Four Ways To Hold A Knife

[@supermanlypunch]

David Bowie with a knife is a far scarier thought than I expected it to be.

[@MegaDoom101]

Jennifer Connelly ain’t never getting her little bro back.

[@mythmakroxymore1670]

It’s… called a Bowie Knife… for a reason.

[@Eli-cb7tk]

Considering who he’s related to? Most certainly

[@Orinslayer]

is he related to jim bowie the famous knife fighter from the alamo?

[@Eli-cb7tk]

@@Orinslayer apparently he’s related to the guys who inspired The Peaky Blinders

[@MrBirdMonkey]

Finally an objective look at reverse grip and how it is actually used

[@MarcusVance]

It also comes up in some longsword manuals, predominantly in armored dueling contexts for grappling and defense

[@magistersolis.3750]

That and close quarters where they were not in as much danger of being slashed or in a long grapple. Basically used to quickly attack then swung back around for other moves. Think of it like a special attack in a game not the normal stance.

[@asingularkriegsman3316]

Reverse grip on some really long knives is also good in a defensive standing, especially against swords. Use the forearm to stabilize the blade, I use it when sword fighting cousins.

[@Mousecopp]

Ive always noticed that a downward longsword can act sort of as a shield

[@TimeskipCronos]

​@zai3868 a very awkward shield that barely functions but sure. ~ L

[@2plusdarkness]

Reverse grip’s main strength is that it looks really cool.

[@MarcusVance]

Using a knife in the reverse grip has been a well established method since at least the 1500s. You also see reverse grip sword during those periods not frequently, but more frequently than some "meme" moves like throwing your sword (which has a time and place).

[@allstarwoo4]

There are real benefits to reverse grip with a knife, especially with the cutting edge towards the user. I don't like serrations but serrations on a knife with reverse grip edge towards the user would be particularly nasty.

[@_unknown123.]

It's actually great for skinning animals

[@Ren-lx8wv]

The main benefit is its biomechanically superior for downward thrusts and gravity is also on your side. It's incredibly beneficial when you're fighting an armored target.

[@Schrodingers_kid]

It's really nice in grappling. You can cut some stuff you otherwise wouldn't be able to. And it allows you to use your arms as "hooks", while also cutting your opponent. Basically turn it into a game of do as I want you to or get cut up.

[@TacCat223]

I, too, am a Mass effect Enjoyer. Nice to know others exist.

[@JustABaptistApoligist]

Very handy to know

[@DANGVINH17]

He forgot to tell you the fifth way: use your hand to hold the blade and bash your enemy with your handle, he will die instantly because of scared

[@shmirie666]

Nice. This shows how different techniques have different purposes

[@ghostranger1399]

The last grip is deadly. Its like you put your hand/wrist into a sickle. If your hand trapped in there, the opponent can hurt you, and in the same time you also will get cut if you struggled/pull back. Its like offense in defense. You guys can look in FMA how this grip works.

[@jeanladoire4141]

Medieval manuscripts like that of fiore shows dagger fighting holding the blade downwards. Slashing doesn't do shit in a fight, stabs are what ends a fight efficiently. Sole medieval daggers didn't even have an edge

[@josku5]

I’ll give my 2 cents about the reverse grip here as everyone else has already. Is it useful in our modern society? Maybe in certain situations, but mostly you’d do better with the blade facing upwards. Was it useful in medival times? Hell yeah. Trying to get through thick clothing or better yet actual armour you need all the force you can get. Thanks to biomechanics, the downward thrust is the best option here. Also, in some japanese techniques with the tanto (knife) against a sword, the reverse grip is sometimes used when drawing the knife out of it’s sheath and deflecting a blow.

[@Russo-Delenda-Est]

I always thought of the reverse grip as more of a brawling style than a knife fighting one. It leaves both fists more free to punching and allows a more standard 'hands up' stance, but adds a more lethal option in certain circumstances. It gives up longer ranged slashes and stabs in exchange for a more defensive posture, balancing the use of your knife and your fists, imo.

