Always check your backstop!
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I'd like to think the drummer walked round the other side and pointed out the throwers error; he may have done but the clip doesn't show it
As a knife and axe thrower this has been all over our facebook feeds today as you can imagine.
It's abject stupidity. The backstop isn't high enough for that type of axe. It's a tricky axe to throw anyway certainly not suited to a beginner as this guy obviously is.
You never ever have anyone forward of the thrower and you keep the area behind clear (for some distance, the longer the better)
The drummer has been identified and thankfully got hit with the top part of the axe. He did receive some cuts to the wrist as it fell down his arm but apart from a change of underwear is otherwise unharmed.
Stuff like this gets my mad up as it gives throwers a bad reputation
ArkAngel
(member of Knife, Axe and Tomahawk Throwing Association UK <KATTA UK> and International knife throwers hall of Fame. Certified Master Knife Throwing Instructor from International Knife Throwers Hall Of Fame )
It's abject stupidity. The backstop isn't high enough for that type of axe. It's a tricky axe to throw anyway certainly not suited to a beginner as this guy obviously is.
You never ever have anyone forward of the thrower and you keep the area behind clear (for some distance, the longer the better)
The drummer has been identified and thankfully got hit with the top part of the axe. He did receive some cuts to the wrist as it fell down his arm but apart from a change of underwear is otherwise unharmed.
Stuff like this gets my mad up as it gives throwers a bad reputation
ArkAngel
(member of Knife, Axe and Tomahawk Throwing Association UK <KATTA UK> and International knife throwers hall of Fame. Certified Master Knife Throwing Instructor from International Knife Throwers Hall Of Fame )
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I just watched this then shouted to an empty room "You effing idiot!!". As a part time Tomahawk thrower even I know you never have anyone/thing behind your target. I just well...err.... I'm lost for words this twit has dumbfounded me.
I think it's more a stupid place to put a target. There is no secure safety area behind it at all. It's in a public place, and the onus is on the thrower not to be a danger to others rather than the public having to be concerned about a demo going amiss.
I don't think I've ever seen such a poorly sited target, tbh. Usually the knife and axe throwers are beyond careful to make sure that no one can be hurt with their skill practice.
This video gives them a bad rep that most do not deserve.
M
I don't think I've ever seen such a poorly sited target, tbh. Usually the knife and axe throwers are beyond careful to make sure that no one can be hurt with their skill practice.
This video gives them a bad rep that most do not deserve.
M
What dink set that up?
H&S?
Duty of Care?
Common sense?
Noine of those seem to have been thought of!
H&S?
Duty of Care?
Common sense?
Noine of those seem to have been thought of!
I wonder if they went for beer and sausages later?
(The other video that's doing the rounds at the mo!)
(The other video that's doing the rounds at the mo!)
I got thw impression that there was a chap doing the.demo and the reporter was "giving it a go for the viewers".
Still doesn't excuse the poor sighting though. Reporters and camera crews seem to cause havoc whereever they go. Remember when I did javelin many years back some dunce running out into the field and getting one through.the calf as it skipped.
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Still doesn't excuse the poor sighting though. Reporters and camera crews seem to cause havoc whereever they go. Remember when I did javelin many years back some dunce running out into the field and getting one through.the calf as it skipped.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
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