How to throw the boomerang?

Question

Ok so I have this boomerang that I found at my aunt's house and she said I could have it. SO I went in the backyard and read the instructions. I threw it up and on it's side towards the sky but it drops after like five seconds and doesn't comeback at all. What must I do to make it come to me?

I might use it for sport for practicing reflexes because it came back only once when my uncle threw it and I tried cathing it and I got hit in the head so how to catch it too?

Answer 1

Basic throwing instructions
A right-handed boomerang circles towards the left, a left-handed boomerang circles towards the right. Most sport boomerangs are in the range of 2.5 to about 4 ounces. The range on most of these is between 25 - 40 yards (or meters)

A right or left handed boomerang can be thrown with either hand, but the flight direction will depend upon the boomerang, not the thrower.

Throwing a boomerang with the wrong handedness requires a throwing motion that will feel awkward to many throwers. Beginners should thus take care to get a boomerang with the correct handedness.

Grasp one wing of the boomerang nearly vertically so that the other wing points forward and the flat side is away from you. The other way works also, but this way is usually easier to learn.

Holding the tip by just the end between your thumb and one or two fingers, launch the boomerang forward quickly while trying more for spin than for very much force.

The boomerang should flatten out on its own and arc around, sometimes coming to rest a little in front of the thrower or behind the thrower, but ideally it should hover gently and allow the thrower to catch it as a sort of "boomerang sandwich" between the thrower's hands.

One should not throw a returning boomerang level like a flying disc. The boomerang will turn in the direction of the top of its airfoils, so if that direction happens to be up rather than to the side it may fly high enough that the landing causes damage to the boomerang or whatever it lands on.

A traditional form of advice (or warning!) for beginner users is "Remember, you are the target!"