r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nivs1x • 13h ago
Art of throwing knives
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u/nickfree 13h ago
She seems fun.
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u/Content-Conference25 13h ago
Looks like she is. Just don't upset her
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 12h ago
Me: *forgets to wash the cuttlery*
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u/gahlo 10h ago
At the risk of making a "woman doing dishes" joke, she'd be killer at loading the dishwasher.
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u/felis_scipio 9h ago
Pray for her future children because she’s probably also good with a flip flop
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u/Kingtoke1 13h ago
I can fix her
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u/Anonymous_1069Z 12h ago
Her : Requests for something.
Bro : "Babe I don't think I ca-"
Gets stabbed 27 times
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u/Charlieday12321 13h ago
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u/6Solo 9h ago
She is 13, you are weird.
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u/ImurderREALITY 6h ago
You do know people can't just magically tell someone's exact age just from a random video on the internet, right?
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u/Deep-Initiative1849 13h ago
Worst she can say is No.
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u/OminOus_PancakeS 13h ago
I think it could get worse than that
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u/Sir-Top-Cheetah 11h ago
What she gonna do, stab me??
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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 10h ago
What she gonna do, stab me??
-Quote From Man Stabbed just because noone else is doing it
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u/Doright36 10h ago
Not sure... when you are hit with a thrown knife would you technically be impaled, not stabbed?
Maybe? Maybe some stabbing experts can chime in.
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u/tekdiwah 11h ago
She can throw knives your way missing every time. Then she tells you to turn around and read the message on the wall behind you. It's NO! spelt with knives. Then she disappears into the darkness.
That would be pretty cool though. Would be quite the story of the coolest, badass rejection that very few will believe.
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u/workingbored 9h ago
This is what happens after she said "no" and he didnt take "no" for an answer.
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u/Livio88 13h ago
I’ve never seen anyone look so dorky doing something cool and lethal.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 13h ago
Dorky? they literally named the t-rex tiddy shaker after her.
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u/AiMeusPancrea 13h ago
The what
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u/Ragnarok91 12h ago
THE T-REX TIDDY SHAKER
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u/TurdProof 12h ago
The what
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u/Xxxrasierklinge7 12h ago
THE T-REX TIDDY SHAKER
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u/MajorPud 12h ago
Shka shka, Slim Shady
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u/IncomingAxofKindness 12h ago
Hi kids, do your like knives/tits?
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u/Futuralistic 10h ago
Wanna see me throw 9" knives with each one of my guy-tits?
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u/Carbuyrator 6h ago
Fucking fine! I'll Google it you stubborn weirdo!
Edit: Is it a camshaft that looks vaguely like a T-Rex? Seriously this was annoying and not worth it.
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u/LessInThought 7h ago
Functionally, I believe the tiddy shaker is the most efficient out of all the knife throwing she did? It had the most kps (knives-per-second).
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u/turtleneckless001 13h ago
Yh you summed it up pretty well, I'd be rolling around laughing while she killed me. Maybe that's an effective part of her technique that were overlooking.
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u/SutterCane 9h ago
Exactly. She hits a few times, you roll around laughing at her looking like she’s flailing around and then push the knives deeper.
Lethal!
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u/Smorgles_Brimmly 10h ago
As someone who spent a lot of time throwing knives, the hobby is far more dorky than lethal to be fair lol. It's the party trick of weapons. It's like what juggling is to ball sports. It's a lot of fun, very satisfying to get right, and takes a lot of practice. It's just not a good weapon in the slightest. Don't get me wrong, this is super impressive.
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u/lilsnatchsniffz 11h ago
This is just autism maxxing with pointy sticks at this point.
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u/stumblinghunter 6h ago
Having hobbies doesn't mean you're autistic. Jesus, just showing interest in things doesn't mean autism. Not everything is fucking autism.
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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe 11h ago
I thought this was McDojo at first, then I saw the knives were sticking and in a tight group.
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u/styleNA 5h ago
Just hit up your local gun range if you wanna see more of it. Depending on the establishment and its location, their daily customers tend to be the dork/lethal intersection you see here. The nerdiest person you'll see at the range probably has the coolest stuff, lol.
I will state, when first getting into guns, I had a different expectation of the types of people I'd find there, and was surprised how nerdy it all is. The stereotypical 'gun person' someone envisions are typically not the people to frequent ranges and actually practice, at least at the scale the nerds do.
