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Let's throw some knives!
Nope.
Well I threw it, technically.
Oh [ BEEP ]
Well that was close.
>> voice off-camera: Not really.
Aim-wise I was!
[the modulated rogue]
"The Modern Rogue throws knives at stuff."
All right, back again with John Maverick
with more dangerous stuff that we shouldn't be doing.
Talk to me about throwing knives,
is there anything special about them?
Basically, no. They are knives. They're solid.
- Properly balanced, roughly in the middle, right?
- Should be in the middle.
If they had a handle on them,
they would be a full tang blade,
but I hate throwing knives with handles.
Why is that?
Well you get two of them right next to each other,
you cut the handle off of it.
I don't think I will ever have to worry about
that amount of precision.
Ha, yeah. I'll be happy if I hit that thing.
The biggest thing I don't understand
about throwing knives is that,
it just seems like I would bounce the hilt off of everyone.
Like, how do you know how many rotations
you're going to get?
There's math!
Your average throwing knife's about, uh--
this one's about a foot.
>> Brian: Okay.
And because of that, it does one full rotation
every six feet from being thrown.
I... I had no idea!
Neither did I when I first started.
From the moment you let go,
every six feet it does one full rotation?
Exactly.
That doesn't give you a lot of variance.
It doesn't!
Okay, so you would not throw a knife in an actual life or death situation?
- No.
- That's why Batman's got two points on the Batarang.
Well I m--
I would manage to hit with the ears of the bats,
and the guy would laugh at me.
>> Maverick: So like I said, every six feet would be one full turn.
- But it's not six feet for every knife.
- Exactly.
This knife is about a foot, a little bit less,
and it's a six to one ratio for the knife.
So if the knife was 18 inches long, it would be 9 feet.
Throwing machetes, I'm at a 12 to 15 feet.
- Uh, now you're at five feet.
- I'm at five feet here... for two reasons.
One, I'm not going to throw straight.
I'm going to do half a turn.
Like are you, you're not worried about cutting yourself?
I'm not worried about cutting myself. They're not very sharp knives.
Got it, got it. They're just very pokey at the end.
Yeah, they're very pokey at the end. Not too blunt,
I'm not resting my thumb on the blade.
I'm just going to throw, and just sort of let it fly.
I'm not even opening up my hand all the way,
I'm just letting the momentum pull it out of my hand.
- Okay.
- The one thing that I...
hate! Every martial arts movie has a guy taking the knife
"kwa-tah!"
Throwing it, almost like flicking it!
Adding his own extra momentum on there.
- Spins it faster than it wants to spin.
- Right.
- Totally blows the equation out.
- Right.
And you're pulling back on the knife, it's not going to have the momentum.
So it's mostly elbow and shoulder?
It's just, throw a knife. It's really just...
I love that, "You just throw it!"
- You just throw it!
- Yeah, all right show me. Go, go!
- Okay.
- I'm just going to back, back away.
>> Maverick: That's it.
>> Brian: Well that looked uh, all right.
- So can I give it a try?
- You can.
I plant one foot forward right at that five foot mark.
>> Brian: Got it.
>> Maverick: Okay, my other one goes back.
And it is a little bit of a full-body motion.
I'm going to spring off my foot just a little bit, off my back foot.
- Put the whole body in it.
- Sure.
- Just take it...
- and throw it.
- All right, all right.
Now you're doing like a pinch grip, he was doing more of like a hammer grip.
Okay, okay so, so grab this whole thing, get right here.
>> Maverick: Okay, here's what's really neat.
I'm happy seeing you mess up, but here's one clue.
Your knife hit like that.
>> Brian: Yeah?
Take a small step back, because you're in rotation.
So as it's coming...
>> Brian: So just realize that the rotation's going to be constant, and it's up to me to adjust my distance.
So what that means is that you are leaning forward a little bit more than I was.
Because it's not really too much where your foot is, it's where the knife ends up.
So if it lands like this,
step back, it goes like that.
If it lands like this, step forward. If it lands like that, well you're halfway between.
>> Brian: Got it, got it got it. Okay, all right.
Here we go, ready?
>> Maverick: You're going to get this one.
>> Brian: One, two.
[in unison] Hey!
