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Title: Too stiff for training
Review: Although this would make a good toy knife, it is too light, stiff, and pointy for safe training. We were looking for a good knife to practice knife defense in Krav Maga, but on receiving these we were pretty disappointed. The checkering on the grip is nice, but the finger separator would get in the way while doing dis-arms. The knife feels more like a plastic than rubber, and has a rather sharp point for a training knife. It hardly takes any power to cause quite a bit of pain to the recipient, and so the attacker finds himself holding back quite a bit of power and speed.Our instructor uses the Applegate Fairbairn Rubber Training Knives, Black, Pair, and it is REAL rubber, not some weird rubber/plastic. It also has quite a nice heft to it, compared to this knife.
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