Scary Eyes & Cultivator Blade
Photo of the Week – 14 September 2009
If Kim “Cultivator” Thomas didn’t scare anybody with those eyes of his, that knife with its curved beak certainly would. And notice that huge right hand holding the knife! One of Cultivator’s trademarks are his enormously strong mitts, developed over many decades during his career as a landscape architect. This shot was taken during his 2nd Dan Black Belt test in which he did an open blade knife kata—the use of a real blade being a KIA requirement—as well as two other weapon sets: short stick—his favorite—and nunchucks. Cultivator, a callsign originating from his profession, is obviously quite competent with his hands in more ways than one!