Greek translation requested

Rick · 31st October 2005, 06:48 PM

I'm not a practitioner of any M.A. Rob , and not to belabor a point ; but not necessarily would the icepick grip preclude 'any' slashing attack (IMO) providing the knife is held with the edge facing the opponent .

IIRC the kanjar is used with this type of grip .

Also IIRC most Puukos and Mora type knives are guardless as well .

Possibly your question about style of fighting with these weapons can be better answered by Yannis , or in a M.A. forum .

Yannis · 31st October 2005, 07:40 PM

As I said I have seen only shepherds to use this kind of knife. So I have no idea how you can hold it in a combat situation.

These shepherds were very fast and I noticed that they were changing the grip a lot of times to flay the goats. I suppose that there are few techniques to hold it without the risk to cut your fingers. But dead goats dont fight back

The T-spine is the oldest type, but we can call authentic also the normal spines as far they have a hand forged and real blade, like the type Tim show us it the other post.

31st October 2005, 06:48 PM	#1
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,376	I'm not a practitioner of any M.A. Rob , and not to belabor a point ; but not necessarily would the icepick grip preclude 'any' slashing attack (IMO) providing the knife is held with the edge facing the opponent . IIRC the kanjar is used with this type of grip . Also IIRC most Puukos and Mora type knives are guardless as well . Possibly your question about style of fighting with these weapons can be better answered by Yannis , or in a M.A. forum .

31st October 2005, 07:40 PM	#2
Yannis Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Athens Greece Posts: 479	As I said I have seen only shepherds to use this kind of knife. So I have no idea how you can hold it in a combat situation. These shepherds were very fast and I noticed that they were changing the grip a lot of times to flay the goats. I suppose that there are few techniques to hold it without the risk to cut your fingers. But dead goats dont fight back The T-spine is the oldest type, but we can call authentic also the normal spines as far they have a hand forged and real blade, like the type Tim show us it the other post.