Khukuri Skill Trainings

mohd

mohd

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Skill Training #1:
  1. Take an apple.
  2. Place it on a block of wood.
  3. Get the most heaviest Khukuri you have.
  4. Cut the apple into half without leaving any trace @ mark on that block of wood![/list=a]Good luck! This training will tell you who is the real master - You or the Khukuri!

    NEPAL HO!

    [This message has been edited by mohd (edited 02-07-2000).]
 
Wow! I'll have to try that. But with my 3.5+ lb 20" AK I' pretty sure that will be very hard. Maybe some of the MA forumites could pull it off. Can you do it Mohd? Can I search the stores for the tallest apple that there is so that the khuk splits it way before it hits the board? LOL
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Rob
 
Let's up the stakes... Make it a coconut!

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I'm not sure that it's even possible with a khukuri weighing over three pounds, as one or two of mine are. I'm don't know how you'd abruptly stop the momentum of a blade that heavy. I guess I'll go ahead and concede -- in my case, the khukuri is the clear master.
 
You stop it with a hard pull which begins significantly before where you want it to stop, sounds simple enough doesn't it. When I first got my 22" AK the biggest problem I had with it was that I could not stop it quickly. To overcome that I have been doing no contact swings for some time. It is much more tiring than chopping which it makes seems effortless in comparison. I have not tried the apple thing though. It would be just a matter or timing with not much room for error.

-Cliff
 
Find and get a ceramic super-hard board, might be the shortest way...

Jokes aside, I've learned a useful technique to fit the situation, from a swordmaster (my sensei) 's advice some years ago. To make a fine and quick move with a heavy blade, make the pivot of movement NOT on your wrist nor elbow but the center of weight balance of the sword. It may decrease the momentum, adds speed, and makes much easier to stop nevertheless it lesses rough momentum and chopping power. The point is, first move the blade forward without changing direction of handle-tip line, then pull up the grip around the weight center while pulling down the tip. To stop the blade, slightly push and hold stay the handle. It may feel very weak, may not break an armour, but it's enough for an apple! Even a slight touch of 3.5lbs khukuri will split it in two.


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To add to this skill exericise, DO NOT focus on the hard pull back but on mentally targeting the apple in a specific spot. Pulling the strike is a bit misunderstood and people focus on the pull back and restrict their power instead of targeting the area just before the exposed secondary target.

Ex. Targeting the air 1" above the apple. If the apple were placed one inch higher than the board it would receive the full power of the cut.
 
Can you do it Mohd?
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Rob.
My heaviest Khuk is GRS! Do you know what will happen if my answer is YES? I'll let you & all our forumites to guess 1st ... !

NEPAL HO!
 
Mohd that sounds tough. Can we cheat and use the flats of the khukuri. That way the squished apple which will prevent the wood from showing any signs of contact. Sorry, weird day.

Will
 
Skill Training #2:
  1. Take an apple (the smaller the apple is the better) & hold it with your left hand (if you are right handed).
  2. Get the most heaviest Khukuri you have & hold it with your right hand (of course if you are right handed).
  3. Toss the apple into the air - the higher you toss it the better!
  4. Cut the apple before it reach the ground![/list=a]Good luck! This training will tell you how accurate your judgement, your concentration, your time control & your force utilization. I was told that a trained MA expert will be able to cut that apple into many many pieces! Warning: Do this exercise alone otherwise you will be the loughing stock around!

    NEPAL HO!



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Mohd, in khukuri training #2 the apple tossed will fall onto the floor or ground split or not and then get wasted...

Intentional waste of food is still a bad thing in Japan, so can you offer another training material instead of food?

But I don't want to sound I can do it if it were not an apple. It's TOUGH! Only I can do is cheating by tossing the target directly to the edge.

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After a couple of tries I completed task #2, but I can't quite get task #1. I used an onion, does this still count? I think I'd like to try using a grape next.
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- D
 
Well this has become a really great training thread, if you are attcked by a garden! I remember someone posted about using a tatami man. That is skill training.
 
For those who may have forgotten, the classical French form of "la mechanique" was first used on 25 April 1792. Jaques Pelletier was the honoree.

Through '93 and '94 Charles-Henri Sanson was able to average 26 in a good day's work before detaching the blade, in itself weighing about 20 pounds, from the sixty pound iron mouton ( in which the blade was set with it's cutting edge at a 45 degree right to left angle ) and taking it home to resharpen for the next day's business.

Just a bit of trivia I thought I'd pass on.

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Wrongfriend,

I suggest you use a stress ball instead. It is flexible and will be more of a challenge than even the apple.

This how the stress ball should be used for stress releif.

Will
 
Test #1: I was able to do it, but not with a full swing. I used my center and gravity to make the cut.
Test #2: No problem. I used fallen golden apples from my tree. I also use this practice on my variety of edge weapons. My practice Katana, Barong, Sundang, Kampilan, and Khukuris. For an additional practice, I use my Boken to hit circling flies. A hard practice, but fun when you hit several in a row. On this test, I'm about 90% effective so far. Practice makes perfect.
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Practice makes permanent...
Perfect pratice makes perfect.
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Skill Training #3:
  1. Take a marker pen (make sure you always bring along your marker pen whenever you want to cut trees or to chop anything using your Khukuri).
  2. Get the most heaviest Khukuri you have.
  3. Draw a line on the cutting or chopping spot with marker pen.
  4. Take a cutting or chopping position.
  5. Cut or chop at the exact spot which is already marked with a line mark![/list=a]Good luck! This training will enhance the accurateness of your aim. I was told that a trained MA expert will be able to hit few marked spot one after another without any pause moment in between!

    NEPAL HO!
 
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