WEBVTT - Selects: Knife Throwing: Super Cool 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.119 M Hey, everybody, it's Josh and for this week's select, 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.360 I've chosen a member of our surprisingly extensive circus art suite, 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.120 our episode on knife throwing, thanks to Laverne and Shirley. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.720 I always thought it was a gimmick, not actually real, 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.120 but boy, did this episode open my eyes. I hope 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:25.439 it opened your eyes too, to the awesomeness of knife throwing. Enjoy. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.240 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:40.240 Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:46.680 There's Charles Chuck Bryant, and there's this stuff you should 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.920 all right, this bears some explanation. So I was doing 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.040 my Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle of Impression, which 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.520 one is Stevie. He was the kid in the wheelchair 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.480 who's like breathed like that, who talked like that because 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:04.360 he he had serious asthma. Yeah, he remember him. Was 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.480 he just like a classmate? Yeah? He was like his 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.800 best friend, I believe I remember. I like, I like 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.240 that show that. Yeah, well that's not what I was doing. Really. No, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.120 we're slightly out of breath because we just had a 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.240 fire alarm. Yeah, we had to walk down four stairs 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.319 four flights of stairs and not like this, the one, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.400 the kind of flight where it's like down, landing down again, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.520 the two flights. Yeah, so we walked down eight flights 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.280 of stairs and then walked back eight more. Right when 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.720 we got down, stopped and immediately turned around to go 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.000 back in. It was ridiculous. It was the kind of 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.080 thing that makes you say, maybe I will only next time. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.240 It was a fire alarm. I was prepared to hide 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.280 in the studio and keep working. Yeah, we thought about it, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.160 but there's a fire marshal who works here, so you 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.640 can't can't run a foul him. Man, he got on 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:55.640 that orange best quick changes everything. So I ever heard 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:01.480 of those guys that sneak into places with those vests? Yes, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.360 I have, I don't is there a name for what 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.320 I think these? I'm sure more than one person has 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.560 done this, But there's these two guys in particular who 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.080 uh kind of got I don't know about famous, but 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.520 made a name for themselves for putting on the orange 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.040 vests and saying basically like, if you wear one of these, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.440 you can get in anywhere you want. Amost, if you 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.840 have orange vest on, you look like you're supposed to 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.160 be there. Well, yeah, you gotta have that steely sense 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.560 of nerve and Alwaukie talkie is probably a good thing 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.960 to have to Yeah, but they can go anywhere because 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.799 the orange vest guy that means that's something's wrong in 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.919 the orange vest guy has to take care of it. Yeah, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.000 Like they showed pictures in the in front of a 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.280 I can't remember what show it was, but a big, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.400 big concert where they were in that buffer area between 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.920 the people in the stage, right, yeah, and fred Durst 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.400 is like, oh, there's an orange guest, the best guy. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.560 Something must be going on. What year was a h 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.920 This would been two thousand two maybe the fred Dorst 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:09.679 ears Great Years, the Wonder Years. Right, Well, man, I'm 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.720 hot now too. I'm I feel good. I got like that, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.760 got the endorphins fall and this is gonna be a 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:20.079 cool episode, buddy. Well the irony is I so grossly 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.400 out of shape. I started getting on the peloton yeah 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.840 last week, so I've been and this is not a 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.440 plug for pellets, I guess it is, but it's not 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.400 an ad, but I've been getting on that thing. So 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:40.000 my legs are ham rubber rubber band hams right now. Anyway, Yeah, Hey, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:45.320 y'all prepare yourself for the rubber band ham. That's hey, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.560 will you indulge me for one moment? Oh man, I've 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.400 been waiting for you to ask me that for a 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.800 long time. Alright, So I've got the old side get 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.720 going with Movie Crush, my podcast where every Friday I 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.720 sit down with someone awesome and talk about their favorite 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.600 movie and kill it. Thank you. 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It's 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.400 called The Chuck and Emily drink wine uh and talk 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.560 about the Oscar nominations. Oh yes, yeah, So we recorded 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.000 this thing at home. We put the kid to bed 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.920 and broke out some nice wine and did our pre 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.279 Oscar round up, So that dropped yesterday, and then next Monday, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.240 the day after the Oscars, we're going to have our 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.320 post Oscar round up where we talked about who won 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.120 and what the speeches were like and who wore it best. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.000 That's awesome, man, Emily is going to be a star. Chuck. Yeah, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.840 she was actually pretty great. And if you want a 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.240 little peek behind the merrital curtain, uh, this is this 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.480 is your chance. So yeah, if you could check out 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.560 movie Crush on Apple podcasts or where we get your podcasts. