{"id":189430,"date":"2025-03-27T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=189430"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:28:42","slug":"how-to-throw-a-playing-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/illustrated-guides\/how-to-throw-a-playing-card\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Throw a Playing Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189444\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Throw-Playing-Card-2.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration demonstrating card throwing techniques: position the card between fingers, bend wrist back, and flick forward. Features hand diagrams and motion lines to master playing card tricks effectively.\" width=\"750\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Throw-Playing-Card-2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Throw-Playing-Card-2-320x387.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Throw-Playing-Card-2-640x774.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re stuck indoors on a rainy day or looking to entertain friends at your next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/how-to\/how-to-start-and-host-a-regular-poker-night\/\">poker night<\/a>, launching cards across the room with quick, pinpoint accuracy offers a simple yet satisfying diversion to those moments of boredom. With the right grip, proper wrist action, and a bit of practice to hone your technique, you&#8217;ll soon be sending cards sailing through the air with surprising speed and control . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VZYKHTBrBHY?feature=shared&amp;t=24\">and feeling a bit like Gambit to boot.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration by <a href=\"https:\/\/storytellersworkshop.com\/\">Ted Slampyak<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re stuck indoors on a rainy day or looking to entertain friends at your next poker night, launching cards across the room with quick, pinpoint accuracy offers a simple yet satisfying diversion to those moments of boredom. With the right grip, proper wrist action, and a bit of practice to hone your technique, you&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,42259],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-189430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrated-guides","category-skills"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Throw-Playing-Card-1-1-1-538x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Throw-Playing-Card-1-1-1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Throw-Playing-Card-1-1-1-320x183.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189430"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=189430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}