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
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.
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
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.
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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!!