Marine reacts to the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife (w/ USMC KA-BAR comparison)

the secret of this knife is not because of the cutting edge because of the point this one's a bit blunt all right y'all welcome back to combat arm channel today we are checking out the fair burn sykes fighting knife or the commando dagger as it might also be referred to now we did a video previously with the british army and their bayonet training from evo's media and that was very cool to check out i know in the video of course i said uh you probably couldn't shoot through the bayonets and i was totally wrong on that so i do appreciate you guys fact checking me on that one and later in that video we're checking out more hand-to-hand fighting in the sense of martial arts and again that's everything you would see in the us military especially the u.s marines we do bayonet training we do martial arts we have our marine corps martial arts program and in that we have knife fighting and it's not totally in depth you know it has general counters to to knife fighting if you don't have a knife yourself it has general you know strikes and moves you can use with a knife but from what i've seen is the the commando dagger or the the fair burn sykes knife is meant to be used completely different from how we would utilize that in the us military so what i want to do is check out this video i think it's a world war ii vet explaining how to properly use it or at least how they've been taught to use it so again it is a stiletto style knife so it's it's meant to puncture really well i think more specifically like puncture in between the ribs so it's got a very specific purpose it's more for like the the silent killing um sort of aspect of knife fighting not so much like a utility fighting knife as you would see with the marine corps k bar so i do have my k bar right here this is just a this is like the smaller version there is a full seven inch blade version that i do have back in the states that's way more beat up than this one but yeah this is just the one i have here because this is going when i could have here in korea but again a lot of marines have k bars they used to issue these outs and uh it's a fantastic knife it's a good fighting knife and i'll explain that i guess later on in the video but it's also a great utility utility knife because it's very tough very durable i use this as a hammer a lot so we'll explain the differences between the uh the commando dagger and then this knife and how you would actually utilize the two so i know the commando dagger was developed by two brits i think in shanghai in 1940 or 1941. it was introduced in service in 1941 but i believe it was created by two folk who were in the shanghai police the municipal police so it's a very interesting background for for knife development for sure but it was introduced during world war ii and put in use during world war ii again as like their fighting knife sort of like a a commando i mean it is a commando dagger so it was meant for those more silent kills so right off the bat we do have the dif those differences but again i want to check out this video and see how it really how it really compares to how you would utilize the marine corps k k-bar or how you how you maybe should utilize it fairband psych fighting knight fs knife field service knife legs possibly six inches and six inches some blades but nine inches that's a long length of this knife it's not because of the cutting edge because of the point this one's a bit blunt it's a needle point and you don't need any weight or thrust when you're going to use it again so it wasn't meant to to be like okay this combatant versus this combatant where you're slashing and you really need to utilize it like that it's meant to penetrate and do its job very quickly it's meant to just try and kill quickly not so much as like a defensive uh sort of weapon so we're already seeing that right here just based off of it off uh its design turn into somebody and i'm gonna use this i don't have to push it forward just grab him and pull him onto the knife got it it's not badass you don't hold the knife this way wrong it's helped between the thumb and the forefinger i'll say real quick you see that a bunch in military movies and it's just so inaccurate you would never utilize a knife like this unless you're trying to be like john rambo or some crazy dude or if you just know that you know you're trying to scare a dude off but you're not you're not going to fight like that especially with a commando dagger you've got the palm of the hand go around it and if you're going towards a person you don't just walk two more you change ends very slowly so you don't know which end you're gonna have a knife in right but mostly if you're gonna do a job on a sentry you don't do what they say lift his chin up and cut his throat like that yes lift his chin up but put the knife in by the jugular vein which is both sides of the throat push it through punch it forward all right so you can see this dude has been there and done that he's very desensitized to what he's saying and i wonder if the camera crew is just getting a little bit triggered by what he's saying but i'm loving it it's very fun and it's very realistic again the the knife was designed for a certain purpose you're not going to be doing all that movie stuff it's meant to do certain things and this dude seems like he he knows how to use it to the best of its potential bit of a messy job but that's it right there is a way of stopping a knife and i'll tell you this when is a acne carry a bloke in my section disputed the fact that it could or couldn't be done i said it could he said no you can't i was coming out with a knife and he's like that he said you'd have to be very very quick to do it i'll say look with training and practice it's possible when it comes to such a point that evening talking about it that somebody said with the heat with the chief on prove it so this boat took the knife and i stood there and he come at me like this the way they said not to do it right so he come at me like that and as his arm went up i knew he was going to come down so i've blocked it with your elbow you never grab it probably with the elbow right the other hand comes down the back there and you take a paste forward right woof okay so that's exactly how we would do it as well so if someone was coming at you and they're doing you know something crazy like this something you wouldn't want to do this is very easy to block as long as you you know close the distance and you watch out for the blade you just need to get a forearm