how knife throwers make sure the blade hits the target instead of the handle

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I mean, if the knife is balanced, there should theoretically be an equal chance for every angle of the knife to hit the target, not just the sharp part, right? Is it just “it only has time for about half a rotation” and take the distance and speed into account?

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Practice.

Throw a knife from X feet away until you can consistently get it to stick in the target, however many throws that takes. Then do it again from Y feet away, then again from Z feet away. You have to learn how many rotations a knife makes, if you throw it *just so*, from *this* distance or from *that* distance, and there’s no shortcut or cheat to it.

Thousands and thousands of throws later, you can get a blade to land edge-first.

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