THE GREAT THROWDINI (REV. DR. DAVID R. ADAMOVICH)
The World’s FASTEST and MOST ACCURATE Knife Thrower

HOLDER OF ONE OF THE TOP 100 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS OF ALL TIME
First Person to Perform The Triple Crown: Bullet, Arrow, and Knife Catch
516 546-1425 876 Guy Lombardo Avenue Freeport, NY 11520

E-mail throwdini@knifethrower.com web: knifethrower.com

World Champion Knife Thrower — Professional Impalement Artist — World Record Holder

STAGE/THEATRE:

Off-Broadway production ‘MAXIMUM RISK — World Champions on the Edge’ (Prod./Headliner)

‘MAXIMUM RISK — Impalement Arts with a Touch of Magic and Comedy’ (Cabaret Act, Creator)

Starred as Throwdini in the play ‘Big Top’

Monday Night Magic
Sideshow Saturday Night with Todd Robbins and Friends

The Box (NYC)

Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore
Palace of Wonders
New York and Boston’s Tattoo Conventions
The Aces of Magic II and IV

TV/RADIO CREDITS:

The Late Show with David Letterman Modern Marvels Bullseye

Late Night with Conan O’Brien Don Francisco Presenta

Good Morning America GSN’s I’ve Got a Secret
ESPN ‘Cold Pizza’ Fuji TV Japan

ESPN ‘First Take Travel Channel’s Magic Road Trip
Univision’s Control Telemundo

Brini Maxwell Show Fox News ‘212’
Today in NY (WNBC) Jo Soares Show (Brazil)
Voom HD TV Sideshow Blind Date

Guinness World Records Live Top 100 The Indescribable Show (Israel)
NBC Whacked Out Sports Mind of Mencia (Moscow Report)
America’s Got Talent 2007 (LA/ LV) Joey Reynolds Show

Daily Café (Washington, DC) NTV Russia
Leonard Lopate Show Good Morning America w Chris Coumo

CIRCUS CREDITS:

Stars of The World Famous Moscow State Circus

Festival de Circo do Brazil

The Nuevo Variety Circus and Wild West Show
Bindlestiff Family Circus

WORLD RECORD SHOWS:

2008 Guinness World Records Week, CB11

2008 Guinness World Record Show ‘El Olympico’ Mexico City, Mexico
2007 RHR World Record Show, Discovery Channel Canada

2007 RHR World Record Show, Coney Island, NY

2006 Guinness / Interstrong / Association of Russian Records, Moscow, Russia,

2006 World Guinness Festival, Busan, Korea

2006 World Record Show, Hong Kong, China

WORLD RECORDS, 20:

Most knives thrown around a human target: 1 minute (3 knives/throw): 144. Prev. 102. 97.

Fastest time to throw 10 knives around a human target (1 knife/throw): 4.29 sec. Prev. 4.98 sec.

Fastest time to throw 22 knives ladder fashion (impalement arts): 9.87 sec. 

Most knives in 1 second: 3.

Catch: Most knives caught in 1 minute: 25. 

Most knives in a 1 minute Ladder of Death around human target: 70.

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.

Most Records: 20. David R. Adamovich (The Great Throwdini). Throwdini has set and broke more world records for the speed of his throwing than any knife thrower in history.

Fastest time to throw 10 knives: 3.73 seconds. Previously 3.97 sec. 4.27 sec. Accuracy: The Annie Oakley Challenge: Knocking the ashes off a lit cigarette held in the mouth of a target girl - without touching the cigarette. Cigarette 3.25 inches. Ashes 0.25 inches. Distance from nose to ashes 2 inches.

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.

Fastest time to throw a 10 knife Ladder of Death around a human target: 4.0 sec. Previously 5.0 seconds.

Most knives thrown around a human target: 1 minute (1 knife/throw): 76.

Most knives in 1 minute. 84.

PRINT:

Guinness World Records™ 2009
Ripley’s Expect the Unexpected, 2006

A Day On Broadway (co author)
SPECTACLE Circus Magazine (author)

Believe The Unbelievable!

American Sideshow by Marc Hartzman

The Daredevil’s Manual by Ben Ikenson

FHM Magazine

GAMES Magazine 2007/2008
Book of Russian Records
CNN Knife Throwing School

Bizarre Magazine (UK)

Super Hero ‘Instant Throwdini’

Columbia Magazine
Treatise on the Art and Science of Knife Throwing (author)

VIDEO:

Fundamentals of Knife, Hawk and Axe Throwing DVD (produced/directed)

Indie Film Documentary: The Lives and Times of The Rev. Dr. Adamovich by Max Finneran

Lunch with Throwdini (Albert Wilking)