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Some of you might remember Alec Steele from a couple of videos ago where he taught me how to forge a dagger,
Well as I was leaving his workshop, I asked him Alec
Can you make me tomahawk that I can learn to throw and a couple of days later
This showed up.
By the way, you should definitely check out Alec's video on how he made this tomahawk,
And once I'm done with it,
He's gonna do a giveaway so subscribe to Alec Steele to stay up to date and
be in with a chance of winning this thing.
I think a good milestone for this challenge would be to get good enough at throwing this so I can hit that target
Three times in a row from a reasonable distance. This is day one hour zero
This is my first attempt
Bigger arc in it this time
Kind of flying sideways
That was awesome to make this right, I need to be able to do this three times in a row
Let's see if we can do it again
Yeah, I think I'm getting the technique though
I'm getting much better. It's dependant highly on your distance
Let's see if I can do that again
Too low, when I had a cup of tea and watch some of the footage back
And it seems like the axe is actually over rotating a little bit
And I think that's cause I'm just a little bit too far away, so I'm gonna move a little bit closer
And that's not to make things easier for myself because I think my accuracy is actually pretty good
Just to calibrate that rotation a little bit better
It's not like the skateboard
One
Okay, I think I've got my technique down.The difficult part is getting the rotation right so that the blade hits the target first and
I found two different ways to calibrate that one is with your hand position on the handle farther down will cause
a faster rotation and closer to the blade will cause a slow rotation
I like to hold it just about there
And then you can further tweak your rotation with the distance you stand from the target
So I know just about here and just about here will give me a nice
perfect rotation
That was pretty awesome, let's see if we can get three in a row. I'm feeling good now. Let's do it
One
I'm getting better though, definitely getting better, Let's go
One
Two out of three ain't bad
Yes!
If we can make this three in a row
I mean that is just perfect look at the arc of this thing
Can we do three in a row, can we do three in a row?
Yes, Yes!
That's three in a row!
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