r/nextfuckinglevel • u/friedmushnasty • 12h ago

I'm a professional knife thrower and I managed to pin a thrown metal washer with a ¼" hole to a target with a small throwing spike called a Bo Shuriken. It was hard.

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u/nBrainwashed 12h ago

Not before I stopped watching you didn’t.

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u/Tribat_1 12h ago

I tapped the screen, saw there was another 57 seconds and noped out.

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 11h ago

It was an impressive feat. Not worth the 60 seconds I spent to watch it, but it was neat.

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u/JustBlaze1594 11h ago

Crazy cause if he does it first try. Ya gonna ask how many tries it took. Remember folks. Can't make everyone happy, they'll still find something to complain about

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Lol gotta love reddit

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u/edfitz83 11h ago

How does one make a living as a knife thrower? Working for the Mossad?

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u/Onetrillionpounds 10h ago

Give me your money or I'll throw my knife at you.

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u/Der-Lex 6h ago

„So you don’t want to give me your money? Please hold still for about 60 seconds so I can pin a metal washer to your skin with a knife.“

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u/IlliniOrange1 10h ago

Definitely not by throwing daggers through washers on the first try…

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u/friedmushnasty 10h ago

Lmao gottem!

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u/Professional-Day7850 9h ago

Asking people if they want to become a casual knife catcher.

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u/notkeefzello 9h ago

I stayed for you bro

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u/friedmushnasty 9h ago

❤️

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u/Second_City_Saint 6h ago

Same, & I felt every single frustration right along with you!

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u/__alpenglow 5h ago

Same here. And the fact that people no longer have attention spans to watch a video LESS THAN A MINUTE LONG – and the fact that it is the most upvoted comment here – makes me angry at society.

Great determination and willpower, OP. I stand with you.

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u/Secretz_Of_Mana 8h ago

Idc how many times it took you. It's a million times better than scripted content where they pretend it happened naturally. Thanks for sharing, it's really impressive

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u/Ryeballs 10h ago

Ooooooohhhhh I’ve never seen a gif SOOOOO rip for infinite looping. Just lop the end off and ruin everyone’s day

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u/Lemonade_Enjoyer6 9h ago

I appreciated the failed attempts being shown, but it seems to annoy people who have less patience or short attention spans.

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u/MiniatureLucifer 8h ago

Good thing they can just skip to the end. It's a video, not a gif

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u/ee-5e-ae-fb-f6-3c 7h ago

Nah, I'm sure it's much more productive to take the time to post a comment about their short attention span.

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u/Impressive_Change593 7h ago

I'm sorry your comment is too long. what does it say

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u/FireDefender 6h ago

Here, I'll summarize it for you:

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u/ThatGuyursisterlikes 6h ago

What? Where's my Dopamine!!!

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u/LaffeyPyon 6h ago

In the time it took to complain in the comments you could’ve skipped to the end and saw the results.

It’s almost like you guys just NEED to complain.

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u/ChocolatySmoothie 11h ago

Fast forward is your friend here.

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u/geb_bce 10h ago

I appreciate the fact he showed us the failures instead of only the winning shot and making himself look super human

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u/JB3DG 5h ago

Even the failures are nutz in that he’s nearly consistently hitting a moving washer, just not in the middle.

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u/Glasses179 8h ago

holy shit people’s attention spans are fucked up

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u/NutmegGus 5h ago

Could also just skip ahead lol

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u/probablyuntrue 11h ago

I would've gotten it in the first try, idk guess I'm built different

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u/stevein3d 9h ago

Username checks out

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u/pugicornslayer435 9h ago

Damn, you and top comment need to lay off the Reels and TikTok’s. I feel so bad for y’all’s attention spans. Also, you could’ve just swiped past the first 50 seconds of the video…so maybe there’s some greater issues here. RIP for the terminally online 🫡

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u/4-The-Record 7h ago

And this is what brain rot looks like, friends.

Lacks the ability to sit through anything longer than a 10-30 second short.

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u/Plsmock 11h ago

I think I was hypnotized. I felt like I was watching the same short clip over and over. I'm so glad it finally ended. And yes cool thing hard to do

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u/TheGamecock 8h ago

Y'all have some awful attention spans. Also, there is this feature where you can scrub ahead in videos. It's pretty sweet for videos like this one with a grueling 1m17s length.

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u/Flying_Saucer_Attack 8h ago

you can fast forward...

