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Welcome to 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:52.480 Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:59.800 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles Chuck, 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:06.440 and there's all Right the sparres. Some explanation. So I 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.240 was doing my Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle of Impression, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.000 which one is Stevie. He was the kid in the 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.080 wheelchair who was like breathed like that, who talked like 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:20.119 that because he he had serious asthma. Yeah, remember him 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.360 was he just like a classmate. Yeah, he was like 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.679 his best friend. I believe I remember I like I 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.280 like that show. Well that's not what I was doing. Really. No, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.120 we're slightly out of breath because we just had a 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.280 fire alarm. Yeah, we had to walk down four stairs, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.319 four flights of stairs, and not like this, the one, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.400 the kind of flight where it's like down, landing down again, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.560 two flights. Yeah, so we walked down eight flights of 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.360 stairs and then walked back eight more. Right when we 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.120 got down, stopped and immediately turned around to go back in. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.320 It was ridiculous. It was the kind of thing that 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.280 makes you say, maybe I won'ly next time it was 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.400 a fire alarm. I was prepared to hide in the 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.400 studio and keep working. Yeah, we thought about it, but 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.520 there's a fire marshal who works here, so you can't 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.800 can't run a foul him. Man, he got on that 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.760 orange vest quick changes everything. So I ever heard of 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:17.480 those guys that sneak into places with those vests? Yes, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.359 I have, I don't is there a name for what 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.320 I think these? I'm sure more than one person has 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.560 done this, But there's these two guys in particular who 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.080 uh kind of got I don't know about famous, but 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.520 made a name for themselves for putting on the orange 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.040 vests and saying basically like, if you wear one of these, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.440 you can get in anywhere you want them. If you 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.840 have orange vest on, you look like you're supposed to 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.160 be there. Well, yeah, you gotta have that steely sense 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.560 of nerve and alwakie talkie is probably a good thing 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.040 to have to But they can go anywhere because the 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.920 orange vest guy. That means that's something's wrong in the 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.200 orange vest guy has to take care of it. Like 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.359 they showed pictures in the in front of a I 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.519 can't remember what show it was, but a big, big 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.520 concert where they were in that buffer area between the 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:10.519 people in the stage, right, yeah, and fred Durst is like, oh, 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.520 there's an orange guest, the best guy. Something must be 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.240 going on. What year was that, This would have been 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:21.080 two thousand two, maybe the fred Durst years, Great Years, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:26.520 the Wonder years. Right. Well, man, I'm hot now too, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.120 I'm I feel good. I got like that, got the 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.560 endorphins fall and this is gonna be a cool episode, buddy. Well, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.840 the irony is I so grossly out of shape. I 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.400 started getting on the peloton Yeah, last week. So I've 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.880 been and this is not a plug for pellets, I 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.840 guess it is, but a little bit. It's not an ad, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.640 but I've been getting on that thing. So my legs 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:56.320 are ham rubber rubber band hams right now. Anyway, Yeah, hey, y'all, 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:01.880 prepare yourself for the rubber band ham that's hey, will 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.800 you indulge me for one moment? Oh man, I've been 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.600 waiting for you to ask me that for a long time. Alright, 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.000 So I've got the old side gig going with Movie Crush, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.680 my podcast where every Friday I sit down with someone 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.960 awesome and talk about their favorite movie and kill it. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.760 Thank you. But I have now added a second weekly 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.800 episode that publishes on Monday called Mini Crushes, and that's 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.200 where I just sit in here with producer Noel. He's 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.040 sort of the omniscient voice of God, uh and he 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.960 sort of chimes in and I source a lot of 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.120 questions from Facebook to the Movie Crush Facebook page. Um 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.760 listener mails that the recommendations, it's just a really interactive 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.640 fan based experience. So I want to plug the mini 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.640 Crushes and let everyone know that yesterday I dropped a 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:55.240 very special mini Crush, which was The Chuck and it's 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:00.919 Emily's podcast debut. Oh congratulations, man, that's it's called The 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.000 Chuck and Emily drink wine, uh and talk about the 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.640 Oscar nominations. Oh yes, nice. Yeah, So we recorded this 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.760 thing at home. We put the kid to bed and 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.400 broke out some nice wine and did our pre Oscar 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.560 round up. So that dropped yesterday, and then next Monday, 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.360 the day after the Oscars, we're going to have our 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.320 post Oscar round up where we talked about who won 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.120 and what the speeches were like and who wore it best. