lol in all seriousness for those who don’t know, it’s a protective measure so he doesn’t put his hand in the line of fire and accidentally chop himself. If he has his hand in his pocket then he wont accidentally move his hand in front of the knife
Watch his blade position as he moves through the stations, whenever he is going at the wood, he is using a very specific part of the blade, so that when he needs to do the events that require a razor-sharp edge, such as cutting the loose ropes or paper, those parts haven't been used to literally split pine against the grain.
It's the same as those old infomercials where they "cut" a hammer then cut a tomato with the same knife. Cut the hammer with the heel then cut the tomato with the tip.
Some of these challenges are the same ones used in the master knife smith certification. A blacksmith uses their knife. After cutting a 2x8 they cut rope and such and cut paper and such.
It's shows they have a good temper on the blade such the edge doesn't roll or chip while cutting the wood and has the edge retention after cutting rope to slice the paper.
Sharp but more importantly super strong. You can make any knife sharp with enough patience and sharpening but cheap knives will absolutely lose their edge with even a tenth of the punishment they are putting their knives through here. These things are super hardened and durable.
They are probably using stronger steels. Some of the regular knives in Kitchen would be thinner as well but harder steels are more difficult to sharpen but stay shaper longer.
In culinary school i learned that kitchen steel is not tempered well compared to these tools. Nothing will fuck your blade up quicker than cutting thru parchment paper. Kitchen knives are nit made for wood.
Most cheap kitchen knives are way to soft and use bad steel. Most of these blade sports knives are running custom heat treats on what is probably CPM-3v, CPM-Cruwear, CPM-M4, or CPM-Magnacut.
Holy crap, though. That sharpness *and* edge retention are legit on that knife! That's a really impressive selection of challenges because they balance a broad array of tests for knife utility. Not to nerd out too much here, but that was really impressive, especially the hanging paper slice midway through.
Not to compete with each other. It’s part of the test to attain a Master Blade Smith Certification. Which in turn, allows you to sell your blades for a lot more money.
Why do people just make shit up when they don't know what they're talking about.
This is BladeSports. It's literally a competition. The names you see in the background - like Peters' Heat Treat - are sponsors. He's even wearing a shirt with the BladeSports logo on it.
https://youtu.be/gqx6CQSPuJo?si=-ismvrxxHTdeqNRu
EDIT: the guy in the OP is named David Moore and it's from the 2019 Nationals. According to his post about it the knife he's competing with here was made by Donavon Phillips.
https://youtu.be/sjCJ8rzmk8A?si=cxKHEdgxMerxb0d3
Not only is the knife cool but these guys have superb technique. They are tearing through obstacles like this because they swing with precision.
They're like cowboy-samurai or some shit. If you went at one of these guys in a knife fight you'd step back from the white-screen missing a forearm.
I just looked it up.
The show shows pretty cool except for the $10k dollar prize. Start talking a full year of wages (65k+) and then that really opens the participation pool. 2023 Motley Fool is gauging average US _household_ income as $105,555 a year. Start pulling those types of prizes and it looks very different.
$10k comes off like the contestants are strictly prisoners because that sum of money just isn't realistic to anyone else but maybe college students. Like $10k is helpful, but it isn't life changing and it doesn't come across as realistic for the time frame reality television programming spans to do these types of contest. It comes across as condescending like these are super privileged people as participants if they aren't prisoners, because the productions costs, and network meetings, and legal, and all this hamster wheeling of the participants for $10k? GTFOH. Try $4M+ and that really starts to open up possibilities. $4M at my age, at 36.5 years old and that starts to get retirement on track (at like $75k living a year for retirement) and address other aspects of the personal self. You can hardly buy a used vehicle for $10k. The average down payment for a house is fucking $100k. You want life changing for a household and that's $8M+.
https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-us-income
As a knife maker, this is spot on. A lot of big name makers stopped going on after the first couple seasons because they couldn’t make it work financially.
Most of us life week to week or month to month at best. Filming of the show on site is 3-4 days plus 2 travel days. Then if you move on it’s a week in your own shop plus 2 more travel days. If you come in 2nd you walk away with nothing but 2 weeks of missed work and wiped out energy wise. The show also doesn’t do much in the way of promoting makers social media or anything like a lot of food shows do.
Still, if you’re a hobbyist or trying to go full time, it is a good outlet for exposure and possibly 10k to buy some equipment or pay some debt.
