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the oldest weapon you were born holding — proof your arm is a guided missile
means The act of propelling something through the air with a forward motion of the arm and hand.
from From Old English 'þrawan,' which meant to twist, turn, or wind — think of twirling rope or shaping clay on a wheel. The sense we use now, hurling an object, grew out of that twisting motion: a thrower's arm coils and uncoils like a spring. It's related to German 'drehen' (to turn) and shares deep roots with the same family that gives us 'thread' — all bound up in the idea of twisting fibers and spinning force.
- shoulder unique
- Human throwing shoulder evolved storing energy like a slingshot
- chimp speed
- Chimps top out around 20 mph; humans hit 100+
- two million years
- Throwing helped our ancestors hunt before complex language existed
- brain cost
- Accurate throwing demands timing windows down to milliseconds
- no equal
- No other animal throws hard and accurately combined
olympic hammer throw — men's field event where yuriy sedykh set world record of 86.74m in 1986
javelin throw — track and field event won by neeraj chopra for india at 2021 tokyo olympics
shot put — strength event where ryan crouser threw 23.56m world record in 2021