Follow Through

The follow through is a part of the throwing technique. It is not about technical details of the body movement, but about the perception and imagination before and after the throw. This thing is worth an own chapter.

The follow through is described by experts like this:

After the release, the hand does not break the movement, as it could, but continues its way, and the fingers clap when the knife hits the target.

What's that! Enhancing the flight after the release? No! If the device is released, the control is lost. This is the rule of causality. And what the hand does, has no influence on the device any more.

Here the solution.

The above advice your hear together with the advice "repetition is the key". Aha! The follow through cannot enhance the one throw it belongs to, but the next throw coming.

The follow through is the postcalculation of a throw. Business people know: the better the postcalculation of the late order, the better the precalculation of the next order. The better the precalculation, the tighter the offer, the better the profit. Period.

Another point of view. The Follow Through begins in the moment, when you decide the throw. From this moment on you develop a detailled flight plan. At the release point, the plan is frozen, the reality goes on. If the real flight is exactly the prethought flight, there comes no surprise. The difference between plan in brain and happening in future vanishes. The sensation of time is altered. It is a time span, which does have nor beginning nor end, but which is "standing in space".

Remember that simplizistic finger snipping expert advice above. The key in this advice is, that it helps for synchronizing thoughts and coming reality.

This is music. Delicious!

After the above abstract considerations here some loosely collected practical things.

Cool trick # 20010630
"Boot Knife Imagination"
Trick for enhancing your throwing technique.
(Kindly contributed by guest author Artur 2001.)

One possible mistake with throwing is, that after the release of the knive, you move the hand diagonally down in front of yourself, to the other side of the body, instead of moving it in a vertical plane sidewards of the body.

Here helps the following imagination. After the throw, within the same stroke, you grip the next device, and this is placed at the boot on the same side as the throwing hand.

Thus you will automatically maintain a strictly sideward movement of the hand from the release point at top to the relax point at bottom.

Indeed, with a powerful throw with largescale body movement, eventually even with an onset, your throwing hand may end in a point as low as your foot, in a bended down position on one foot. (Compare e.g. Tim Valentine's throw on the picture sequence in chapter "Technique - Anatomy of throwing - Knife Throwing Styles")

One idea leads to another. Here one more method to guide the hand sidewards of the body.

Cool trick # 20010701
"Giving behind the backbone"
Trick for enhancing your throwing technique.
(By Franz, deduced after the cool trick of Artur 2001 above.)

Typically, you have several knives, and before throwing, you give the knive from the holding hand to the throwing hand. With this gesture begins the follow through.

The trick: Deliver the device from the giving hand to the throwing hand not in front of yourself, but behind your back.

This ensures automatically largescale sidewards movement of the arms from the very beginning.

And even more, this results in a nice stable fix point for beginning the throwing movement low behind, after the knife changed the hand, exactly 180 degree opposite of the delivery point above ahead. You utilize the full circle, which the arm can describe with one rotation around the shoulder.

One important point with knife throwing is phantasy!

Have fun finetuning your Follow Through