Knife control

[simko]

hey everyone i was wondering, with my knife, its pretty large, spydie police

i was wondering,,,,

my hands are pretty small right now, will i get better control with it as my hands get larger?

 

[one2gofst]

I don't know how old you are, but if you are mid teens or older I doubt your hands will get much larger. Hand size, IMO, plays only a small part in knife control. Retention is the only thing I can see being a real issue, which is mostly dependant on grip and grip strength. That spyderco is pretty thin so I would not imagine needing large hands to control it.

 

[simko]

F%^& im 15, ive got small hands dude, im talking about controling the further parts of the blade

 

[Chambers]

At 15 man I'd wager you still got a little growin to do yet.
and one2 has it right, blade control is all in the grip.
as yoda says... "size matters not"

work on hand strength, and practice the twelve angles of attack with a drone or trainer.

 

[AlphalphaPB]

Even with my small hands, I have yet to encounter a knife with a handle too large to, uh, handle. It just means that sometimes you choke up to do the fine stuff, sometimes you hang towards the back for the chopping.

A far greater problem is knives being too small for the hand. A kit knife that I'm working on (DDR GPC-1000) just doesn't feel right in my hand, because the handle isn't wide enough. When I grab it, the knife naturally "collapses" into the area between the first, second and third knuckles. Then the edge points out to the left of my body, instead of pointing down towards the ground.

I don't remember my hands growing after the age of 15, even with all the vigorous exercising. The palms did grow some hair though.

 

[Rev. Pete]

If you develop your grip strength the size of your hands is irrelevant. Here is a good place to start:
TheGripBoard. You could also check out IronMind and the books by John Brookfield.

 

[one2gofst]

No need to curse at me for asking a question. I did not grow after I was 15 but you may. It is still about grip strength.