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David Adamovich (The Great Throwdini)

Knife Throwing, Knife Catching, Nail Catching, Handcuff Picking

Records

Record for David Adamovich (The Great Throwdini) are displayed below:

Record NameRecord Description
Handcuff Picking Handcuff Picking: Fastest Time to Open One Cuff: 0.5 seconds. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). From the command GO a pick was inserted into a pair of Smith & Wesson regulation police handcuffs, the mechanism picked and the arm swung open.
Handcuff Picking Handcuff Picking: Fastest Time to Pick a Cuff 10 times: 21.8 seconds. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). From the command GO a pick was inserted into a pair of Smith & Wesson regulation police handcuffs, the mechanism picked, relocked and opened 10 consecutive times. The pick was removed and reinserted for each rotation of the arm.
Knife Catching Knife Catching: Blindfolded: Deddy Corbuzier. Deddy Corbuzier and The Great Throwdini performed a knife throw/catch while both were blindfolded on the set of Hitam Putih (Jakarta, Indonesia). The Great Throwdini threw a 14 inch knife for one spin, blindfolded to a tap sound, at a distance of 12 feet from the board at which Deddy Corbuzier, blindfolded, was standing. Deddy Corbuzier reached up and caught the knife mid air following Throwdinis audible cue, "Throw."
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Most knives thrown around a human target: 1 minute (3 knives/throw): 144. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini) with Target Girl Ekaterina Sknarina. Previously 102 with Target Girl Tina Nagy, and 97 with Target Girl Ekaterina Sknarina. 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Most knives thrown around a human target: 1 minute (1 knife/throw): 76. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Most knives in 1 minute. 84. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini. 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Fastest time to throw 10 knives around a human target (1 knife/throw): 4.29 sec. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Previously 4.98 sec. 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Fastest time to throw 22 knives ladder fashion (impalement arts) around a human target: 9.87 sec. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Most knives in 1 second: 3. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Catch: Most knives caught in 1 minute: 25. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Knives thrown for 1 full spin by Dick Haines. 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Double Ladder of Death: 16 knives: 6.1 seconds. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Performed with knife thrower Harry Munroe and Target Girl Tina Nagy. Previously 6.5 seconds.
Knife Throwing

Knife Throwing: Most Records:  38. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Throwdini has set and broke more world records for his knife throwing/catching skills than any knife thrower in history.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Veiled Double Straight Board: 2 Target Girls: 9 Knives (3 to R, 3 to L, 3 In between): Black Theater / Strobe Light. David R. Adamovich (Throwdini) with TGs Lynn Wheat and Phoenix Feeley.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Fastest time to throw 10 knives: 3.73 seconds. David Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Previously 3.97 sec. 4.27 sec. 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Accuracy: Smallest Target in Mouth: Knocking the ashes off a lit cigarette held in the mouth of a target girl - without touching the cigarette. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Cigarette 3.25 inches. Ashes 0.25 inches. Distance from nose to ashes 2 inches. Target Girl Barbara.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Fastest time to throw a 10 knife Ladder of Death around a human target: 4.0 sec. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Previously 5.0 seconds. Target Girl Tina Nagy. 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Ladder of Death: 1 minute (1 knife/throw): 74. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Assisted by Kryssy Kocktail. Previous record 70 assisted by Bonnie Swencionis (Miss Bonnie Bullseye). 14" throwing knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Wheel of Death: 10 knives: 4.80 seconds. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Ten 14" throwing knives were throw into a revolving Wheel of Death at 2 knives per revolution (1 knife at a time) within 4.8 seconds as the wheel spun at 0.9 second per revolution.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Ladder of Death: 16 knives: 7.67 seconds. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Assisted by Kryssy Kocktail. 14" knives.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: 3 throwers: 25 knives around a human target: 4.17 seconds: Throwdini, Deddy Corbuzier, and Lady Valentine, assisted by Target Girl Wydia Novika. Twenty five 14" throwing knives were thrown for 1/2 spin.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Ladder of Death: 2 Human Targets: 1 minute: 73 knives. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini), Svetlana Khenkina, Lynn Wheat.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Fastest Veiled Double Wheel of Death: 1.17 seconds/revolution (10 knives). David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Throwdini and Target Girls Melissa-Anne and Ekaterina performed the Veiled Double Wheel of Death, 10 knives, 2 knives/revolution, 1.17 seconds/revolution, 0.59 seconds/knife.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Most knives thrown around a human target in 10 seconds: 30. David R. Adamovich (aka The Great Throwdini) with Target Girl Bad Ass Lynn. 30 14-inch knives for 1/2 spin.
Knife Throwing Knife Throwing: Distance: 101 ft.: FITA Target Round. David R. Adamovich aka The Great Throwdini. 13 inch throwing knife stuck 11.5 inches from the bulls eye at 101 feet. Previous held this record at 90 and 76 feet.
Knife Throwing

Most Balloons Burst in 1 Minute with a (14") Throwing Knife: 35. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Note: Previous Guinness World Record (TM) of 28 beaten by Throwdini on the set of CCTV (China) January 11, 2015.
Knife Throwing

Knife Throwing: Most Knives in 20 seconds: 33. David R. Adamovich aka The Great Throwdini. (Note, the IKTHOF Event Record is 29 knives/20 seconds).
Multi-Media

Multi-Media: Most Genre: Knife Throwing: 6. David Adamovich aka The Great Throwdini. Throwdini has been recorded in 6 different forms of media while performing knife throwing: 3-D, Virtual Reality, 2-D, X-Ray, Moving Fish-Eye Photography, and Single Plane photography.
Nail Catching Nail Catching. 1 min: 27 six-inch nails caught one at a time with one hand. Richie Magic, Catcher. David Adamovich, Thrower: Distance: 14 feet.
The Triple Crown The Triple Crown: The Bullet, Arrow, and Knife Catch. David Adamovich. On Nov. 21, 2008 David Adamovich (Throwdini) became the first and only person to perform the bullet, arrow, and knife catch.