Throwing Cards

[qwerty]

Hey!, i just learnt to throw playing cards, not very well, but sometimes they go straight. When you get good they can do some damage! take a look at these videos. When you start it's hard to get right but it's all about the flick of your wrist. When i throw, i pull my arm/wrist back to get the spin needed for it to fly straight. Have ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8G5Ck1krjE
and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8PS6cirDo

[Techie]

i wondered if anyone else did this, i used to do magic tricks at partys and people loved this Though my brother learned and threw them at me........

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

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Cool stuff, but you really want to put your wrist through all that abuse though? You could always make a launcher likethis one

[qwerty]

Thats a good idea. i think this is a cool concept. I might try something like the machine on mythbusters but instead of using lego motors it uses a dremel to fire playing cards.

[suburban spudgunner]

I once threw a card into a log...

I'm sure it was pure luck, but it makes for an interesting story.

[iknowmy3tables]

I once cut a stem of some plant by throwing cards, they hurt quite a bit when you get hit, but the accuracy is just so bad.

btw if you want to get a lot of card to practice ask any friends who still play yugioh or pokemon trade them anything of value in your old collections for a ton of crappy cards, or if you don't have a old collection try asking nicely or pay them some other way. when I traded I had so many cards that I no longer had to care about losing a few when I practiced throwing

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

I once cut a stem of some plant by throwing cards, they hurt quite a bit when you get hit, but the accuracy is just so bad.

If I recall correctly the Mythbusters managed to get them to penetrate a couple of millimetres into a ballistic gel dummy, that would hurt but far from being potentially deadly.

[mark.f]

I've used this as work to throw peoples' Fuelman cards about.

I got a magic book in about the 4th grade which explained it for me.

[starman]

I once cut a stem of some plant by throwing cards, they hurt quite a bit when you get hit, but the accuracy is just so bad.

If I recall correctly the Mythbusters managed to get them to penetrate a couple of millimetres into a ballistic gel dummy, that would hurt but far from being potentially deadly.

Certainly wouldn't want them anywhere close to hitting my eyes!!