Rick Smith, Jr. – The Art of Card Throwing

Rick Smith, Jr. – The Art of Card Throwing

Question: What do you get when you cross a 92 m.p.h. fastball with a young man from Ohio who harbors an intense love of card magic?

Answer: The Guinness World Record for throwing a playing card further than anyone else in history. The young man is Rick Smith, Jr. and on March 21, 2002, he obliterated the world record for card throwing with a laser beam toss of 216′ 4″ eclipsing the previous longstanding mark by over 15′!

Learn How To:

• Throw cards for speed, distance & Accuracy!
• Slice vegetables with a single playing card!
• Topple a pyramid of soda cans with a flick of the wrist!
• Perform eye-popping stunts & flourishes with playing cards!

On this fascinating DVD, Rick teaches you how to spice up your magic by throwing cards for distance, speed and accuracy – slicing vegetables and even toppling a metal pyramid of soda cans. In addition to comprehensive instruction on his card throwing prowess, Rick also demonstrates and teaches numerous card flourishes and stunts, including eye-popping displays of card spinning, flicking and kicking.

Complete contents include:

Card Throwing – Speed, distance and accuracy; throwing techniques, grips, stances, warm-ups and multiple card throws.

Card Throwing Stunts – Slicing celery and knocking down soda cans.

Card Flourishes & Stunts – Flick & catch behind the back; flick & catch in the center of the deck; flicking cards from the top and center of the deck; rapid fire flicking; thumb shooting; finger shooting; overhand shooting; flick tricks; fire flicking; back flicks; flick productions; card kicking; boomeranging cards; pop-up card productions; cross-over cards and much, much more!