training blades

[bonesaw]

Hi all,

I've just started training in FMA, and I'm going to need a good training knife or two. I've got a decent rubber one, but the next thing I'm interested in picking up is a small, light, metal trainer. Anybody have any recommendations for affordable ones?

Thanks

 

[Joe Talmadge]

You're going to want to go to the training section and head to either the FMA forum or Practical Tactical forum and re-ask this.

For myself, having trained with wood, rubber, and steel trainers, I feel my real education began when I started training with stiff padded trainers, that let my partners and I hit with hard power that would provide good negative feedback but not break bones or cause deep bruises. Just something to think about! Anyway, re-ask in the FMA forum and you'll get loads of good recommendations for metal trainers.

 

[JNewell]

You also need to make sure that whatever you bring complies with the protocols of whoever's doing the training (and what they're doing in that particular program). I know that's obvious, but there's room for reasonable people to have different points of view, and you will see that in action if you train with multiple trainers.