Hey guys! I have always heard the expression,"Don't go into battle with an unproven weapon" and I have time and time again found that to be true. A couple of events happened in the last few days that made me want to post this here.
First, I had a set of sticks that were a plastic type material that were supposed to be "unbreakable". I had never really trained with them before because they were a gift from a former student, and quite honestly were a nice looking set of sticks and I hated to bang them up. Well, I got them out the other day and did some contact training with them. I had one and my training buddy had the other, we were going through some flow drills at a little less than combat speed when 1/2 of the stick I am holding goes flying across the room. Glad that did not happen under the stress of combat. Moral: nothing is unbreakable.
The other incident involved my Cold Steel Extra Large Clip Point Voyager. I was cutting a piece of rope yesterday and after slicing through the piece of rope, my blade TAPPED a piece of metal that was a few inches below the rope. Not even hard enough for me to think it had left a dull place on the blade. A couple of seconds later I got my knife back out to cut more rope, and the last 1 1/2 inch of the blade had shattered off. This had to be a production flaw in this blade. Moral: check out your knives you are going to carry on war posts before you carry them.