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.760 Nice man, do you feel indulged? Very much? Good? All right, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.440 let's talk about knife throwing. So I'm a little psyched 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:41.560 about this because knife throwing taps into my ninja training 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.080 that I did under Tommy Roper as I'm sure I've 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.279 mentioned before, uh reading about this researching it. I never 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.320 threw knives. We never made it that far, and maybe 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:56.120 now I'll be I'll be hang gliding throwing knives at 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.680 the same time. I'm going to get into both at once. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.400 But I did a little throwing star stuff. Throwing star 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.120 is like the dummies, Uh, knife throwing because that thing 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.320 always sticks, right, Yeah, I mean, depending on how many 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.600 spikes you got coming off of it, and how many 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:16.640 beers you've had, um, and and whether the tree is 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.800 actually like a metal pole or not, you're probably gonna 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.920 stick a throwing star. Throwing a knife is an entirely 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.960 different endeavor, and it's something that anybody can do. That 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:32.839 Nicholas Jerbis or Gervous never met him yet. Um, he 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.040 points out, this is actually kind of like a low 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.720 hanging hobby that you could. You can get a set 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.680 of knives for ten fifteen bucks apiece. You probably one 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.039 about five is well, we'll explain why, um, maybe six. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.880 You just practice, get yourself a good block of wood, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.440 and practice, and anybody can do this. It's not like 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.480 you're born to throw knives. You practice and if you 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.360 like it, you keep going and you just get better 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.240 and better at it, and you can impress your friends 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.760 and neighbors. Yes, and here's the point in the show 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.120 where we issue our c o A. Kids, if you're 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.640 out there, do not go get a steak knife from 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.680 your drawer and start throwing it at your dog. That 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.200 is not a throwing knife. And never throw anything at 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.000 your dog. Kids, I will come find you. Yeah, never 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.200 throw anything at anybody that's sharp. But um, throwing knives 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.280 are built to throw. They're weighted and balanced to throw. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.280 They're not like regular old knives. And we'll get into 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.520 all that. But just if you really want to try 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.280 throwing knives, go ask mom and dad or Tommy Roper 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.400 and get ready, get ready for a no, and then 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.120 and then play them this podcast where it is an 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.920 actual um circus art. And please, for the love of God, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.880 tell me this is the last one. I don't think 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.120 of the circus arts. No, it's not. What else is? 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.160 There's a bunch we've done the Globe of Death, flame 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.800 swallowing lions, aiming swords, swallowing sword swallowing. H we did 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.960 circus families, just straight up circus families. Human cannonball has 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.840 got to be it. I don't think so, man. I 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:14.600 think it's going to keep going into clouns clowns for sure. Yeah, um, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.280 they haven't. Don't want to p T Barnum though, No, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:23.720 you mean Hugh Jackman, what is it, Chuck Stradomas, I 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.640 don't know something like that. I make one lucky casting 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:33.280 call predict, one sexual predator and one bad Lifetime movie 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.360 or what what was shark Nato sci fi sci fi movie? 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.760 Three Little Things? That's all. That doesn't make me Nuxtra 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.640 Domans haven't won the lottery yet. I think of all 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.880 the things I have said that didn't come true right 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.959 way more. Yeah, I guess that's true. You know, yeah, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.080 whatever writes in and well that didn't happen, right, you 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.199 really got that. Actually, they do right in to tell 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.000 us we got stuff wrong a lot. That's so we're 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.000 gonna take this seriously because we want you ten year 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.800 olds out there who want to get your parents to 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.199 let you do this, to to see that you're taking 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.920 this seriously by listening to this podcast. First. Okay, that's right. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.240 So what we're talking about specifically is known as uh 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:16.960 somewhat ironically as an impalement act um, which is really 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.480 weird thing to call it. It's well, it's um, yeah, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.520 it really is. I think it's a little tongue in cheek, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.360 you think, because the point is to not right, The 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.160 point is to not impale somebody with this kind of thing, right, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.240 that's right. And and impalement acts are an umbrella term 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:38.000 that cover not just knife throwing but bull whip cracking, oh, shoot, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.600 sharp shooting, archery, William tell kind of thing. All of 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.200 those fall under the the umbrella term of impalement acts. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.719 Jerry's undressing over there to our left, she got very 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:54.000 hot in the fire drop. Um. All right, so this 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.839 goes back if we can get back on the way 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.720 back machine, Um, all the way back to the late 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.040 nineteenth century. We to go back here further than that. