DT,
I can offer a bit of info on what guntings are for. Gunting is really the name for a scissor-like motion, a move done a lot in filipino martial arts. One empty hand example of a gunting is if someone tries to punch your face with a right cross, you can hit their fist with your left hand moving from left to right (like playing knuckles, really smack the bones) and with your right hand you can rap their bicep or strike the bicep with a hand chop, goinf from right to left (see the scissor motion?) the idea with guntings as I understand them is that if you are going to block, why not cause pain while doing it? Most filipino moves that have been taught to me are like that. They do lots of "destructions", liek elbowing incomming punches and such. Always cause pain is the motto, and these moves seem quite efficient too.
So, with the gunting you have that long bit of metal on the back of the blade. You can do a gunting motion, hidding a bad guy's hand with your left hand while rapping their picep with that long metal bit on the back of th eknife. This will cause a nice and painful gunting, as you are striking the bicep with a pointy metal bit! OUCH! And a "bi-product" of the gunting motion is that your folding knife now opens up.
You can imagine then someone with their own weapon thrusting in at you. You can gunting, causing that momentary pain pause, and now your folder is open, and you can start your stabbing! it is nice too if you can catch the incomming thrust with your left hand and gunting, as then you can keep the armpit exposed for a good thrust. That is a nasty area to get hit with anything.
I hope this helps!
