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posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 18 2017, @06:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-get-the-point dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @06:30PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @06:30PM (#569840)
    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 18 2017, @06:39PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday September 18 2017, @06:39PM (#569844)

      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

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @07:03PM (#569857)

      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)

      by edIII (791) on Monday September 18 2017, @07:08PM (#569860)

      That's so fucking awesome it should be quoted here. I love the rules:

      The original course was a rough, rocky terrain with fences and brooks, but it has been altered to suit modern conditions. There is now sand instead of full rocks, fences, and some kind of area filled with water (a pool). These are the following rules set by the International Wife Carrying Competition Rules Committee:

      • The length of the official track is 253.5 meters.
      • The track has two dry obstacles and a water obstacle about one meter deep.
      • The wife to be carried may be your own, or the neighbor's, or you may have found her further afield; she must, however, be over 17 years of age.
      • The minimum weight of the wife to be carried is 49 kilograms. If she weighs less than 49 kg, she will be burdened with a rucksack containing additional weight to bring the total load to be carried up to 49 kg.
      • All participants must enjoy themselves.
      • The only equipment allowed is a belt worn by the carrier and a helmet worn by the carried.
      • The contestants run the race two at a time, so each heat is a contest in itself.
      • Each contestant takes care of his/her safety and, if deemed necessary, insurance.
      • The contestants have to pay attention to the instructions given by the organizers of the competition.
      • There is only one category in the World Championships, and the winner is the couple who completes the course in the shortest time.
      • Also, the most entertaining couple, the best costume, and the strongest carrier will be awarded a special prize.

      While the International rules are the basis for all competitions, rules and prizes do vary for each competition.

      I love the prize the best:

      Wife Carrying World Championships are held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992 (where the prize depends on the wife's weight in beer).

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:44PM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:44PM (#570161) Journal

        (where the prize depends on the wife's weight in beer).

        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

        by looorg (578) on Tuesday September 19 2017, @02:04PM (#570182)

        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)

      by frojack (1554) on Monday September 18 2017, @07:20PM (#569864) Journal

      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]

       

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @05:00AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @05:00AM (#570071)

        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.)

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    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:46AM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:46AM (#569987)

      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.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday September 18 2017, @07:40PM (3 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday September 18 2017, @07:40PM (#569877) Journal

    Why wouldn't knife throwing be a sport when you have archery, rock throwing, javelin, skeet/trap, biathalon, wrestling, any number of martial arts, or boxing? Probably I missed more than a few. Anyway, the headline strikes me as extremely stupid. Glad I have the NYTimes in my /etc/hosts file (along with the WAPO).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @08:18PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @08:18PM (#569901)

      > Anyway, the headline strikes me as extremely stupid.

      It's a pun on the SFX of a knife blade hitting a wooden surface (*THUNK*). Of course, the pun is still stupid, so that doesn't help much :)

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:42AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:42AM (#569985)

      As a practitioner of armored sword fighting, many of my associates practice thrown weapons regularly. Spears, axes, knives, etc. It's not nearly as uncommon as the headline would have one think.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Rich on Monday September 18 2017, @08:04PM

    by Rich (945) on Monday September 18 2017, @08:04PM (#569896) Journal

    Wynyard the frog? From "Meet the Feebles". Would he qualify, or would he be ruled out for substance abuse?

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @08:08PM (#569898)

    Combine it with "knife dodging"!

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 18 2017, @08:48PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday September 18 2017, @08:48PM (#569920)

      Instant ratings: People will definitely watch the "Celebrity Edition"

  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday September 18 2017, @09:35PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Monday September 18 2017, @09:35PM (#569938)

    This is ridiculous. While it sounds like an engaging pastime, someone could put an eye out -- wait, never mind [soylentnews.org].

  • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Monday September 18 2017, @09:57PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Monday September 18 2017, @09:57PM (#569946) Journal

    Bin that knife!

    Is this sport allowed in the UK?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @10:07PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @10:07PM (#569951)

    I have an "athletic" letter from my high school for... rifle team. it was a different world then.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @05:06AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @05:06AM (#570075)

      What caliber was used?
      Was gunpowder involved?
      ...or were you marching with the things rather than shooting them?

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:36PM

      by Kromagv0 (1825) on Tuesday September 19 2017, @12:36PM (#570157) Homepage

      In Minnesota we still have trap shooting [mshsl.org] as a high school sport and it is growing in popularity. I have seen numbers from 16,000 to 20,000 participants claimed.

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  • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Tuesday September 19 2017, @02:36PM

    by aclarke (2049) on Tuesday September 19 2017, @02:36PM (#570191) Homepage

    I work with the author of Texas Knife Throwing Party Games [amazon.ca]. There's also an actual chain of axe throwing locations in Canada: https://batlgrounds.com [batlgrounds.com]. There's definitely a demand out there for throwing pointy things at other things.

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