Great instructional video. Found this when searching for tips on teaching my 9yr old Cub, (UK) son the fundamentals of handling a knife. Many thanks all. Stay safe and God bless.

Sounds like the camera lens zoom was mounted to tank gun turret. 😆 Great video, thank you.

We really appreciate this information and the sequencing , thanks to all !

Never forget that safety is an “acceptable degree of risk”. I grew up with a Barlow, Cub Scout knife and later a Boy Scout knife. I played Mumbley peg all the time and generally had a pocket knife in my pocket all the time, even at school -forbidden these days.

I have taught the cub scout knife safety program for 4 years. I always got and kept their attention by first showing and explaining 10 or 12 different styles of knives, folding fixed blade, machete, WW II combat knives, and even hatchets and axes. Then we went over the 10 rules by having each cub stand up and read it from a large chart with discussion. I added in how to treat knife wounds when they are alone, how to stop bleeding and emergency first aid. We ended by letting the boys look at and handle all the items that I had brought. Finally I uncovered a couple of swords with matching fixed blade knives and had pictures taken with the boys holding them. They really stayed involved during my whole presentation.,.,.,.,.

but how do you cut stretchy things with a nice???

What would a scout be doing that a lock (never in my life heard it called a "safety") would prevent injury?

Is that a benchmade

why is the zoom making that horrible noise, 1980s VHS cameras did not even make that noise!!!!!

It's an older video of course, but I think Kory would be well advised to put some more energy into his presentation. I understand that you mustn't overdo it either, that you would wish for a calm, semi-formal setting and such, but you can control this well enough by choosing the time of day foremost: mid-late afternoon, after meals e.g.. You can engage more, and when you manage it, it won't be like goofing off: Move about a little, use your hands, emote, have some interesting things to look at also ready. 2nd, there is talking about things, and there is mentioning all the things that you wish to talk about at another time. The later, as we might suspect, doesn't help very much. And for teachers it really is a danger: there is so much content to go through that one might skitter here and there, touch on content only to throw it back down because there's no time; and, in the end, notice that in truth nothing was really finished. Maybe with children especially, just start somewhere, don't outline an agenda. Instead, have a clear teaching objective for this first thing, make haste a little, we have more to come, then a quick - best be hands-on - exercise to confirm, to reinforce; then next point. Being concise is key because kids don't do well with long lectures; have exercises (to break up the pace also) as we go along. There is also a really long section (from ~10-15 minutes) showing all the knives they're not even going to get: Benchmades, and spring-assists, and fixed blades. Why is this here? It's: 'Here, all this nice cool stuff, we'll not actually be using this.' Could be in the review section at the end, in fact could be used to elicit from kids why these are not good choices for beginners.

Cubs in the UK dont use knives

Remember , don't do what Donny Don't does !

I went I want to Cub scouts

The sound of the zoom

Noisy zoom on your camera

How is a dull knife the most “dangerous”

Cool Awesome I Mean SPECTACULAR!

You can throw throwing knives Thoa

Does anyone think people just dislike for no reason

When you are handing over your knife to another person, you close the blade prior to giving it to them and then hand them the closed secured knife safely. (referring to #9 ) NEVER with the blade open. I think the concept of your video is great but you need to rethink some of your points and your demonstration of knife handling, kids are sponges and they will copy how you are demonstrating how to handle and use of the knife. I think you are a good person for committing yourself to helping these boys and giving of your time ! just review the video and I'm sure you'll see what points I'm talking about. A knife is like a gun, never point it at yourself and the point (tip), and the blade should never sweep your body parts.. I hope your camping trip went well ! you look like you got a great camp site!! btw, what ever happen to the official "Cub"scout knife?

Folders are so much dangerous than fixed blades....

There is so much wrong with this information.

Boring I literally fell asleep. 😴😴😴😴