Yeah I was on the quest today... no luck, but my wife is going to help me find a place where there is a japanese blowgun group... Maybe I can pick one of these up from them and some tips as well.
Yeah I was on the quest today... no luck, but my wife is going to help me find a place where there is a japanese blowgun group... Maybe I can pick one of these up from them and some tips as well.
If you find a place that has them, or find someone that makes them, I would gladly buy one. The ones I'm making are ok, but it would be great to be able to make them all the same size.
Yeah I was on the quest today... no luck, but my wife is going to help me find a place where there is a japanese blowgun group... Maybe I can pick one of these up from them and some tips as well.
If you find a place that has them, or find someone that makes them, I would gladly buy one. The ones I'm making are ok, but it would be great to be able to make them all the same size.
Does anyone have measurements of the tapers? I have a friend ready to make some if I can get the measurements. If they work he will take orders and he works cheap.
The first video is Dr. Hironori Higuchi demonstrating his technique for making filmcone darts. He is the co-founder of the International Fukiya Association. He has a sister in the U.S. who mails out requested items including wooden shapers from time to time. He is also trying to promote wire rings which when applied on top of targets eliminate line hits.
Yup. They are made out of rings made with a triangular cross section so the odds of a dart bouncing off the wire are extremely slim. His reason for introducing them to the sport was a potential advantage for someone whose dart creates a larger hole in the target.
The Japanese Sport Fukiya Association (JSFA) has close to twenty thousand members now. They use paper style darts but they turn the nail in the tip around so that the head of the nail strikes the target. There is a good excuse for this. With several hundred people showing up for one competition, they are commonly held on basketball courts with targets set up back to back down the center of the court to allow for forty or fifty firing lanes.
This layout means people are effectively shooting in the direction of a long line of more people about sixty-five feet away and a paper cone will easily fly that far with just a little extra trajectory. The head first nail requires a softer backstop to ensure penetration and the conical shape of the darts opens a larger wound in this soft backstop.
Sorry about the double post, it just occurred to me that the darts used in JSFA competitions would have a very good chance of bouncing off one of the wire rings dividers and you can only use JSFA branded equipment at a JSFA tournament. Those guys that rule the JSFA are rolling in the dough!
A couple years ago they opened a new branch in Honolulu. The USBA may be our best defense against them taking over the nation.
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