Honor Duty Sacrifice

Please remember our Heroes today. Men and women, Vets and active duty, the wounded and disabled. Thousands of women and men have sacrificed much that we can live freely. This is the greatest nation on earth and its time the POTUS came out and said so instead of apologizing for our greatness. God Bless our Nation, God Bless our Troops.

Channing Watson Hawkbill Knife

Check out my September-0ct0ber 2009 blogs about cutting testing of different style blades. Two blogs with sketches

I bought this awesome little hawkbill knife from Channing Watson a couple weeks ago. I finally got down to the dojo to do some cutting tests. Pool noodles might not seem like an especially tough target, try them. If your cutting angle is incorrect the knife may just bump along the noodle. If you misjudge your approach the knife will just hook cut part way through the tube. Will it cut? I think the photos tell it all. The cuts that did not go clear through were my mistake by not gauging my distance quite right. Thrusts? Hell yes! It goes through targets like a light saber. The curvature of the blade precisely aligns the tip of the blade with the forearm allowing full power thrust without the danger of torquing or spraining your wrist.

Channing gave me a little background bio that explains why his knife is more than just an attempt to be different. "We are escrima guys over here and I do try to make things cool looking while still remaining 100% useful. The idea behind that particular knife was to try to blend every day usefulness as a tool with good self defense ability, the longer "thumb groove" on the spine is there to give a resting place for the outside of the palm of the second hand during pressure cutting." This is a serious self-defense knife and I would not hesitate to stake my life on it.

A Must Read

If you want to know who this man is who promised hope and change and why he acts so counter to traditional American mores, read this book. That is if you can stomach Obama's fabrications and outright lies about everything connected with his father and his childhood. Lying is a habit that becomes increasingly hard to break. There is nothing radically new here, its been exposed before and commonly ignored. But gathered here is an excellent compilation of his falsehoods and the author's interesting theory of why Obama hates America and wants to "fundamentally transform it". You can buy it at Amazon.com or from the authors own website. http://www.dineshdsouza.com/ A compelling read that makes sense of an enigmatic and dangerous man.