You're actually supposed to move your grip one hand length back from the balance point, it give you better accuracy, and makes the spear fly straighter.
I’m not sure why but throwing a spear was always natural to me. Growing up I’d take old brooms, sharpen one end and toss them around the yard for fun. I’m 20 now and my throws cover significant distance with good accuracy and power. I’ve never been taught by anyone just learned from having fun and messing around but my technique is practically identical to the one shown in the vid. Interesting…
how about throwing against a full grown male lion? see this documentary video from the 1930's in Africa. go to 45 minute point and see the Massi lion hunters kill a full lion in only 30 seconds. those of us on youtube who think we are survivalists could never do this in real life. The Massi have even forgotten how to hunt lions by now. They used to live on blood mixed with milk for strength. Amazing documentary! But killing a full male lion in 30 seconds? Amazing!
Obliviously you are NO EXPERT if you grab your spear with your fingers like that because it doesn't put power behind your throw, spears for effective and powerful throws need to be griped with the whole hand.
Timofey Golubov Escuse me but I do Javelin Throw myself and no, they are not whole different skill set, the Throwing biomechanics are exactly THE SAME. There are almost no differences between the Javelins I throw competing and the different spears I have also thron (i.e.: The Spartan Race ones). And Javelins are not thrown to animals nor people because its a sport! But they surely could be used for hunting purposes. If you want to know about spear/javelin throwing check javelin throw tutorial videos, that simple.
Timofey Golubov And you are a very bad hunter, what do you want when you Hunting? or aiming the target? to kill it? or to injure it? Throwing a spear with the fingers is the most efficient technique for accurately hit and stick it to the target, I will challenge you any day of the year to a competition of precision and distance.
if you want more power this old ranch hand from Nebraska, uses a battery, a double (a) battery and electrical tape not quite a 1/3 of the way back from the tip of the spear and tape the battery secure to the shaft. use one finger and it will through the shaft faster than if you used your hand to throw it. the first finger placed in back of battery gives leverage that should increase speed 20% and also range. enjoy and a spear is no worse than hunting with a bow or gun.
This spear is about 1 foot too short and the rawhide-wrap will stop the shaft from penetrating the animals body (compare yours with the shape of a samburu foreshaft you’ll understand) so you waste the best a spear provides: momentum. Yes, this is no sports javelin. Exactly that is why you better do NOT grab it at the balance point but way behind that. Otherwise you just waste speeding-up and power. Once you got used to grab behind the balance point you’ll achieve about 5-7 yards more distance from a standing position on flat ground plus impact power. With a CS Bushman blade on a dry 5ft. stick (6ft over all, 650grams) I can throw 30 yards easily without a run-up and hit a phone book @ 25yrds. For real hunting you either need to go after pigs or very big (and dangerous) game on flat ground or throw as steeply downhill as possible @ the deer-species. This can be done from a tree or a naturally elevated position ( a rock, a hill down to a creek…). Throwing steeply downhill you can achieve an effective range of over 25yards even if you want your target better half this distance or less but in a survival situation you’d better throw than let game go. To be successful with deer I’d highly recommend to bait them with peanut butter from your supplies or apples (mild weather) or acorn, chestnuts (cold weather). Sorry but there are too many survival vids out there which are far more dangerous to viewers than helpful. Inexperienced people all think of hunting first as a way of getting food and they all want to build spears or - even more stupid - bows. This way they waste energy, calories and time and most of them will never ever bring anything down. Scouting a bedding area of deer, putting up 5-7 spring-snare traps around and then push them in on the other hand would get one 1 - 4 deer caught easily, 4hrs work from start to butchering. It is DANGEROUS and does absolutely no good to people who want to learn what really works if the impression gets created that hunting was the first thing to do. It is NOT! Hunting requires a lot of time scouting trails, building ground blinds for different winds and last but not least WAITING WAITING WAITING! The No. 1 thing to do is fishing if you’re equipped for it and have fishing grounds nearby, or, as said, snare trapping combined with pushing in. I bet you won’t get anything with your spear for weeks if ever. Take the rawhide and make some spring snares and you’ll be in trouble instead to choose which deer you wanna take.