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.040 That's awesome, man, Emily is going to be a star. Chuck. Yeah, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.840 she was actually pretty great. And if you want a 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.240 little peek behind the Merritle curtain, uh, this is this 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.480 is your chance. So yeah, if you could check out 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.599 movie Crush on Apple Podcasts or where we get your podcasts. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:49.760 Nice man, do you feel indulged? Very much? Good? All right, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.440 let's talk about knife throwing. So I'm a little psyched 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:57.560 about this because knife throwing taps into my ninja training 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.160 that I did under Tommy Roper, as I'm sure I've 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.279 mentioned before, uh reading about this researching it, I never 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.320 threw knives. We never made it that far in Maybe 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.120 now I'll be I'll be hang gliding throwing knives at 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.679 the same time, going to get into both at once. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.400 But I did a little throwing star stuff. Throwing star 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:23.239 is like the dummies, uh, knife throwing because that always sticks, right, Yeah, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.599 I mean, depending on how many spikes you got coming 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:32.279 off of it, and um, and and whether the tree 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.560 is actually like a metal pole or not, you're probably 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.920 gonna stick a throwing star. Throwing a knife is an 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.960 entirely different endeavor, and it's something that anybody can do that. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.839 Nicholas Jerbis were Gurbs never met him yet. Um. He 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.040 points out this is actually kind of like a low 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.720 hanging hobby that you could. You can get a set 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.680 of knives for ten fifteen bucks apiece. You probably one 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.039 about five is well will explain why, um, maybe six. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.480 And then you just practice, give yourself a good block 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.200 of wood and practice and anybody can do this. It's 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.120 not like you're born to throw knives. You practice and 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.120 if you like it, you keep going. You just get 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.960 better and better at it, and you can impress your 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.560 friends and neighbors. Yes, and here's the point in the 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.920 show where we issue our c o A. Kids, if 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.160 you're out there, do not go get a steake knife 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.440 from your drawer and start throwing it at your dog. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.040 That is not a throwing knife. And never throw anything 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.760 at your dog, kids. I will come find you. Yeah, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.679 never throw anything at anybody that's sharp. But Um throwing 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.280 knives are built to throw. They're weighted and balanced to throw. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.280 They're not like regular old knives. And we'll get into 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.520 all that. But just if you really want to try 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.280 throwing knives, go ask mom and dad or Tommy Roper 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.400 and get ready, get ready for a no and then 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.160 and then play them this podcast where it is an 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.920 actual um circus art. And please, for the love of God, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.880 tell me this is the last one. I don't think 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.320 of the circus arts. No, it's not. What else is, sir? 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.680 There's a bunch we've done. The Globe of Death. Yeah, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:18.840 flame swallowing, lion taming, swords swallowing, sword swallowing. We did 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.880 circus families, just straight up circus families. Human cannonball just 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.840 got to be it. I don't think so, man. I 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.840 think it's going to keep going in cloud clowns. Clowns 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.760 for sure, yeah, Um, they don't don't want to p 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:38.120 T Barnum though, No, you mean Hugh Jackman. What is it, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.800 Chuck Stradamus, I don't know, something like that make one 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:48.400 lucky casting call, predict one sexual predator and one bad 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.480 Lifetime movie? Or what what was shark Nato sci fi 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.160 sci fi movie? Three little things? That's all. That doesn't 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.160 make me nuxtra Domans haven't won the lottery yet. I 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.760 think of all the things I've said that didn't come 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.960 true right way more. Yeah, I guess that's true. You know, yeah, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.959 whenever writes in and so, well that didn't happen, right, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.000 you really got that? Actually, they do right in to 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.000 tell us we've got stuff wrong a lot. So we're 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.000 gonna take this seriously because we want you ten year 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.840 olds out there who want to get your parents to 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.199 let you do this, to to see that you're taking 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.920 this seriously by listening to this podcast. First. Okay, that's right. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.280 So what we're talking about specifically is known as, uh 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:33.000 somewhat ironically as an impalement act um, which is really 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.480 weird thing to call it. It's well, it's um, yeah, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.520 it really is. I think it's a little tongue in cheek, 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.000 you think, because the point is tyn to not write. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.480 The point is to not impale somebody with this kind 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.880 of thing, right, And and impalement acts are an umbrella 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.960 term that cover not just knife throwing, but bull whip cracking, oh, shoot, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.600 sharp shooting, archery, William tell kind of thing. All of 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.160 those fall under the the umbrella term of impalement X. