I usually heft it in my hand a bit and get a feel for the balance before throwing. That usually helps. You improve with practice. I haven’t thrown in a while, but I used to use my knives below, along with a forged hawk and a CS throwing shovel. That CS torpedo in the pic below is pretty bad a$$. It weighs like a pound. You could throw it at a rabbit or something, and even if the point didn’t hit it’d take ‘em out just from the mass of it.