I mean if you are familiar with the mechanics of throwing a football correctly, or throwing a frisbee or you just are comfortable throwing fairly hard then it isn’t too difficult to learn to throw them.
Honestly a baseball pitcher doesn’t have to adjust their form much to throw a ninja star, they just have to work out the handgrip. An over the head baseball throw is perfect because the spin plane makes missing a little to high or low much more likely than missing left or right which is what you want anyways.
These are the ninja star shapes I have found most ergonomic, durable and plausibly sharpenable. They have enough meat in the blades that they can slam into a rock and be dented instead of chipping badly, and you can put a normal human arms strength into the throw unlike smaller ones that you have to gingerly throw unless your form is really good. The one on the bottom right looks kinda odd like it needs more teeth but it is the easiest to throw seriously hard (highest spinning radius to weight ratio) and you can easily sink it into wood all the way down to the base of the blade where the other two perpendicular blades finally halt it going any deeper. The top left one is surprisingly effective too and much more durable.
The big ones are way easier to feel the right rhythm to the snap in the throw as you can physically feel the momentum in the longer/heavier span of the wider ninja star where-as with smaller ones you just have to know the right form because you get no feedback on how to correct your form.
If you get a comically big ninja star then anybody can throw it fairly well because the wide span makes feeling how power builds up in a snap extremely intuitive. If you have ever had a moment where you pretended to be a ninja and thrown those three bladed metal brush cutters for weed whackers you know what I mean.
Also, be careful, they actually aren’t joke weapons at all and they are MADDENINGLY easy to lose because they just want to keep rolling and rolling. Maybe a try a magnet in a plastic bag on a string that you throw into brush when you lose one (like magnet fishing on land) it has worked for me before. You will lose them, it’s part of the ninja star life.
They look simple, but it’s genuinely hard to launch them with the right spin to keep them stable.
just ninja star stuff
I mean if you are familiar with the mechanics of throwing a football correctly, or throwing a frisbee or you just are comfortable throwing fairly hard then it isn’t too difficult to learn to throw them.
Honestly a baseball pitcher doesn’t have to adjust their form much to throw a ninja star, they just have to work out the handgrip. An over the head baseball throw is perfect because the spin plane makes missing a little to high or low much more likely than missing left or right which is what you want anyways.
These are the ninja star shapes I have found most ergonomic, durable and plausibly sharpenable. They have enough meat in the blades that they can slam into a rock and be dented instead of chipping badly, and you can put a normal human arms strength into the throw unlike smaller ones that you have to gingerly throw unless your form is really good. The one on the bottom right looks kinda odd like it needs more teeth but it is the easiest to throw seriously hard (highest spinning radius to weight ratio) and you can easily sink it into wood all the way down to the base of the blade where the other two perpendicular blades finally halt it going any deeper. The top left one is surprisingly effective too and much more durable.
The big ones are way easier to feel the right rhythm to the snap in the throw as you can physically feel the momentum in the longer/heavier span of the wider ninja star where-as with smaller ones you just have to know the right form because you get no feedback on how to correct your form.
If you get a comically big ninja star then anybody can throw it fairly well because the wide span makes feeling how power builds up in a snap extremely intuitive. If you have ever had a moment where you pretended to be a ninja and thrown those three bladed metal brush cutters for weed whackers you know what I mean.
Also, be careful, they actually aren’t joke weapons at all and they are MADDENINGLY easy to lose because they just want to keep rolling and rolling. Maybe a try a magnet in a plastic bag on a string that you throw into brush when you lose one (like magnet fishing on land) it has worked for me before. You will lose them, it’s part of the ninja star life.
image source but you can buy these anywhere you can buy army navy type stuff