How Throwing Made Us Human

don't believe it's some tension "stored". it's the range of the movement/giration and the muscles, imho.

How is throwing small projectiles not an Olympic sport??

Think you forgot spears, arrows, lead, explosives and a miniature sun. We just like throwing things!

Branchless savannah was flat, we probably grabbed rocks and pummeled wildabeast to death

I don't believe we evolved to throw to hunt before we evolved to throw to defend ourselves from predators and to throw to chase off predators in order to scavange/take their kill

Imagine, being a lion, killing a low shouldered chimpanzee, when all of a sudden you're rained at by shitton of river stones by the whole low shouldered chimpanzee clan that have long pinty stick

Pointy stick wins again. Seriously swords get all the credit but untill the invention if the cross bow pointy stick was where it was at, preferably a long pointy stick

Imagine the first time a lion ran up on s tribe if peope only to start immediately eating 20-30 rocks to the face at about 60-100 mph. Lol humans rock.

If you've ever been s kid (I have a feeling you have) or have kids you know there is something IRRESISTIBLE about picking rocks up and throwing them. I mean you cannot take a kid aged 3-10 for a walk without them picking up at least one rock and throwing it.

You know what the problem is... chimpanzees never get to play baseball! Lol @ this man thinking that men are the center-point of evolution.

Kudos to this man and knowledge he dropped on all of us.💪😎🇺🇲

Imagine a prehistoric DeGrom and Randy Johnson hunting lions lmao

I see weapons like the sling and the atlatl as extra limbs that throw projectiles with more torque.

Throwing combined with endurance hunting makes a lot of sense to me
we did trade galloping for bipedal movement which makes us so incredibly slow we have to rely on wit or climbing to escape predators. No chance of outrunning but with that trade off is very efficient movement
Chase animals to exhaustion and pelt it with stones

Dude, a rock would kill you thrown 90mph lol

Interesting, we also have very good aim, and one of the best runners, we can run for a long time without getting tired, we have the best endurance. I've heard, there was a test where participants were blindfolded, and they were told to catch somebody holding a beeping football, most of them used constant angle trajectory to catch the person, and they succeeded even when blindfolded.

Now we throw tiny, pointed metal balls faster than the speed of sound

The human brain and body is incredibly good at doing the instant, unconscious trigonometry and also the mechanics of throwing. The way a lion has his weapons (claws and teeth) we have the skills and body structure necessary to use external weapons like rocks and spears.

So basicly we are range atk base build ,, then if you want to attack other animal on pvp dont go close melee :v

I’m a knife and axe throwing. Thanks for this great video.

There is something so primitive and satisfying when throwing knives axes and atlatl darts that it is unlike any other activity. 🔪👍🏼🎯

"Ranged weaponry"

Professors! With all the eyes fixated it's easy to get too focused and lose sight of common sense. Shaped and sharpened tools are much less common to the ancestral man than a good well weighed river rock!

Mean to say how it made us deadly.. Islamists around the world resort to anything from stoning to Stone throwing against armies.. from Palestine to Kashmir! It's as good as a gun

It is the spine turning, the wind up, this twists the bands of fascia / connective tissue allowing for a release of Kinetic energy. The spiraling action generates much more torque. The spiraling action becomes available only after standing, hence why toddlers struggle to throw until they learn to stand and walk with ease.

Surely we would have been doing this a great amount in games in early history. That's how we would learn to generate torque and accuracy. Games like catch allow for quick feedback loops to be created that also can scale - I stand closer or further away, we change targets, we aim for max vertical, etc

David vs Goliath.