[@IluvinortheIneffable]

It was common stance for rondel fighting en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondel_dagger

[@zackfool8931]

In conclusion double edged knives are the best in a circumstances.

[@cuross01]

Instructions unclear... I now have a punching dagger

[@ShinKyuubi]

Eh...depends on the knife for the last one. One of the reason David Bowie used the flipped blade is because unlike a lot of modern commercially made Bowie knives, his didn't have a false edge on that side..if you have an actual edge instead of a false edge on the reverse side near the tip then you still got slashing power, and the slight curve makes for some better slashes.

[@silentfox139]

So learned that holding the blade upright but blade towards you with a Bowie or knife with a cutting false edge has usage. You can cut with the false edge like a claw. And the blunt spine helps parry away a knife without damaging your blade

[@lotrfam414]

So what I'm understanding is once you have become decent or better at two "blade faces", it would be a useful skill to learn how to easily change from one to the other and vice versa, particularly mid fight. This would make the knife even more versatile and you more deadly.

[@Rpearce79]

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.

[@fobo3361]

I hope media catches onto this, its extremely cool i never thought of holding the blade upwards with it facing towards you, could make for some really unique fighting styles in anime or whatever else picks it up

[@MarcusVance]

Feel free to give them my name as a consultant

[@puffincz3482]

I actually train with foam knives and I approve of that style, because in knife fighting, I do far more dragging cuts towards myself rather than outwards. it's great defensively and coming up with your blade from a lower position results in some devastating slashes, that be either hitting the underside of the forearm where there's a lot of tendons, slashing across the neck from under or hitting the artery in the armpit

[@philosopherkingzant2037]

Thornfinn and Shiki Ryougi: Tell us more

[@nguyenminhchau5110]

Alternate title: 4 way to get arrested

[@lucasky1394]

Rope cutters grip is awesome

[@zacharyagee2010]

Reverse grip also good for getting around a stab proof vest.

[@victoracosta4796]

I’m gonna remember that reverse Texas grip.

[@EpicFlavoredMan]

That HAT tho. IYKYK

[@poseidenforceccj2528]

i usually reverse grip it with the blade edge away from me. it feels the most effective when combining with a kickboxing style fight, or in Kali. but fluidity is always important when using a knife.

[@azechase6597]

Facing yourself wih traditional grip you'd get better movement and control if you brace with your index finger along the spine. That way you could technically hold it facing out to slash with a clawing type motion as well.

[@rightwing3940]

I prefer number 3 because it can also protect your wrist...

[@UmbralPlain]

So keep the blade out and if I want to grapple drop the blade entirely as it may cause injury or get in the way got it

[@aramisx2]

Much more ouch! Love it! 😂😂

[@hanscascante7933]

To be fair…David Bowie carried a gun too

[@IchigoShinagami]

Dunno where I remember reading it, but I heard that you can use the reverse grip with the blade away from you to make the knife act as an elongation of your fist, so that you would punch as regular, but the knife would give you some additional edge (haha).

[@KTo288]

reverse grip was prevalent against opponents wearing armour, slashing not be very effective against someone in plate mail. Used in conjunction with grappling the reverse grip offered the best chance of punching through a weak point. the same old weak points, inner thigh, armpits, back of the neck. apply to modern body armour. I don't know about elsewhere, but our British bobbies need vests that don't ride up so high, their chests are protected, but I think it might be possible to stab upwards under their vests into their abdomens. Not suitable for most hilts, but when I saw the title I was trying to work out the four ways were, disappointed that pistol and punch didn't make the cut.

[@ChadKakashi]

Great technical terms mate.

[@Anonymous-hx3pu]

If you have a knife that's sharp on both sides then you get ALL of those things with the only switch being point up or point down.

