This week’s giveaway is really special. We’re giving out the real card target panels we used in this episode to 10 lucky people. Plus, you’ll get a pack of our gold plastic cards and metal discs to complete the card throwing set! Enter the free giveaway at gimme.scamstuff.com (ends 6/21, no purchase necessary) Congrats to the winners of last week’s Credit Card Knife giveaway: Marque-Pierce Cutidioc, Aaron Santana, Greg Hicks, Dan Hogebrandt, Wilson Trimble, Daniel Marques, Mason Landziak, Austin Bowes, Travis Gilroy & Marko Guarin
The Modern Rogue I’m pretty sure that y’all chose the banana for the sake of the euphemism! Or was the ‘snip the tip’ symbolism saved specifically for the carrot?
thanks to you i started throwing cars about 6 years ago! i first saw you on timewarp and it was just amazing! after a few days i could throw cards into apples and melons i love your stuff rick!
*Bows* It is worth repeating.... Rick, Sir, you are a Legend in your own right, and a Legend to one of my Legends and as such, are akin to a god in my eyes! I am a cardist myself and owe it to the both of you for your invaluable tutorials. I have learnt both of your styles of throw and have even created my own style of throw for vertically orientated cards by learning from you in particular. How you describe the kinetic energy manipulation required to get an effect from the card gave me that opportunity. I am in AWE of your skills and can only hope to approach your speed and power in the future. Thank you again and mad respect!
I kinda love watching the guys' minds get blown repeatedly when they're getting shown the technique. Especially Brian just being like "nah, it can't be X" and getting told "uh.... well, actually..."
9:47 Aw dang, you got my hopes all up for resetting the "Days Since Last On-Set Injury" counter! 11:38 Oh thank God, you had us worried there for a second!
Wow, is it a bad thing when the fanbase is out for blood like this? I just had a moment of self-awareness and thought maybe it's not such a great thing if we're expecting an injury, if that's the highlight of the video!
Micah Philson I mean we aren't ECW/CZW fans chanting for blood, and they're not intentionally doing it USUALLY, but I do think we'll retire the counter before a hand gets seriously injured again like when Brian was messing with a drone.
10 OUT OF 10. My favourite episode! Brian, the Card throwing tutorial you done before was one that I learned from as well as Ricks tutorial as well. Thank you so much for that, you lit the path in an excellent manner, You are an awesome magician and a legend to me. I Love magic, cardistry, locksports etc... What an opportunity to study with Rick! (RICK, SIR, YOU ARE A LEGEND'S LEGEND AND ARE AKIN TO A GOD IN MY EYES!) CARD THROWING IS WICKED! I use it for cardistry as kickers for tricks, I am somewhat between the both of you in accuracy at that range, HOWEVER, YOU CHOPPED THE CELERY so quick!! It took me ages to get the card to chop it and not just stick in! *bows* I can easily imagine this fully reinvogorating that aspect of your skill set.
I am now somewhat disappointing that this episode isn't called "Jason bleeds out! (1 Million views!)" Edit: Also Jason's face at 18:14 is pretty awesome.
Holy shit guys! Cant believe you got this guy on! When i was a kid, i remember seeing this dude on either ripleys believe or nots show or guiness book of world records, and i was studying his technique and cutting bananas, i was also getting into magic at the same time
I think you've already got the sense of humor, and I can help you out with the laughing gas flower (I'm an artisan specializing in weaponized suit adornments for villains).
Jason, I love you and commend you for remaining in the room while the two magician savants totally showed you up the entire time. You'll have your day.
Subscribed to Rick Smith Jr after seeing him on Chris Ramsay's channel and I've got to say this was the most informative tutorial ever! Going to try and weasel out of a family commitment so I can practice tomorrow... Also mad props to Jason, that had to hurt!
Omg, I can't stop laughing at how Jason gets his fingers chopped off. This was great, funny but also sick as hell to see a guy slice open food with cards, never knew this was possible. Great stuff!
Their friendship is my ideal relationship. Like one of them is getting hurt and another one just laughs at them like the sadistic bastard they are and it's great
Over the past few days I found you guys and I have binged watched every video. I can't wait for the next one. It's kept my spirits up while recover from a major operation. Thanks for all you do, hosts and crew
The whole channel is perfect, from mythbuster like legend testing (better than mythbusters sometimes, because my opinion), to tips on liquor, survival, hacks, and much more. This is great.
