OK time to set up inside throwing again!!

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Windwhistler

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Well, winter is here again and between rain sleet and frozen targets I would just as soon practice inside. What do your basement, attic and carport setups look like? I'd love to find something to use inside that would stand up to some big knives and small axes.
 
Ditto on no indoor area. The only buildings I have big enough to throw in, e.g., my barn, equipment shed, warehouse, garage apartment, old brooder house, new and old workshops are full and/or fully used with no throwing space. I really don't want to build a dedicated throwing shed, but I may have to break down and do so in order to have a decent place to throw during inclement weather. Otherwise my putrid throwing technique will not improve very quickly. At least we have pretty amenable weather for most of the winter here in central Texas.
 
All those barn and shed spaces sound like they would work pretty well actually. Last year I made a small space no more than 18' or so long in my basement and went to throwing light cheap stainless table knives that I cut to balance and pointed on my grinder. They were 3 for $1 at the dollar store. Stuff that light makes you really have to work on technique since you have to control the throw very carefully, the release and put a good bit of heat on it to stick when it gets there (doesn't conserve momentum well). Then I went out with the heavier Condors and Cold Steels whenever the weather improved. I found that the little light stuff did indeed improve my technique a good bit. You can also practice in short space with oddly balanced stuff like scissors, large nails and screw drivers. I like to mix the lengths and weights as I throw so that my hands have to adjust the hold on each item as it comes into hand. One problem in a basement is low ceiling. I was trying to beat a problem I had throwing in my woodshed out back with hitting the low roof. The basement made me work lots more on side hand, back hand and under hand throws. All in all the low ceiling, short distance and crap knives helped my overall throwing technique.
 
You'd think with all those buildings I'd have some place to throw, but....

THEY'RE FULL!!!!! :( I don't want to back the tractor or other vehicles/equipment out so I can throw steel around. Windows and tires don't like sharp, pointy things bouncing off them and the concrete floors wouldn't treat the points nicely. I just got through moving ALL my mother's "stuff" out of her house cause she's selling it. Boxes and boxes of "stuff". I can't even put a bicycle in the 2 car garage and the warehouse has a little trail through it that my wide ass doesn't fit through too well.
 
Another way to look at it, is what is the longest distance you would ever need to throw a knife inside as a distraction or for effect? My longest room is the living room at 15'. If I threw across the LR and Dining room it would be a 28 foot distance. Almost any necessary throw would be less than 12 feet. That means you can set up a target in the kitchen if you'll try ten layers of heavy cardboard glued together or one of the wood stove box sides (Super paste board laminate) and throw a short but reasonably useful distance. Here is my little 10' inside range. Note 1 barbell at the bottom and 1 at the top. I can move this to longer distance and any height easily and it is great for any knife light to about 12" Condor size. Heavier ones pull it over. This is the side out of a "Buck Stove" box. It will stop an arrow from my 45# recurve and two will stop an arrow from my compound cross bow.

 
Hi, I have an area in my cellar where I throw about 10'. The problem I have found is not the throwing, you need a narrow corridor to throw in. But bounce when the knives don't stick is the problem
 
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