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    The karambit is a small curved knife from Indonesia originally used as an agricultural tool. It can be held and used in several striking motions, making it useful for self-defense. While primarily a tool, it was later adopted as a weapon in various Southeast Asian martial arts due to its claw-like curved blade and guarded handle that makes disarming difficult.

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    The karambit is a small curved knife from Indonesia originally used as an agricultural tool. It can be held and used in several striking motions, making it useful for self-defense. While primarily a tool, it was later adopted as a weapon in various Southeast Asian martial arts due to its claw-like curved blade and guarded handle that makes disarming difficult.

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    The karambit is a small curved knife from Indonesia originally used as an agricultural tool. It can be held and used in several striking motions, making it useful for self-defense. While primarily a tool, it was later adopted as a weapon in various Southeast Asian martial arts due to its claw-like curved blade and guarded handle that makes disarming difficult.

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    The karambit is held with the blade pointing downward from the bottom of the fist, usually curving

    forwards. While it is primarily used in a slashing or hooking motion, karambit with a finger ring are
    also used in a punching motion hitting the opponent with the finger ring. Some karambit are
    designed to be used in a hammering motion. This flexibility of striking methods is what makes it
    useful in self-defense situations. The finger guard makes it difficult to disarm and allows the knife to
    be maneuvered in the fingers without losing one’s grip.[5]

    The short Filipino karambit has found some favor in the West because such proponents allege the
    biomechanics of the weapon allow for more powerful cutting strokes and painful “ripping” wounds,
    and because its usability is hypothesized as more intuitive, but more difficult to master than a classic
    knife.The karambit or kerambit (as used in Indonesian), kurambik or karambiak (both from the
    Minangkabau language) is a small Indonesian curved knife resembling a claw from the Minangkabau
    people of West Sumatra. The karambit is one of the weapons commonly used in pencak silat and
    Filipino martial arts.[1]The Karambit was, first and foremost, a tool of peace. It was originally an
    agricultural implement designed to rake roots, gather threshing and plant rice in most of island
    Southeast Asia. It’s a smaller variant of the Southeast Asian sickles (Filipino garab and karit;
    Indonesian celurit, arit, or sabit; and Malaysian sabit). It still possesses many efficient uses for the
    modern laborer, allowing use of the blade for utility work, with the finger ring eliminating the need
    to put the knife down between operations, if use of the fingers to manipulate the object to be
    worked on is required (such as the action of cutting and opening a shipping box, or removing plastic
    wrap from shipments, in two very basic examples). The finger ring also provides an added degree of
    protection against dropping the knife during use, which is particularly essential in work environments
    that include heavy machinery, into which dropping a handheld, metal tool of any kind can cause
    massive damage to the equipment and those around it, especially if the tool is ejected at high
    velocity from rotating components. The karambit is believed to have originally been weaponized
    among the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra[2] where, according to folklore, it was inspired by
    the claws of a tiger. As it was weaponised, the blade became more curved to maximise cutting
    potential. Through Indonesia’s trade network and close contact with neighbouring countries, the
    weaponization of the karambit was eventually dispersed through what are now Thailand, Cambodia,
    Laos, Myanmar and the Philippines.[3][4]

    European accounts tell that soldiers in Indonesia were armed with a kris at their waist or back and a
    spear in their hands, while the karambit was used as a last resort when the fighter’s other weapons
    were lost in battle. The renowned Bugis warriors of Sulawesi were famous for their embrace of the
    karambit. Today it is one of the main weapons of silat and is commonly used in Filipino martial arts as
    well.[5]

    Superficially, the karambit resembles the jambiyah, although there is no connection. The jambiyah
    was always designed as a weapon and serves as a status marker, often made by skilled artisans and
    jewelers using precious stones and metals, whereas the karambit was and still remains an unadorned
    farmer’s implement and utility knife.[

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