[@Genghiskhan903]

The only way I could think of reverse blade backwards grip is for stabbing the tendon near someone’s shoulder and ripping it back so they can’t use that arm

[@trufflesufflephatboy3437]

That's why I'd recommend Fairbairn Sykes it don't mess about

[@IluvinortheIneffable]

That style knife just doesn’t have the utility it needs. In a world of firearms, your knife is your last resort. You dont need a specialized one. Carry a gun and a useful knife

[@systemcheater9071]

Very good, and for as an addition, for self defense at least as a starting point use the normal grip with blade facing forward, that way you can slash while moving away and discouraging the attacker, if he gets to close its not hard to change to reverse grip as well

[@toostrong4life379]

Thank you 🙏

[@GreektownMeme]

Now get a knuckle knife virtually zero grappling but really good thrusting and slashing

[@chaddusmaximus643]

Using a dagger is about the only time reverse grip isn’t stupid. That, and really short swords

[@thomaslacroix5489]

Reverse grip blade inward means you get a few seconds to tell them goodbye

[@mz00956]

Much more ouch xD Your honor I didn't kill him, he made me ouch so I made him even more ouch

[@Pizzagulper]

I really don't like the reverse grip that much. You can grapple with it theoretically, but you should probably be doing the grappling with your other hand. Grappling with a knife only works as sort of a hook, which at best is a really weak hold, while a hand can be great at grappling. Also if you grapple with your knife, then you have sacrificed the use of your weapon, to keep at best, one of your opponents arms kind of from being used. The biggest factor that makes me not like it though, is that you loose so much reach, and leave your hand and arm so open, both of which are vital to do the opposite in a fight, especially when blades are involved. Some people say it's great because you can punch with it, but I don't understand why you would decide to lessen your ability to use a knife, to be able to punch. It seems like a major net loss. The only thing that it seems to be particularly better with is the over head stab, because it could stab hard, but a knife doesn't need that much force in order to do sufficient damage. You would be limiting your options on where you can attack to mostly their head and shoulders, which makes defending against you a lot easier for them. Additionally if you to it that way, you open yourself up to getting your wrist grabbed putting you in a very strong hold where you are the one at the disadvantage.

[@TrenchNetwork]

Doubled edged blades then are more versatile.

[@Texo_McKevo]

He wasn’t from Texas but did died in the Alamo RIP David Bowie

[@Razzy-sr4oq]

So, WHY do Space Marines CONSTANTLY hold their knives (more like short swords) with a reverse grip? This annoys me more than it should.

[@ronnielobosmith4870]

Super Flanders!!!

[@Luckyleol]

would the reverse grip on knifes stop be called an ice pick grip like on daggers. Also i do know that the reverse grip on rondal daggers is the intended grip.

[@pokebreederrichard1200]

It's all alot of ouch, it's just who's ouch.

[@ahmadnadeemjb]

Good, heading to london

[@DexyD20]

I personally like to use normal since it's all around good, but once I'm in a bit closer, normal reverse and inward reverse become useful for the same reason, making grappling that extra bit better since it can really come in handy when your in so close, but I've never really used reversed cuz it's just not as useful since it's ideal range is just as short as inward reversed and by that point you should be grappling😅

[@scootybooty6701]

Not *that* David Bowie though, eh?

[@MarcusVance]

No it was him

[@isaacm1929]

​@@MarcusVanceWait. It WAS?!

[@scootybooty6701]

@@MarcusVance TIL

[@majinjason]

Dude sing, dance, and knife fight😂

[@mrkiky]

David Bowie was truly ahead of his time. He used to address crowds at his shows as "Ladies, gentlemen and others" realizing that there were more than 2 genders even back then in the early 1800s. He even forsaw how climate change was gonna cause the apocalypse and we would regress to fighting with blades, hence his knife fighting prowess was so well established, the most famous knife is named after him. When David Bowie died, I was even more struck than the time when they took away Neil Armstrong's cycling gold medals because of steroid use. At least He still has the Moon landing, and nobody can take Love on the Rocks away from him.

[@Schrodingers_kid]

You know what they say about people who hold the knife with blade down? They either don't know what they are doing or they *know* what they are doing.

[@FeedMeChaos1]

or you could cut the number of grips in half by using a double ended knife, or that one type of double ended knife that I can't remember the name of.