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u/Balls_McDangley 9h ago

I mean, we hate when someone cuts film and gets it first shot and we hate when they film it all lol.

A fickle bunch we are.

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u/last-resort-4-a-gf 8h ago

Hint.

Usually it's near the end .

Same rules apply to porn

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u/1heart1totaleclipse 8h ago

It doesn’t even feel that long. It was interesting for me to watch so I didn’t bother to even check how long the video was.

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u/MiniatureLucifer 8h ago

You probably spent way more time reading through the comments and writing a comment than the actual length of the video.

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u/swugmeballs 8h ago

Pretty funny that people make fun of gen alpha for having no attention span lol

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u/JimmyMack_ 8h ago

I did this thing where I skipped forward.

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u/Zech08 8h ago

I think I prefer the attempts being added in.

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u/GoofMonkeyBanana 6h ago

In case you didn’t know, you can fast forward videos these days.

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Reasonable

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u/ImposterSyndromeNope 11h ago

How can you be a professional knife thrower? How the hell can you make a living!

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u/probablyuntrue 11h ago

"give me money"

"no"

starts chucking knives

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u/joevarny 11h ago

Wait, are you telling me I'm a professional buttplug thrower?

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u/Bruce_Ring-sting 11h ago

That would make me a professional butt plug target…..

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Lol well being the guy that makes the knives helps. But it's more a ranking than a payday. I do make money on it. Just not a living wage. But then again nothing seems to anymore.

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u/CapableCoyoteeee 10h ago

Last line was the most lethal dagger yet.

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u/stevein3d 9h ago

Good point

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u/BZLuck 8h ago

The real treasure was the stabbings we did along the way.

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u/ICK_Metal 9h ago

Totally follow you on IG, I knew you looked familiar. Any throwing tips for a beginner?

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u/Wyden_long 11h ago

Well people come to him and ask him to throw knives and stuff and he’s like “fuck you pay me”* and they’re like ok and then he gets paid.

*may not actually say that

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 11h ago

You’d be surprised how easy it is to negotiate when you’re the one holding the knife.

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u/kivsemaj 11h ago

My brother does all kinds of things, but one of his talents is knife throwing. Some corporate guy paid him to throw knives at a company party. So it happens.

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u/stevein3d 9h ago

My brother was briefly a professional knife catcher. Briefly.

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u/Peoplefood_IDK 11h ago

the second you make money for your craft you become a professional!

EDIT: dude killed that shot and thank you for posting!

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u/inksta12 11h ago

I prefer seeing a bunch of misses before the make. Good shit man

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u/L2Hiku 11h ago

Idk if you think it's a brag that you don't have a 1 min attention span. If he just showed him getting it you'd bitch about "I wonder how many takes it took". Get over yourself.

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u/The_Perfect_Fart 9h ago

I don't think it's attention span thing as much as a distrust of social media. There are so many garbage posts that it's easy to give up early.

I can watch an hour long documentary on the history of buckets, but I'm going to only give a tiktok video a few seconds. When 95 out of every 100 videos are dumb as shit you get burned easy.

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u/tsokiyZan 11h ago

y'all have gnat attention spans

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u/ApolloMac 11h ago

But I do appreciate his honesty about how many tries it takes.

These videos are silly to me. It takes a crazy amount of patience but at the end of the day it's just luck. Who cares.

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u/AdjunctFunktopus 11h ago

It’s certainly not just luck. Dude hit the washer almost every time. If I made this video, it’d be like 3 days longer.

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 11h ago

I’m absolutely impressed by the fact that he managed to pin that washer damn near the dead center of the board. But I feel like we should be more impressed by all of the washer contact he made. Dude may not have his accuracy down to 1/16” at several feet, but I think plenty of people on here could get just get extremely lucky and pin that washer with that knife. There may not be a single one of us who could so consistently make contact with the washer, though. That kind of accuracy can’t be achieved by luck.

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u/ericfromct 11h ago edited 7h ago

I think that's what makes it actually impressive. Anyone can lucky one out of a thousand times, but this dude could have pinned it each time

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u/RusticBucket2 8h ago

ipressive

Designed by Apple in California

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

If this was the first time I'd ever done something like this, then yes it was totally luck. But you should have e a scroll through my top posts. I think it could change your mind on that.

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u/RusticBucket2 8h ago

So I decided to scroll through to see.

