Hello everyone !

I’ve been interested in knives throwing for a while, but never came to it. Then, about 10 days ago, I found out about scanf technique, also known as Fedin style. I literally fell in love with the visual impact of the move (let alone the impact of the knives…) and decided to have a go and explore a bit.

It’s all about waves and elastic forces. It occurred to me that it could be related to slinging. I found a quite interesting speech of Yuri Fedin, witch I thought could be of some interest here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0pABtULnec

Let me be clear : nothing new here, really. Just other words to think what I do.
Fedin style is all about wave. Just take a look at this slo-mo of Luis Pons to see his whip-like wave motion,  and the uses of those elastic forces. (please note that I don’t regerd this as “scanfing” per se, but the two moves seems to share some mechanics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwlZJ5IlN68


I do not know yet if this is gonna lead me somewhere, but I sure do enjoy this little exploration.
Have fun slinging, everyone !

Aaarggh - is there any point where he actually throws  a knife from more than 5 feet ?

I mean apart from how boring it is - surely it's just basic throwing mechanics ?

Well, the point of this technique (and the grip that goes with it) is that it creates another articulation in the chain : hips, torso, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and then the weapon -be it a sling or a knife.
That articulation allows the knife to lag behind freely. And this is why it looks a different mechanic as the « standart throw » to me.

After three week of exercises, it doesn’t affect my slinging by itself, but surely expands my thinking of the form, and help me to relax the throwing arm. Sure having fun with this.

As for the boring part, I guess that’s what you get when a weapon master is talking about the basics whithout showing off… learnig IS somewhat tedious, and I like it !