Respect

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BTTT... with an episode of mine.

I'm most used to the balisongs than any other types for more than ten years. Flipping, twirling the blade, changing grip are very familiar action for me, so I was thinking at least.

One day I bought a Spyderco Civilian at a knife dealer in Tokyo. Back in home I started to play with it, fliping it open. I happened to think of flip closing the knife.
I pushed release the lock on the back of the handle, flipped back the blade, it suddenly stopped by my index finger which I forgot to move from its way down. The cut was done cleanly and did't hurt alot but my self confidence.

The latest serious cut was made by my balisong on my middle finger right into the joint. It was an opening action from down left to up right while flip opeing the knife. My right hand just missed the handle, it bounced to go reverse its way closing where still my fingers remain to hold the other handle. A hard shock, then blood shed, then pain reached my brain. Almost two years after that, my middle finger lacks a bit of its flexibility and hurts when I grip something in full power.

By those incidents I came to the conclusion that overestimating my skill blinded me. This thread reminded me of bowing to katana when unsheathing/sheathing it. By respecting it as if a life, the user can be aware of the possibility that his blade might betray.
We are lucky to have HI, easiest blade to have respect on, it will make us safest blade.
Long ago I heard a story of a master swordsman sensei. He was usually using fake sword for safety, but when he was drawing his real katana, its mekugi (stopper nail in handle) was rotten and broke apart inside the handle, so flying katana blade hit at the center of one of his students. Tragic.
IMO fake practice swords spoiled his respect on katana.

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WrongFriend, your story about the master swordsman reminded me of a situation we had in the sheriff's office regarding problems relating to not using the real weapon.
For years, deputies carried high-powered 357 rounds in their revolvers, but when we re-qualified with our weapons, which we had to do twice a year, we shot less powerful ammo because it was much cheaper. A problem resulted when a couple of deputies, with little experience with handguns beyond the sheriff's office, had to actually fire their weapons in the line of duty. It seems that the blast effects from the high-powered duty ammo so surprised the deputies (who had only shot the low-powered ammo in practice) that they were startled and confused, thinking that maybe something was wrong with their guns or with the ammo. The situation worked out OK, but a lesson was learned. Now, every time we have to re-qualify, we use the same kind of ammo that we carry on duty.
 
If this thread gets much better, Howard Wallace ( who created and maintains the Khukuri FAQ's and thank you very much Howard ) is going to have to include it in his FAQ's.

Steven F.'s story is one that today doesn't specifically apply like it once did as so many agencies have now gone to autoloaders, which must use full power ammo to function. The principle and moral of the story trancend
that, however.

Good Observation. Reminds me of a wisdom saying I'll have to look up and post later.

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Bernard of Clairvaux writes,

"If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, it's superabundant water."

Sounds like Uncle Bill, among others on this forum, to me at least.
 
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