How to Sword Fight: Introduction to the Navaja Knife
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2021
- The navaja de muelles became popular throughout Spain as a fighting and general utility knife, and was the primary personal arm of the Spanish guerrilleros who opposed Napoleon during his invasion and subsequent occupation of Spain in the Peninsular War of 1808-1814.
The navaja became the symbol of a defensive knife that would be carried on one’s person at all times.
The navaja that was used as a fighting knife generally had a blade length of 4 to 8 inches. The larger fighting blade evolved into a pattern called the navaja sevillana that had a ratched locking mechanism with a long slender blade.
During the 18th and most of the 19th century, large navajas were traditionally worn pushed into a belt or sash, with the distinctively curved, fish-shaped handle left exposed to ease removal. An exception to the predominance of large-bladed sevillanas was the salvavirgo ("chastity knife"), a small knife carried by Andalusian women in a bodice or leg garter as a weapon of self-defense.
You can find books on the history and use of the navaja by Maestro James Loriega on Amazon
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If you want to see how the Saca Tripas is used to fight with in Mexico look up Professeur Buitron's videos on the subject.
Thanks, I'll look it up
4:04 Reminds me of a karambit. Cold Steel makes a couple of those too, notably the Steel Tiger.
If you heard it, it was probably too late to run. I purchased the Cold Steel Espada XL, with G10 scales. So I have been researching the Navaja. It is a very interesting subject. I've known about the sound, long before I knew about the knife. Thanks for the great video.
I luv the Cold Steel version of the Navaja ⚔️
Yep, the Espada XL. I bought one not too long ago. The one with the G10 handle scales, and it is a big scary knife. But it does fit in the pocket of my Wrangler Jeans of all things.
Joker knives makes some, lion steel makes a slip joint version designed by gudy von poppel. And byond edc makes 2 version designed by dirk Pinkerton, one model is a budget model with g10 scales, stainless liners and 14c28n blade all for $35 and the other model is a titanium framelock with a s35 blade for $150. Then you have the coldsteel espada. Kershaw makes a navaja style knife, stainless frame lock with a d2 blade, they have a 4.5 inch and a 5.5 inch blade version.
Lovely..... So Navajas are basically the big ass coldsteel lockback knives of the early centuries.👍
Hahaha, Yes, I guess they would fit into that category.
Kudos to Cold Steel for modernizing the Navaja, with the Vaquero and the Espada, now were is their version of the Sacatripas? Please Cold Steel, do one!
@@ricardosoto5770talon
Gracias maestro!
The saca tripas was also very common among vaqueros in Mexico
The Curved Blade looks awesomely cool 👌
It is, and the point is scary sharp.
@@swordfightingschool Right 😊👍
The Ska Gripas has a very similar blade shape with the Karambit but obviously upscaled... big time 😊😃
Espada Y Daga or Sword and Dagger 🗡️⚔️
I would probably translate sacatripas more accurately as "intestine remover". Sacar means to take out, tripas are intestines.
Karambit ⚔️💰⚔️
Love it! Where can I get those blades?
There is a guy in San Jose whose company goes by the name of Stickman. I believe he makes a wooden or synthetic version of the sacatripa and navaja
Nice tutorial
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it
I'm going to add some facts for context:
Gypsies are no longer traveling people, and it's not a derogatory word. The only problem is that there is people concerned about "political correctness" who want to dictate what others are allowed to say. The word gypsy does really have a stigma, mostly because every time they are mentioned it's because they are perpetrators of some kind of aggression or crime. They consider themselves gypsies and nothing else, they may sometimes use some other word, but 99% of the times they use the word "gitano", which is translated to gypsy.
Also, they used to be forbidden from carrying knives (navajas or any kind of knife) due to their typical uses for those (robberies and such), so they carried mostly scissors or other sharp tools to avoid trouble if registered.
In Spain, any folding knife is called a "navaja". So in order to distinguish any kind of pocket knife from a "navaja" we specify, adding words to one or the other. We may call a navaja a "navaja tradicional" and a military style pocket knife a "navaja tactica". Or maybe "navaja española" for our navajas, and "navaja suiza" for a swiss pocketknife.
Spain has always had a long tradition of folding knives, some archaeological finds date from pre-Roman times.
Hooked blades make short blades way better at doing the job at hand.
Not if your opponent hast heavy armor
@@thomas.thomasIf your enemy has "heavy armor" why are you fighting him with an short blade?😂
Navaja is more like a folding Norse seax
Yang melengkung seperti cakar di Indonesia di namakan "celurit"
the cs developers should have size checked
Teoria,luego esta la realidad
I believe _Romani_ is the proper word for the traveling peoples! The people of Roma :)
True but the Spanish word it “gitanos “
Spanish Roma/Sindi peoples have no problem with being called gitanos (gypsies). Unlike other countries.
"ROMANES" means gipsy or gipsies in the gipsy language... I have many gipsy friends and they don't find it offensive at all to call them gipsies... it is a term like "white" "black" "asian" so not offensive... they also call each other gipsies or romanes... it depends however how you use it. If you use in in a negative conotation of course they're not gonna like it.
IF the "travelers" of Spain is like it is in other places in Europe then that group includes more then just Romani groups (although share many commonalities).
In some countries "travers" and Romani are two distinct but similar groups. In others the term "travlers" act as a umbrella term that includes but are not exclusive to Romani. There is also different Romani groups that came to a country at very different points in time and as such go under different names.
So if you do not want to go into details a generic term like "travlers" is actually quite a good term to use.
Sikh warriors know how to fight with knives and swords ....
Yes, and that was their role in the society.
Navajo means fighting knives
I AM A NAVAJO FROM "THE DINE" TRIBE THAT KNOWS HOW TO
Handle a weapon you WHITE PEOPLE made us learn Handle