What is a shuriken? How to make it yourself?

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Shuriken is an ancient Japanese weapon. It is designed for concealed wear. In Russia, shuriken is better known as "Asterisk", although the name is rather general. Real throwing weapons can take many forms.

These are pointed or curly stars with a different number of rays, and throwing knives or blades, and sharpened coins, and even nails.

Dream of boys and criminal elements

The art of using this weapon has been brought up in Japan for years. Russian teenagers learned about him from films in which heroes skillfully defeat enemies by throwing an asterisk at them. Of course, after watching such films, every boy wanted to have his own shuriken. No one knew how to make it, so gramophone records, pieces of tin in the form of stars, sometimes even ordinary plates, were used. In the troubled perestroika years, weapons attracted the attention of criminal elements. And although only a few were able to throw this terrible weapon correctly, almost every “kid” or “brother” dreamed of having a shuriken. How to make it, they invented themselves. They sharpened knives, spoons, flattened nails, threw bicycle gears,circular saws, pieces of reinforcement, steel made something remotely resembling a throwing weapon. By the way: this item is considered a melee weapon, and you can get a significant punishment for wearing it. Today in our country, shurikens are made even by teenagers. The most suitable material for them is computer disks.

How to make a shuriken with your own hands?

To practice the throws you will need a weapon in the form of four-pointed weapons

eternal stars. For the "stars" you need to find a hard metal that cannot be bent. Only such a shuriken will fly. How to make it at home? You need to follow the instructions.

• To begin with, a blank is drawn on paper. Its shape must fully correspond to the finished product.
• The pattern is glued to the metal and a shuriken is cut out with a hacksaw.
• The finished product is polished, and its tips are sharpened so that they stick into the target.

Warning: you can practice throws with real metal shurikens only at home: wearing and using edged weapons is prohibited in Russia.

How to make paper shuriken

For children's games, not real, but paper shuriken is more suitable. If it is painted, for example, with silver (or other paint), then the weapon will look like a real one.

• First, cut the paper square into two equal rectangles. Remember: the more accurate the work, the more beautiful the finished shuriken will be. How to make cutssmooth, and the parts are even? Use sharp scissors and a ruler.
• One of the rectangles is folded in half again, and the corners of the resulting figures are folded in different directions.
• The second folds are made at right angles to the first folds. You should get two triangles (rectangular and isosceles).
• The same, but done with the second rectangle in mirror image.
• The resulting triangles overlap each other. The corners of the bottom are brought under the upper triangles. Then the figure is turned over and the action is repeated. The simplest shuriken with four corners is ready.