User blog comment:Swg66/Ancient User Warrior Tournament: Round 6 Lt.Chard vs Lachlan Blake/@comment-3004200-20110627063521/@comment-181289-20110627080740

I'm sorry but the video didn't convince me in the slightest. While he refers to them as spears, the terms spear and dart are often considered interchangable. The darts he using are still much thinner than a standard throwing spear and he actully says lighter spears go futher, and make no referance to the spears flexabilty that I saw (I could watch the whole thing it wouldn't load all the way for me, cut out around the time he started throwing). The dart or spears have to have the abilty to flex and bend in flight, if it can do that then it won't fly correctly when thrown from an atlatl. The Assegai was never ment to be thrown from an atlatl, it's not designed to be.