He doesn't mention that the tip of the spear MUST begin and end the throwing process pointing in the same direction (at the target). I throw spears all the time and I promise you, if you let the tip wander during the throw, your spear will fly sideways.
I am no expert on Spears or spear throwing but it seems to me your video does beg a question. If javelin's go further because they are balanced better, then why not add something to your spear to balance it better so that it would have more flight to it? Just curious
Not a pro, but I’d say when you’re running, whenever you plant the dominant foot (if you’re right handed it’s your left foot, if you’re left handed your right foot), so you plant and throw, your body should flow with it
hmm what I throw is more f a mace its heavier on the front in fact almost all of the weight is on the front the back is light the back is what i hold and attach sting to it so as it flies its beautiful and the middle front is the sharp part
Shotguns and rifles are legal in the UK, you just need a license (Pretty easy to get a shotgun license, a bit harder for a license for rifles). Pistols are legal in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man but not in the rest of the UK since 1997 (although you can get one if you're a pest control expert I think).
Not in my experience, and from teaching dozens of people to throw spears. Even when you tell people that, many keep doing it. The worst are those with high skill levels throwing baseballs; they just really want to crank that arm back and twist.
animals usually don't die instantly from it and they could live for days with a spear in them in agony if they manage to run away. you know peta and stuff says so.
especially if they start running and it just creates more tearing and a quicker bleed out time compared to a bullet where you see whack jobs shooting game in the spine and watching it run around and slowly die fuck people don't know how to finish a kill
nice film but if I may, put a triple A battery on it about 3rd the way down from point and throw by a finger yes one finger and it will go 25% faster and longer range than throwing with the whole hand,
everyone is saying "Cato made this cool.", "i was inspired by Cato." no no no no IT WAS MARVEL, however in the book it does say the boy from district 2 throws a spear 15 yards into a dummies heart. But i think we are all referring to the movie, because it looks so much cooler - and no no-one can throw a spear like Marvel, its not actually possible to throw like in the training scene unless you have been training for years, and years and years, which would be very strange...even then i doubt anyone could ( throwing like Marvel means you can throw it 15 yards at like 70mph dead-on... are you Bs'ing me?) '-'
I saw your other comment explaining that you throw javelins and spears competitively. Could you explain how and where to hold the spear? And should I put my back into it, or just my arm?
People usually hunt over bait with them, out of a tree. Tim wells the slockmaster has taken animals with them. Alot of skill needed to stalk an animal that close and get a decent shot like you said. I think its legal in America but definitely not here in Canada.
People are so soft and weak any more, that everything is cruel and barbaric. The reality of the matter, is life itself, is cruel and barbaric for all participants. It is not meant to be soft and weak. The soft and weak, do not last long.
What do people hunt with in the UK? They can't have guns, can they have bows? I mean they even took all of the nunchuck scenes out of Bruce Lee's movies in the UK... lol
Hehe I learned to throw knives the past few months ... Now I'm learning to throw spears then my friend is teaching me archery... I will survive :) go THG!
You can't instantly kill an animal unless you use a very powerful gun and hit the head, which nobody does cause then you can't mount it and its kind of a risk to take cause its a hard shot. And a bow you have to aim for the heart and lungs to hit them all with one arrow, so that you can hopefully kill it quickly and make it bleed out quickly so it's easier to track. So no matter what, when you're hunting the animal is going to bleed out and be "writhing" in pain. You just have to make it quick.
What I don't get is if i had a spear, with a bit of practice i could get throwing it down. But I really sont carry a spear with me at all times, so why not show us how to make a spear
Considering a single spear typically doesn't kill the animal for quite some time, often it would be alive after running away from the hit and live a day or more with a spear in its body, in constant agony. It's cruel. Only problem with guns is that they are very loud. If they were quite, it's all we would ever be allowed to hunt with more than likely. But a single shot from even a lower caliber hunting rifle will kill an animal instantly or within the day, so long as you can aim straight.
