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
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:08 am
by 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........
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:11 am
by 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
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:57 am
by 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.
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:08 am
by suburban spudgunner
I once threw a card into a log...
I'm sure it was pure luck, but it makes for an interesting story.
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:27 am
by 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
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:52 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
iknowmy3tables wrote: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.
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:42 am
by 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.
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:48 pm
by starman
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:
iknowmy3tables wrote: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!!
Though my brother learned and threw them at me........
