Karambit - The Wave - Emerson Knives, Inc. Media
Published: 4 years ago
Why an Emerson Knives Karambit? watch this video of Ernest Emerson giving some history behind the evolution of the Emerson Knives Karambit.
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The Emerson Knives Combat Karambit is a fast, efficient, ergonomic design that has long stood the test of time. Fashioned after a tiger's claw for those that go into harm's way, many use the knife as an offhand weapon retention tool, to protect their sidearm against a take-away attempt. This knife is proud to serve our warriors whose job it is to protect the rest of us.
The Emerson Karambit knife, aka the Combat Karambit, is the ultimate 21st Century folding knife by Emerson Knives, Inc. Along with our patented “Wave Feature”, the Combat Karambit is one of the finest personal defense weapons ever developed. Featuring black G-10 handles for a textured grip, and a beautifully designed Karambit blade- This is one of the most bad-ass every day carries you can own.
This is the Emerson Karambit knife. Now what's a Karambit? Well a karambit is a unique blade style that came from the Indonesian archipelago and it's probably almost a thousand years old and it was used both as a tool and a weapon of self-defense so you know what what is it
that makes this knife unique calling it a karambit etc.
Well the first thing you'll notice is it has a severely curved blade almost like a beak but really what that does is it mimics the claw of a tiger Sumatra Sumatran tigers and it also has a hole through the handle because as a tool and a weapon you will you never want to drop this
knife.
You don't want it to be just lost from your hand if you're working in the field or in a rice paddy you don't want it to fall in the water and not be able to find it. But the thing about the
Karambit is you can use it in a regular grip if you would forward grip or you
can use it in a reverse grip alright but the key is this finger hole keeps that
knife secure in your hand in the most extreme situations.
So before we produced this folding Karambit, the only ones that were available in the world were ones that were being made over in Java and Sumatra and all that
they were very crude. They were fixed blades and although they were very
efficient and could do the jobs that they needed to do. They hadn't been
modernized in over a thousand years so I looked at the design and said you know
what I could make a folding Karambit that would be something we could do so
we designed the very first folding Karambit. I introduced this knife to the
world and it took off like a wildfire.
The Karambit design started catching a lot of ground both in martial arts environments and also in professional law enforcement because again that feature about having that knife secure in your hand allows you to have what was what in law enforcement is commonly referred to as weapons retention. That that means that knife stays in your hand so again tool weapon, weapon tool. A lot of these things merge historically and the Karambit is one of those designs. I also was was asked to start teaching a lot of the Karambit skills because I've been practicing you know martial arts since I was a young boy and had run into the knife a couple times during my career.
I developed the complete combat Karambit course which I think we still have available in DVD we also developed the karambit trainer. If you're out there in the gym and you are
training with the knives you don't want to be using a live blade where you're
going to actually do damage to yourself or to the good guys.
As time goes on had a call for a larger version of the karambit that's the super karambit but quite a bit bigger than our regular Karambit larger finger hole bigger handle longer blade Plus this reinforced tip that was developed to give it more strength out front.
I like the Karambit, I've trained with them for years and years I think it's a very very efficient tool. They're different enough that a lot of people are a little hesitant about them, but I'm telling you right now if you pick one up put it in your hand you're gonna feel it and know exactly how efficient that knife is so if you don't have a karambit give it a try I think you'll be pleasantly surprised
https://emersonknives.com/shop/knives/karambit-the-knives/combat-karambit/
The Emerson Knives Combat Karambit is a fast, efficient, ergonomic design that has long stood the test of time. Fashioned after a tiger's claw for those that go into harm's way, many use the knife as an offhand weapon retention tool, to protect their sidearm against a take-away attempt. This knife is proud to serve our warriors whose job it is to protect the rest of us.
The Emerson Karambit knife, aka the Combat Karambit, is the ultimate 21st Century folding knife by Emerson Knives, Inc. Along with our patented “Wave Feature”, the Combat Karambit is one of the finest personal defense weapons ever developed. Featuring black G-10 handles for a textured grip, and a beautifully designed Karambit blade- This is one of the most bad-ass every day carries you can own.
This is the Emerson Karambit knife. Now what's a Karambit? Well a karambit is a unique blade style that came from the Indonesian archipelago and it's probably almost a thousand years old and it was used both as a tool and a weapon of self-defense so you know what what is it
that makes this knife unique calling it a karambit etc.
Well the first thing you'll notice is it has a severely curved blade almost like a beak but really what that does is it mimics the claw of a tiger Sumatra Sumatran tigers and it also has a hole through the handle because as a tool and a weapon you will you never want to drop this
knife.
You don't want it to be just lost from your hand if you're working in the field or in a rice paddy you don't want it to fall in the water and not be able to find it. But the thing about the
Karambit is you can use it in a regular grip if you would forward grip or you
can use it in a reverse grip alright but the key is this finger hole keeps that
knife secure in your hand in the most extreme situations.
So before we produced this folding Karambit, the only ones that were available in the world were ones that were being made over in Java and Sumatra and all that
they were very crude. They were fixed blades and although they were very
efficient and could do the jobs that they needed to do. They hadn't been
modernized in over a thousand years so I looked at the design and said you know
what I could make a folding Karambit that would be something we could do so
we designed the very first folding Karambit. I introduced this knife to the
world and it took off like a wildfire.
The Karambit design started catching a lot of ground both in martial arts environments and also in professional law enforcement because again that feature about having that knife secure in your hand allows you to have what was what in law enforcement is commonly referred to as weapons retention. That that means that knife stays in your hand so again tool weapon, weapon tool. A lot of these things merge historically and the Karambit is one of those designs. I also was was asked to start teaching a lot of the Karambit skills because I've been practicing you know martial arts since I was a young boy and had run into the knife a couple times during my career.
I developed the complete combat Karambit course which I think we still have available in DVD we also developed the karambit trainer. If you're out there in the gym and you are
training with the knives you don't want to be using a live blade where you're
going to actually do damage to yourself or to the good guys.
As time goes on had a call for a larger version of the karambit that's the super karambit but quite a bit bigger than our regular Karambit larger finger hole bigger handle longer blade Plus this reinforced tip that was developed to give it more strength out front.
I like the Karambit, I've trained with them for years and years I think it's a very very efficient tool. They're different enough that a lot of people are a little hesitant about them, but I'm telling you right now if you pick one up put it in your hand you're gonna feel it and know exactly how efficient that knife is so if you don't have a karambit give it a try I think you'll be pleasantly surprised