>> Jason & Maverick [cascading]:
It stuck!
>> Brian: All right, let me try it one more time.
>> Jason: Now are you doing it, like, blade-up or blade-down?
Blade up. That's the way I'm throwing this one here.
>> Jason: Blade up, okay.
Because then it's going to come around, and stick in your traditional blade-down curving configuration.
What's his- is his stance good?
I'm totally digging on the total wide, y'know, super hero stance.
>> Brian: You know what it is?
>> Jason: Doing some lunges there?
This is from the fire eating
because it's so important
>> Jason and Maverick: Oh, yeah yeah yeah.
because you don't want it like,
when you tilt your head back,
you don't want to be,
you know trying to keep your balance.
>> Maverick: Okay! You flicked your wrist.
- I did flick my wrist! Busted!
- I caught you.
I've learned so many bad habits from movies.
You're going to have to undo all of them, ready?
>> Brian: Yeah!
>> Maverick: That's it right there!
>> McConaughey: All right, all right, all right.
>> Jason: That was good!
So yeah, don't be like Brian.
What was that flick? I totally saw a flick there.
>> Jason: Did I flick? I did?
>> Brian: Yeah you, a little flick. A little flick.
>> Maverick: You flicked! You flicker.
Okay.
Okay. You hit it with the back of the knife.
>> Jason: Yeah.
- Look at where you foot is, you're at six feet.
>> Jason: We're doing five?
>> Maverick: Try it at five.
>> Brian: Just in your mind, you're going to end and then point.
>> Maverick: Just let it go.
>> Brian: Yeah!
>> Maverick: A little bit more power and that would have stuck in.
>> Jason: A little harder.
Go back, about a half-step back.
Boy, that's actually really good advice,
because once I start thinking of that
like, you can definitely see it was kind of, almost rotated.
If you just had a little more room.
>> Maverick: Yeah, he would need just a little bit more room to rotate that in.
>> Brian: So it's all in the distance? I never thought it was that simple.
Yeah!
- Oh come on, stay!
- That's it, right there!
- Yes!
>> Brian: Dude that looked amazing, all right here, I get to go one more time.
I like your tip of just acting like you're going to point.
>> Brian: Yeah.
- That really helped me out.
- That follow-through.
- Because you're holding it so far out.
- Got it.
Try choking up, just a little bit.
So like that.
>> Maverick: I... here-
Nope.
Bring it up and back, you're going all the way around. Up and back, up and back.
Got it. So, okay so, don't over-do it on the...
Oh yeah, no that's different.
You were doing a little bit of side-arm.
>> Maverick: Yeah, you were just, "Yyyglech!"
It's not a baseball.
I can feel the difference, though.
I can see what you're talking about.
There we go!
>> Jason: Yeah!
Boy, it really helps to be going
one after another like that.
- Yeah.
- You can adjust, here, you try it.
I think you were about five and a half, is where I think you were throwing your best.
- About like right there?
- Yeah.
>> Maverick: That's it!
>> Brian: Yes!
- Ooooohhh!
>> Maverick: That's it, yeah!
- Badass, all right, so.
- It feels, really good.
>> Brian: It's super satisfying.
All right, so now I guess we have to do a full rotation?
We're going to try!
- Hold on, how far?
- Three feet, for half a rotation.
Three feet from the moment we let go for a half rotation.
Six feet for a full rotation.
- Okay, so we're going to back up.
- Which means, I'm now at eight feet.
Got it.
Wow!
Woooowwww!
[ everyone yells ]
Haha ha, you killed the board!
>> Brian: Holy cow.
- I'm just going to make a quick note of why
I keep these boards in here so loosely,
is because, I mean,
I'm going to replace these after today
just us throwing.
That's a good thing, so it matters the materials
like you got a soft pine wood here.
Yeah, these are just regular 2x6s,
from Home Depot.
>> Brian: Okay, so...
- I'm going to move my hand
Yeah, please. All right, take a look.
Does that look like six feet from the moment I let go?
- A little over, but I-
>> Maverick: A little over, but the way you throw them...
>> Brian: Ah!
>> Maverick: Take a step back.
It's scary. It's scary. It's just scary to throw knives!