around here and you just wrap your arm around and take them down like that so you'd block so their arm would be like this and then you can just come down so their arm starts getting back or bent back you come underneath and then you can just wrench their arm and that's i guess that's what he's saying right here is you just bend the arm back come underneath and just twist it so they can actually drop the knife or you know you can take it from them so it's very easy you have all these defenses set up for certain knife attacks but that's by far the easiest and the most reliable as far as you know yeah you might take a little bit of a cut but if you can close it and then wrap them up that's it that's game over but if someone is actually using it properly it's almost impossible to really wrap their arm up like that especially if they're being defensive about where they're putting it down and i broke his arm i should see it does work but the upshot was in the moment the actually breakers are actually charlie was a commandant of the year commando training school and charlie said that he's bloke he's got his arm in a sling he's been sick he said to him you don't think our methods of training work and he spoke well yesterday well but um and charlie and he looked at me and he says you think our members are training oh good i said yes sir i've just proved it you tell them that this broke the broken obviously you can pack your kit get up the camp you're rtu'd wow got no faith in the training leave it out but that is a mark three knife right and these channels are not for what people say let the blood run through it's just a gripping effort because that's something used right used well it's a good weapon for close quarter combat so i can appreciate how he's not just trying to dramatize it and make it just sound super badass like yeah this is this is so the blood can drain out you have the same thing with the k bars you have this this fuller right here this like indent people are like oh yeah that's so the blood can pull there and it doesn't get on your wrist or your hand and that's why you have these grooves as well now it's just to take away some of the weight in the blade and it's nice when you have a professional who actually knows the knife and can appreciate it who's actually saying it accurately so again this is the k bar this came out in 1942 and this was created by some marine officers i'm not exactly sure which department they were actually in at the time but they worked with the union cutlery company and they tried to produces because at the time the navy had their mark one knife and that was breaking all the time so they wanted a more reliable knife a lot of people were just using their own civilian knives so that's why they put forward this now if you're not familiar with the term k bar it wasn't originally called the k bar the reason why it got that name i think he got it in early 1900's but basically there was someone in alaska i think they took down a kodiak bear with this particular knife and they wrote a letter to the the person who owned the company the union cutlery company and they're just basically just explaining their story and they didn't know english too well so they wrote like k-a-b-a-r and that's basically where the name k bar come from because he was he was trying to say kill a bear so pretty badass name again these are still made in new york they weren't originally made in uh in olean new york but that's where they're made now and that's where they've been made for a very long time so this is a very uh historic knife and it hasn't changed much since it was used in world war ii now originally the marine corps did have the um the raider stiletto like the marine raider stiletto which is basically a commando dagger before they actually got the kbar that's what they were using and again the navy was using their mark one so this was a very awesome addition to the military at the time because again it's a fighting knife but it's also a utility knife so it was good for you know chopping limbs the bigger version was good for like chopping tree limbs and doing all that and again you can use this as a hammer because it's so tough you know it's made from very durable 1095 carbon steel you know it's got a stacked leather and you know they pressurize this leather really well so it's very tight leather on the grip and they also use washers as well and they they also pinned the palm away and so it's a very durable knife and that's why they really loved it during world war ii they actually issued this out to the navy i think as a mark ii knife and then they also issued it to the army and of course the marine corps and a lot of the marines actually ended up getting the navy version just because there wasn't enough marine ones to go around so this knife has a lot of history but as far as the actual use of a knife i guess i'll just have to demonstrate how we would actually use it in the marine corps okay so hopefully i'm in frame well enough and hopefully this new lapel mic actually works because my last one sort of crapped the bed so again this is a k bar you would generally have a a seven inch blade i think this one is a five inch blade might not even yeah probably about a five inch blade so you'd use the k bar pretty much in a similar stance as how you'd use martial arts so in you know marine corps martial arts we have our our traditional fighting stance so it's just a normal fighting stance where you'd get a stance like this now you'd use the knife in a very similar way but instead of keeping it up here you'd keep it down here just so you know the enemy can't reach out and try and manipulate your arm and try and you know disarm you so you'd have the knife down here if you were going to get someone else who also had a knife you'd be blocking all that now we do have counters to the knife but generally you're not going to be using them when you have a knife yourself so you have your general strike so you know you got your forward and back diagonal slashes that's very standard you have some lunges so when you do it you would punch it out twist and then rip so it's kind of like what he was saying in his video where he would you know try and just rip it out whenever he actually gets a knife through their neck so we do a very similar thing that's generally what you're aiming for whenever you're doing this you'd go out punch to the neck twist it and then rip it out and you can also do it the other way so it's very basic you know fighting stances there's also something called bulldogging which is basically if you're pushing up against them and you're