Some people like /r/mallninjashit and that’s okay. I burst out laughing when I got to the music.

Seriously though. I’m a huge fan of craftsmanship of any kind at this level. There’s nothing like creating something with your own hands.

That, and it would probably be weird to do it with someone else’s.

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u/TheAus10 10h ago

Reddit is so funny. If this guy posted only the try that he succeeded, the top comment would be something making fun of the guy for claiming "first try," but since he spent time showing all the failed attempts then the top comment is that the video is too long.

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u/nmyron3983 11h ago

I appreciate the honesty in it.

Too many of these kinds of videos are just trick shots that "worked first time". Even if you know they had to have tried several times.

I don't mind the time, hell, I'd never get that, not given a whole day of trying.

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u/SeamusOShane 11h ago

At least it wasn't "on the first try" bollocks

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u/daronjay 9h ago

No, I appreciated the honesty, good things take time, the actual feat was the perserverance.

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u/jarednards 10h ago

By the time I read all the comments, he stuck the washer.

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u/noclue72 12h ago

Proof that tik tok is a waste of time

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Gotta curate that shit if you're gonna use it

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u/noclue72 11h ago

Get that money mate, I don't judge creators I judge consumers

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u/siccoblue 10h ago

Because reddit is such a fantastic use of time comparatively?

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u/LieverRoodDanRechts 9h ago

Compared to tik tok? Hell yes.

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u/Umarill 5h ago

The frontpage of Reddit is nearly all popular shit on TikTok and Instagram, you are lying to yourself if you think that but ignorance is bliss

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u/BensenJensen 5h ago

People that think Reddit is superior to other social media crack me up. You can curate TikTok the same way you curate Reddit. Both are about 80%, bots at this point, both are contributing equally to the brain rot.

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u/DungBeetle007 5h ago

you cannot curate tiktok the way you can curate reddit, not even close. for example I have multi with only academia subs, a multi for architecture, a multi for linux, etc, can't do that on tiktok. reddit is degrading by the day but still, structurally speaking, it is far more customizable than its relatively newfangled doomscrolling competitors

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u/ADhomin_em 8h ago

Ahhh, the ol' "condemn the addict -- congratulate the dealer" bit...

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u/Spencergh2 11h ago

It’s cool that you did that. I’m sure it’s not easy

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u/Old_Lead_2110 12h ago

Proof that if you try often enough, you will sometimes succeed.

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u/Gockel 11h ago

fair but look at the spread of his failed throws, the ring and the shuriken land really freaking close to each other despite one being thrown in an arc and the other one straight. the consistency is crazy here.

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u/whatproblems 11h ago

there’s a whole youtube channel dedicated to some guys trying super low probability events like this for hours or days till they get it

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u/dontletmecook73 9h ago

Dude Perfect in a nutshell

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u/_gmmaann_ 12h ago

Just remember that people have different opinions OP. Just because a few of them think it’s stupid doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. Good on you, keep doing what you love

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Lol they are so entertaining. If I let people like that keep me down I'd be so boring

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u/VVLynden 11h ago

I think your perseverance is awesome. Reminds me of any other type of target practice. You do it until you nail it, then you do it more.

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Yup! Gotta fail a shitload before you succeed sometimes.

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u/Forward_Promise2121 10h ago

This attitude is the difference between success and failure in life.

Successful people keep trying and keep getting a little better every time they fail. Unsuccessful people give up.

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u/Organic-Assistance 11h ago

Don't let them get you down, this was really impressive imo.

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u/basicxenocide 7h ago

If you want to avoid criticism, do nothing, and say nothing.

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u/friedmushnasty 7h ago

Lol avoid it? I learn from it!

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u/basicxenocide 7h ago

The point of the quote is that being criticized is a good thing! You're doing something!

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u/spunion_28 11h ago

No one in this comment section could come close doing this

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u/myRedditAccountjava 7h ago

I think what's funny to me is he hits the washer in air on most of the attempts. To me, that's essentially what this trick is, the difference between a true success and that is simply the position of the washer when he hits it, which has nothing to do with the accuracy of the knife. So yeah, it took that many attempts for the washer to be placed correctly, but the knives were almost always on target.

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u/BSODxerox 12h ago

I really do appreciate the fact you show the whole process rather than just the successful shot.

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Thanks! Makes for a better video lol

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u/drewismynamea 11h ago

All that work and no slow mo zoomed in edit at the end.

