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GadwinDuilGadwinDuil Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 474
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Picked up a little 2 set of throwing knives with a belt holster from a local gun shop for $12 a couple days ago. Figured throwing knives would be a cool little parlor trick to learn.

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Anyone know how to throw knives? Because despite my video I'm not really very consistant with my throws like I'd like to be and advice would be swell :-D
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  • Renaissance_ManRenaissance_Man Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 972
    Oh boy - I love knives!!! Well... It's hard to give advice virtually. You seem to have the basics on so just keep throwing and you'll get more consistency. How do you hold the knife? How do you throw? Like in baseball? Flick wrist? Which part of these knives you have is the heavier one?
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  • HaysHays Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,262
    LOL I tried learning this several years back, and never really could get a rhythm down for it. Now, I DID win a few competitions in axe throwing though lol....different concept however.
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  • wwhwangwwhwang Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,863
    I tried throwing knives when I was younger...never really could get it down. I'm much better with rifles and pistols.
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  • GadwinDuilGadwinDuil Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 474
    Renaissance_Man:
    Oh boy - I love knives!!! Well... It's hard to give advice virtually. You seem to have the basics on so just keep throwing and you'll get more consistency. How do you hold the knife? How do you throw? Like in baseball? Flick wrist? Which part of these knives you have is the heavier one?
    I hold the tip of the blade, index and middle finger on the back and thumb on the top, I do the "Pretend your chopping wood over a fence" throw, where you try to stay completely vertically and reach out as far as you can, and as for which end is heavier it's ahrd to say. I read something about finding the balast? which is the even weight point and it was right in the middle of the knife so I guess these are pretty balanced knives?
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  • GadwinDuilGadwinDuil Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 474
    wwhwang:
    I tried throwing knives when I was younger...never really could get it down. I'm much better with rifles and pistols.
    That's my problem, knives are much cheaper than guns! LOL
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  • Renaissance_ManRenaissance_Man Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 972
    Ur knife reminded me of this guy's knives - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEzY_QzyhA I pretty much learnt from that video LOL... He's pretty good and has a few other videos to teach. It's good advice...
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  • ENFIDLENFIDL Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,836
    I know nothing on throwing knives besides they are ba!!!!!!!! Good luck on mastering it bro!
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  • docbp87docbp87 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,521
    Haven't ever gotten into throwing knives, but I would like to. I have a pretty extensive collection of swords and knives though. Love them.
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  • zoom6zoomzoom6zoom Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,214
    I don't throw knives, but the katana gives me a few feet of reach....
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  • GadwinDuilGadwinDuil Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 474
    Renaissance_Man:
    Ur knife reminded me of this guy's knives - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEzY_QzyhA I pretty much learnt from that video LOL... He's pretty good and has a few other videos to teach. It's good advice...
    It's actually really funny that you post that video, because when I decided to learn to throw knives that was the first video I watched, lol! I basically learned everything from his videos too, even though he's really bad at explaining things, lol.
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  • GoldyGoldy Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,636
    When I was learning I had a guy tell me to move closer and farther until I found a distance where the rotation would work. After that you are supposed to move back to another rotation worth of distance and keep doing that till you are comfortable with multiple distances. Once that is mastered you can try intermediate distances by changing your throw.

    I never put much time into it but it sure was fun.
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  • sirfoster83sirfoster83 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 783
    Ryan, for some reason I feel this has bad idea written all over it.

    Maybe its because I ALWAYS seem to get cut when I play with knives
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  • GoldyGoldy Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,636
    sirfoster83:
    Ryan, for some reason I feel this has bad idea written all over it.

    Maybe its because I ALWAYS seem to get cut when I play with knives

    Whats the worst that could happen?
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  • sirfoster83sirfoster83 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 783
    I was playing with a butterfly knife when I was younger and learned what my finger bones look like
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  • jship079jship079 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 621
    not knives but I used to be able to pick a fly off a apple with a chinese star.
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  • GadwinDuilGadwinDuil Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 474
    Goldy:
    sirfoster83:
    Ryan, for some reason I feel this has bad idea written all over it.

    Maybe its because I ALWAYS seem to get cut when I play with knives

    Whats the worst that could happen?
    Believe it or not, I've yet to cut myself! However I have broken quite a few fence boards, and stuck into the door of my shed on accident >.>

    Btw - I'm up to about a consistant 50% success rate with throwing! My highest streak so far is 7 in a row.
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