[@blackpix_5138]

3rd is best cuz i use ir

[@JustinTK416]

1: Generally the best 2: Odd, but maybe 3: Circumstantially beneficial 4: ‘The Assailant Assister’

[@zacharybigger4144]

I like your hat

[@olivercole1]

I see that N7 ❤

[@ronnielobosmith4870]

But who would win in a knife fight Ziggy stardust or David Bowie I don't think either one of them could have survived a fight with Jim Bowie

[@valanshard2105]

May I introduce you to a double edge dagger?

[@valqueenofValhalla]

Listen if someone has a reverse grip and comes at you in a fight they may know what they are doing and you should run They probably know what they are doing or polar opposite and they saw to many army spec ops movies

[@illam9500]

Could the dull side out reverse blade be good for blocking or redirecting an incoming blade? Like that way you don't dull the blade by blocking with it?

[@IluvinortheIneffable]

You dont want to block with this kind of knife. Youre liable to lose a finger. If you had to, the sharp side will bind against their sharp side which could protect your fingers if there is enough friction to stop the knife. The assailants knife will slide right along the flatside to your hand. You need a handguard to safely try to block or deflect. Keep your distance and the knife between you. Pick at their knife hand if you get the chance because its usually the closest target.

[@SantaFeMMA]

Idk I can imagine grabbing the clinch with the ice pick grip with the blade pointed toward me that'd fuck sit up.

[@justjack9211]

Nice hat

[@NOTHING5423-d8w]

Tutorial on knife spin?

[@doomgiven0358]

I love how this guy (probably) thinks if he was in a knife fight hed win.😂

[@MarcusVance]

No, this guy knows no one wins knife fights.

[@Cornholers]

Reverse grip with a window breaker= broken jaw 🤣😊

[@AFN2750]

The reverse grip with blade out has one nice use: blocking. Especially with a larger knife, you have it backed up against your arm, giving it some serious strength, and it’s 100% natural to try to block with the forearm, now it just has something that can really help

[@slamer4000]

I'm sorry, Texan Knife fighters like *WHO* ?

[@davidmontes1816]

Did he mean James Bowie?

[@Jdne199311]

N7 hat!!!

[@thefleaandthecrustacean5601]

So if you use a knife for self defense amd know how to grapple, then reverse grip.

[@siegfired10xx74]

Thats why yoy carry a dagger😊

[@Dogman-cs5hv]

can still slash blade I tip down 😊

[@leoprzytuac3660]

Wait, what? David Bowie what?

[@DizaTak]

reverse and blade out = stabbing while standing next to the person

[@ابورايدودنايل]

كم السعر

[@Fck_the_atf]

🗡:”bro you have to hold me up right facing out, there is NO other way” 🔪:”idgaf how i face, i do stab, stab either way”

[@Cheesepuff8]

Yeah I’m gonna need some more context on Texan knife fighter David Bowie

[@spamandspam]

He meant Jim Bowie

[@samboyd1828]

Jim Bowie was the inventor, or at least the dude who it was named after, of the Bowie knife. died at the Alamo

[@Lemon_Sage9999]

He said both names wrong. It's Booey knife. Jim Bowey

[@richardbrooksshnee]

He was taking an opportunity to make a funny. David Bowie wasn't a knife fighter. James "Jim" Bowie is the supposed near mythological figure, supposed creator of the Bowie Knife, and died at the Alamo

[@hammermantbg]

jim boyey was a poor fighter ....every fight he was in he lost..... from the sandbar to the Alamo

[@Hylonomus]

The frontier style Bowie grip with the edge facing you and the trailing tip facing your opponent is because true fighting Bowie's had the false edge sharpened, so the trailing tip had two edges. Then they would use the point like a claw, cutting with the tip which was more effective for getting through the tough leather, wool, canvas and denim frontier clothing was made out of. Kind of similar to how a karambit cuts.

[@LairdCombanite]

Try to remember some of the basics of CQC

[@EGRJ]

What is that? Some kind of judo?

