Combat Knife Throwing: A New Approach to Knife Throwing and Knife Fighting, Revised and Updated (illustrations) by Ralph Thorn

Author:Ralph Thorn [Thorn, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781610048286
Publisher: Paladin Press
Published: 2008-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Advanced Tips

Throwing knives spear style is intuitive, and developing greater ability comes naturally with practice, not through any amount of reading or thinking about it. Nevertheless, there are some things that, if recognized consciously, can help speed this process along.

The first of these is spin. By “spin” I mean the kind of spin a bullet, arrow, or drill bit has: rapid circular motion of its whole length. In the four combat throws, spin is bad. Spin causes a throw to lose just a little energy and therefore to not hit quite as hard. It also causes a knife to drill a hole into a target and then flip out of it. The tiny gain in accuracy it will give a throw is not enough to make up for these things. Try to make these throws spin as little as possible by not twisting your wrist or fingers as you release the knife. A throw with little spin is called a “flat” throw.

The ultimate goal regarding your knife grips is to be able to put a knife into either of the two grips so automatically that you never realize you have done it. Aside from being able to switch from overhand to underhand and back again, and maybe into a stabbing grip, you will constantly be moving knives from your off hand to your throwing hand both in front of and behind your body (see the combat chapter). The trick is to be able to grip a knife lightly enough to be able to move it around in your hand effortlessly, yet firmly enough that you don’t drop it. Playing with knives all the time is the only way to achieve this.

As your throws grow stronger and your range greater, you will realize that the point at which you release the knife changes according to how hard you throw, at least if you want to stick anything. The harder you throw, the later you must release the knife. This is true for all throws. If you lob a knife softly overhand, it is possible to stick it into targets greater distances away — I have used these high-arcing throws to drop even my littlest knives into targets twenty-five feet away; a long sword blade can do this from up to about forty feet. With this kind of throw you must release the knife while it is still over your head. Of course, such a throw has no velocity to speak of and therefore no practical use. To get power on a throw, you must throw it in as straight a line as possible, and on overhand and sidearm throws (the first and second most powerful throws respectively), this usually means releasing it when your arm is parallel to the ground. You won’t be able to stick things from as far away doing this (range and velocity are two different things), but it will mean more when you make a hit. Of course, there are other factors that will affect how powerful your throws are.

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