scabbard placement.

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bearcub

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I've just seen the Burma Conflict section of The World At War, a famous BBC documentary about WWII...

Footage of gurkhas in the chindit forces showed the vast majority with kukris slung at the left hip, not round nearly in the small of the back.

I've found that the best place for mine is actually around that far, almost at the small of the back... the best to draw it, I find, is to reach around to the small of my back for the handle with my RIGHT hand, and at the same time, use the LEFT to reach back and rotate the handle (with my hand on the scabbard) and steady the blade for drawing... This seems to be a very natural movment, and leads to the knife being drawn in such a way that the knife is in the gorrect grip for use.

How do other people sling and draw theirs?
 
A good topic, Bearcub. Always looking for a better mousetrap, I hope to learn something here.

If the scabbard fit is a little on the loose side it's a one handed draw for me. With the khukuri on the belt in the midback or slightly to the right rump, I don't have to change my grip, and grab the handle and twist the whole rig parallel to the ground and blade edge away from me. Then I draw it in kind of an underhanded sideways motion, all the while riding the blade spine against the scabbard and back, being sure the tip clears by me. The end of the draw is a kind of whipping motion forward, almost like throwing a Frisbee.

Hope this is clearer than a bucket of mud....Dan
 
Let me throw in my ha'penny's worth here - if at all it's worth that much! I've been wearing a khuk from my small collection to each of the reenactments we have had. Sometimes I wear it on the left hip, sometimes on the right, and draw my conclusions about the placement as to comfort. Last time I took my cheetlang along, and this one I wore on the front, about halfway to the middle from the right. We sat down quite a bit, and I found this placement to be very comfortable. This placement is similar to that which I saw used by a high-caste Thakur civilian in a photo taken about 1928.
 
Come to think of it, wasn't the kami wearing his Gangawal front and center at the end of Gurkha Steel?
 
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