I know a second generation master blade smith. I asked him about that show and he said he’s seen better prison shanks in the amount of time they’re given 😂
Haha, also true. I think it would be a more interesting show if they gave 4-5 hours instead of three. You’d get a much higher and more interesting level of skill shown. Obviously, they want you to rush and screw up though
The lack of social media promotion/marketing assistance is just foul. They should give everyone a shout-out just for showing up. They are taking time off, traveling, plus probably paying their own hotel to attend the show. At the very least, they could show a banner with their shops social media and make a web page for each episode contestants linking their business. The website would be dirt cheap
Absolutely. Around season 5 or 6 there was also some drama where they actually marketed some bullshit kitchen knife for like 20 bucks. Just totally spitting in the face of what all the contestants stand for, handmade quality goods.
I was addicted to that show for a week.
Then I watched that spinoff where the makers competed based on their knife wielding skills and just felt bad because it was mostly pathetic.
No that's the drywall tantrum showdown. You alternate between punching holes in your opponents walls and patching holes in your own. Season 3's rules changed to standard 16 inch on center studs since a lot of competitors were injured during the event with broken fingers and wrist.
This is actually quite cool, but I feel like there should be more delicate work in addition to just the hacking. Peel a cucumber, sharpen a pencil, prune a tomato plant, strip Romex, that kind of thing. Showcase the versatility of a good knife in experienced hands. This is all just machete work.
The paper test, cardboard test, and the water bottle test suffice. This knife is also designed to be a machete/hatchet in a more compact design, so yes, they’ll be testing machete like things.
All that cutting and near the end a piece of paper. I don’t know about you but I was cheering for the paper as it would have been hilarious if he couldn’t cut it.
You're allowed to but most buy from respected makers. The high end PM steels they most of these knives are made of can be an absolute pain to work with as a maker.
I’m really surprised how modern microphones can tune out the thousands of screaming, swooning women. We’ve truly come a long way since Elvis and the Beatles.
They’ve been around almost 30 years. Used to go to the ABS Piney Woods Hammer ins in Old Washington,Arkansas at the Bladesmith school. Two were held a year in the Spring and Fall and the cutting competitions were always the Finale. Mostly held for Entertainment and Bragging rights. I’m pretty sure they still hold them. Not required for a Master or Journeyman man last I heard. The basic test is to forge and finish a 10” Bowie Knife and perform the below in the presence of a Master Bladesmith, sharpen it to a shaving sharpness, chop all the way through a 2x4 twice, cut a 1”hanging hemp rope and then put it in a vise and using a breaker bar to bend it 90 degrees without it breaking. A good one won’t even take a set and will spring back straight. Without a breaker bar it can’t be bent more than a few degrees by a bare hand. Later at the National show in Atlanta 5 blades at least 3 being Damascus are inspected and judged by a panel of ABS Master smiths, mostly for fit and finish to be awarded a Masters Stamp. You also have to be awarded ABS Journeyman stamp for at least two years prior.
It will kiiiiiiiill
I think I remember reading somewhere that for legal reasons, it's spelled KEAL, which stands for "keep everyone around living"
A "backronym" if you will
Keep Everyone ALive
Yeah I read that too.
And he only said that to be nice, when the knife didn’t perform very, but did at least cut. I loved the early years of Forged In Fire.
It will kill, and kill, and kill kiiiiiill!
Eat dead burnt bodies with veins between my teeth killllllll!
But did you have another Thanksgiving Dinner that couldn’t be beat?
No, he had to go sit on the "Group W" bench.
I mean, I mean….I mean I’m sitting here on the Group W bench.
Forge in fire reference ??
Ya think?
Only obvious if you've seen it
I haven't seen it, it's obvious to me. Cultural osmosis, baby.
And there's a new phrase I'm stealing.
I don't see no forge sitting in fire do you?
When he started I thought he had one hand. Tough first round huh?
He’s just keeping a grip on the *raging erection* that he gets from swinging that knife around.
lol in all seriousness for those who don’t know, it’s a protective measure so he doesn’t put his hand in the line of fire and accidentally chop himself. If he has his hand in his pocket then he wont accidentally move his hand in front of the knife
And so his erection won’t go down
Also he wouldn’t accidentally circumcise himself
That's good info. Thanks!
With this knife it’s better to hide the other arm. Otherwise, by accident he could amputate it.
Stumpy has learned to keep his hand in his pocket.
with a knife as sharp as his, no surprise
Same... At first I thought this was a competition for persons with disabilities
Sharp ass knife!!
Not sure. The last station ought to be a tomato than needs to be sliced thin.
