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You think this is possible?

Makes for an interesting watch anywho...

Alex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af5k5XvR ... ed&search=

hmmmmmmmmmmm.. meh.
i'd rather use a nife

this makes me want to go read through Cards As Weapons again, what a great, and funny, book!

"stand about 5 to 10 feet away from your fruit.... [then lunge forward about 5 to 10 feet prior to releasing the card]"
(and use steel rimmed cards, like Odd Job's hat, but, you know, a card)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWsXAJbhj6A

VEGETABLES!

I'm rather splendid at throwing cards hard and straight. I feel like getting a banana and trying now.

What's I'm rubbish at is boomeranging cards. My ceilings are rather low though

Theres a quick bit in royal road to card magic about throwing cards, using the same technique on that video. Page 56 if anyones intrested.

Hope he dosn't try and throw any cards at my salad!

Card throwing is the art of throwing standard playing cards. Number of individual playing cards thrown in a minute is one discipline magicians compete in. Rick Smith, Jr. whose longest throw is over 60 meter holds the world record for card throwing. One of my friends a few years ago watched Uri Geller perform metalism(?) at a private party. He claimed Uri also were very good at card throwing and that he after a number of tries had a card penetrate insulation on the door of a refrigerator and that is was not a trick. I will refrain from voicing me personal view on this...

I recall a magic convention - i think it was outside Copenhagen approximately 10 years ago - where a lot of card magicians where throwing cards. One elegant way is to have the card spin and return as a boomerang. Around the same time I met Jeff McBride who is a world expert in card manipulation. He had a very impressive technique and also at one stage held the world record for throwing more than 100 cards in a minute.