Redpill me on throwing knives, considering picking it up as hobby. What's a good beginner knife set? Not looking for cheap garbage that fricks with learning to use them.
THROWING KNIVES
Redpill me on throwing knives, considering picking it up as hobby. What's a good beginner knife set? Not looking for cheap garbage that fricks with learning to use them.
Good knife and throwing knife are incompatible values. Seriously. Being flexible and durable under the extreme shock forces of being thrown against a hard object and toughness and edge retention are antithetical.
You want EXCLUSIVELY cheap garbage, because they WILL break and you will assuredly lose some.
Once you get decent, then you can look towards something like Cold Steel, SOG, United Cutlery, but start off with some no-name bulk sets. I used to have these 20 piece nylon knife roll sets that were great for that.
Also, make no mistake, throwing knives are toys, not weapons.
What price point are we talking about here? Like there's this set but also sets of three for 4x the price and up. What about the shape? If they weren't toys they'd be illegal here
Symmetrical is better. Straight is better. They don't need an EDGE at all, they dont do any cutting, they just have to be pointy. Don't get anything with the "Kunai" shape, the rings will break when they hit backwards, which they absolutely will, plus they make you look like a dork.
Hmm actually how about throwing these tent nails instead?
Probably too light, and rear weighted by the hood. But you're not far off.
I guess. Probably going to buy some cheap decently rated western design set, at 30 bux it's not going to break the bank.
Thats the move.
>Redpill
fun hobby. easy to learn, hard to master
>beginner knife set
>anything under $25 on Amazon
>fricks with learning
:::SECRET KNOWLEDGE DROP:::
all knives can be thrown. two ways- flat, or with rotation. Once you know how, you can throw any knife at all. size, shape, weight, balance- doesn't matter. irrelevant to the skill.
choices about which knife is best are exclusively down to preference.
timber spikes from Lowes, sharpen the tips, thank me later
>all knives can be thrown
But in many (esp. shorter) knives the handle is heavier than the blade, wouldn't that result in the butt always ending up front?
>But
> wouldn't that result
nah- that's the trick- once you understand how a knife is supposed to rotate, you can do it with any knife you pick up by weighing it in your hand. Obviously you have adjust for each knife, but its really easy to do that. At most you throw it wrongonce before adjusting. I practiced with a bag of kitchen knives I got for $5 from a thrift store before I got a matching set
>namegay
>Being flexible and durable under the extreme shock forces of being thrown against a hard object and toughness... are antithetical
That's the exact opposite of correct. Higher toughness is what makes a knife more durable for things like impacts, because it can absorb a greater amount of energy before failure.
AND edge retention.
Your edit snipped out the balance that “good knives” are trying to achieve. That balance of attributes is imposibiru with a throwing knife that will last.
>Your edit snipped out
Yes, I'm aware. I thought it was obvious why. Harder/more abrasion resistant = (generally) more brittle, which is indeed antithetical to the properties you want in a throwing knife. Toughness is not.
It's also not hard to have a decent knife that could hold up to throwing, so long as you're not doing something stupid like throwing it at rocks or concrete.
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Redpill me on Ripple, considering picking it up as hobby. What's a good beginner ripple style? Not looking for cheap garbage that fricks with learning to use them.
Ok larper, see how your Ripple does against a Stand wielding home invader, (which just about fricking everyone carries nowadays)
There's a reason Ripple stopped being used as soon as Stands were invented. Might as well be bringing a stick and loincloth vs a knight in full armor.
The stone mask is objectively better than hamon and stands.
Mostly because its guaranteed success. Hamon only kills no plot armour vampires and there are very few stands you could encounter that could 100% kill you by themselves,like Killer Queen, D4C WoU and so on. Basically if you have no plot or as its called in jojo "fate", vampirism is your safest bet.
Just become ultimate lifeform kars from the novel
You need to be born a pillar man to even have the chance for this.
So as a human you only have 3 options and none end up as novel Kars, who also jobs to Jesus.
Just go step by step and you will become the perfect being eventually
>. Hamon only kills no plot armour vampires
Hamon allows you to instantly knock people out through any surface that conducts it, and lets you stop dozens of bullets by throwing a fistful of hair into the air and conducting Hamon between them.
The fact that it's portrayed as useless after part two when it can instantly turn a human's body off and stop fricking bullets is a travesty I'll never, ever forgive the writer for.
The reality is that hamon was played out and had done everything it was meant to do already
Araki just wanted to move on, short of a couple of times in Part 3 where Joseph uses it to little effect
That's bullshit, it's Manga, you just make up powers if you want it to be useful, like in steelball run. This is a common jap trick weeks like to ignore because it is very gay, but what they do is take something that was powerful and say the new thing is so powerful that the old thing doesn't matter. Think about the character they had say hamon is useless, the evil pimple on Josephs arm. It's so stupid.
>I already had a sword kill like ten guys in my book
>Swords have to be bad in the next one.
