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There are many meetings and contests where one can meet fellow knife- and axe-throwers. Throwzini has an overview of the meetings in the United States, while Axtwerfen.de and us cover Europe primary. (If you know of any meeting, please send us an email.)
The largest event in Europe has so far always been the Big European Throwers Meeting.
We also have reports about past meetings.

If you are interested in "throwing" a meeting in your country, or are just curious, join the Eurothrowers mailinglist.

A very important resource are of course are of course the pages of the European Throwing Club "Flying Blades" (Eurothrowers).

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• Knife and Axe Throwing kick off meeting in Kinsau, Germany (June 2001)
  
  
• First Midsummer Throwers Meeting in Pottenstein, Germany (June 2001)
  
  
• First Big Throwers Meeting in Müncheberg/Berlin, Germany (September 2001)
  
  
• Second Midsummer Throwers Meeting in Pottenstein, Germany (June 2002)
  
  
• Second Big Throwers Meeting in Müncheberg/Berlin, Germany (August/September 2002)
  
  
• Third Midsummer Throwers Meeting in Pottenstein, Germany (June 2003)
  
  
• Third Big Throwers Meeting in Müncheberg/Berlin, Germany (August 2003)
  
  
• Fourth Midsummer Throwers Meeting in Pottenstein, Germany (June 2004)
  
  
• First Thrower Meeting in Pullman City, Germany (June 2004)
  
  
• First Big Thrower Meeting near Bayonne, France (Oktober 2004)
  
  
• First Thrower Meeting near Marseille, France (April 2005)
  
  
• Fifth Midsummer Throwers Meeting in Pottenstein, Germany (June 2005)
  
  
• Second Big Thrower Meeting in Pullman City, Germany (October 2005)
  
  
• Sixth Midsummer Throwers Meeting in Pottenstein, Germany (June 2006)
  
  
• First Big Throwers Meeting in Grenoble, France (September 2006)
  
  
• Thrower meeting (many events) in Kladno, Czech Republic (Mai 2007)
  
  
• Third Thrower Meeting in Pullman City, Germany (August 2007)
  
  
• Seventh Big European Thrower Meeting, Erlangen, Germany (September 2007)
  
  
• Thrower meeting with 100 participants, Moscow, May 2008
  
  
• Eighth Midsummer Throwers Meeting in Pottenstein, Germany (June 2008)
  
  
• First French Knife Throwing Championship near Marseille, France (June 2008)
  
  
• First Ranch throwers meeting in St. Roman, Austria (July 2008)
  
  
• Eighth Big European Throwers Meeting, in Chomutov, Czech Republic (September 2008)
  
  
• First May Throwers Meeting, Kacice, Czech Republic (May 2009)
  
  

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To promote the exchange between axe- and knife throwers in Europe, the European Throwing Club Flying Blades (Eurothrowers) has established the "Big European Throwers Meeting". Every year, a different meeting in a different European country is designated to bear this title, the event is traditionally scheduled to be the annual meeting place for throwers from all over Europe.
If you are interested in organising a meeting in your country, do not hesitate to contact us, the club will give you all the assistance he can.

In 2008, the event was held in Chomutov / Czech Republic, in 2009 it will take place near Paris, and in 2010 it is scheduled to be in Italy.

Details on the Big European Throwers Meeting.

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Standard competition rules

In September 2008, representatives from 4 European countries negotiated a common set of competition rules. Those are used in most international European competitions:

Standard European Knife and Axe throwing rules

Since not everything is regulated in all detail, additional rules apply. For example in Germany, the following rules are used in addition to the standard ones:

• For double-edged axes, only sticks with handle down count.
• A target setup normally consists of three painted tree rounds, which have to be thrown at in a clockwise manner. After three throws, the arbiter takes the score and brings the knives or axes back to the thrower.
• All reglementation that exceeds the things laid out in the standard are up to the organiser of the event to fix.
• If possible, there shall be a separate ranking for women.

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Fery Olbort from the Naja-club, whom many of you will know from events in the previous years, invites to take part in their competition in Kacice, Czech Republic.

Location

Sports field in Kacice
Czech Republic
On a Czech map / On google maps

Contact information

The main contact for the event is Fery Olbort. (Czech only, will answer short emails in English.)
Email:
           
The following local people may be called for more information:

• Maugli: +420 737 231 389 (English)
• Majky: +420 737 401 731 (English, German, Spanish, Quechua)

Schedule

The main event starts on Saturday, 16th of May, at 9 o'clock.
The organisers would like everybody to be at the site already on Friday, 15th, at 20 o'clock for the briefing, so that the competition can immediately start the next day in the morning.

Accommodation

Bring your tent (camping is possible), or stay in a hotel nearby. Recommended hotels nearby are:

• Hotel Slovanka, 700 CZK/room for 2 persons/night (no meals included).
• Hotel Fiala, three stars, 850 CZK/room for 2 persons/night (no meals included).
• 100 CZK is around 4 Euros (03/2009). Contact Fery Olbort if you need help with reservations.

Food in local pubs (not expensive).

Registration / Fees

The organisers welcome a registration before the end of April 2009, please contact Fery (email given above).
The starting fee is EUR 10 or CZK 200 per person (snack is included).

Rules

Events:

• Knives 3.5m, 5m and 7m (2 targets) - 10 throws
• Axe 4m and 7m (2 targets) - 10 throws
• Knife through the window 5m - 5 throws
• Axe over the table 4m - 5 throws
• Knives at night 3.5m - 3 throws
• Axes at night 4m - 3 throws
• Secret event - voluntary (evaluated separately)

You have 2 test throws for each event, which has to be declared as such in advance.

The best ring that is cut will be counted (in doubt, pull out the blade to verify the cut).

You can move a maximum of 1m back (3.5-4.5, 5-6, 7-8 ), overstepping is not tolerated.

The target is are coloured concentric rings: 10cm (center), 5 points / 20cm, 4 points / 30cm, 3 points / 40cm, 2 points /50cm, 1 point

Any kind of holding the knife/axe is permitted.

Tools can be changed only when damaged, you have to use the same knife/axe for all events.

Axe with only one blade, maximum breadth of the blade 12cm. Tools can be of any weight and size.

Participant under 18 years must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Due to safety reason we ask all participants not to drink too much of alcoholic drinks during the event. Drunk participant will be disqualified and sent off the place.

If there are female participants, they will be ranked separately.

Every participant has to have a third party liability insurance.

Every participants has to sign that he accepts the rules, and that he takes part at his own risk.

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For the first time, the club Iron Century from Samara/Russia reaches out to especially invite knife throwers from all Europe to participate in its event, which already attracts a sizeable number of participants from Russia.

The disciplines will be knife throwing, axe throwing, and the cutting of hanging ropes. Distances: 5m, 7m, 9m for knives, 4m for axes. The target will be rectangular, outer dimensions 36 x 22cm.

Hotels cost around or below 30 Euros per night. To travel to Russia, throwers will need to obtain a visa; obtaining a tourist-visa will take around 4 weeks.

For more information, please do not hesistate to contact us, or Sergey Bondarev (email: bondarevs@gmail.com) from Moscow.