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.719 Jerry's undressing over there to our left. She got very 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.000 hot in the fire drop Um. All right, so this 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.880 goes back if we can get back in the way 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.600 back machine, all the way back to the late nineteenth century, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:24.280 we gotta go back here further than that. Are you 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.160 gonna go like to ancient times? No, No, We'll still 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.080 will just go with the nineteenth century, because I'm sure 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.840 Chinese people in ancient times through stuff that's stuck in walls. Well, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.800 I looked at I looked up the oldest knife and 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.199 every apparently they did. Apparently they found the oldest knife 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:44.000 five thousand years ago. Oh, the oldest knife knife. So 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.960 we've been using knives longer than there have been modern humans. Yeah, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.679 for sure. And then we at some point, probably about 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.000 four hundred and ninety nine thousand years ago we started 0:10:55.000 --> 0:11:00.280 throwing knives. It's stabbing is okay, but throwing a knife 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.120 is when you really can come to appreciate what a 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.640 knife does. Okay. Man, there was nothing better in it, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.559 like an eighties movie than when like James Bond through 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.600 a knife and I got a guy or American ninja. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.480 That's what I was trained on. Yeah. Um, alright, so 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.400 wild uh wild West shows. Buffalo Bill and his Wild 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.319 West Shows travel throughout the United States, throughout Europe. Um, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.160 knife throwing became a big spectacle at things like this, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.960 as well as obviously sharp shooting and probably archery. They 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.480 probably did all the impalement arts. So they definitely did 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.280 um and they really brought it to the world. Um, 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.360 to the to the point where you can just basically 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.920 say that's where it started, was Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Yeah. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.360 And this is one of those things where, through a 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:49.840 modern lens, it is incredibly misogynistic to think about the 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.120 fact that you say, hey, let me take a scantily 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.880 clad woman, a target girl. Yeah that's what they call him, 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.760 a target girl, and throw knives at her. Yeah, just 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.079 stand there still, Yeah, their knives near her. It's always 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.240 a lady. She's always got on like a bikini or something. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:10.280 She's just like almost like while West steampunk renaissance fair thing, right, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.560 you know, just to cover all of the all of 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.200 the geek boys dreams and desires. Right, But when you 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.080 look at it through the modern lens, it's like, man, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:23.319 that that is totally misogynistic to Uh, that is the act. Um, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.839 it's got a burlesque thing going on. Yeah, sure, I 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.560 mean you can see what they're trying to do is 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.319 to delate to the young boys in the audience. They're 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.240 trying to sell tickets, and it probably wouldn't have sold 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.119 as many tickets that they just had build a farmhand 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.440 with a balloon in his mouth getting popped, you know. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.840 I mean it's still pretty cool. You're still seeing the 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.160 same thing. But yeah, it's just basically tradition and customed 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.520 to have a scantily clad woman as your target girl. Again, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.360 that's what they call him, is the target girl, and 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.000 that is the one of the two people involved in 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.080 this impalement act. That's right. Um, we mentioned the balloon 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.360 in the mouth. That was one of the big tricks. Uh. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.760 There was a German husband and wife named the Gibsons 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.880 who introduced the very famous Wheel of Death at the 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.080 Ringling Brothers show at in Madison Square Garden. Have you 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.480 seen this? Yeah? Okay, so I had seen stuff like 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.199 with knife throwing before, and I always thought Flee Circus 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.200 was another one. Do you remember our Flee Circus episode 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.880 where it turns out that Flee Circus has actually involved 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.480 real Flea's Yeah, that was the best of the circus arts, 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.640 and everybody thought it was like, no, it's magnets are 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.400 just your imagination power of suggestion, and that's just not 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:36.079 the case. The same thing applies to knife throwing impalement acts, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.360 Like I always thought, did you really? Yeah? I thought 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.040 I think there was like a Happy Days or something 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.520 like that where somebody gets volunteered. There's definitely an I 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.080 Love Lucy with a Knife act where she's the target girl. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.880 But there's some show where maybe Laverne and surely not 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.880 I think about it anyway, the guys throwing them and 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.160 like the knives are coming out of the backboard around up. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.120 So it's all an illusion, right, That is not true? 