"Excellent!  Now, you have to hold it either by the handle or the blade - carefully in the latter - based on target distance!" she said, producing one more dagger, before tossing it behind her from the handle at the nearby podium that once-again had an axe lodged in it. "Close you can throw from the handle, no problem!  Further away, you throw from the blade, as knives tend to spin in flight!  Now the goal is to release as if you're throwing it, as if to hit me, not simply to get it to me.  If you mess up getting the metal part into your target, you want to at least hit hard enough that you can still do some damage, understood?<br/><br/>"Don't worry about hurting me; this'll be fun, promise!" she said with a wide grin, before dancing off light on her feet away, giving them a good 10 feet between herself and them. "Alright, remember aim for vitals, go for a killing blow!  None of you will actually be able to hit me if you're going one at a time of course!"<br/><br/>She figured that might motivate them to put some 'oomph' into it...