Agreed. I've never actually understood Demko's goal in making these videos. I know that he's claimed virtual fixed blade performance from his knives due to the lock, but I've never seen Chris (or Tim) Reeve make such an assertion anywhere, which immediately invalidates any such comparison. Every lock will eventually fail, and every fixed blade will eventually bend or break. The existence of slipjoints sales that stretch back over the last two hundred years in this country (pretty much unbroken) proves that locks aren't nearly as important as some folks think they are with regard to a knife being able to do its job, which for those folks who are a bit slow is:
knife:
"noun, plural knives [nahyvz].
an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
a knifelike weapon; dagger or short sword.
any blade for cutting, as in a tool or machine."
Odd, I don't see "Able to withstand being beaten against a table or jammed into a tree and used as a stair step" anywhere in that. Crazy.