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.680 Are you gonna go like to ancient times? No? No, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.680 We'll still will just go to the nineteenth century because 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.040 I'm sure Chinese people in ancient times through stuff that's 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:16.960 stuck in walls. Well, I looked at I looked up 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.640 the oldest knife and started everything. Apparently they did. Apparently 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:25.880 they found the oldest knife five thousand years ago. Oh, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.959 the oldest knife knife. So we've been using knives longer 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.840 than there have been modern humans, yeah, for sure. And 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.560 then we at some point, probably about four hundred and 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.959 ninety nine thousand years ago, we started throwing knives because 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.640 it's stabbing is okay, but throwing a knife is when 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.000 you really can come to appreciate what a knife does, okay, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.800 And there was nothing better in it, like an eighties movie. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.160 Then when like James Bond through a knife and I 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.240 got a guy or American ninja. That's what I was 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.559 trained on. Um. All right, so wild uh wild West shows, 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.240 Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Shows travel throughout the 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.880 United States, throughout Europe. Um knife throwing became a big 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.920 spectacle at things like this, as well as obviously sharp 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.760 shooting and ye probably archery. They probably did all the 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.959 impalement arts. They definitely did um and they really brought 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.280 it to the world, um to the to the point 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.560 where you can just basically say that's where it started, 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.240 was Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Yeah. And this is 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.040 one of those things where, through a modern lens, it 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.280 it is incredibly misogynistic to think about the fact that 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.720 you say, hey, let me take a scantily clad woman, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.920 a target girl, yeah that's what they call him, a 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.199 target girl, and throw knives at her. Yeah, just stand there, 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.360 throw knives near her. It's always a lady. She's always 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.200 got on like a bikini or something. She's just like 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.600 almost like wild West steampunk renaissance fair thing, right, you know, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.079 just to cover all of the all of the geek 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.520 boys dreams and desires. Right, But when you look at 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.400 it to the modern lens, it's like, man, that that 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:07.319 is totally misogynistic to Uh, that is the act. Um, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.839 it's got a burlesque thing going on. Yeah sure, I 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.240 mean you can see what they're trying to do is 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.320 is toillate to the young boys in the audience. They're 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.240 trying to sell tickets, and it probably wouldn't have sold 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.079 as many tickets if they just had build a farmhand 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.400 with a balloon in his mouth getting popped, you know. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.840 I mean, it's still pretty cool. You're still seeing the 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.120 same thing. But yeah, it's just basically tradition and customed 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.520 to have a scantily clad woman as your target girl. Again, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.320 that's what they call him, is the target girl, and 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.000 that is the one of the two people involved in 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.080 this impalement act. That's right. Um, we mentioned the balloon 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:43.520 in the mouth. That was one of the big tricks. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.720 There was a German husband and wife named the Gibsons 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.800 who introduced the very famous wheel of death in at 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.400 the Ringling Brothers show at in Madison Square Garden. Have 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.880 you seen this? Oh yeah, okay, So I had seen 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.760 stuff like with knife throwing before, and I thought Flee 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.640 Circus was another one. Do you remember our Flee Circus 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.480 episode where it turns out that Flee Circus has actually 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.520 involved real fleas. That was the best of the circus arts, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.640 and everybody thought it was like, no, it's magnets or 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.400 just your imagination power of suggestion, and that's just not 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:20.080 the case. The same thing applies to knife throwing impalement acts. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.280 Like I always thought, did you really? Yeah? I thought 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.000 I think there was like a Happy Days or something 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.520 like that where somebody gets volunteered. There's definitely an I 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.080 Love Lucy with a knife act where she's the target girl. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.880 But there's some show where maybe Laverne and surely not 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.840 I think about it. Anyway, the guys throwing them and 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.160 like the knives are coming out of the backboard around them, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.120 So it's all an illusion, right, That is not true. 