Not gonna lie. I got a good chuckle out of a clean cut, bespectacled, English gentleman in a polo shirt prepared to teach us how to chuck a spear. 🤣
You're actually supposed to move your grip one hand length back from the balance point, it give you better accuracy, and makes the spear fly straighter.
What direction do you move it in
@@weighedgoogcat4499 back
@@weighedgoogcat4499 up
@@smileypaper5589 it's back so the spear arcs
I thought there was something off...
Achilles has my favourite throw
achilles and leonidas XD
@@anarchymachine5221 you want our weapons come en get em...awooh
This movie made me love ancient/medieval melee warfare
I’m not sure why but throwing a spear was always natural to me. Growing up I’d take old brooms, sharpen one end and toss them around the yard for fun. I’m 20 now and my throws cover significant distance with good accuracy and power. I’ve never been taught by anyone just learned from having fun and messing around but my technique is practically identical to the one shown in the vid. Interesting…
Its in the DNA, the same was for me, i used to do the same and throw them in logs and the sound it makes when thrown is just astonishing.
I still do it, if i could i would like to hunt to test how good i would be.
i always wanted to throw spears but i didnt know how
Same thing for me but with sword techniques
I'm the reverse, now I'm obsessed, they're all I can think about but I never had the opportunity to learn
OI' MATE! YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT SPEA'???? NO??? INTO THA GOO'LAG FA YOU!!!
bet e dun have a loicense for whateva e used ta sharpen da head on it eva. bluddy git.
@@bradpotts1747 OY YEH..
HUH?
😂🤣🤣 this shouldn’t be funny ever since they confiscated a spoon in a warrant search... but it’s still funny.
Short, simple, to the point. Excellent how to video
From the hangover, to spear throwing, marvellous
I feel like I could win the hunger games now after watching this :D
Marvel 2.0
Just came here after watching a hundred clips from hunger games 😆
Here after reading the book
how about throwing against a full grown male lion? see this documentary video from the 1930's in Africa. go to 45 minute point and see the Massi lion hunters kill a full lion in only 30 seconds. those of us on youtube who think we are survivalists could never do this in real life. The Massi have even forgotten how to hunt lions by now. They used to live on blood mixed with milk for strength. Amazing documentary! But killing a full male lion in 30 seconds? Amazing!
Obliviously you are NO EXPERT if you grab your spear with your fingers like that because it doesn't put power behind your throw, spears for effective and powerful throws need to be griped with the whole hand.
from the looks of it that spear is big enough to be griped by the whole hand
Yes and no, look for the Javelin Throw grips.
javelins are not spears if you know what I mean, they are a whole different skill set, and javelins aren't thrown into animal or people.
Timofey Golubov
Escuse me but I do Javelin Throw myself and no, they are not whole different skill set, the Throwing biomechanics are exactly THE SAME. There are almost no differences between the Javelins I throw competing and the different spears I have also thron (i.e.: The Spartan Race ones). And Javelins are not thrown to animals nor people because its a sport! But they surely could be used for hunting purposes.
If you want to know about spear/javelin throwing check javelin throw tutorial videos, that simple.
Timofey Golubov And you are a very bad hunter, what do you want when you Hunting? or aiming the target? to kill it? or to injure it? Throwing a spear with the fingers is the most efficient technique for accurately hit and stick it to the target, I will challenge you any day of the year to a competition of precision and distance.
if you want more power and to throw the spear further, learn to throw by holding it near the back
That’s what I learned too people say to hold it in the middle but that never works
@@Violalee1965 I know right??
Yep
Not very stable though.
Self taught myself a little bit and I tend to hold it 2/3rds towards the back end and that’s helped me wonders
if you want more power this old ranch hand from Nebraska, uses a battery, a double (a) battery and electrical tape not quite a 1/3 of the way back from the tip of the spear and tape the battery secure to the shaft. use one finger and it will through the shaft faster than if you used your hand to throw it. the first finger placed in back of battery gives leverage that should increase speed 20% and also range. enjoy and a spear is no worse than hunting with a bow or gun.
