How To Throw Knives
- July 7, 2008
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Writer
Jake_Bakkila
Music
The Way It Is
Voice Over Artist
Darcie Champagne
Learn how to throw knives, and you’ll be the life of the party—and a candidate for the circus.
You Will Need
- Throwing knives
- Patience
- An unwavering dedication to safety
Knives are dangerous, especially when thrown. Throw them at your own risk, and never throw them at others.
Step 1: Get throwing knives
Get some throwing knives. There are many websites that cater to knife-throwing enthusiasts and that can recommend what kind of knives a beginner should buy.
Step 2: Find a throwing location
Find a place to throw the knives, ideally one that is far away from absolutely anything that you could accidentally cut or kill with an errant toss.
Step 3: Get a target
Get a target in which knives will stick, like the side of a wooden shed or an old, propped-up wooden door.
Step 4: Position knife
Hold the knife in your dominant hand. This is your throwing hand. Grip the handle as you would a hammer, but rest your thumb along the edge.
Step 5: Stand properly
Get in a proper knife-throwing stance, with your dominant foot back, your weight on your back foot, and your knees bent.
Step 6: Bring arm back
Bring the arm holding the knife back and up. Your elbow should be level with your shoulder.
Step 7: Throw smoothly
Throw the knife by swinging your hand and arm toward the target and extending your reach as you throw forward. Keep the knife pointed toward where you want it to go as you let it fly.
Step 8: Practice
Keep practicing until you become adept at hitting your target.
For best results, keep your blades sharp.
Step 9: Rest your arm
Rest your arm between throwing sessions. Just like tennis players and baseball pitchers, knife throwers are at risk for arm injuries if they overdo it.
Terry O’Quinn, who plays the character John Locke on Lost, is proficient in knife throwing.
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Comments (8)
There a a few steps that are left out of this video. First there are many ways to hold a throwing knife, I have never thrown one in the described manner. Also left out is the distance vs rotation. if you are holding the knife by the handle you are looking for a full rotation of the knife 360* if you are holding it by the blade you are going to want a 180* rotation. Now when throwing the knives you do NOT want to flick your wrist you want the knife to just slide out of your hand, you need to just let go, NO flick. To find your proper distance you need to watch how the knife hits the target if the knife hits the target point up you need to move back, point down you move closer. Now of course you could stay in the same spot and try to change the speed of your throw to make the point stick, but moving back and forth it easier for the beginner. Last the blades do NOT have to be sharp just the point cuz that's all you want to stick, if you look at professional throwing knifes you will see they have no sharpened blade just a point. I give this video two thumbs down
over 3 years ago by Mangekyou1
How do you figure the distance vs the rotation of the knife so that the knife ends up with the blade in the object?
over 3 years ago by denport
I was surprised to see how your are supposed to hold the throwing knife. When I was a kid, we used to hold the tip of the blade and throw the knife.
I will have to try the proscribed way.
over 3 years ago by Richien
This guide leaves out key steps if you really want to learn to throw knifes. its sad really
over 3 years ago by Mangekyou1
cool
over 2 years ago by Soap
I was a candidate for the circus, but nobody voted for me. &;lt;sniff>;
over 2 years ago by Jack_Mead
The first comment in the movie show how dumb we Americans are. They have to say that knives are danagerous and not throw them at people...
over 2 years ago by Concardne
Hahah chill video, makes me want to run out and buy throwing knives.
Where do they sell throwing knives anyway?
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