I don't have a Gunting... YET! But when I'll get one... There's this idea of mine that I'll be stopped by a police officer and he'll see the Gunting and wonder what that strange hump uses for Guess what I'l answer: "For opening on the leg, of course!"

Don't laugh, when I was at the customs to take some knives they sent me, the officers there tried to figure out how do disengage a linerlock! It was so strange to me, seing those men in uniforms not knowing to operate a simple folder...