+donze52 Makes sence, you get a better grip with your hand/fingers when throwing it. :)
Anyone know if this still works in 1.14?
Why did you search this....
This spear is about 1 foot too short and the rawhide-wrap will stop the shaft from penetrating the animals body (compare yours with the shape of a samburu foreshaft you’ll understand) so you waste the best a spear provides: momentum.
Yes, this is no sports javelin. Exactly that is why you better do NOT grab it at the balance point but way behind that. Otherwise you just waste speeding-up and power. Once you got used to grab behind the balance point you’ll achieve about 5-7 yards more distance from a standing position on flat ground plus impact power. With a CS Bushman blade on a dry 5ft. stick (6ft over all, 650grams) I can throw 30 yards easily without a run-up and hit a phone book @ 25yrds.
For real hunting you either need to go after pigs or very big (and dangerous) game on flat ground or throw as steeply downhill as possible @ the deer-species. This can be done from a tree or a naturally elevated position ( a rock, a hill down to a creek…). Throwing steeply downhill you can achieve an effective range of over 25yards even if you want your target better half this distance or less but in a survival situation you’d better throw than let game go. To be successful with deer I’d highly recommend to bait them with peanut butter from your supplies or apples (mild weather) or acorn, chestnuts (cold weather).
Sorry but there are too many survival vids out there which are far more dangerous to viewers than helpful. Inexperienced people all think of hunting first as a way of getting food and they all want to build spears or - even more stupid - bows. This way they waste energy, calories and time and most of them will never ever bring anything down. Scouting a bedding area of deer, putting up 5-7 spring-snare traps around and then push them in on the other hand would get one 1 - 4 deer caught easily, 4hrs work from start to butchering.
It is DANGEROUS and does absolutely no good to people who want to learn what really works if the impression gets created that hunting was the first thing to do. It is NOT! Hunting requires a lot of time scouting trails, building ground blinds for different winds and last but not least WAITING WAITING WAITING! The No. 1 thing to do is fishing if you’re equipped for it and have fishing grounds nearby, or, as said, snare trapping combined with pushing in. I bet you won’t get anything with your spear for weeks if ever. Take the rawhide and make some spring snares and you’ll be in trouble instead to choose which deer you wanna take.
Who reads this lol
lol u dont have a life
... wow man... just wow...
+Instagram Freak I did, and apparently you do not have a life, either, Instagram Freak.
Whoa what a pro
How to slit your ear “accidentally”
QWERTY Uncle That why you need to train with a wooden one!
Firey BlazeMaster I tried it last year and I no longer have a neighbour :( too late for the advice bro
For thousands of years spear throwing has been practiced, don't be such a pussy
He doesn't mention that the tip of the spear MUST begin and end the throwing process pointing in the same direction (at the target). I throw spears all the time and I promise you, if you let the tip wander during the throw, your spear will fly sideways.
My kill streak is amazing thanks man
me too lol. Since then I have learned to knife throw, make a fire, spear throw, do archery and make wooden tools
Persians! Come and Get them!
So war javelins are made for distance?
So would you be able to use a war javelin for hunting
The fact that spear and bow hunting is illegal shows just how concieted and self important humanity has become.
even if it was legal , who the fuck whould legitmaely hunt with a bow or spear when you have an automatic death machine.
@@anduro7448 People who want to BECOME the death machine.
as a caveman, i am enraged by this
@@anduro7448 i know someone who hunts with a musket
I am no expert on Spears or spear throwing but it seems to me your video does beg a question. If javelin's go further because they are balanced better, then why not add something to your spear to balance it better so that it would have more flight to it? Just curious
Correct technique, very good
How would you throw a spear while running?
Would you try to coincide the throw with the impact of the left foot or the right foot?
Not a pro, but I’d say when you’re running, whenever you plant the dominant foot (if you’re right handed it’s your left foot, if you’re left handed your right foot), so you plant and throw, your body should flow with it
the hunger games is about surviving and defending yourself and if you die, thats it your dead FOREVER!