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.200 In knife acts, you're if you're the target girl, a 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:13.760 dude is throwing twelve inch long extremely sharp, pointy knives 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.079 right at your head and it's trying to get as 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.760 close as possible to you without hitting you. Correct And 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.880 again it's not just that's just the profile where they're 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.600 throwing knives around you and making like a chalk outline 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.720 of your of your body. That's the profile. But there's 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.440 other ones like holding a cigarette in your mouth and 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.160 knocking the ash off with a knife, or you're holding 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.760 a flower in your mouth and they slowly like cut 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.960 the stem off piece by piece. There's some some pretty 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.520 interesting things that people have done with knife acts. Yeah, sometimes, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.760 and this is the riskiest of all moves. Risky or 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.200 even more so than the wheel of death is when 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.760 they do the when they covered the target over with paper, Yeah, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.080 the veiled wheel of death, so you can't even see 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.400 that spinning who is behind there? You just have to 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.600 have it timed completely perfectly right. But if you take 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.480 a step back and think about this, there is nothing 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:12.000 about that act that should allow you to say, oh, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.080 if I throw like this, I will I will miss 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.040 the person because they're spinning, so you have to know 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.480 where their body is at every second. But you've taken 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.040 away how you know that, which is your vision because 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.960 they're behind a big sheet of paper that you're throwing 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.040 knives through. And there's this guy who will talk about 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.520 a little further. His name is the Great throw Denie Love. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:39.320 This guy. Uh, he he has done something. It's probably 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.480 the most dangerous, most impressive knife throwing act anyone's ever done. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.960 He did the veiled wheel of death with two target 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.440 girls on it. So he has two girls strapped to 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.160 a board spinning behind a big piece of paper that 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.920 he can't see them through, and he's throwing knives at them. Yes, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:00.960 very fast. The guy through room on an average of 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.680 a knife every point five nine seconds um. And he 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.520 didn't hit either one of them. Amazing, it is amazing. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.160 It's so amazing. I think we just take a break 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:40.480 and re regroup. We're back. We just watched uh one 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:45.800 hour of great thirteen even videos. Uh. He apparently caught 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.360 on like in its fifties. Yeah, it's like, hey, I'm 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.680 pretty good at this. Back in just I guess somebody 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.240 was like, maybe have you tried throwing knives? And he 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:55.880 said no, I haven't, And they were like, well, try 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.160 throwing knives and he said, well, fine, I will. A 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.480 couple of weeks later, he tried throwing and he said, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.760 I really like this. Um. He said it felt natural 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.320 and right. So he started throwing knives and entered competitions 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.359 and um started winning. I think he became world champion 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.960 with him like two years he beat the other four people. Uh. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.000 And then he said, you know what, this is fun 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.480 and all like these competitions, but I think I want 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.160 to try and act like an old throwback and palement act. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.439 So we started one when basically but his wife Barbara 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:34.000 Target girl, get up target Girl, one of them. Yeah, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.359 I think she may have been the original one. Uh. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.919 Taught her to smoke cigarettes so he could knock the 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.119 ash off of the end of them. And there you go. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.879 Impalement act achieved. But not only that, Chuck like the 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:50.720 guy is like legitimately the best knife thrower on the planet. Well, 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.840 he's one of them. He holds a record for fastest. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.760 But boy, you go down a YouTube rabbit hole and 0:17:55.880 --> 0:18:01.440 to like people like Ralph Thorne and better than Thordin. Huh, well, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.600 great Thordini does the impalement act as in the circus art. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.640 Ralph Thorn is like if you're running through the woods 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.439 chasing somebody I haven't seen this guy and this is 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.960 well that's the thorn style. We'll get into those styles later. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.760 But um, yeah, he will like launch himself off of 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.000 a tree stump in the air and throw one behind 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:23.880 his back and see now that's basically the training I was. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:30.880 like martial arts, real world, suburban neighborhood dangers. There's a raccoon. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:36.560 Oh no, no, no, no, you're not throwing a raccoons. Um, alright, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:43.000 so raccoon comes at me. Well sure, okay, Um, here's 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.200 what you need if you if you're gonna throw a knife, 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.960 you need a throwing knife. Throwing knife, Like I said, 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.880 it's not a steak knife. It is very much made 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.159 to be thrown. It is balanced so that you throw it, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.879 and we'll talk about the different ways that they're balanced. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:02.160 But one thing they're not is sharp up on the sides. Yeah, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.040 they're very pointy, but um, they're dull on the edges 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:06.920 because you're gonna a lot of times to be throwing 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:11.840 it by that blade. Um, so get a knife for throwing. