Now you can practice with some of our most popular knife designs, in relative safety, with our new rubber training knives. Each has been carefully fashioned to look as realistic as possible so they can be effectively used in solo practice, training drills, disarm drills, and demonstrations and any other activity where you want a reasonably close approximation of realism but not the extreme danger and risk associated with an actual knife. The TPR Rubber blades are sstrong and will not break easily. They do however, have a level of firmness that might cause injury to the face or the eyes, so it is recommended that appropriate eye protection or a fencing mask is utilized at all times when using training knives The pugio (plural, pugiones) was a dagger used by Roman soldiers as a secondary weapon. Total Length :36.5cm / 14.4 Inches Weight: 160g