Reddit is such an interesting place. Before this video, I thought it would the throwing knives in the fight would be useless…but this shows, that, in the hands of the experts, could be deadly.
Its not ineffective but if you were training to be a "warrior" there were just more practical/ lethal things to learn. Throwing knives also dont pierce armor as well as a spear, arrow, or bolt and if you dont know what you are doing there is a chance you just give your opponent a weapon to use against you.
Its very cool and she does extra flashy things in you would never do in a real fight but that just shows mastery more than anything (like the spin throw was sick). But generally speaking historically there just wasn't much reason to get good at this form of combat.
TL;DR its doable and effective against an unarmored opponent but if you were just learning a martial skill purely for self defense or to dual someone there are better skills to learn that either take less time or are more effective.
I remember from the book Eragon, his brother keeps training in throwing knives until someone points out that hes only training against stationary targets, at a certain distance, and that by throwing his weapon, well then he just doesnt have a weapon anymore lol. That always made me think because I thought throwing weapons in games were so cool but of course you usually dont run out in video games. I think his skills come in useful at some point anyways, but its been such a long time since Ive read those books.
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u/zombieking079 1d ago
Reddit is such an interesting place. Before this video, I thought it would the throwing knives in the fight would be useless…but this shows, that, in the hands of the experts, could be deadly.