[@Anonymous-hx3pu]

​@@EGRJclose quarters combat. Basically up in your face type of shit.

[@EGRJ]

@@Anonymous-hx3pu I was quoting Volgin's line from MGS3, after The Boss beats up Snake and Sokolov. watch?v=kbkeObRyORs&t=130

[@Tachiarai]

​@@Anonymous-hx3pupretty sure it was a MGS refrence (if not im sorry im a bit rusty on my metal gear knowledge)

[@alexnovak2669]

The pointy end goes in the other guy.

[@jehut2k10]

I like to call that fourth grip the serial killer grip

[@masquerader101]

I call it the "Devilman Crybaby episode 9 grip"

[@jsin7418]

N7 4 Life ✊

[@joba606]

"Don’t teach 'em knife fighting....teach 'rm to kill. "That way they'll come up against somebody who knows knife fighting....they'll send his soul to hell. "It's all in the mind, Sargeant...." Spartan.

[@corny387]

"Standard Knife-y Things" is indeed the technical term for this combat discipline.

[@someguy2819]

Thanks for this, I'm now ready to go to London tomorrow

[@bananarobotoverlord]

Are you allowed to have a knife in London?

[@someguy2819]

@@bananarobotoverlord Depends on what you mean by "allowed to have a knife in London". You're allowed to buy and own almost any kind of knife, but carrying in public is a different story. You can carry a non-locking folding knife that has a bladed edge of up to 3 inches without a reason, but any longer, and you generally need to have a good reason for carrying one.

[@nargames]

KABAR!!

[@Zel_eo]

I will always default to the wise teachings of the WW2 brit vet from the "fairbairn-sykes fighting knife" video.

[@Ebu_Cehil_El-Fakbadi]

A man with good taste

[@badnewsBH]

He was an absolute beast. In his seventies, he was scary as Hell.

[@swankierSpy2658]

You could just use a dagger, it has 2 sides so it has the best of both orientations, Then you can still hold it upside down as well

[@MarcusVance]

Yes, however, then it's mostly a weapon. With a blunt back, you can do more utility work. So it's a nuanced question of which to use.

[@KarateLobo]

Dagger is also gone bring up more questions if your ever searched by police. Looks more intentional.

[@swankierSpy2658]

@@MarcusVance ok

[@SniperOnSunday]

Screw it, make a double dagger, with a blade protruding from both ends of the handle

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

​@@SniperOnSundayscrew it glue two one sided knives together with both cutting edges facing inward. Get yourself a crodocile knife

[@TheCrimsonFist501]

I need me one of those

[@MarcusVance]

It's a Cold Steel trainer

[@imdav135yt6]

Need you to have a more indepth video about this

[@mabeastgaming8178]

I believe him, he has a N7 cap on, he knows what he's doing 👍

[@Florkl]

1. Hammer grip 2. Idiot grip 3. Reverse grip 4. Idiot grip 2: Die stupider

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

I hold it between my butt cheeks and crab walk backwards singing the SpongeBob theme. Never fails.

[@solemnace]

There's only two right ways to hold a knife. Blade facing opponent, tip up, and blade facing opponent, tip down.

[@YonKaWren]

My friend thinks a sword sized kitchen knife would be a good weapon along with a kitchen knife aswell… help me please

[@xavierwedel4691]

I'm curious how a trench knife would do in the 4th position 🤔

[@uttamsarkar8844]

Btw what's the knife you're using🤓☝️

[@blackheartgaming6121]

Two things a David Bowie knife lol And why is no one talking about the mass effect hat

[@BackYardScience2000]

That David Bowie movie was awesome! It's called the Labyrinth and I i watched it all the time growing up.

[@dascommissar5264]

For Bowie I use a thumb grip where the blade is sideways with the edge pointing out, allows good flick cuts at shallow targets while keeping you out of range.

[@IluvinortheIneffable]

Ive seen that for sword fighting. You could also hold it by the blade to hit someone with the handle. At least 3 more orientations right there. We need a part two now

[@TheAdequateMedia]

That talgese back there