As far as recognized champions in the sport, the Hall of Fame holds a three-day national throw every year to establish the best in various categories. Then again, the Hall isn't the only group of throwers; other champions exist, too. Someday perhaps, there will be a grand merger.
As for the typical knife-thrower, he or she is hard to describe, since anyone can throw.
"There's really no aging out," said Rick Lemberg, an organizer of the online Aim Games, in which people compete by posting their scores. Because there is no physical contact, injuries are rare, he added. Commitment trumps physique.
Source: Knife-Throwing as a Sport: Who Would Have Thunk It?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @06:30PM (8 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife-carrying [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHdx7CHavg0 [youtube.com]
http://www.euronews.com/2017/04/30/finns-compete-in-annual-hobby-horse-championship [euronews.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd5-qspfKtc [youtube.com]
There's more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/sports/finland-has-a-sports-screw-loose.html?mcubz=1 [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 18 2017, @06:39PM
I wish more people around me would take on the very Finnish sport of cellphone-throwing.
I've seen Dart Championships broadcast on TV. Pretty sure knife-throwing is a more ancient sport, along with axe-throwing. I can imagine that bars and pubs do prefer the occasional tiny hole in the wall or ground from drunk Darts enthusiasts.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @07:03PM
Don't forget air guitar world championship and swamp football (soccer) world championship.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by edIII on Monday September 18 2017, @07:08PM (2 children)
That's so fucking awesome it should be quoted here. I love the rules:
I love the prize the best:
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:44PM
My god. They figured out a way to make big girls more attractive. Twice.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday September 19 2017, @02:04PM
The wife carrying contest is awesome. It's really quite fun, much more so then any other competitions. The one thing I can think of right at the top of my head is the other Finnish competition -- the World Sauna Championship. But they had to stop that about a decade ago or so when people sat there so long that they passed out and died. They overdid it a bit to say the least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships [wikipedia.org]
Still it's very odd that Finnish people would approve of wearing trunks in the Sauna.
(Score: 4, Funny) by frojack on Monday September 18 2017, @07:20PM (1 child)
None of those are half as entertaining as the day Ed Ames taught Johnny Carson how to throw a tomahawk on live tv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5QC9ZJkM8 [youtube.com]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @05:00AM
The best part of that was when Ed went to retrieve his tomahawk from the target and Johnny waved him off.
(Ed was playing "Mingo", Daniel Boone's Native American friend at the time.)
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:46AM
Scottish Highland Games that I've seen or visited advertise hammer throwing but they "all" (AFAIK) have axe throwing contests too.
Hammer throwing sounds very dangerous but its pretty easy to figure out max range and simply stand outside it. I would imagine gathering that safety data initially was very dangerous.