>>616729>I don't think batoning was a thing back thenI've just turned 50 this year so I did most of my knife training in the late 70's and early 80's, back then batoning was taught as something you did as a last ditch do or die effort, it was taught like this because the chance of breaking you knife in a survival situation might mean you death, fast forward to 2006 and people start showing up on YouTube to do knife reviews, these reviewers use batoning as a way of testing/showing how tough a knife is, the autists and sperglords see this and immediately take it as read that this is what you should be doing with your knife all the time, and thus we come to today where we now have a generation of chuckleheads who learnt their shit from said speglords and autists and think it's fucking gospel, some days you just have to shake your head and walk away.
