one hand challenge

[styx]

that actually might make for an interesting challenge. now just to find my pants and get on it....

[pfrsantos]

Fingerless gloves are basically bare hands for tool use. Boxing gloves would be pretty well impossible to get the tools out, let alone do anything with them once they were deployed. (I also don't have or know anyone who has boxing gloves...)

Well, imagine you are at a boxing match and you win and suddenly everyone start shouting because they think you cheated and you have to run and you go into a small room with only a small window with a metal grid screwed over it and you only have a SwissChamp on a table nearby and they are breaking the door down and one of your hands is holding the door and you only have one hand to open the knife. It's possible...

 

It's possible, but at that point I'd use my teeth to undo the strap on the free hand. Even with the hands taped up underneath, I'd still be more functional.

 

You couldn't because someone had put crazyglue on your mouth protector.
 

[Toolslinger]

It makes me think of another scenario, and we might start another thread about this:  The odd-hand draw.  In your EDC system as you normally carry it, can you take out a knife with either hand?

As long as the tool or pocket/pouch where the tool is located is not pinned beneath my body, I can draw any of my tools with my off-hand. It may not be as fast, but it is definitely doable.

Off the top of my head some examples of restricted access include:
-Sitting in the car (makes pockets less usable, can restrict some belt tools)
-Lying down (if you can't roll, anything between you and the ground becomes very awkward to access)
-Wearing a large/bulky jacket (can impede access to things on a belt or in a pocket depending on style/lenght)
-Wearing a pack (can restrict belt access due to size/position)

[av8r1]

It makes me think of another scenario, and we might start another thread about this:  The odd-hand draw.  In your EDC system as you normally carry it, can you take out a knife with either hand?

As long as the tool or pocket/pouch where the tool is located is not pinned beneath my body, I can draw any of my tools with my off-hand. It may not be as fast, but it is definitely doable.

Off the top of my head some examples of restricted access include:
-Sitting in the car (makes pockets less usable, can restrict some belt tools)
-Lying down (if you can't roll, anything between you and the ground becomes very awkward to access)
-Wearing a large/bulky jacket (can impede access to things on a belt or in a pocket depending on style/lenght)
-Wearing a pack (can restrict belt access due to size/position)

I carry both Skeletool and Style CS in my right hip pocket, Skeletool clipped to the pocket as designed, and the Style down inside.

In sticking with the 127 hours theme, I tried three scenarios where my right hand was "stuck" to the wall or floor and I had to use my left hand to get a knife out and cut it free.  I tried standing up with my hand "stuck" to the wall at eye level, laying on my right side with my hand "stuck" under something, and laying on my stomach with my hand "stuck" under something.  The first two were really easy, on my stomach took some yoga that I'm sure would have looked hilarious.  In no case could I fish the smaller tool out of the bottom of my pocket. I just realized how ridiculous I must have looked trying to reach into my right hip pocket with my left hand. Comedy careers have been built on less.