2 more months for my Spartan race
Did you won???
common sense?
Great video. It works.
Is it normal to build up a callous on the middle finger, or am I throwing it wrong?
I have no idea why i am watching this i am never going to need this skill
I'm here from the movie '300'
hmm what I throw is more f a mace its heavier on the front in fact almost all of the weight is on the front the back is light the back is what i hold and attach sting to it so as it flies its beautiful and the middle front is the sharp part
a game you have to survive and kill all other and then you win
Shotguns and rifles are legal in the UK, you just need a license (Pretty easy to get a shotgun license, a bit harder for a license for rifles). Pistols are legal in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man but not in the rest of the UK since 1997 (although you can get one if you're a pest control expert I think).
Not in my experience, and from teaching dozens of people to throw spears. Even when you tell people that, many keep doing it. The worst are those with high skill levels throwing baseballs; they just really want to crank that arm back and twist.
Thanks, now I can properly hunt.
Bleeding Blades players: “Just press x bro”
Yea
That's why you weight then end of the spear so the balance point is near the center
What's a hunger game?
Communism
thanks for lesson!
Instructions not clear, spear stuck in my foot now.
lol same here and district 1 is my fav district
Yeah, I suppose common sense isn't so common anymore...
DAMN IT IM IN THE UK!
what is barbaric about it?
animals usually don't die instantly from it and they could live for days with a spear in them in agony if they manage to run away.
you know peta and stuff says so.
GOonTedgi Peta kills over 90% of the animals they "save" anyway.
Shawn Swigart I heard bow hunting is illegal in a lot of European countries too. Europe doesn't sound like much fun.
Spear hunting actually is more devastating than guns at times...Liberal asaclowns says it's cruel but it's a very clean death
especially if they start running and it just creates more tearing and a quicker bleed out time compared to a bullet where you see whack jobs shooting game in the spine and watching it run around and slowly die
fuck people don't know how to finish a kill
this will come in handy once the enemy kingdom attacks. Thank you
You like Hunger!! And who is katiniss? Lurn?
That video was supposed to be called: *Exactly how NOT to Hold a spear* .
nice film but if I may, put a triple A battery on it about 3rd the way down from point and throw by a finger yes one finger and it will go
25% faster and longer range than throwing with the whole hand,
Bear Grylls sleeps with a night light thanks to Dave Collet.
everyone is saying "Cato made this cool.", "i was inspired by Cato." no no no no IT WAS MARVEL, however in the book it does say the boy from district 2 throws a spear 15 yards into a dummies heart. But i think we are all referring to the movie, because it looks so much cooler - and no no-one can throw a spear like Marvel, its not actually possible to throw like in the training scene unless you have been training for years, and years and years, which would be very strange...even then i doubt anyone could ( throwing like Marvel means you can throw it 15 yards at like 70mph dead-on... are you Bs'ing me?) '-'
katniss does archery but she learned in the training arena how to throw one marvel is the spear dude in the hunger games
Everyone's all hunger games and stuff haha I'm here because of Eomer.
Although it is not a Javelin, the Throwing biomechanics are the same, and you didn't throw it properly.
I saw your other comment explaining that you throw javelins and spears competitively. Could you explain how and where to hold the spear? And should I put my back into it, or just my arm?
Deadly McLovin
Should have read it first then, then you would have seen this comment a week later from when I posted cause you'd be in the forest messing around. lol
the way I made my spear was I grabbed a camping pole put a sharp thing through the end hammered it down and on my first try it stuck in to the ground
This is the first weapons video ive seen with a british guy.... i thought it was just us americans who were weapon crazed
Hi from the present (9 years)
thats the tiniest pocket knife i've ever seen!
hahahaha, dont these guys double check their videos (and the titles) before showing it to the world??
