Throwing Knives and availability.

The variety of acclaimed throwing knives is unlimited.
The most offered and most marketed knives are those which are easy to manufacture and easy to throw in a compromising way.
The Broadblade \Flyers are the most common and mass produced mostly in China.
These are made from cheap thin sheets of steel.
At least 99% of them fail the weight/surface test.Without going into mathematics and physics -this is the density per dimension or the weight per size that is a factor in the aerodynamics of any flying object-that influence the way it travels through the air.
The lighter and bigger the dimensions the more it is influenced by the air -and thus very much unstable and unpredicted.
Once a knife leaves your hand it is traveling free and the momentum and trajectory is influenced only by the angle it travels through the Air, and the influence of the Air on the dynamics/shape of the object. The same as with an aeroplane wing or Boomerang.
If your knife has a broad blade and low weight it can easily be diverted and becomes a flyer.
Thats why these type of knives are promoted as a typical thrower in a typical manner-otherwise it becomes a flyer-going anywhere.
To me that is like shooting a crooked arrow through a pipe -it will go to the end of the pipe -but its not the real thing.
These arrow blades are thrown at a vertical angle with limited options-you are bound by the distance determined by the knife or specific knife size.
Otherwise you must increase your distance by measuring a precise extra turn/spin in your throw.-again very artificial to accomodate the knife's physics.
All this opposed to a real knife with a correct weight-dimension factor,which can be thrown from relatively any distance at the same revolution and same style.
We hope to market such a knive soon.
this new SA Thrower was designed and tested and altered with great care.
The result was a knfe that is quite heavy-very stable and very very strong.The 12c27 stainless was treated and crafted by a Master in knife making-especially hardened processes -Chris Fourie
from Pretoria.
The SAThrower can easily go through an old car bonnet and withstand heavy blows and surface contacts. More news soon
Soon we will bring this to the market with a more lighter model also-stil with the correct density.
Especially for all the ladies that shows interest in the sport-to my suprise quite a lot of them.

Knifethrowing can be a very social and safe sport when all the correct procedures are followed.