just trying to stab really quickly that's just like a more aggressive way of handling it but generally when you see people knife fighting they're not really having a stance like this like he was saying where you want to keep the knife like in between your your forefinger and your thumb that's generally how you would see people knife fighting to where they would get a sense like this so their body is a much smaller target in the military you're just you're so used to having a stance like this and this is you know sort of defenses were defensive where you have the knife down here but it's not as defensive as it could be because this arm is completely open for getting slashed and i mean you can try and like you know take their wrist or take their armpits or their you know their artery under their arm while you're doing this but you're going to get cut i mean you should expect to get cuts in a knife fight anyway but it's it's much more defensive and effective to use it like this where you're a smaller target you can still protect your neck but the only thing that they're going to be going for or then they can be going for immediately is your arm and your wrist but that's also what you're using to attack so while they're going for it you can make those attacks as well with this so you know you're moving that target at the same time you're attacking them so he was saying while you're moving up to them you could switch hands you can do a very similar thing where you can just you know move the blade around so they're not actually predicting where it's going to be coming from but generally you want to have the blade pointed towards their face so it's it's harder for them to see because if you see the blade like this it's a lot harder to track than if the blade is just like like this if you're doing some crazy stuff like this so that's generally how you would see people fighting but in the us military we have all this like really aggressive defensive stuff and of course you have knife defenses and i could go over that as well if you guys wants but it would basically just be the block like this wrap up the arm like that if they lunge you can you know i forgot what they called it but you would jump back grab their arm you know you could strike them there you can do an arm bar if they do like a forward and reverse slash there's a bunch of stuff you can do but the marine corps isn't too big on knife fighting and you do get into it a little bit more as you go up in bells because you have your tan gray green brown black belts in the marine corps martial arts program i got up to brown but i i will still say that it wasn't as far as i would have liked to go into as far as knife fighting knife fighting is a very awesome skill to have especially when you can't have a firearm with you so it's something that i wish the marine corps learned a little bit more about so if you guys do any training with your commando daggers because from what i've asked from my royal marine buddies like um you know luke from original human leon from bootnetgamer ryan from gen dick commando it seems like you have to buy your own commando dagger and now in the marine corps you do have to buy your own k bar it did used to get issued but it seems like now if you're buying it i'm not sure if you're getting the training so if you guys could provide some insight as how you actually train with your knife and if it's actually integrated with your martial arts program definitely let me know in that comment section because i'd be interested to see how you guys actually manage the whole knife fighting aspect especially royal marines you know they're they're commandos as well so they will have that commando dagger all over the place so if you guys do get good training on that commando dagger definitely let me know now in every military there's gonna be some sort of like sword or what have you like in the marine corps we have the nco sword that you would use for a lot of things but i'm more curious about the knives in this specific video so if you guys in any other military actually utilize a specific knife or if you have like a traditional knife design of course we have the the gurkhas and their kukri knife that that's another legendary knife but if you guys have any other traditional knives in your specific militaries you know whether it be finland norway sweden or what have you if you guys have any other traditional knives let me know in the comment section and also how you guys utilize them and with the commando dagger if you guys utilize those in a traditional sense as well because i know for each marine corps birthday ball we have a cake and we cut the cake with our nco swords and sometimes they'll lift it up with the kbar to lift up the piece of cake and they'll serve it to like the youngest marine or the oldest marine or what have you so that was an interesting way of incorporating these old you know historic tools into into what we do every year so if you guys have any other practices like that i know you guys do have your commando daggers on your uniforms so that's a cool way to implement it but if you implement it in any other way i'd love to hear about that because it's cool to sort of keep the tradition alive and keep you know keep it in the in the eye of the current marines and the people still serving so they can ask questions and then learn the history of what this knife and what the nco sword was actually used for but that is about it for this video y'all so definitely let me know what you think about this whole i mean it is a react video but it's also me just sort of explaining how we would actually do it in the marine corps so definitely let me know what you think about these sort of uh style of videos and let me know again how you how you guys actually handle your your knife training whether it be in the the british military or abroad i'd love to hear how you guys actually handle it if you get some solid training offered to you because again it is a very awesome skill but yeah let me know what you think in the comments section regardless if you guys like the video hit that thumbs up definitely consider subscribing but again that is it for this video i hope you guys enjoyed but i'll see you on the next one [Music]

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Keywords: fairbairn, sykes, fairbairn-sykes, fighting, knife, commando, dagger, how, to, tactics, use, kabar, ka-bar, usmc, marine, army, reacts, reaction, royal, uk, british, wwii, raider, stilleto, union, cutlery, co

Id: ZSJ5VV-Xk_M

Length: 19min 7sec (1147 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 06 2020