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.200 In knife acts, you're if you're the target girl, a 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:57.360 dude is throwing twelve inch long, extremely sharp, pointy knives 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.920 right at your head and it's trying to get his 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.120 close as possible to you without hitting you. And again 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.120 it's not just that's just the profile where they're throwing 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.720 knives around you and making like a chalk outline of 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.200 your of your body. That's the profile. But there's other ones, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.280 like holding a cigarette in your mouth and knocking the 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.720 ash off with a knife, or you're holding a flower 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.200 in your mouth and they slowly like cut the stem 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.760 off piece by piece. There's some some pretty interesting things 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.040 that people have done with knife acts. Yeah, sometimes, and 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.360 this is the riskiest of all moves. Riskier even more 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.480 so than the Wheel of death is when they do 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.760 the and they covered the target over with paper. Yeah, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.160 the veiled wheel of death, so you can't even see 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.360 that spinning who is behind there? You just have to 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.600 have it timed completely perfectly right. But if you take 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.480 a step back and think about this, there is nothing 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:56.000 about that act that should allow you to say, oh, 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.040 if I throw like this, I will I will miss 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.040 the person because they're spinning, so you have to know 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.480 where their body is at every second. But you've taken 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.040 away how you know that, which is your vision because 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.960 they're behind a big sheet of paper that you're throwing 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.040 knives through. And there's this guy who will talk about 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.640 it a little further. His name is the Great throw Denie. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:22.400 I love this guy. Uh he he has done something. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.520 It's probably the most dangerous, most impressive knife throwing act 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.000 anyone's ever done. He did the veiled wheel of death 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.280 with two target girls on it. So he has two 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:38.640 girls strapped to a board, spinning behind a big piece 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.680 of paper that he can't see them through, and he's 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.040 throwing knives at them. Yes, very fast. The guy threw 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.120 him on an average of a knife every point five 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:52.400 nine seconds, UM, and he didn't hit either one of them. Amazing. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.720 It is amazing. It's so amazing. I think we should 0:15:54.720 --> 0:16:22.880 take a break and re regroup. We're back. We just 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:28.160 watched uh one hour of grade thirteen even videos. Uh. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.840 He apparently caught on like in its fifties. Yeah. I 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.320 was like, hey, I'm pretty good at this. Back in 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.320 just I guess somebody was like, maybe have you tried 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.200 throwing knives? And he said no, I haven't, And they 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.560 were like, well, tried throwing knives and he said, well, fine, 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.760 I will. A couple of weeks later, he tried throwing 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.640 knives and he said I really like this. Um. He 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.680 said it felt natural and right. So he started throwing 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:54.280 knives and entered competitions and UM started winning. I think 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.640 he became world champion. With him like two years he 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.640 beat the other four people. Uh, and then he said, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.560 you know what, this is fun and all like these competitions, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.520 but I think I want to try and act like 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.199 an old throwback impalement act. So we started one when 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:14.120 by tuxedo and basically bought his wife Barbara target girl. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.000 Get up that his uh target girl one of them. Yeah, 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.359 I think she may have been the original one. Uh. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.919 Taught her to smoke cigarettes so he could knock the 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.119 ash off of the end of him. And there you go. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.879 Impalement act achieved. But not only that, Chuck like the 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:34.720 guy is like legitimately the best knife thrower on the planet. Well, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.800 he's one of them. He holds a record for fastest. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.720 But boy, you go down a YouTube rabbit hole and 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:45.000 to like people like Ralph Thorne and better than Great Thordini. Huh, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.879 well Great Thordini does the impalement act as in the 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.160 Circus art. Ralph Thorn is like, if you're running through 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:55.080 the woods chasing somebody, I haven't seen this guy and 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.160 this is well that's the Thorn style. We'll get into 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.800 those styles later, okay, but um yeah, he will like 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.840 bunch himself off of a tree stump in the air 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.320 and throwing behind his back. And see now that's basically 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.040 the training I was. Yeah, yeah, like martial arts, real world, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:17.920 suburban neighborhood dangers. There's a raccoon. Oh no, no, no, no, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.800 you're not throwing a raccoons. Um, alright, so the raccoon 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:27.240 comes at me. Well sure, okay, Um, here's what you 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.399 need if you if you're gonna throw a knife, you 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.120 need a throwing knife. Throwing knife. Like I said, it's 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.960 not a steak knife. It is very much made to 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.159 be thrown. It is balanced so that you throw it. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.879 And we'll talk about the different ways that they're balanced. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:45.800 But one thing they're not is sharp on the sides. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.760 Yeah they're very pointy, but um they're dull on the 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:50.600 edges because you're gonna a lot of times to be 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:55.359 throwing it by that blade. Um, so get a knife 0:18:55.400 --> 0:19:01.399 for throwing. The old saying, Um, sharp of point, sharper 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:07.040 point is the point, sharp of edge? It doesn't It 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:11.240 does you no good? That old Yeah, that's a great thing. