Knife throwing

So if the thrower estimates he needs one and a half spins for the point to hit the target, he would hold the knife from the blade when it is thrown.

In the US and in many European countries, there are communities of people pursuing knife throwing as a sport,[5] similar to archery.

The competition itself consists, in the most common form, of a series of straight throws aimed at a set of standard wooden targets or in some cases foam.

[7] EuroThrowers maintains a register of the world records,[8] and for each championship publishes the full scores together with the meetings' reports.

[12] In medieval Europe Hans Talhoffer (c. 1410-1415 – after 1482) and Paulus Hector Mair (1517–1579) both mention throwing daggers in their treaties on combat and weapons.

The opera Queen of Knives, which premiered in Portland, Oregon on May 7, 2010, tells the story of a brother and sister knife throwing act in the midst of the student protests in Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1960s.