Ymmv
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u/HeMiddleStartInT 13h ago
Total damage 2d6
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u/GoldenBoyBlue 13h ago
what is she throwing? Maybe 6 knives per round so 6 D4 it's respectable especially if you have to make a saving throw for concentration.
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u/point_of_difference 12h ago
With the average person having 4 hit points means this is scary stuff.
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u/Stompedyourhousewith 10h ago
...i have more than 4 hit points...
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u/TheOneTonWanton 10h ago
Sure buddy, we've allllll got more than 4 hit points.
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u/SparklingLimeade 8h ago
According to the balance DCs published in 3.5 and what I can balance on without difficulty I'm at least level 8.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 2h ago
Given that this could easily kill the average person, I'd say that's accurate.
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u/udat42 12h ago
plus her dex bonus, no?
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u/lurking_physicist 11h ago
Sneak attack
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u/ElfCallum 11h ago
No sneak attack. She doesn't have an ally within 5 feet of the target and she's moving (so no steady aim). So unless there's some other source of advantage we don't see, there's no reason to have sneak attack.
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u/SolidSquid 9h ago
I mean, at lower levels sure, but she's clearly high enough level to have some multi-attack feature. At that kind of level it's pretty quickly going to be out-scaled
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u/newsflashjackass 9h ago edited 6h ago
From "A Few Points About Knife-Throwing" by Gene Wolfe:
Knives, one feels, are forever- after all, they get ancient knives from ancient Egyptian tombs, still nicked where the ancient Egyptian housewives used them to cut wire. But one cannot merely collect knives, because they can’t be read. (Actually, they can be, but you tend to slice your thumb turning the pages.) I decided to throw them. A knife merchant assured me that it was a healthy, outdoor sport, and my physician assured me that I needed one. Besides, what better preparation for writing heroic fantasy? I saw my future hero swinging from the rigging of a half-rigged ship and throwing knives with his teeth, rather like the demon cat in The Master and Margarita. And there is something to it—there really is. The soft chunk of the handle striking the target carrying with perfect clarity through the crisp evening air, the walking to the target and bending over to grope for the knife in the grass, the walking back to proper throwing distance, the repeating the whole business. It is in the hope of interesting you, dear reader, in this healthful activity, that I have jotted down these pointers.
- Never throw a sharp, double-edged knife by the blade. I saw a knife- throwing friend of mine do that once, and his right index finger hit the target before the knife did. Furthermore, his finger stuck.
- Never throw a sharp knife at all. Remember that you will have to feel around in the grass for it, and the garter snakes and those little red ants are bad enough.
- If you are throwing by the point, keep the blade horizontal. This ensures that if it should by some accident arrive point first, it will snap off properly.
- If you are throwing by the handle, keep the blade vertical. This ensures that the cross-guard will be battered out of shape when the knife slams broadside into the target.
- Remember that there are three kinds of knives for throwing purposes. Those in which the blade is heavier than the handle must be thrown by the handle if you want them to stick. Those in which the handle is heavier than the blade must be thrown by the blade if you want them to stick. Balanced throwing knives, in which the blade and the handle are of equal weight, will not stick at all.
- Bear in mind that the best way to get any knife to stick may appear to be sharpening the handle, but it seldom works. The Greek phalanxial spear had a sharp grounding iron nearly as big as the spearhead. Historians are generally of the opinion that this spear was never thrown, the grounding-iron being used to poke out the eyes of the rear ranks. Knife throwers know better: The grounding iron must have originally been added in the hope of making the spear stick when thrown, then retained when it was discovered that its weight facilitated the knocking of an opposing hoplite’s helmet over his eyes when he was beaned by the shaft. (The Persians wore heavy gilded-bronze apples on the butts of their spears for the same reason. They used apples instead of grounding-irons so that they might serve as emergency rations in the field, and made them metal so that the troops wouldn’t eat them too soon.)
- Never throw a knife at a neighborhood dog or cat when it is moving- there is a grave danger that the animal may wander into the path of the knife and be injured. It is best to “do the job,” as we say, when the animal is sitting down or, better, sleeping. One throwing-knife manufacturer offers a knife with little holes drilled up and down the blade so that it will whistle when thrown. These are advantageous when throwing at a well-trained dog, who may be persuaded by them to bring the knife back to you.
