Bit of an odd one, but I want lessons..

FullblownRose

..In knife-throwing. I'm sure there's not that much to it, but there has to be a bit of a technique. Apparently, Nicole Kidman has ''trained in knife throwing''

Alternatively. suggestions for other, similar skills I might learn? I don't want to knit or make pottery for a hobby.

Adamantium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmtB7FSVN8

FullblownRose

Class! Thanks.

Ruu

You call that a knife?

DrGreenthumb

When it comes to knife throwing most people can't cut it

FullblownRose

Is that what happened to your thumb?

DrGreenthumb

no i pick my nose with my thumb

FullblownRose

Must be a big nose or a small thumb...

ardle1

DrGreenthumb wrote: »

no i pick my nose with my thumb

Well,.. You should have picked a better one :eek:

DrGreenthumb

ardle1 wrote: »

Well,.. You should have picked a better one :eek:

Sinus up for a bit of rhinoplasty then

Esel

One very important thing, if throwing at a distance of more than about 3 metres (ymmv) is that the knife soon turn head over heels as it flies. So, for these distances, I understand that you need to know, or be able to accurately estimate, the exact distance to the target. This is so you know how to hold it when throwing i.e. to hold the handle or the blade, so that the point impacts the target.

Anyone remember playing chicken where you threw a knife into the ground between your opponent's spread feet, and they had to move a foot in to the where the knife stuck (it had to stick)? Then it was their turn to throw between your spread feet. When the feet got too close together for comfort, the first one to say 'chicken' when it was their opponent's turn to throw lost. Good times; no steel toecaps in those days either....

Nodin

Esel wrote: »

One very important thing, if throwing at a distance of more than about 3 metres (ymmv) is that the knife soon turn head over heels as it flies. So, for these distances, I understand that you need to know, or be able to accurately estimate, the exact distance to the target. This is so you know how to hold it when throwing i.e. to hold the handle or the blade, so that the point impacts the target.

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It's why when the question comes up "what would carry in the zombie/vampire/skanger apocalypse" my answer includes a hatchet. Pound and a half to two pounds of axe head bounces off yer noggin, ye'll know all about it whether it sticks in or not.

Esel

Nodin wrote: »

It's why when the question comes up "what would carry in the zombie/vampire/skanger apocalypse" my answer includes a hatchet. Pound and a half to two pounds of axe head bounces off yer noggin, ye'll know all about it whether it sticks in or not.

However, if the wooden handle is doing the bouncing off the noggin thing then one zombies on. It is a bit like politics - all about the spin.

Lyaiera

There are circus schools and collectives about the place. I'm sure one of them would have someone at least knowledgeable in knife throwing.

DrGreenthumb

Lyaiera wrote: »

There are circus schools and collectives about the place. I'm sure one of them would have someone at least knowledgeable in knife throwing.

Go to clown college, they'll even show you how to ride a tiny bike around a loop

Lyaiera

DrGreenthumb wrote: »

Go to clown college, they'll even show you how to ride a tiny bike around a loop

That sounds fun.

anncoates

God be with the day when the only available route to learning knife-throwing where sneaking out the bedroom window to evade your autocratic father and running away with the circus gypsies.

biko

Ninja shuriken death stars is where it's at*








*Ninja and Star Wars reference, double points.

Yeah it sounds pretty awesome

conorhal

I suspect this thread to end in the phrases,

Trust me.

The blindfold as you can see is secure.


and

Is there a doctor in the house!


In that order

AnonoBoy

I can teach you how to knife throw.



















I can't teach you how to do it well but y'know you'll technically be throwing a knife.