Classic kerambit is incoherent with the sickle-shaped knife blade, sharpened on the concave side, intended primarily for reverse grip edge away from you and having a handle with a ring navershenim a thumb.
Kerambita homeland is the island of Sumatra, and its creators - the Minangkabau ethnic group inhabiting the western and central parts of the island. One of the earliest sculptures depicting kerambita is dated XIV century statue of King Adityavormana (adityawarman), the founder of the state Minangkabau. The king is depicted as a god Bhairava, a contraction in the right hand kerambit.
The traditional technique is a kind of kerambitom quintessential military strategy minangkbau. It clearly reflects the essence of the story of how this nation got its name, consisting of two words: minang (winner) and boar (Buffalo). The legend speaks of a time when invaders from the island of Java invaded Sumatra. Minangkabau Javanese proposed to solve the territorial dispute, replacing battle fought buffalo. The invaders brought with Java a huge fierce buffalo and the Minangkabau released on the calf, the head of which were attached to razor-sharp horn-blades. Buffalo Javanese saw the calf, did not strike him, and continued to look around to find a worthy opponent. The calf also, that on the eve of the day without food, ran to the big buffalo, taking him for a buffalo. When the calf tried to find the udder and its horn-blades ripped Javanese buffalo belly.
The victory over brute force using the tactics, the use of tricks to enter the melee, a sudden shattering attack directed at the most vulnerable spot, the use of weapons to compensate for the lack of physical strength or size - all of these principles, which appeared in the legendary battle of buffalo are not only based on the technique of kerambitom. They are fundamental to the martial art created Minangkabau silek, which many experts believe the ancestor of most of the styles of the Indonesian martial art of Silat.
In honor of the legendary victory of Minangkabau roofs, as well as the traditional headgear of women of this nation have a shape similar to the curved horns of the buffalo to the top. Perhaps the first form of repeated kerambit victorious horns, swords, and perhaps the head of a calf were tied kerambity ...
There are several theories about the origin kerambita, and none of them is devoid of hard evidence. According to one of the most common hypotheses kerambit came from agricultural tools. Indeed, the Minangkabau, for that matter, and the inhabitants of almost all the other islands of the archipelago, used in everyday life and sickles sickle household knives, which, if necessary, and could serve as weapons.
According to the second hypothesis kerambit was originally created for battle. Some researchers have referred to as a possible ancestor kerambita Indian brass knuckles, claws nakh Bagh, brought to Sumatra in the XI century. Other experts say about the possible impact on the shape of a dagger kerambita Arabian jumbo. Still others insist that kerambit is reduced to facilitate everyday wear combat sickle blade version of local origin. And finally, there are a number of experts who reject the "evolutionary" hypothesis of the origin kerambita and hold that the knife was created directly in the form in which it is known to us.
Historically kerambit performed one of the three functions. First, it could be the last line of defense in cases of a warrior when the fight escalated into a melee mutual capture. Second, kerambit served, so to speak, civil defense vehicle. In this role he was, for example, is very popular among women of Sumatra and Madura. And finally, as though it may sound grim, kerambit often became an instrument of the killers. In the latter case, the blade was usually oiled nervnopara fast-lytic poison of plant origin.
During the propagation of kerambita Malay Archipelago islands have different variations of the knife, including kerambity in which the ring had a special impact or a small ledge blade knives, whose hilt ends do not ring, and a thickening of one form or another, or rope eyelet or semi-circular notch under the thumb or the second blade. There is also a two-edged swords kerambity, as well as species with pointed teeth on the butt.
At the same time multiplied different names of these weapons and myths about its creation. Cook harimau (tiger claw), a cookie Bima (claw bima, one of the heroes of the Indian epic Mahabharata), corn Hanuman (the claw of Hanuman, the monkey king from the Indian epic Ramayana), corn garuda (eagle claw), avalanche atm (spur), buluayam (a feather from a cock's tail) - this is not a complete list of names by which known kerambit and its variants in different parts of the archipelago.
With the spread of kerambita arsenal of techniques to work with it expanded to include it blows inflicted by a ring on the handle or butt of the blade, the grip of different options (including direct), and methods of attack, in which kerambit scrolls around the ring is threaded into the finger .
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Kerambit - it is truly a survivor knife. Coming into the world for nearly seven centuries ago, these weapons continue to exist even today in its original form. So. For example, in Malaysia and Indonesia and is now far from rare cases of kerambitov in fights and showdowns.
The secret of such enduring popularity, it is obvious to the functional advantages of this knife. Kerambit due to its shape in the technique works perfectly rips cuts, in which the blade stuck in the goal and then, keeping the immersed state is moving toward the goal by a force directed along its surface. Using this technique, you can make a long incision, even a very short blade, and the depth of cut can be close to the length of the blade. In addition, when the blade is easier to cut open any cut is a target, because the pressure on its surface in the initial phase has the edge, and not part of the cutting edge, as in the usual cuts. And finally, curved blade, sharpened on the concave side, catches goal as a hook and does not cut it away.
Handle with ring for his finger provides reliable extraction and retention of the knife even when the hand is wet. The knife is almost impossible to dislodge or tear out of compressing his hand.
In the traditional kerambita reverse grip his blade is virtually invisible to the enemy, which ensures secrecy of the knife up to the time of application. In addition, because of the anatomical structure of the human hand, the reverse grip, you can put much more power but it rips the motion, which is a major in engineering applications kerambita. As a consequence, even at small sizes kerambit has a very high damaging potential.
At the end XX - early XXI century on a wave of interest in the topic of self-defense using a knife kerambita functional advantages, combined with the exotic and predatory appearance attracted the attention of many designers knives. Some experts were quick to declare kerambit ideal knife for self defense, does not require for the effective use of special training.
Praise to the largest online knife forums, rave reviews in the magazine ads Blade and caused a real boom in popularity and kerambita spike in demand for blades of the mud. Demand is known, gives rise to the proposal, and a new niche market rushed knife as a master-individuals and large manufacturers. Even the owner of Lynn Thompson, Cold Steel (Lynn Thompson)? who in 2003 in his article to the nines criticized kerambit, after 3 years, following market conditions, released its own version of this knife - Steel Tiger.
Do not have to wait and folding options, production of which have developed many large companies, including Emerson Knives and Spyderco.
And for the fashion-and on the kerambit this title began to be used to place and not to the point, and the boundaries of the concept was gradually eroded. As a result, often become kerambitam wrongly attributed almost any knife with a crescent-shaped blades. So. such as knives, Spyderco Civilian, Masters of Defense Lady Hawk and Emerson LaGriffe kerambitami are not, although they are based, and is close in meaning of the concept.
In conclusion, I want to note that the demand kerambita as self-defense, by and large, does not depend on short-term fashion and is caused by the functional advantages of this type of knife. This allows you to put kerambit in line with the ageless classics like Bowie, a double-edged dagger or tanto. These knives are never completely out of circulation and continue to exist in its original form, and in the form of different variations.
Post time 8-6-2012 11:49 AM
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