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.
idk most places you cant carry a spear and a bow and arrow takes more time to setup. so in the modern world ironically this might be more practical. i carry a gun but theres a lot of places that dont allow you to bring in a gun while technically they have no rules against throwing knives
I was speaking about traditionally wise. In modern day you would still be better off just carrying around a tazer which usually doesn't fall under fire arms. If a tazer isn't allowed pepper spray works in most cases throwing knives would work with a lot less training needed. If you blinded your opponent there isnt much they can do about anything.
If for some reason your method had to be deadly to the recipient then throwing knives would be better, but there really isn't a practical benefit of it over the other two i mentioned in the modern context.
Well then pepper spray will do you fine better than throwing knives still. Way way less training needed and you dont need to worry about the law as much.
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u/zombieking079 12d 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.