A forum for No Spin nuts? Sweet......

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This is my first post here, I've been lurking these forums for a few years
reading various tid bits about knives and such.. Last year I discovered the
joys of throwing knives after stumbling upon some Ralph Thorn videos on
youtube.. Once I saw video of him throwing, I said to myself:
"I have to learn how to do that" so I grabbed an old kitchen knife and went
directly outside and began trying to throw it no spin.. It took me quite a while to
figure out how to release it and finally get it to stick when I threw it..
When I first began, I thought it was impossible to actually learn this,
it was just hours and hours of frustration and unsuccessful throw
after throw..
My addiction has grown strong since the beginning of this year and now
I'm contantly thinking of throwning knives and Bo Shuriken/Spikes..
Then I realized that this place has a special subsection for throwning
nuts like me.. Are us knife throwers really as small a minority as it seems?
When people find out I throw sharp objects for fun they look at me like
I'm out of my mind, which I might be, but who cares, I have fun doing
what I do.. I'm still learning and figuring things out, but so far I've loved
every step of the way in this new venture... I never would of though
I'd love throwing the way I do, but you never know some things until
you experience it first hand... Thank god I found a community of like
crazies like myself...;)
Here's a vid I just did recently..
[video=youtube;gwnPsyZI5AY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwnPsyZI5AY[/video]
 
I throw with spin, I gave up on no spin throwing. I can do it sometimes, but I don't like it very much so I don't practice. That behind the back throw was good, last time I tried that I threw it into my calf, it didn't stick there but even tiny puncture wounds hurt like you wouldn't believe.
 
just out of curiosity, what are the main preferences for knives/bo shuriken/ spikes for both no-spin and spin throwing? I've heard good reviews for cold steels line up as well as flying steels bo-shuriken. Any suggestions, links or pics would be a huge help. thanks!
 
Oh no! Don't tell me you learned to throw without buying any of my books or videos! How am I supposed to get any royalties that way?

Seriously, everybody is ultimately self taught; instructional materials just facilitate it. You definitely have the ability and the fact that you taught yourself after thinking you would never get it should encourage others...

thanks for posting the video...

RT
 
Thanks guys! I appreciate it! It's just too much damn fun to stop....
Ralph, what an honor to get feedback from you yourself.. Just so you know,
you are 100% responsible for me deciding to go out and throw something...
And I thank you for it.. When I started out I didn't have your book or DVD,
I just had those youtube videos to watch, so I watched them over and over,
trying to figure what magical things you were doing to throw the way you do...
Many months later I got the book and DVD, and then things started to click
for me once I watched the DVD.. Your DVD is incredibly helpful, in fact it's
really one of the first instructional videos I've ever watched and actually
saw immediate results from just paying attention to you and then going
directly outside and visualizing myself throwing like you... Thank you,
you have helped bring something new into my life that gives me extreme
satisfaction and had become a daily practice in my life, not to mention
the stress relief you get from throwing..
As far as what I throw, I don't really have any proper throwing knives yet,
with the exception of my Cold Steel GI Tanto, which I didn't buy as a thrower
but I ave thrown it and it's very good for it..
I throw things I have around the house, like screwdrivers, bastard files,
punches, chisels, old kitchen knives..
I do make my own spikes/Bo Shuriken though... I currently have a small
collection that is growing as I have the time to make them..
Lately I've been really enjoying throwing the spikes I've been making from
01 steel drill rod, very dense, heavy and hard.. I've done some smaller
ones out of 25/64", 15/32", 1/2" and I just bough a rod of some 9/16"
drill rod.. I've made them anywhere between 6" and up to 12", depending
on the diameter.. The 11" and 12" out of the 1/2" seem to work really well,
you end up with a good amount of weight, but not too heavy.
I also just made a couple of (prototypes) of my homebrew version of something
akin to the Shure-Knife (which are on the list of purchases soon),
out of some 1" wide x 1/4" thick mild steel..
WOW! Amazing to throw.. I'll be posting a thread in the next day and showing
all the things I throw and make..
Right now I'm off to the backyard to go grind some of the 9/16" drill rod into
a 11 3/4" spike and see how it works... Lately I've been wanting more and
more weight behind the objects I'm throwing....
 
Hey Ralph, I found your dvd on amazon, ill definitely have to get it. I will probably ask for your book and dvd for my birthday, it'll be my sweet 16 so maybe my parents will get me something. (I dont even know if guys have sweet 16 birthdays lol)
 
just recently I bought a whole mess of carpenter nail-spikes. I got 6", 8" and 10" in alluminum, and then today i grabbed 8", 10" and 12" in steel, there is a clear difference between the alluminum and steel for weight, but hopefully sooner then later i can get the chance to compare them. I plan on sanding the alluminum ones smooth, chopping the flat heads off of them, regrinding the tip to get a longer profile, painting them blac, then with industrial glure, gluing a hemp string grip around the back end. if anyone else has suggestions for improvised and homemade shurikens, please post! :)
 
Thank you patriqq... One day soon I hope to be throwing some of the
great stuff you make.. I've got my eye on those Shure-knives..
Gotta my hands on those, they just look like they're begging to be
thrown... I'm wondering what it would take to have you custom
make something, if that's even possible...:)
Andrew 132, when you get the DVD, watch it over and over and
then go throw.. You'll see a huge difference.. Ralph's DVD is worth
every penny...
mtgsniper, yeah, the weight makes so much difference.. I started
out with pretty light stuff myself, and short which made things
even harder.. Now I want heavier and longer things to throw...
I think one of those cheap swap meet swords would fit the bill
for that...
 
I tell my non-throwing friends that it's like darts, except on a much bigger and dangerous scale. Most of the time I go with no-spin. I do it almost every day. :)
 
One thing I forgot to ask: do you have to replace your cardboard targets very often? My little wooden board set-up has taken probably about a thousand throws in the past year or so and is splintered like crazy. Chunks are falling off and it gets smaller as time goes on, which makes it much harder to stick. =/
 
My cardboard target is an ever evolving creature of its own. I've gone through about
10 of them. I'm lucky to have a furniture store a block away so I have an endless supply of cardboard. My cardboard targets end up weighing around 80 lbs or so. They begin with about 20-30 tightly compressed with duct tape and someone standing on it. Then I keep layering more cardboard on with more tape, when I get a good bundle built up, I cover the front with several layers of duct tape doing in a weave. Then I keep applying a new front made up of 12-15 layers, which is the main front surface I throw at. These last for quite a while if you have enough tape on the surface behind the layers your throwing at.
Here's my carboard target as of now:
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But... My project has begun, this weekend I began making myself a more suitable throwing target. I'll be making basically a big 36" tall x 20" wide butcher block made from 4" slices of 4x4's, an attaching that to the front of this. That way I'll have a nice big area of endcuts to throw at. I've thrown a few at this as it is and I definately want to put in the extra effort to have endcuts to throw at. I live in the city and I don't have a car so finding nice big pieces of pine log rounds isn't possible, yet..
Here's the beginnings of my target, it's 78" high and 28'5" wide.
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I'll still have cardboard targets around to throw things at, but I felt it was time to
make the move up to a real target... Cardboard is fun, but it's too easy to stick,
whereeas wood makes you throw honest, so to speak..
 
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