The Boomerang card...

[Goanna]

Can anyone here do the boomerang card?

I have a card magic book that goes over card throwing and also the boomerang card! They say you can actually catch it back in the deck afterwards.

Well, I have been throwing cards normally for years. I can pierce fruit and hit targets like the guys on TV. It's really not difficult.

But I can not do the boomerang card at all. Apparently it's just a differance in the positions and holding of the card when throwing, but I can not do it.

By the way, searching for videos online of this trick, I am not talking about flicking the cards out of the deck with your thumb, or the "Hummer Card" which apparently is also called boomerang card.

I am actually talking about throwing the card out and having it come back to you, and possibly catching it in the rest of the deck.

[traumatised-magic]

i can do a version of what ur describing, not sure if its the one ur lookin for

i basically do it by holding it with my thumb and first finger right in the centre of the card, thumb on top finger below pinchin the card i then use my ring finger to flick the bottom corner round and at the same time flick my wrist and release, it sounds complicated but its actually pretty easy. u then need to practice to get the angel right, it needs to be just under a 45 degree angle and the card should fly out and upward then come back to u and with practice u can get it to rest on the top of the deck. i even once got it to land and continue spinning on the deck.

[♠♣johnnyjoker♣♠]

i think it also goes by the long distance spinner.

try this...



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[traumatised-magic]

yeah thats a nice thing to do and pretty easy, but its not the boomerang card the guy is wanting, he wants to b able to throw cards out infront of him and get them to come back, not just go up and down

[Goanna]

yeah thats a nice thing to do and pretty easy, but its not the boomerang card the guy is wanting, he wants to b able to throw cards out infront of him and get them to come back, not just go up and down
Yeah, exactly. You actually take out a single card and throw it out over your audience, and if you throw it correctly it will fly over the audience and come back to you, just like a boomerang.

[traumatised-magic]

yeah the way i described is the impromptu way that i do it, there is a gimmcik way to do it and it requires invisible elastic thread, attach it to ur shirt button, then a small piece of wax attaches it to the centre of the card much like the humming bird floating card effect, u then just throw it out and it will shoot out then shoot back to u cause of the elastic

[♠♣johnnyjoker♣♠]

But Its The Same Thing . You Just Apply Preasure To The Card So It Bends And Then You Shoot It. It Will Five It A Lot More Spinn And Youd Come Back

[lilchrisuk]

I believe Jerry Cestowski goes over it in his encyclopedia - although it's been some time since I've referenced it, so I cannot be sure

[yojo]

my friend has the gimmicked version, really just a long piece of IT. use a regular spinning throw and keep the IT in the crotch of your thumb. mirror with your other hand and it looks like you are magically forcing the card to return to you. i think that he uses wax to attach it to his ear. he can make it spin around his body too which with proper presentation convinces you theres no thread.
ive never heard of the ungimmecked version. ive been throwing card many years, sometimes the card gets a weird angle and flies sideways, and noce i hit a lamp and it bounced back to me, but can't do what your describing.
are you sure its ungimmicked?

[lilchrisuk]

Yojo, as I just said, I'm fairly sure its explained in Cestowski's Encyclopedia. If it isn't in there, it's definitely out there somewhere. I've read it. I can't remember where though... Probably the aforementioned reference

[joeA95]

i know what your taling about. im pretty good at it cause im from australia so i guess it flows in my blood lol:D try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC8R5_Lfw60

[lilchrisuk]

I've just discovered its also explained in Jean Hugard's Card Manipulations (1)

[Goanna]

i know what your taling about. im pretty good at it cause im from australia so i guess it flows in my blood lol:D try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC8R5_Lfw60
That's more along the lines of what I was originally asking for. Not the spinning card on invisible thread that a few have mentioned.

Although, the book I originally saw it in said the card could be thrown a distance, even out over a seated audience.

[lilchrisuk]

Goanna, I'd just like to comment that the boomerang cards that I have been talking of are also like that. No strings, an actual throw.

It's in both Hugard's and Cestowski's (p.522) Encyclopedia