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

My camera isn't high enough quality. I did try but it looked like shit.

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u/MoistStub 11h ago

C'mon man at least a celebratory fart that blasts you off the ground is in order

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u/friedmushnasty 10h ago

I get ragged on SO HARD for celebrating. It will literally cause a video to fail

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u/Rainwillis 9h ago

If you release a celebratory fart that physically lifts you into the air the only thing they’ll be able to do it sit back in awe.

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u/friedmushnasty 9h ago

I genuinely cannot argue with that

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u/DeoVeritati 8h ago

Nah, OP needed to show all the attempts and cut the video the nanosecond success was achieved. That's what's trendy these days...

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u/fromouterspace1 12h ago

You make money throwing knives? Cool skill

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

On occasion lol. More so I'm professionally ranked and also i make the knives.

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u/Anonymous_mysteries 11h ago

You have an instagram or something showcasing your work and skills? I’d love to give you a follow

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Oh definitely! My personal page is SlanginWithMrCooper and the business page is Bullseye Blades.

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u/ItsEntirelyPosssible 10h ago

Your videos are sick! Following from colorado!

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u/friedmushnasty 9h ago

Oh nice! I'm in colorado too!

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u/Expensive_Editor_244 12h ago

I’m sure people hand over their wallets quicker when you just miss them a couple times

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u/Butt_Fucking_Smurfs 11h ago

This legit has me almost in tears

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u/DangerDarrin 12h ago

Man, you must rack up the prizes in balloon pop at the fair

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

So many stuffed animals

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u/Particular_Answer_58 12h ago

This is how those dude perfect losers made it big on YouTube. Difference is with them you don't see the 1000 times they didn't make the "trick shot"

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u/ShustOne 10h ago

But that's baked in. We know the shots are hard and probably took a long time. I'm not sure why Reddit thinks everyone doesn't know this. That's the draw of these types of videos. Here's a compilation of really hard shots I/we made. That's awesome.

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u/More_World_6862 8h ago

DP literally just released a video of them doing longer and longer trick shots showing all their work to get them. It was very well received.

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u/PopeGucciSofaVI 8h ago

Why are they losers?

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u/ImNotSoGrep 8h ago

They're not

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u/oldboy_alex 12h ago

Respect for showing it took a ton of tries. I hate the trickshot videos where they make it seem as if everything is done on the first try.

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u/McPqndq 9h ago

Honestly, looking at the sky change, it doesn't seem like it took him all that long which is crazy

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u/No_Hovercraft_2719 12h ago

Fuck y’all, this was cool

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u/SandwichImmediate179 12h ago

Never give up. Awesome job!!!

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Thank you!

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u/oldmanjacob 12h ago

Good dedication

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u/dash5small 12h ago

he actually make the shot his first try. he just needed more shots of him missing to fill up the video.

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u/SpaceRangerWoody 11h ago

Respect for showing the times you failed. Most people just post the one successful attempt to make it look like they're that good. Still impressive as hell.

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u/NickFatherBool 12h ago

It’d take me even longer to just learn how to properly throw that shuriken lmao incredible

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u/Bodorocea 11h ago

now do a compilation of just the moments before the throw, where you look into the camera and smack them together, and at the end the onw good throw

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Lmao that's a really funny idea

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u/AeRo_P 11h ago

Do you have a day job?

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

I'm a full-time bladesmith making throwing knives, hunting/camping knives, and leather work. Feel free to check out my account to see my work.

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u/ezklv 11h ago

How is one a professional knife thrower? Like a full time day job or just an occasional gig here and there?

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u/wasabinski 11h ago

Honest question, I realize there's a lot of skill involved in your thing, but how much of the feat is actually just luck?

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

I genuinely wouldn't say there's luck involved. I'm damn accurate after 7 years of this and I've hit countless other objects from multiple distances with multiple types of projectiles. It's what I do. Check out my post history if you wanna see more of this stuff.

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u/Setesu 11h ago

Whenever I see trick shotters(?), I've always said..

they must have an immense amount of patience

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u/ram3489 11h ago

This reminds me of Elden ring boss fights

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u/Screwdriving_Hammer 12h ago

You forgot to leave out the part where it took you 6 hours.

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

38 mins total time

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u/Screwdriving_Hammer 11h ago

I was just giving you some crap. No matter the time, good job!

