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Broadview Heights magician will attempt to break record for highest playing card ever thrown (video)

Broadview Heights magician will attempt to break record for highest playing card ever thrown (video)

By Bob Sandrick, Northeast Ohio Media Group …..  BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio – On Saturday, magician Rick Smith Jr., a Broadview Heights resident, will attempt to break the world record for the highest playing card ever thrown.The attempt is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. at Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. Smith must fling the card higher than 55 feet, the existing record as tracked byGuinness World Records.Smith set the mark for the farthest playing card ever thrown – 72 yards – in 2002.Also, Smith is the most accurate playing-card tosser. Last year, he shot 46 cards into a target 10 inches wide and 10 feet away in one minute. The previous record was six cards. Watch the video.

http://www.cleveland.com/broadview-heights/index.ssf/2015/03/broadview_heights_magician_wil.html

All for the passion of cards..

All for the passion of cards..

By Elina Priyadarshini Nayak for The Times of India..

 Rahul Krishnan, a 22-year-old magician, has tried to break the Guinness book of world record for ‘Highest throw of a playing card’

Meet 22-year-old MBA student Rahul Krishnan, who’s a magician by profession and whose passion for cards prompted him to attempt a Guinness Book of World Record for ‘Highest throw of a playing card’. Although it sounds weird, Rahul has gone though it and is currently awaiting the results. “It’s been eight years and I have been performing magic shows in the city as well as in places like Goa, Mumbai, Vijayawada, etc. I was always obsessed with magic and used to watch American magician/ illusionist, David Blaine’s shows. I got attracted towards it and started developing my own tricks and mastered magic with cards and coins,”..

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