This is a research blog for the persona(s) I am working on since I joined the SCA a few months ago, along with any other useful info as a begin my exporation into the SCA and the things I want to learn and experience there. As an Eastern Band Cherokee woman I have decided my main persona will be Native as well so I am very excited to work on that, but as a prop artisan and someone who loves learning new things there is so much cool stuff ahead I can hardly wait to learn it all.


Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Thrown Weapons... Beginnings

Okay, like I promised,  I'm going to talk a bit about the thrown weapons get together that happened yesterday night. First off it was frikken fun! I knew I wanted to try it, but I had no idea I would like it so much. I'm hoping to try it with different sizes and different weights knives,  and I definitely want to have another go with the axes since I only got to that once. I seem to do okay though, in general throwing in the right direction and hitting the target about 50% of the time. I did start to get better once I began throwing from the tip (holding the knife by the tip rather than by the handle), so that's a good sign that that's were I can comfortably hold for good accuracy. I'm hoping once I get a good idea of what size, length, and weight works best for me in knives and axes I can learn to make my own. I came home so excited that I right away went to dig up some instructional videos on knife throwing. I figured this would be a good place share them. Note that because I got them off of his upload list if you do not stop at the end of the video it will keep playing the next one or something else.

Choosing Knives



How to Throw Knives



Consistency and Distance

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