German guy,
Sorry you left no name.

Leave aside all of the methods that you have read, they will only confuse
and make it impossible to understand.
Joes explanation will give you a good starting point, and as you progress,
you will find your own technique, but it will take time. Dont get fed up
trying, start by varying your distances just a few feet only until you can
master, say, 8---11ft.and dont try ANY other distances until you can master
the 8--11ft. keep going and ask questions anytime. There are plenty on
this site who are only too willing to help a fellow thrower.

Good luck

Roy





----- Original Message -----
From: "hoechstadt_aisch" <hoechstadt_aisch@...>
To: <TheBladeThrower@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 6:38 PM
Subject: [TheBladeThrower] method, wich can be used for any distance


> Hello
> At first i want to apologize about my poor english. I'm from Germany. I
> hope you'll be able to understand what I want to tell you:
>
> I have always been throwing my knife using the traditional
> Hammer-Grip-Method (same movement, wich works only on an special distance
> with a special knife)
> However my purpose is now, to learn a method wich is independent from the
> distance. But i don't know for sure, how this should work. My problem in
> getting information is, that every site or book tells me something
> completly different and I don't know who's right and who's wrong.
> Everybody seems to preach his method as "the one and only".
>
> As far as I could follow, there seem to be two basic-methods to reach my
> purpose:
>
> - NO SPIN (no rotation, also known as "quater spin" or "spear throw") To
> execute this method there are some different ways like this one:
> http://www.knifethrowing.info/wave-throw.html or this one:
> http://www.throwzini.com/no-spin-technique.html
>
> - HALF SPIN (always throw a half rotation, wich must be slowed down, if
> the target is far away. see
> http://www.throwzini.com/half-spin-technique.html
>
> Was that correct? Do you have anything to add?
>
> Well, now I want to ask you for your opinion: wich of them is the best to
> learn and wich of them works best? Also I'd like to hear what you think
> about the mentioned links. Furthermore I'd be glad if someone could give
> me any Links/How-tos/videos/personal opinions/field report concerning this
> issue.
> (Im also accessible via icq: 224-495-175)
>
> Thanks a lot for reading!
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>





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