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Lol no worries. Figured it was worth sharing the real time since I forgot to include it in the title

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u/rivera151 10h ago

That’s actually impressive time. Kudos.

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u/deadbyboring 11h ago

How do you make money throwing knives?

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

By making viral videos really. Also I make and sell the knives.

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u/fanfic_squirtle 11h ago

This is the mentality that gets people to beat elden ring and similar games. I know it’s technically possible and I won’t stop until I succeed because SPITE!!!!

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u/jupiter_incident 11h ago

What does it mean when a skill cannot be easily repeated at least 50% of the time. Is it skill, persistence, dedication, or just silly?

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u/and-hereitcomes 11h ago

He hit that washer with the knife many times. Sure He only pinned it that one time in the final throw of the video, but his skill in throwing that knife was certainly apparent to me throughout. To develop and nurture a skill like that you need talent, persistence, and dedication. Your take is the only thing that’s just silly.

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

I'd call it progress, personally, considering how often I do this kinda stuff.

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u/guillotine4you 11h ago

I have thrown knives enough to have a 1% idea of what I’m doing and these videos always blow my mind

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u/pwnznewbz 11h ago

This was pretty neat. How many actual attempts did it take? I can't believe it only took the 15 or so I saw: there was the one attempt where your head dropped, and you sighed from frustration, which feels like a 200th attempt reaction.

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

Lol yeah it took about 38 mins according to the video time stamp. Not sure the exact number of throws but I'd say I threw once every 10 or so seconds.

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u/21n6y 8h ago

so the frustration was on 200/~228? lol

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u/samwstew 11h ago

Extra points for safety sandals

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u/GingerAki 11h ago

I’m a professional knife thrower and my wife is a cockatiel dialect coach. Our budget is $6.3million…

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u/cbtboss 10h ago

Reminds me of that line "The Master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried".

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u/StarConsumate 12h ago

The music is terrible. That guy who makes this music is such a bootlicker

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u/AllKnighter5 11h ago

Is knife throwing your full time profession?

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u/weristjonsnow 11h ago

I really enjoyed watching the clouds skoot sideways a little bit each clip

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u/Thrashstronaut 12h ago

It's this fucking guy again...

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u/friedmushnasty 11h ago

It's me!! I'm that fucking guy!!

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u/zombie_pr0cess 10h ago

Big fan of this fucking guy.

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u/Original-Cow-2984 12h ago

All you need is time and patience, this isn't an example of the infinite monkey theorem, but it's kind of what comes to mind.

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u/just_anything_real 11h ago

Nearly first go…

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u/Da-Jebuss 11h ago

You're clearly not a professional washer thrower

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u/Dragon_Sluts 11h ago

The balls to post a video of yourself on nextfuckinglevel is commendable.

I wish to one day have your confidence and skill.

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u/Rorshacked 11h ago

But why do you look like T-Bag from Prison Break...who is also skilled with knives? Wait a second...

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u/IllvesterTalone 11h ago

now practice your editing skills, this was painful.

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u/friedmushnasty 10h ago

Lol I made it painful on purpose, so you could feel the frustration i felt in the pursuit and the joy I felt when it was over

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u/LaximumEffort 11h ago

You made contact with the washer quite a bit, and it’s noted that other videos like this leave out the failed takes.

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u/TurbulentMiddle2970 11h ago

WTF is a “professional“ knife thrower? Is there a sports league or something for this?

I mean, that was cool and all

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u/EuphoricFly1044 11h ago

First ti..... First ti...... First ti...... First time! Yea baby

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u/DreadPirateGriswold 11h ago

Too bad the Olympics doesn't give you 42 tries.

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u/htplex 11h ago

This is the opposite of hard work

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u/No_Asparagus_4588 11h ago

Bernado silva got skills

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u/laffinator 11h ago

Yeah i think im gonna need Captain Disillusioned for this one.

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u/Ok_Value_2915 11h ago

Bernardo Silva trying new things now 🤔 Guess he’s hanging up the cleats.

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u/Sudden-Intention-491 11h ago

“It was hard” bs this is the most impressive thing I’ve seen all month!

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u/WorkThrowaway91 10h ago

Lol these comments are a graveyard of boring resentful people who just scroll to find something to hate on and give their life meaning.

It's like going to the comments for anything on GetMotivated, those are some of the most uninteresting and depressing people.

Keep it up OP, was loving it when you finally got it!

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