Having trained in the martial arts for over twenty years now, I finally grew tired of having training blades and other tools that were not weighted, sized or felt like their actual counterparts.  Out of necessity over the years I had made and bought my fair share of wooden, plastic and lower quality aluminum trainers. Thanks to my dad, I am pretty handy when it comes to making just about anything. So I went back to the garage as a man with a purpose. I took my blades, machetes, and hawks and started making trainers as close to the size weight and feel as the actual blades. Then I started making trainers for the guys I was working out with so they could have the same benefit I was having from using a higher quality trainers.  There is a real psychological impact to training with something that looks and feels like an actual blade.

I began taking the trainers and using them when training with others.  It did not take many seminars for people to start to notice the trainers I was using.  Other attendees asked where I was getting my trainers.  It only takes a few senior instructors and grandmasters to ask you to commission trainers for them before you realize you are on to something.  Then the requests really started coming.