Throwing cards
Card throwing is the quick tossing of normal playing cards with wrist movements. The cards develop a considerable kinetic energy for their mass .
history
In the western world, card throwing was initially just a trick used by many magicians to impress audiences with special throws; z. B. by bent cards that are thrown correctly, come back to their thrower.
Ricky Jay, however, perfected the art of throwing cards and impressed many people with the sheer force of his thrown playing cards. So he could z. B. cut through whole cucumbers by throwing cards, throwing cards many meters and several cards at the same time. After years of training, he wrote the book Cards as Weapons , which is no longer printed and has a high collector's value.
technology
There are many different techniques for throwing the cards, but the easiest to learn are the Herrmann and Thurston methods.
Herrmann method
With the Herrmann method, you hold a playing card with your thumb, index and middle finger so that one corner of the card touches the index finger and the thumb stabilizes the card. Then you stretch your wrist back as far as possible and then jerk the wrist back to the starting position.
Thurston method
The Thurston method uses a different grip for throwing playing cards: the playing card is held with the shorter side between the index and middle fingers. This allows you to rotate the map more than with the Herrmann method and thus generate a greater momentum.
useful information
In an episode of the television series Mythbusters , the myth was dealt with that one can kill a person by throwing playing cards. Using a specially developed machine, it was possible to create a cut, which, however, could only lead to death by bleeding to death. Therefore, the result of the Mythbusters was also busted , i.e. not found possible.