Rick makes this all look so easy. I've been waiting for a more in-depth card throwing video for a long time, and it was awesome to watch Jason transform so radically! Can't wait to try it for myself
Ive been subscribed for a long time now and never left a comment. You dudes are awesome! It's honestly refreshing to see genuine content like this. Your dynamic is very fun and I always enjoy watching your vids. Cheers!
Apparently Hacking the System and Modern Rogue have melded in my brain at this point, because I would have sworn there was an MR episode of card throwing.
I'm sitting in the office at work watching this. I adjust my technique like his, do a couple mock throws to get my aim, and I threw a card across the room, hitting the point I was aiming at and it bounced all the way back and I caught it. Hellz yeah. XD
I love how some things come together like peanut butter and chocolate. Never thought to think of throwing cards like throwing baseballs. It's like some things seem to be kind of close in nature but just far apart to be their own things, like peanut butter and jelly, until you try to mix it up one day and it gives you that feeling of "how hasn't this been done before?!?!"
Great video! I really liked the commercial at the end, too! Seriously, you guys should have a marketing company or go into advertising. I want to join Skillshare just to see them knock that tub of excrement to the side! (Also, on a side note, is Jason available for other demonstrations of a semi-dangerous nature? You know, to hold things...)
Oh poor sweet Murphy. From like 7:00 to 7:30 he had that look of when you're talking to a friend and someone comes and highjacks the conversation but he's still all "I like cards too...can I....ok..."
okay so i did some (very rough and probably inaccurate) calculations, and figured that at 7:19 he throws the card at approximately 37 metres/s (121 feet/s). compared to Brian throwing at approximately 15 metres/s (49 feet/s)(during the competitive section, before being shown better technique) thats over double the speed. damm son, thats some fast cards.
I like how there are so many posts 8 minutes after posting a video that's almost half an hour long. I'm sure this is another in a long line of masterful video's posted by my favorite youtubers. Thank you guys for all of your work for our entertainment and I'm looking forward to many more. I'll see if this matches up with what I've learned in the past about card throwing. I don't know how you come up with so many ideas but don't stop or slow down PLEASE.
I feel like I've learned wrong. I'm excited to get in some better practice. Thanks for taking those slices Jason. It's nice to see hands getting damaged that aren't Brian's :-).
Mythbusters did an episode checking out the notion of throwing cards as a form of self defense. They concluded it basically doesn't work they even got the guy who literally wrote the book on card throwing for self defence and it was underwhelming.
Kinetic Energy (K) = 0.5 * Mass (M) * Velocity (V)^2 ---> K = (0.5) * [(M)*(V^2)]. Since velocity is squared it increases the kinetic energy of a moving object significantly. One standard playing/poker card has a mass of approximately 1.8 grams. In this video, Rick Smith said he can throw a playing card at 90 miles per hour, which is 40.23 meters per second. If we solve for the kinetic energy using the mass and velocity of the playing card when Rick Smith throws it we get this equation: K = (0.5) * (1.8 g) * (40.23^2). So the playing card has a kinetic energy of 1.457 Joules. ~1.5 Joules is 50% more energy (work) than is required to lift a 100 gram mass vertically to a height of 1 meter. So, if you take an average-sized apple (about 100 grams) and have someone drop it on you from a height of 1.5 meters (~5 feet), than you would experience the approximately equivalent amount of force that a playing card thrown by a professional has when it hits the target. Except the playing card is much thinner than an apple, so its kinetic energy is concentrated in a very small area, much like how a knife has an extremely thin cutting blade, making it quite good at slicing through relatively soft objects, such as human skin, fruit, or foam blocks. So, that's "how the hell can cards do this". :)
Hey guys I just wanted to say I’ve been watching the modern rogue since it began and scam school for around 5 years. I have watched too many episodes to count and the quality and entertainment value has just gotten better and better. Thanks for all of the time and effort you have put in and continue to put in. The only negative thing i could think of was Brian, I speak for me and I’m sure everyone else when I say, we need that old haircut back!