Like, my advice would be practice with nobody around
so there's n--you focus only on the throwing part.
You're still kind of pinching.
Is that how you would hold a knife?
Yeah, no, I guess not.
No, it's not wingardium leviosa here.
Well, you know what it is?
Is when you throw a card,
you want to hold as little of the card as you can
- True!
so the momentum flings itself. But, but that's not the case with these, right?
This is not a card.
You are threatening this board with this knife.
You have it here in your hand.
- Like this!
Eugh! You take that, you board!
>> Brian: Hyea! YEAH!
- That first knife hit hilt-first.
- Yeah, okay.
>> Maverick: Go up to seven foot.
- Okay, got it.
I'm gonna get you!
>> Brian: Damn.
- Whoa, whoa!
- What was that?!
- I can't--well see,  holding it like this
Holding it like, like full-on it's hard for me to time.
You're still just letting it go out of your hand.
Because, if your hand is down here, that's where the knife's going to go.
- Sure, sure.
- Aim up!
All right, ready. One, two...
Three!
>> Everyone: Closer.
All right, [ BLEEP ] it.
Here, you go!
Now remember, you want to release at about six feet, so
I normally stand between eight and seven feet.
All right.
Try this time, when you let go
just, your hand freezes the entire time, like you're going to shake hands with the board.
>> Brian: So close! So close!
Do you have a sticker?
Just something we can make so you actually...
>> Brian: Have a target?
Because sometimes simply aiming at the target's gonna help you a little bit.
I'm calling it, that counts!
That counts!
Now we're going to try something a little bit different with you guys.
So these are some axes that Jason got on Amazon.
- Yeah! They were like $13.
- Dude.
You've got this nice spike back here,
so if you do land it like that, it'll stick.
These are also at about a foot.
So the same length rules matter?
- Technically it should apply.
- Same dynamics.
That hit, BOOP, like that.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go forward just a little bit.
>> Brian: Wow!
Now I can already feel
the paracord on this trying to give away.
>> Jason: Oh, sure.
- So that's probably not going to last.
For $13 I'm surprised they didn't just explode into shards of metal.
Oh, one thing I will say about these, I just like this.
>> Brian: Whoa!
- Because you've got the little hook there.
Slow down there, cowboy.
>> Brian: Dude!
It's fine, it's fine!
I mean, your accuracy is like spot-on. It's amazing.
Right there, on the target.
You're king of uh, backwards hatchet throwing.
- Brian...
- Okay, I'll give it a try. Maybe I was born for these.
Yeah, it hit with the butt every single time there.
- How...
>> Jason: Can you throw multiple ones at one time?
>> Maverick: Yes. We're not getting there now.
These have a lot of bounce back.
- We're about to have to wrap this, right.
- Yep, yep, yep.
- But I want to try something.
- All right, what do you got?
You're going to do three at once?!
- Yeah!
- Oh, there's no way this goes well.
Nope! It's not going to go well at all.
But I gotta try it!
It's great. It's great.
Here, you know what? While we're at it, we're just throwing trash everywhere. Why not?
All right, here we go.
So the big takeaways,
is I'm surprised at number one, how much
a tiny variation in your throwing technique or your posture makes a huge difference.
Well there's a lot of things that go into it.
It's force, it's the technique of your throw,
it's how you're holding it,
it's the distance that you are from your target, your posture.
There is a lot that goes into the consideration of this.
I would imagine it's the kind of thing that nothing but just lots of practice and training
would get us to consistency, right?
- Exactly.
It changes with the weather, even.
It's not as easy as I had hoped.
I'm just gonna do it and it's going to be amazing.
Just get ready. Ready?
>> Jason: Okay.
It was very close. It was very close.
>> Jason: To us!
>> Brian: Yes, okay.
There's people walking past over there.
Hi, how are you doing?
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- Yeah, yeah.
- Because we've got beards.
- The bearded hypocrits is what they call us.
- Beardists!
And I'm not going to stand for beardism.
You know what? There are more parts of the body to shave than just the beard.
- Precisely!
- There's the neck.
I have parts I don't even know about,
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You're kind of... it's fine.
It's just... it's, I'm not being specific!
It's just in this area! Between the knees and the nipples.
There's something in there that gets groomed.
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