Peter Woodward, Knives and Daggers, on show "Conquest".

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Peter Woodward, Knives and Daggers, on show "Conquest".

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Is anyone familiar with this?

https://youtu.be/X0D-NPKSlxE

He has these men do some quick training and see how they would fare in a hand to hand combat with blades. He gives good over views and descriptions of various ancient and modern combat daggers and knives. Those Rondel daggers were pretty fearsome. He shows the term "cloak and dagger" comes from the Renaissance period when they would conceal a stiletto under a cloak, walk to their target, stab them, reconceal it under the cloak and try to get away.

I like those training knives he has them use. At one point he warns that those knives are "hard as a rock" so you still have to be careful with them.

I think somewhere in there he states that all someone needs is a two inch blade and they can kill. Alot of people think one needs blades over four inches to do that.