How to Throw Knives

Video Transcript

"Mike Lewis here with Christian Martial Arts. We are going over throwing knives. Again just like Ninja Stars or throwing needles or anything else there is actually many different styles of throwing knives. This is just one style here where the blade is actually only on one side. What you will find is that a lot of throwing knives have the double edge on either side. You will find some that have it on one side. The weight and balance is very important to the quality of throwing knives. So when you go in look for kinds that are weighted right there in the middle and also kinds that have holes in them so that you can actually take and use weights to change it up, especially if you really want to get competition and different things like that. To grip the throwing knife there are several different ways. You could have the way that you have no spin on it. You just sort of hold it out and you can throw it underhanded, overhanded, any way but what you do is you execute it trying to put as little spin on it so it shoots straight into the target. However, the most general way that you'll see is by somebody holding it down at the tip on the blade side of the knife and executing it. What I like to do is I like to take my elbow, point it to the direction that I am going to and let my arm loose so that it will fly in a straight line. If you try to side arm it too much it is going to fly off target so what you do also to make sure you get the correct spin and releasing it correctly which is very important is that you point your elbow wherever you are going and then execute your arm in a straight line directly towards your target. Also the release what you want to do is find out first what works best for you, whether you need to tighten or loosen your grip. For me personally I have got to keep it a little bit loose so that when I execute it it will only spin one time through the air. So you also need somebody off to the side that can probably help you out to see how many times you can spin it and so that is just the basic overview of how to get started into throwing knives."