Step 1: The Frisbee Figure

You keep the device resting flat in your hand. Then comes a rotation around the vertical axis. Is this a grip or a throw?

Do not exercise this grip with sharp devices!

First an easy device, this is one with its center of gravity within the handle, means within the hand. Here you can steer the tumbling device a little bit by the suspension.

The Frisbee Figure with the Puma Trail Boss, which has the center of gravity inside the handle. Download (if ready) the video as AVI ... KB oder als MPG ... KB. The video was captured by www.dr-hook.de.

(1) Starting position. From here you go somewhat back to have an onset. It is elegant to have an onset as short as possible.

(2) The difficulty is to nudge the device in a way, that it comes to the correct rotation right from the beginning.

(3) During the rotating, you have some control by the contact of the fingers with the handle. Mind how the thumb is bent down, to give way for the coming blade!

(4) The blade has passed the thumb. The thumb must come up again for catching.

(5) Pack, break and return to the starting position. Voila. It is elegant, if the stopping point is identical with the starting point, then no returning is necessary.

The rotation runs fine, if the first impuls already has the necessary precision and power to fulfill one rotation without intermediate corrections.

It becomes more difficult with the center of gravity in the blade, not in the handle. Then the grip does not rest comfortably in the palm of your hand, but you have to fix it with the thumb. During the rotation, you are forced to give up contact for a moment for a frisbee like throw.

(Dummy for picture to come) The Frisbee figure. Center of gravity is outside the grip.

And it becomes even more difficult, if the center of gravity is far off the grip plus sideward of the length axis, as with the axe. Then it is a task on its own, to keep the device in its horizontal position without tumbling.

Frisbee figure three
(Dummy picture) The Frisbee figure. Center of gravity is outside the grip plus sidewards of grip axis.

If you do this with routine, you can begin to add a vertical throw, first very little, then more. The control by the contact during rotation is lost then. Real throwing comes into play.

The special thing about this 'grip' is, that it allows a continuous transition from grip to throw.

Warning Do not exercise this with sharp knifes!