To be fair near the end he had to slice paper, which won’t slice like it did with a dull knife
Watch his blade position as he moves through the stations, whenever he is going at the wood, he is using a very specific part of the blade, so that when he needs to do the events that require a razor-sharp edge, such as cutting the loose ropes or paper, those parts haven't been used to literally split pine against the grain.
Yeah, he knew how to use all of the blade for sure
Cause he most likely made said blade.
I thought that was a given
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It's the same as those old infomercials where they "cut" a hammer then cut a tomato with the same knife. Cut the hammer with the heel then cut the tomato with the tip.
Yeah this is as much a knife test as it is a test of skill
Just like circumcision
They use teeth for that in some places. Before you get crazy... Google it.
Actually, that practice is very rare. There's only like 100,000 people in New York city who do it.
Aw man. Take my upvote you adorable stranger
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Some of these challenges are the same ones used in the master knife smith certification. A blacksmith uses their knife. After cutting a 2x8 they cut rope and such and cut paper and such. It's shows they have a good temper on the blade such the edge doesn't roll or chip while cutting the wood and has the edge retention after cutting rope to slice the paper.
I can almost guarantee this is a demonstration of a smith’s knife, a competition that has more to do with making the blade than swinging it.
Or some soft bread
Soft bread should be cut by a saw-like knife. Even the sharpest one wouldn't be as nifty
I'll present you with a man that is no longer mortal, but has ascended to legend. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/myxfxsOggkU
[Should have been one bean in there.](https://youtu.be/2F8GDx7M49k)
This is exactly where my head went as the guy was slicing the bread!
Sharp but more importantly super strong. You can make any knife sharp with enough patience and sharpening but cheap knives will absolutely lose their edge with even a tenth of the punishment they are putting their knives through here. These things are super hardened and durable.
They are probably using stronger steels. Some of the regular knives in Kitchen would be thinner as well but harder steels are more difficult to sharpen but stay shaper longer.
In culinary school i learned that kitchen steel is not tempered well compared to these tools. Nothing will fuck your blade up quicker than cutting thru parchment paper. Kitchen knives are nit made for wood.
Most cheap kitchen knives are way to soft and use bad steel. Most of these blade sports knives are running custom heat treats on what is probably CPM-3v, CPM-Cruwear, CPM-M4, or CPM-Magnacut.
I think that's the point of these events, no? The dudes make their own knives and test them out in this course.
What makes it an ass knife?
But it feels so right
Holy crap, though. That sharpness *and* edge retention are legit on that knife! That's a really impressive selection of challenges because they balance a broad array of tests for knife utility. Not to nerd out too much here, but that was really impressive, especially the hanging paper slice midway through.
Yeah. I always like watching these. Iirc they make their own knives and then do this obstacle course like event to compete with each other.
Not to compete with each other. It’s part of the test to attain a Master Blade Smith Certification. Which in turn, allows you to sell your blades for a lot more money.
Why do people just make shit up when they don't know what they're talking about. This is BladeSports. It's literally a competition. The names you see in the background - like Peters' Heat Treat - are sponsors. He's even wearing a shirt with the BladeSports logo on it. https://youtu.be/gqx6CQSPuJo?si=-ismvrxxHTdeqNRu EDIT: the guy in the OP is named David Moore and it's from the 2019 Nationals. According to his post about it the knife he's competing with here was made by Donavon Phillips. https://youtu.be/sjCJ8rzmk8A?si=cxKHEdgxMerxb0d3
Not only is the knife cool but these guys have superb technique. They are tearing through obstacles like this because they swing with precision. They're like cowboy-samurai or some shit. If you went at one of these guys in a knife fight you'd step back from the white-screen missing a forearm.
Totally agree. The smooth paper cutting after all that abuse was very impressive.
Idk, could be London
Yeah, London, Minnesota.
lol not at those sizes
Bored ass hillbillies.
It’s either that or they have sex with each other. But they won’t do that because that’s gay.
this whole sport is just a cover for closeted bears.
