SKANF tutorial with eng. subtitles

This is a tight 5-minute SKANF(or Fedin) tutorial from the perspective of a Finnish thrower Jonas Mäntykoski. He is self-taught but he has spent countless of hours of studying and practicing this intelligent throwing style with the help of real SKANF teachers and students.
Many thanks to Jonas, Olga Fedina, Mikhail Belyaev, Stanislav Apollonov and Igor Shevnin.
By the way, if you are interested to learn SKANF you can contact the following official teachers who were students of Yuri Fedin (1955-2015) and also shown in the video:
Olga Fedina (Yuri Fedin’s daughter) #vlogmetatelya
Mikhail Belyaev #mikhail.belyayev
Aleksey Atom #aleksey.tv
Jonas is also willing to help. #jonassamuel87

[@laurier6923]

Thanks for adding the English subtitles!

[@dadajuns]

Thank you for this tutorial. It was very helpful

[@ikust007]

Watched it again…. Learned again. Cheers!

[@mrNAISKAI1]

It's a never ending road 😁

[@SeditiousSensei]

Thank you for making this video! It's great!

[@fulltangclan]

Excellent video Joel!

[@joelholopainen6865]

Means a lot when it’s coming from the top! :)

[@robertmarko3914]

in short a very good guide, Jonas throws seriously at a high level and very comfortable, nice to watch the art of skanf

[@richardbarrett4104]

Excellent video, well done man. Helpful for people like me just getting into it, again big cheers.

[@pradipnath7685]

Good job.your performance make me glad.

[@VioletYT]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@CRTCLDSSTR]

I'm convinced that alucard at Castlevania symphony of the night, use this technique to throw daggers

[@mrNAISKAI1]

No idea what you're talking about... But I see lots of similarities how top level athletes use their bodies. It's quite fascinating. Although the use of wrist to gain maximum "angular velocity" takes SKANF to another planet. I think I've seen some angular velocity to be used with wave motion in sports, only with javelin.

[@CRTCLDSSTR]

@@mrNAISKAI1 literally turning their arms into a whip and liberating all the mechanic energy through the throwing blade using the body also to promote a gyroscope alignment

[@mrNAISKAI1]

Oh yeah. Basically the motion of your body is like an loose whip of an bull whip. But there's a huge difference how and where to you generate it. For maximum Angular velocity, you need to actually generate the whip so that your wrist has the most back turning while your body's Momentum is pulling forward. And as you're as loose as an bull whip, you need to generate the power from the start. Amplitude of the whip will get very small to the end of the whip... so you basically throw loosely but very fast, so that the knife should release behind you... But all the energy created with an angular velocity multiplier will actually make the knife fly forward fiercely. I have plenty of slomo examples about this on my page 😌

[@sakkeraappana]

No nyt oli kyllä informatiivinen video, kiitos! 🔥

[@ikust007]

Thank you so so much! I don’t know how come I never saw this one !;((

[@AAA-tc1uh]

Joel! I hope you see this. THANK YOU for your comment regarding SKANF half spin (i.e. looser grip). I couldn't get it and always wondered how the hell you/they do it, since logically, using the regular technique and grip the knife should fly handle 1st to the target...anyway, somehow I missed that comment way back, saw it yesterday, tried it today - and the knife went like a f** missile into the target. The power and the ease of the throw is incredible, so satisfying... I wonder if you have another tip for this half spin throw. thanks again.

[@thomasjullien3732]

Wait, skanf is a half spin technique ? Im a little confused 😅

[@joelholopainen6865]

In the book Yuri says that skanf works as no spin up to 10 meters and as half spin up to 15 meters.

[@thomasjullien3732]

I mean, there is footage where it goes straight no spin and some other with a half spin, its confusing

[@joelholopainen6865]

@@thomasjullien3732 in the end, they are the same thing. Or at least, they are very close to each other. When I throw half spin I always think that I’m doing a no spin.

[@thomasjullien3732]

@@joelholopainen6865 ok thank you i’ ll try to keep that in mind for later. ‘NOw im focusing on the no spin. This technique is big to learn but im starting to get it ! ;) And nice father/daughter relationship though💙

[@joelholopainen6865]

@@thomasjullien3732 the only difference between no spin and half spin is that in half spin you hold the knife a little bit looser so the traction upon release is decreased. Skanf is indeed very difficult. There are so many moving parts involved and you have to do many experiments to get it right. There are times you end up in a dead-end, but there are moments of realizations too. It’s very satisfying once you get a hang of it. But it’s not the best technique for competition.