Dominican Proficiency With Big Knife

I posted a new daily-life video on YouTube today featuring a couple of virtuosos with a big knife.

YouTube - Dominican Proficiency With Big Knife

Robert said:

That was very cool Ken. Amazing how they don't slice of their fingers!

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Thanks, Robert.

I asked the guy peeling oranges about that. He laughed and said when he was learning to do it he sliced his fingers a lot, but he has all of them.

I think the guy removing the hard shell from a coconut is at even bigger risk because he is swinging that machete with a lot of force and without hesitation. I'll have to ask him whether he has ever cut himself, but I know from observation that he has all his fingers.

bachata said:

I hope some time you can film a Dominican guy cutting cabbage using a piece of inner tube (rubber air chamber that goes inside the wheels of some vehicles) to protect his hand from the sharp knife.

JJ

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I've never seen that, where is this done?

I asked the man who sells coconuts at the beach if he ever cut himself. He said not even when he was starting. But he said he is faster now than then because of all his practice.

He told me his record is preparation of 350 drinking coconuts in 30 minutes. It seems a hotel in Cabarete was planning a special activity and asked him to bring several hundred drinking coconuts. He brought 350. The man in charge of the activity said he would buy all he got ready in 30 minutes. They were ready when the man came back in 30 minutes for the coconuts.

I doubt he could take the hard shell off anywhere near that number of mature coconuts in 30 minutes.

jrhartley said:

I tried de husking a few coconuts once - you need a static spike to impale them on and the strength of ironman to rip the shell off, but apart from that its fairly easy....ahem I decided I didnt like coconut that much to try anymore than four lol

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Now that you have seen how easy it is to de husk a coconut with a machete, why not give that a try?