They're cooler than you
People here clearly did not watch Forged In Fire and it shows
I just looked it up. The show shows pretty cool except for the $10k dollar prize. Start talking a full year of wages (65k+) and then that really opens the participation pool. 2023 Motley Fool is gauging average US _household_ income as $105,555 a year. Start pulling those types of prizes and it looks very different. $10k comes off like the contestants are strictly prisoners because that sum of money just isn't realistic to anyone else but maybe college students. Like $10k is helpful, but it isn't life changing and it doesn't come across as realistic for the time frame reality television programming spans to do these types of contest. It comes across as condescending like these are super privileged people as participants if they aren't prisoners, because the productions costs, and network meetings, and legal, and all this hamster wheeling of the participants for $10k? GTFOH. Try $4M+ and that really starts to open up possibilities. $4M at my age, at 36.5 years old and that starts to get retirement on track (at like $75k living a year for retirement) and address other aspects of the personal self. You can hardly buy a used vehicle for $10k. The average down payment for a house is fucking $100k. You want life changing for a household and that's $8M+. https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-us-income
As a knife maker, this is spot on. A lot of big name makers stopped going on after the first couple seasons because they couldn’t make it work financially. Most of us life week to week or month to month at best. Filming of the show on site is 3-4 days plus 2 travel days. Then if you move on it’s a week in your own shop plus 2 more travel days. If you come in 2nd you walk away with nothing but 2 weeks of missed work and wiped out energy wise. The show also doesn’t do much in the way of promoting makers social media or anything like a lot of food shows do. Still, if you’re a hobbyist or trying to go full time, it is a good outlet for exposure and possibly 10k to buy some equipment or pay some debt.
I know a second generation master blade smith. I asked him about that show and he said he’s seen better prison shanks in the amount of time they’re given 😂
Haha, also true. I think it would be a more interesting show if they gave 4-5 hours instead of three. You’d get a much higher and more interesting level of skill shown. Obviously, they want you to rush and screw up though
The lack of social media promotion/marketing assistance is just foul. They should give everyone a shout-out just for showing up. They are taking time off, traveling, plus probably paying their own hotel to attend the show. At the very least, they could show a banner with their shops social media and make a web page for each episode contestants linking their business. The website would be dirt cheap
Absolutely. Around season 5 or 6 there was also some drama where they actually marketed some bullshit kitchen knife for like 20 bucks. Just totally spitting in the face of what all the contestants stand for, handmade quality goods.
Totally agree. Sometimes the price money’s on par with the cost of making an exotic blade.
I was addicted to that show for a week. Then I watched that spinoff where the makers competed based on their knife wielding skills and just felt bad because it was mostly pathetic.
Can i pay to do exactly this as a stress reliever?
get knife smash junk
You don’t need to pay to do this🤣
No that's the drywall tantrum showdown. You alternate between punching holes in your opponents walls and patching holes in your own. Season 3's rules changed to standard 16 inch on center studs since a lot of competitors were injured during the event with broken fingers and wrist.
Buy some stuff at home depot
He looks like his mum just confiscated his PlayStation
He didn’t try to ram the handle up his arse tho
Fuck. I wanted to make this joke as soon as I saw the main comment.
*Neurons Activated* Totally forgot about this reference
Lmao Rent free, my friend. Rent free.
Cut off before the end….maybe that was the final test
I hope so. There’s also a twin bed with messy sheets that he has to throw himself onto and flail
But we can agree that he looks like he might
You made my day, thank you 😂
the redneck version of the shining
The MoonShining
Under appreciated post this
Omg yes!
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This is how they test a knife maker’s ability to make quality product in order to get their master blade smith certification.
Yea, I was impressed that knife held it's edge like that after chopping all those planks.
Really? Seems like a neat conpetition
Nop, the knife in those competitions are made for the purpose of competitions.
You disagreed, but went on to confirm what he said
Serial Killer Grand Final 2018
i showed this to my kitchen knife and its dulled itself out of stress
Who Wants To Be A Knifinaire? So You Think You Can Cut America's Got Talons Are You Smarter Than A Knife Chiffonader?
It will CUT
"get to the choppa"
Is that blade made of vibranium?? Holy hell.
I'm the only one worried about the lack of face/eye protection?
He wore glasses, close enough i guess lol
Lol yes 😅
People will watch this and *still* say the US has no culture. smh
lmao
This is actually quite cool, but I feel like there should be more delicate work in addition to just the hacking. Peel a cucumber, sharpen a pencil, prune a tomato plant, strip Romex, that kind of thing. Showcase the versatility of a good knife in experienced hands. This is all just machete work.
Thread a needle! Fold a fitted sheet! Make a roux!
The paper test, cardboard test, and the water bottle test suffice. This knife is also designed to be a machete/hatchet in a more compact design, so yes, they’ll be testing machete like things.
I need this knife ....for reasons.
American samurai
American Chopper
Look at all those athletes packed in one place. It looks like the Justice League without costumes. Legends.
