I've been throwing cards for a while, and I'm pretty confident in my accuracy, and power. Unfortunately, I've got to throw it like a shuriken, one at a time. I'm looking for a way to throw cards a reasonable distance rapidly, without needing to take out and put one card in my hand at a time. Something like Jeff McBride's technique at 2:20 of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6zAxynrzsU&feature=related Does anybody have any suggestions, or know the name of this specific technique? Thanks!

The cards aren't "thrown out" as much as "spun out." This is a variation of the Audley Walsh "Long Distance Side Spinner" from Volume 4 of the _Tarbell Course in Magic_. I believe Jeff explains the the technique in his video "Zoom, Bounce and Fly" and you can get somewhat a glimpse of the technique from the youtube clip at about ten seconds into the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XogMpzb_y3E

Jeff uses a little something more than you'll read in the Tarbell course I referenced. I first saw Dutch magician Nic Niberco use this "extra something" in his lecture way back in the 1970's.

The first magician I remember seeing who did the side spinner was Johnny Hart on The Ed Sullivan Show. You can see Johnny Hart's presentation at about 1:45 into this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXUBA3dWZ4
in which he catches the cards rather than spins them out into the audience.

If you do a youtube search on "boomerang cards" you'll get some hits including a tutorial.

Denny Haney, who taught Jeff some of his card manipulation skills, sells the Zoom, Bounce and Fly DVD at
http://dennymagic.com/store/zoom-bounce-......702.html

----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez

You won't get the speed, accuracy, distance, or power out of this as you're not really throwing cards, you're more flicking them with your thumb, that's where all the power for this comes, that and the built up tension on your fingers, oh you can get them pretty far, but most poeple use it as a boomerang sort of thing as said above.

Cards are always spun, with higher rpm denoting greater speed/force/longevity of flight.

Ricky Jay Jr. I think is a "master" card thrower. Holds the record I think? I have his DVD, it includes technique and whatnot along with spring based flourishes

I think Gary T.'s reference to "flicking [the cards] with your thumb" is more a description of the Audley Walsh "Long Distance Side Spinner" than the classic method of throwing/scaling/boomeranging cards.

You can see the "Jay Grip" here:
http://boingboing.net/2004/06/21/cards-as-weapons.html

(For reasons best known to Ricky himself--but no doubt influenced by his sense of humor--, he chose to use a photo of a woman demonstrating the proper grip. Please keep in mind that the book _Cards As Weapons_ itself would be rated at least PG-13 (if not R) if it were reviewed by the MPAA.)

I learned card scaling and boomeranging from one of Walter B. Gibson's Houdini books--perhaps _Houdini's Fabulous Magic_--which taught the proper technique for scaling and boomeranging cards.

----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez

When I throw cards I lightly hold a corner between the edge of my middle and pointer finger. Then you leave it all to the flick... However lots of practice will give you good accuracy... I like scam schools guide on it allot.