September 2, 2010

Sama Sama 2010 Trailers

Sama Sama 2010 – 3 DVD Set will be available on www.sayoc.com.

NOK Knives In Detail

Randy and Nok Hodges explaining their great NOK Knives. We highly recommend NOK knives for hard sparring and drilling. That’s why we carry them here in our store. They are sturdy blades and we use them when we spar here. We use aluminum trainers for skill work, Sharkees for moderate sparring, and we use NOK blades when we want to go all out.

Check our Online Store to pick up your NOK trainer!

Gatorbacks

A couple of shots of the Gatorback with the Black, Blue, and Red cord. These are the Basic models with hollow grinds.

Diagonal Shot of Basic Gatorbacks

Straight Shot of Basic Gatorbacks

Knife Disarm on Ground

From the Battlefield Kali Knife distance learning program, Burton “Lucky Dog” Richardson shows a worst case scenario- on your back, empty handed, against a knife. This is a control that works well if you cannot get to a 2 on 1 grip. Notice that the knife may be cutting the leg, but not severely. It is all about minimizing the damage in this terrible situation. This grip comes up often when we spar this position. (In Battlefield Kali we spar ALL positions!) Burton’s Website: www.battlefieldkali.com

Burton is using our Basic Gatorback with a Rubber Grip for this drill.

Naginata – A Blast From The Past

A couple of photos from one of my clients from way back. I made two of these  in the late 90′s or early 2000′s for Todd Taganashi. He was kind enough to share these photos with me. Back when I made this blade it was too expensive to do good photography and I lost the bad photos that I took of this blade. This was an ambitious project. The Naginata has a mirror polish, guard, and full micarta scales. I’m happy to see that it held up for all of these years. Thanks for sharing your photos Todd.