Time Warp: Knife Throwing Physics

Self-defense specialist Mike Janich teaches Time Warp host Matt Kearny the art of knife (and fork) throwing.
Check out: http://www.yourdiscovery.com/video/playlists/time-warp/?cc=GB

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• knife
• fork
• time warp
• slow motion
• high speed
• danger
• target
• throw
• weapon
• self
• defense
• throwing

[YouFailin3D]

0:33 He has the "Don't fuck with me!" expression.

[TheNaaproductions]

did u notice theres no 2:12

[derben16]

In mother russia, knife throws you.

[Xslasher75]

@TheNaaproductions did you notice no one cares

[kalevraa]

@TheNickhis indeed. it's important, i think, to IMAGINE a real-life situation when practicing no-spin throwing, to keep it close to its roots and avoid it becoming too sport-like. however, i also think it's important not to forget that it's an imagined situation. unless i move to afghanistan, say, or certain areas in the middle east, i can't imagine i would ever use a throwing implement on another human. or at least so i want to believe.

[TheNickhis]

@kalevraa hahaha I'm sure you would work them over, but no I wouldn't be so violent. In fact, I would hope it would disarm them from attacking me so they could hopefully turn their life around more than it killing them, but either way, what matters is that it stopped them in a narrow window of time.

[ShyGuyPie1]

i went from watching Lucky Star to watching this...how O__o

[kalevraa]

@TheNickhis well, i think i highly unlikely that i will ever throw a knife at a person. i don't throw knives for self-defense (if i ever did, i think i would have a very hard time convincing the police of that, not after they see the well-worked-over target and the dozens of spikes). however, i do make hundreds of throws each time, and find that spikes don't self destruct if they hit each other, are not loud, and don't try to leap back and take my head off if mis-thrown. just my 2 cents' worth.

[TheNickhis]

@kalevraa Well there's some food for thought. Most of the time I see weapon throwing from a combat point of view. Given that the throwing knife has no edge, that is true. But not all throwing knives have no edge. Also, from a combat perspective, the knife has more stopping power and makes a different wound shape. The great thing about Bo-shurikens though is you can conceal carry them, since the only shurikens not allowed usually fit the description of the hira.

[kalevraa]

@TheNickhis checked your channel meanwhile; you are pretty handy with your throwing implements. i used to throw knives, but nowadays i switched almost entirely to spikes. knives are loud when they don't stick, bounce more and are easily damaged -- why throw them at all? why are we stuck with the trowing knife shape, with its thin, flat body and false edges? why are there edges at all -- the throwing knife can't cut anything anyhow. why not just use spikes?