mercop
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BM AXIS locks are great until you cut through a target and your thumb unlocks it and it lops off your fingers.
BM AXIS locks are great until you cut through a target and your thumb unlocks it and it lops off your fingers.
I had heard about it and one of my instructors had a BM trainer with the AXIS lock. It was pretty easy for us to replicate the failure. Enough so that we advise against them.
The way we found the failure was most likely was to cut with an angle #1 (cutting high right to low left) with the knife in the foil grip. Since this cutting is dragging in the same direction needed to unlock the knife it does so. Then as you come back up it closes on your fingers.