Knife or Death

Very proud of OUR Jo: being able to hang with the boys and the only Lady on that show who didn't fuss and didn't cuss like some of those testosterone drunk boys ;) Way to go Jo :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I may sound bloody well biased, but Team Carothers had the best tool... I did say that I was biased :D
 
Foiled by a chicken. :eek: Other than that, Jo did very well. :thumbsup:

The show was a bit...ah...hokie, but I expected that. Still, I watched it to the end and will probably watch it next week. I was kind of surprised at all the broken blades, but I knew that Jo's blade would perform well.
 
- SpyderMan - said:
Cool! :cool:

How did it go for you? Were you able to meet the chicken/fish?
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The run actually felt pretty good. They left out my hissy fit. When I cut the chicken off the string, I threw my goggles off and yelled because I couldn't see. :oops: They replaced people's goggles midway through the course in later episodes. Still it was a fun and I met a lot of cool folks. Thankful for the opportunity and glad I took it! :)
 
Jo the Machinist said:
The run actually felt pretty good. They left out my hissy fit. When I cut the chicken off the string, I threw my goggles off and yelled because I couldn't see. :oops: They replaced people's goggles midway through the course in later episodes. Still it was a fun and I met a lot of cool folks. Thankful for the opportunity and glad I took it! :)
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Awesome! I’m thinking the hissy fit would have made for some great TV. :D

Thanks for sharing.
 
Having watched the show I'm not sure how well it comes across that these people are not just some random shlups off the street, these are real athletes and some with significant martial arts backgrounds. I'm glad that the producers wanted to include women in this competition and we're very proud of Jo for being so competitive in such a physically demanding competition against a group of men.

The producers changed the order of the run for the broadcast from the real order. In reality Jo was the first contestant on the first show, so she was the first person to go through the course. This was shot in an unheated space in Atlanta during a cold snap earlier in the spring. You can actually see people's breath if you look. Those guys froze their asses off. I think that one unforeseen problem was the contestant's goggles kept fogging up. That wasn't obvious watching the show. By the time people got to the chicken some of them couldn't see very well. Jo was kind of pissed off when she hit the legs rather than center mass on that chicken because her accuracy is actually pretty good, she trains cutting a one inch target on a hanging rope, that chicken should have been her game but she couldn't see anything by the time she got there. I think everybody was struggling with that by the time they got to that part of the course. I noticed that the fellow who ultimately ended up winning at the end actually removed his goggles and threw them away part way through his final run. I'm pretty sure he wasn't "supposed" to do that, but you can't blame him. Hopefully they got some anti-fog goggles for future episodes.

Something else that I'll bet most viewers didn't really notice was one of those buckets they had to chop through was full of pea-gravel size rock! Everybody (who made it that far) had to deal with significant edge contact with rock. When Jo told me that I was stoked, I was like "OH SHIT, THAT'S MY JAM, WHOOT!" because we developed that heat treat to minimize edge damage in rough use just like that. That what the Delta protocol is for. I expect that Jo would have been able to cut that goddamn Adamantium fish because her knife was still sharp! I think that's why everybody was struggling with that. Sigh....

At the end of the cut there was an interview with Travis where he reviewed the knives after the cut and he commented that hers had no real edge damage that he could see and he could only just feel it with his fingernail. This represents very good edge retention and I personally was really excited that was going to be broadcast because that would have been a fantastic TV debut for our brand to a wider audience but it appears to have been cut for time. Oh well. Still, Jo had a wonderful experience and really impressed me with her ability to hang with much larger people and we had fun watching the episode last night. I think this is going to be a cool show and I hope that it exposes more people to quality knives. People see the knife tests on "Forged in Fire" and think some of those tests are brutal, but wait until they see what engineered designs and modern day super steels with state-of-the-art heat treats can do, I think it could be eye-opening.
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
Everybody (who made it that far) had to deal with significant edge contact with rock. When Jo told me that I was stoked, I was like "OH SHIT, THAT'S MY JAM, WHOOT!" because we developed that heat treat to minimize edge damage in rough use just like that. That what the Delta
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Haha, that was my exact reaction watching the show. "That's the only blade there meant to do that!"
 
kuraki said:
Haha, that was my exact reaction watching the show. "That's the only blade there meant to do that!"
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Actually the guy who won, his knife was an engineered design and a high performance steel. There's no doubt that having the right tools helps.

I felt bad for the guy who's knife broke on the bucket, his edge was already crazy dull, that wasn't really his fault he had a bad knife.
 
I sure am glad Jo wasn't shown last - 'cause in the west, the show came on at 10:03pm. But the action, and my desire to definitely see "Slasher" Jo, kept me wide awake until she showed her talents! Great work, J Jo.
 
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