That's called shitty writing.
Araki is a shit writer and JJBA should have ended after part 3
>Araki is a shit writer and JJBA should have ended after part 3
>Joseph useless
>Even when they're fighting someone in the fricking water
Part one and part two were just about perfect. Part three was a fricking travesty, and everything after is an incoherent fever dream.
To be fair, it’s all an incoherent fever dream, that’s why we love it, it’s just the first three were more enjoyable.
The first two were very grounded by comparison. Then all the sudden one day the series just became a technicolor gay porno nightmare.
They're going to do an autopsy on Araki one day and find out he's got a tumor in his head the size of an apple.
outmoded by spin in pretty much every application aside from killing vampires
Hamon is still more aesthetic... and I love part 8...
The Ripple just doesn't it that "Holy Sunshine Magic" spot...
Vampires were punching straight through rock and brick in the first season, then Dio throws a knife and it gets stopped by a fricking book.
Ghost gods and magical martial arts I can handle, shitty ballistics I cant.
Well they fly fast when he throws them but then stop/slow down, maybe that robs them of most of the momentum
How the frick do throwing knives work? How is it even possible to reliably hit something with the pointy part? It's not like you can predict how many times the knife will revolve in the air.
you make the tip heavier then rest of the blade
try flipping a full bottle vs a 1/10th full bottle and see how many times you can land it straight
The center of gravity on the knife should put the blade out slightly farther when it's tumbling, but it's no guarantee and in reality it's pretty common to hit your target with the back. If this sounds sort of moronic it's because
is right in that they are inherently toys.
At a set distance, you'll start to know how to throw it so that it revolves just right
If you tie a ribbon to almost any light knife rear it will it point first.
Easy.
last night I had a dream about trading knife throws with some shadowy Mr.X looking motherfricker. We were in a fog that obscured both of us, but he could float so had the edge (heh) and all my knoifs kept missing him.
Then this thread is made.
OP invaded my dreams.
OP FRICK YOU
>throwing knives as a hobby
low brow af
You are both correct. It is a bout telling others online that you do it.
You can do cool anime poses while throwing/shooting
Just you wait I'm gonna get me a qt slav gf with my knife throwing skills
>shooting guns as a hobby
low brow af
I love my cheap polish throwing knives, unfortunately I'm moronic and made a fricking huge hole in the parquet while practicing indoors
Mista had the right idea, just shoot your foes.
Guys where do I get a maid for home defense?
My neighbour has one but I can't seem to find anyone in the yellow pages.
Be your own maid
Self maid man eighh
Here's your throwing knives
Robots are the answer
Or /soc/
Wouldn't needles be better? 2x chance to hit
yeah, they are more satisfying
Surikin or throwing stars are the goat throwing knife to the point that they are illegal just about everywhere because of their sheer destructive potential.
Maybe I should just throw rocks, they're everywhere and nobody expects a masterfully thrown rock
Being able to throw knives good is a cope for not being able to carry a firearm either because you legally can't or you live sometime before the 19th century. Outside of being a law-abiding felon, it's too niche a skill to be practically handy in a defense scenario. It's basically regulated to being the realm of circus acts and fantasy fiction these days.
I may be a no guns loser but I have been a hobbyist knife thrower for over 20 years so this is the one thing I can speak on with any kind of authority. Forget about whether or not they're good in a fight (they can be but we'll get to that later) if you live in the woods like I do and own your own property like I do then it's a fantastic way to get some fresh air outside, clear your head and build up some hand eye coordination. The feeling of satisfaction you get when you hear the "thunk" of the blade tip hitting wood as you perfectly drill a half dozen knives into a square foot target from 30' simply can't be beat.
I've used all types but my ideal throwing knife is somewhere around 10" long and the heavier the better. The length is key because it gives you that extra bit of leverage for when you flick your wrist on the toss to get some impressive distance. The extra weight is to give it enough mass so that it lands with enough kinetic energy to really drive into the wood.
Are throwing knives any good in a fight? I'm firmly convinced seeing people use them in games and movies to silently take out guards is a meme. In my opinion a heavy throwing knife is nothing more than an energy "oh shit" opening gambit to a fight, if you throw first and hit your opponent then congratulations you're ahead of the game. If you miss then chances are you at least made them duck or dodge in which case you can rush them down or book it out of there.
>Are throwing knives any good in a fight? I'm firmly convinced seeing people use them in games and movies to silently take out guards is a meme.
there's absolutely no way you can kill a guy by throwing a knife, let alone do it silently
at best you poke the guy's eye out, but more likely you will just give the guy a minor stab or cut
>there's absolutely no way you can kill a guy by throwing a knife, let alone do it silently
Anon people have bled out from Shaving.
People have killed bears with blowguns.
Throw plumbata
Alright I ordered these, excited to see how many will break right away. They better arrive before the weekend
Get some cheap Spiders and throw at a log, practice nospin throwing