Damb that's illegal in UK that sucks
i wanna be like Marvel (district 1 male) from the hunger games. i can set up a picture of Rue and throw spears at it
thats so cruel man 😂
@@zachnado69 ikr
Dude I was kind of inspired by him too but in the training scene how does he throw it so accurately with such high velocity 😂
People usually hunt over bait with them, out of a tree. Tim wells the slockmaster has taken animals with them. Alot of skill needed to stalk an animal that close and get a decent shot like you said. I think its legal in America but definitely not here in Canada.
I love your acsent
thinks
well i dont live in the uk
im watching so i dont screw up on the spear throw for spartan race
tehee me to planning to do a hunger games myself and making weapons...lol but without the killing
me too I woukd just go out in the wood and pretend that I'm in the hungers games but I won't actually kill anybody
thats what she said
hmm it seems like I knew all of this. So it's practice I lack...hey, kitty, kitty
I dare you to walk into a chicken processing facility or a battery farm and tell me that spear hunting is cruel and barbaric.
That's kind of just common sense, man.
People are so soft and weak any more, that everything is cruel and barbaric. The reality of the matter, is life itself, is cruel and barbaric for all participants. It is not meant to be soft and weak. The soft and weak, do not last long.
What do people hunt with in the UK? They can't have guns, can they have bows? I mean they even took all of the nunchuck scenes out of Bruce Lee's movies in the UK... lol
Perfectly legal here in Murica.
I'm confused why it's illegal to hunt with a spear.
I wonder how our ancestors figured this out without TH-cam or google or even teachers
those who didn't weren't our ancestors, and those who watched them die are.
Hehe I learned to throw knives the past few months ... Now I'm learning to throw spears then my friend is teaching me archery... I will survive :) go THG!
LOL I came for the same reason as you. I started trowing kinfes after reading about Clove's kinfe skills
@@javascriptsophie4958 yes
i throw spears like Marvel from district 1
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يسلمووو
^^
TROLOL i already looked up bow making, and knife throwing -:) ima be like clove, katniss and marvel ;)
me too XD I think this whole comment section is filled with Hunger games fans
I want a bo'a o' wo'a
You throw this spear as a javelin?? don't...
I came here cuz if I was in the hunger games ( obviously not ) I would want to know what the fuck I was doing so thank you for teaching us.
Is that in arabic???
That's funny. I'm here for the same reason as well.
came here cause i love Greek
Cato made this cool.
no it's Marvel who throws spears
you mean marvel
I hate you you broke my spear
Bruh lol, you probably had cheap wood spear, you need a hard type of wood for throwing. Small wood spears are for hunting fish
You can't instantly kill an animal unless you use a very powerful gun and hit the head, which nobody does cause then you can't mount it and its kind of a risk to take cause its a hard shot. And a bow you have to aim for the heart and lungs to hit them all with one arrow, so that you can hopefully kill it quickly and make it bleed out quickly so it's easier to track. So no matter what, when you're hunting the animal is going to bleed out and be "writhing" in pain. You just have to make it quick.
how hard would it be to kill a large animal with a spear?
Nah Cato was better.
Even though Marvel was my favourite character in the whole series for some reason.
lol my fave character in THG's is Clove with her badass kinfe skills
Bruh Cato used a machete and sword
Marvel used a spear
Glimmer used a bow
Clove used a knife
@Dae'Shawn Henderson haha i did
I like to grab my shaft in a different manner
omg
What I don't get is if i had a spear, with a bit of practice i could get throwing it down. But I really sont carry a spear with me at all times, so why not show us how to make a spear
Neither cruel, nor barbaric.
Considering a single spear typically doesn't kill the animal for quite some time, often it would be alive after running away from the hit and live a day or more with a spear in its body, in constant agony. It's cruel. Only problem with guns is that they are very loud. If they were quite, it's all we would ever be allowed to hunt with more than likely. But a single shot from even a lower caliber hunting rifle will kill an animal instantly or within the day, so long as you can aim straight.
*How to give Kim jong un surgery*
I came here for my new movie of the hunger games :P
but katniss shoots arrows, not spears.
he's referring to Marvel