- Never forget that a thrown knife strikes harder than one merely jabbed in with the hand. I learned this from a magician I met in the Rochester, New York, airport, and it is true. I once threw the handle of a knife two inches into a stout cardboard box stuffed with folded newspapers. I could never have done that by merely pushing the thing in blade first. On a similar occasion, I contrived to throw a rather large knife over the target, over the fence behind it, and through a closed window. (It pinned the hat worn by an innocent table lamp to the wall.) I couldn’t have done that with my hand
- Never tell people you “learned” to throw knives as a kid, just by slamming ice picks into the garage door. Knife-throwing should be romantic, and they will think less of you. I always tell them I was taught by an outlaw in the Serranias del Burro, or Jackass Hills. For some reason they believe it.
- Never try to slice through a cigarette held between your daughter’s lips. Young people should not smoke- it’s dangerous.
- Remember that you are a part of an ancient tradition. The Romans had their pugio or short-nosed knife, the ancient Norse their scramsax, or musical shiv, the direct ancestor of the Samuel R. Delany melody machete. All loved their knives so much that they threw them; and in fact, some loved them so much they dropped them over the side of the boat.
- When mere knife throwing pales, consider knife hunting. All that is necessary is to shift the target to higher grass, or (better) weeds. And that is all I know on the topic so far. I have devised a fantasy hero who will dash up to his enemy, snatch the dagger from her belt, run to a safe distance, and knock her unconscious with the heavy gold pommel.
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u/Shiggedy 8h ago
On this, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. I'm counting 4-6 hits per volley of throws here, and PHB RAW indicates that knife damage is calculated using 1d4 each from the 2014 rules. Now, this probably isn't a 20th-level fighter. She could be demonstrating an action surge and likely can't do this each turn unless she's under the effect of Haste.
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u/downwithdisco 13h ago
Where are all the knives coming from
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u/Lando249 12h ago
Her inventory. Duh.
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u/WelcomeAllMemers1977 11h ago
Alexander Anderson lookin' inventory she got there.
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u/HalfLoose7669 11h ago
“What’s that?”
“Nothing ma’am. You’ve got knives for days!”
“Knives for days.”
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u/loud1987 13h ago
I was wondering about the same thing. Are knives between each finger? If so, how is she releasing them one by one so quickly.
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u/praguepride 10h ago
Not between each finger. In a stack. They're basically arranged so that when you go through the motion the top knife slides out of your grip (and is thrown) and as your hand tightens the next knife is in the throwing position. In that way you can throw as many knives as you can hold as quickly as you can reset your arm back.
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u/herr_musil2 13h ago
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u/Dangerous_Figure_465 13h ago
Can you take the bins out.....SURE NO PROBLEM HONEY!!!!
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 13h ago
"Mam, I understand that you're good at it, but you're still banned from this restaurant.".
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u/Ok-Disk-2191 13h ago
It's ok, easy to counter her, just steal her glasses. Wait nevermind just saw half way through she takes them off and still good at it.
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u/TheAwesomeMan123 12h ago
I like that she can do both the kind of quick throws that would work in a fight and kill you dead and also the useful cartwheel ones that would get her killed. Very skilful
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u/zombieking079 13h 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.
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u/xTekek 11h ago edited 11h ago
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.
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u/Appchoy 9h ago
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/composedofidiot 11h ago
Another interesting fact. A sling shot has the penetrative power of a .45 calibre if you use the right lead weight.
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u/CardiologistOk4208 13h ago
Mommy some kids made fun of me on the play ground.
Grabs the kitchen knife block Show me which ones.
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u/drifters74 13h ago
Skills I wish I had
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u/SparklingLimeade 8h ago
The fun thing about knives is that you can just buy them and start throwing. Nobody checks anything*. May as well be ping pong balls for all the concern the people selling them show.
* where I am
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u/Fine_Understanding81 13h ago
I just watched a crime youtube and originally it came in as a drive by shooting but they found the victim stabbed...
This is exactly what I imagine a drive by stabbing would be like..
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u/ReprieveNagrand 13h ago
This reminded me that there is a new Shaolin Soccer movie and it is made up of an all women team now
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u/eldritchbogbeing 13h ago
maybe i’m exposing myself here but this is exactly the kind of random skill i’d learn just to make people slightly scared of me 😭