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.960 Like that should go on a T shirt. You should so. Um, yeah, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.160 you want a sharp point. But there's there's nothing about 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.000 a sharp edge that's going to help you in any way, 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.760 shape or form, because the whole point again is the 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.760 point that's gonna stick into that end of whatever that 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.520 target is, which is usually a block of wood. Right. So, um, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.680 depending on where how you're going to throw it, you 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.600 want to throw the heavy end first. And there's a 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.119 reason for this. The reason is is that, if you 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:45.880 want to get technical about it, velocity equals um distance 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.320 divided by time, right. And when you're throwing a knife, 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.600 especially the heavy end first, the heavy end has traveled 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.679 a further distance in the same amount of time than 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.359 the lighter end. This friends creates something very parting a 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:05.680 knife throwing, although not fundamental, which is spin. Okay, And 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.440 so if you throw the throw the knife, you're gonna 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.879 throw it either blade end or handle end. And the 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:18.320 end regards what you're holding when you throw it. And 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.920 if you're holding say a knife handle, and you're throwing 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.840 it from the handle end, you're the front of the knife. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.080 The point is going to be weighted. It's going to 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.240 be heavier so that that starts the spin. If you're 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.560 throwing it blade first, the handle itself will be heavier 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.640 so that will start the spin. And there's a couple 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:42.480 of different depending on which way you're throwing. There's a 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.080 the spin is going to take place over this the 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:51.080 course of um a very short distance actually, and so 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.440 let me let me just back up a second here. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.920 There's there's some factors involved. Okay. They are distanced to target, 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:05.080 length of NiFe, weight and balance and then knife type. Right, 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.840 So the distance the target is going to is going 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:14.120 to tell you what type of throw you want. That's right. Um, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.239 the kind of knife. Uh, they say, for every good 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:19.960 rule of thumb here, just throw it out. But they 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:24.000 do mention a rule of thumb regardless. That says a 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:28.399 blade that weighs about one ounce per inch, so in 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.719 this per inch of your the whole knife. Yeah, so um, 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.080 they shouldn't. Well, you can throw it ever you want, 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:40.240 but ten to sixteen ounces is a good starter knife, uh, 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:42.560 you know, and about that long or maybe twelve to 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.120 four fourteen inches and about that many ounces is where 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.560 you want to start off as a beginner. And all 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.960 kinds of shapes too, Like some of them are like 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:56.200 little spears. Uh, some have multiple points more like throwing stars. Uh. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.080 They really run the gamut right and the um. So 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:01.320 depending on how you're gonna throw, whether it's a handle 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.720 throw or a blade throw. The weight of the knife 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:05.760 is going to be either in the handle or the blade. 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.400 It's going to be the opposite of where you're holding 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:12.760 the knife. Um. And if you throw holding the blade, 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.160 you're going to throw a half turn. It's a half 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.560 turn throw right. And the reason they call it that 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:22.639 is because the knife only makes one half turn. The 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:27.760 blade straightens out from your hand toward the target, and 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:29.879 then that's the only turn it makes. Yeah, it's not 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:31.840 like in the movies a lot of times you'll see 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.080 you go right and turn like nine times and stick 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.199 the guy in the forehead. That's really not what you're 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.040 doing with knife throwing. No, it's basically if you if 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:42.920 you're throwing it by the blade, it's gonna make one 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.080 half turn and that's it. So you if your blade throwing, 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:49.680 you would stand closest to the target, right, So if 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.000 some guys coming at you dressed as a raccoon and 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:53.600 you know he's gonna hurt you and you can throw 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:55.520 a knife and he's real close, you would throw by 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.120 the blade. That's right. Uh. And in fact, I don't 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:01.520 even know if it's possible bowl to throw a knife 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:03.400 like they do in the movies that I don't think 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.159 so just tumbles because every video I saw there, like 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.960 you try and prevent tumbling as much as you can, 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:13.160 Like that's the whole game. It's too because physics says 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.520 that a revolving object that suddenly breaks free will continue 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:18.880 to move in a straight line tangential to the point 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:22.960 at which it's released. In other words, that release points 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:24.719 a little tricky. You know, you gotta dial that in. 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:27.840 But we'll get to that too. And on the actual 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:32.440 throwing right, um, so the uh. The next the next 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:36.840