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.919 The old saying, Um, sharp of point, sharper point is 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:23.240 the point sharp of edge? Uh it doesn't. It does 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:27.240 you no good that old saying yeah, that's a great thing, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.960 like that should go on a T shirt. You should so, um, yeah, 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.160 you want a sharp point, but there's there's nothing about 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.000 a sharp edge that's going to help you in any way, 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.760 shape or form, because the whole point, again, is the 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.760 point that's gonna stick into that endo, whatever that target is, 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.520 which is usually a block of wood. Right. So, um, 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.720 depending on where how you're going to throw it, you 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.600 want to throw the heavy end first. And there's a 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.119 reason for this. The reason is is that, if you 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:01.920 want to get technical about it, velocity equals um distance 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.280 divided by time, right, And when you're throwing a knife, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.600 especially the heavy end first, the heavy end has traveled 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.679 a further distance in the same amount of time than 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.399 the lighter end. This, friends, creates something very important a 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:21.680 knife throwing, although not fundamental, which is spin. Okay, And 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.440 so if you throw the throw the knife, you're gonna 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.879 throw it either blade end or handle end. And the 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:34.320 end regards what you're holding when you throw it. And 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.960 if you're holding say a knife handle, and you're throwing 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.800 it from the handle end, you're the front of the knife. 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.080 The point is going to be weighted. It's going to 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.280 be heavier so that that starts the spin. If you're 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.560 throwing it blade first, the handle itself will be heavier, 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.640 so that will start the spin. And there's a couple 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:58.520 of different depending on which way you're throwing. There's a 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.080 the spin is going to take place over this the 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:07.080 course of um a very short distance actually, and so 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.160 let me let me just back up a second here. Okay, 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:15.960 there's there's some factors involved. Okay, they are distanced to target, 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.560 length of nighte, weight and balance and then knife type. Right, 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.840 So the distance the target is going to is going 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:29.920 to tell you what type of throw you want, that's right, Um, 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:34.280 the kind of knife. Uh, they say, for every good 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:35.960 rule of thumb here, just throw it out. But they 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:40.000 do mention a rule of thumb regardless. That says a 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:44.399 blade that weighs about one ounce per inch, so in 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.680 thiss per inch of your the whole knife. Yeah, so um, 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.080 they shouldn't. Well, you can throw it ever you want, 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:56.240 but ten to sixteen ounces is a good starter knife, uh, 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:58.600 you know, and about that long or maybe twelve to 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.200 fourteen inches and about that many ounces is where you 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:04.919 want to start off as a beginner. All kinds of 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:08.760 shapes to like definitely. Some of them are like little spears. Uh. 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.640 Some have multiple points, more like throwing stars. Uh. They 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.679 really run the gamut right there. Um. So, depending on 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:17.720 how you're gonna throw, whether it's a handle throw or 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.080 a blade throw, the weight of the knife is going 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:21.919 to be either in the handle or the blade. It's 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:26.040 going to be the opposite of where you're holding the knife. Um. 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.679 And if you throw holding the blade, you're going to 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:33.440 throw a half turn. It's a half turn throw right, Yeah. 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.040 And the reason they call it that is because the 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:41.160 knife only makes one half turn. The blade straightens out 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.320 from your hand towards the target, and then that's the 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.600 only turn it makes. Yeah, it's not like in the 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.400 movies a lot of times you'll see you go right 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:51.520 and turn like nine times and stick the guy in 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.240 the forehead. That's really not what you're doing with knife throwing. No, 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.159 it's basically if you if you're throwing it by the blade, 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:00.439 it's gonna make one half turn and that's it. So 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.879 you if your blade throwing, you would stand closest to 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.720 the target, right, So if some guys coming at you 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.040 dressed as a raccoon and you know, he's gonna hurt you, 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:10.840 and you can throw a knife and he's real close, 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.520 you would throw by the blade, that's right. Uh. And 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:16.879 in fact, I don't even know if it's possible to 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:18.480 throw a knife like they do in the movies that 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:21.639 I don't think. So just tumbles because every video I 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:24.440 saw there, like you try and prevent tumbling as much 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.359 as you can, Like that's the whole game as too, 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:31.240 because physics says that a revolving object that suddenly breaks 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.399 free will continue to move in a straight line tangential 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.280 to the point at which it's released. In other words, 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:40.080 that release points a little tricky. You know, you gotta 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:43.280 dial that in. But we'll get to that too. And 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.200 on the actual throwing right, Um, so the uh, the 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:51.000