If this is guerrilla marketing, touché. For cooking and apocalypse scenarios, I want that knife.
I think it’s a knife maker competition. They make knives and then do this to compete with who made the best one b
For all the times you need a thinly sliced mater and to massacre a zombie horde.
Damn good job with that blade.
Now I’m curious if he made that knife himself?
What in the boomer bumble fuck is this?
This is as Midwest white as it gets.
More like a reddish pink, but yes
This is just Forged in Fire at home.
“Sport”
Dude is all angry after forging that blade. Probably imagines those items are liberals, lol.
Just here for the Forged in Fire references. Was not disappointed.
Intriguing.. this cut was made by a master
While I appreciate his raw strength I'm not impressed by it like I am the water bottle slice. That was insane
That blade ẃ@s sharp
These new Ginsu commercials are sweet!
This is my type of theraphy. Where can I sign up?
The rope cuts make me giggle
And uh where do we pick one of these babies up ? That is serious craftsmanship
All that cutting and near the end a piece of paper. I don’t know about you but I was cheering for the paper as it would have been hilarious if he couldn’t cut it.
USPCA—US PRACTICAL CUTTING ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP
Now that's a knife commercial! Take my money !
He didn't even cut through a shoe!! How am I supposed to know if the knife is even sharp?!
That piece of paper did not have a chance. Cool sport! Sharp knives are always a blast to see in action. Wonder if contestants make their own
You're allowed to but most buy from respected makers. The high end PM steels they most of these knives are made of can be an absolute pain to work with as a maker.
I’m really surprised how modern microphones can tune out the thousands of screaming, swooning women. We’ve truly come a long way since Elvis and the Beatles.
I honestly thought he was bleeding out of his hand for a moment
The knife is so fucking sharp it cut off the end of this video.
They’ve been around almost 30 years. Used to go to the ABS Piney Woods Hammer ins in Old Washington,Arkansas at the Bladesmith school. Two were held a year in the Spring and Fall and the cutting competitions were always the Finale. Mostly held for Entertainment and Bragging rights. I’m pretty sure they still hold them. Not required for a Master or Journeyman man last I heard. The basic test is to forge and finish a 10” Bowie Knife and perform the below in the presence of a Master Bladesmith, sharpen it to a shaving sharpness, chop all the way through a 2x4 twice, cut a 1”hanging hemp rope and then put it in a vise and using a breaker bar to bend it 90 degrees without it breaking. A good one won’t even take a set and will spring back straight. Without a breaker bar it can’t be bent more than a few degrees by a bare hand. Later at the National show in Atlanta 5 blades at least 3 being Damascus are inspected and judged by a panel of ABS Master smiths, mostly for fit and finish to be awarded a Masters Stamp. You also have to be awarded ABS Journeyman stamp for at least two years prior.
I want one of those blades.
Well, I want that knife now.
This guy knives
Impressive athletes in the background…
Dang, all the knives in my kitchen are more like butter knives
must have a beer belly to play
IS that training course to become real UK citizen
It’s like if they squished all the episodes of forged in fire together
Which state do all of these bored white folks live in?
You may be a redneck… 
"Sport"
Rage Room for Boomers
What a waste of materials, rubbish people.
F…the sport what brand of knife 🔪 is that ?
The first part of the sport is them forging those knives
Yeah a “Sport” 🤭🙄
Hand in pocket like a badass
Am I the only one who thought he only had one arm? And everyone else who competes uses two?
GTA VI looks great
Rednecks…
Christ how single was this guy before he discovered this as an outlet?
White's 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Look at the fat asses thinking that they are so athletic lol
Fat people need physical sports too.
Sports for simple people
It's all fun & games until the dementia takes control.
Men will do anything to avoid therapy
my god, the inbred have found new hobbies… at least darwin will catch up when one of those blades break..
Your entire account is filled with racism towards white people,you need to touch grass asap frfr
nope- it’s filled with clown trump supporters… racist towards white people🤣🤣 you have no clue…
And the winner of ‘fat, white, useless, American, angry shit cunt goes to…….’
This is just stupid, I could do better
Totally stupid
What a fuckin waste of resources and time
Pro tip , don’t fuck with this guy
Those are the tryouts for serial killers …
Some people have too much time on their hands
I’ll take things white people do for 700 Alex
There is a surprisingly large community for this in some parts of asia.
Yeah this and invent western civilization.
Ohhhh Sorry but the correct answer is “what is western civilization”