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- Jul 21, 2002
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Hello J. D.,
I don't have a video yet, but there's a chance I might be included on a complilation video that someone else is putting together. I do have a little cd with quicktime video clips of me throwing that I've been giving away, and have tried to get posted online for free download, though I don't know that you'd learn much from it(you might want to look up Scott Gracia's site for details sometime).
Here's the idea. I locate the balance point of the knife about one-third of the way up from the handle end. I just take any kind of blade, bayonet, conventional throwing knife, whatever, and make a handle out of tape, putting a big wad of it on the back end. This weight stabilizes the knife in flight, in something like the same way fletching stabilizes an arrow. The weight counterbalances the heavy front end and keeps the front end from ever dipping down as the knife flies through the air. And that extra weight causes the knives to hit like a hammer, as compared to a regular knife, anyway. (Also, this retards the rotation of the knife and gives better control on rotating underhand throws. I have hit one-rotation throws of over seventy feet using this technique -- one of the video clips on the cd I mentioned is a rotating underhand fifty-foot throw into a post about six or eight inches wide).
Probably more important is the grip I use. Instead of moving my hand towards the center of the knife, as palm throwers do, I move it to the back end of the handle, and put my index finger on the spine of the knife, to get better control. I can stick knives not balanced to throw spear-style, files, even garden shears, with this method.
I don't have a video yet, but there's a chance I might be included on a complilation video that someone else is putting together. I do have a little cd with quicktime video clips of me throwing that I've been giving away, and have tried to get posted online for free download, though I don't know that you'd learn much from it(you might want to look up Scott Gracia's site for details sometime).
Here's the idea. I locate the balance point of the knife about one-third of the way up from the handle end. I just take any kind of blade, bayonet, conventional throwing knife, whatever, and make a handle out of tape, putting a big wad of it on the back end. This weight stabilizes the knife in flight, in something like the same way fletching stabilizes an arrow. The weight counterbalances the heavy front end and keeps the front end from ever dipping down as the knife flies through the air. And that extra weight causes the knives to hit like a hammer, as compared to a regular knife, anyway. (Also, this retards the rotation of the knife and gives better control on rotating underhand throws. I have hit one-rotation throws of over seventy feet using this technique -- one of the video clips on the cd I mentioned is a rotating underhand fifty-foot throw into a post about six or eight inches wide).
Probably more important is the grip I use. Instead of moving my hand towards the center of the knife, as palm throwers do, I move it to the back end of the handle, and put my index finger on the spine of the knife, to get better control. I can stick knives not balanced to throw spear-style, files, even garden shears, with this method.