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I tried a friend's boomerang several times when I was a kid.  Never could get it to come back to me.

Then it was never really yours in the first place.

I had a nice wooden boomerang as a kid it was my first and only.  I threw it for weeks then one day it decided to come back.  I didn't think quick enough and let it pass me by it took a nick out of the tree with it's sharp edges.  So I had figured out how to get it to come back, couldn't figure out how to catch it.

Boomerangs are great fun  Unless you are use to how they work maybe start with a plastic one then get the wooden ones.

I figure you'd try to catch it like a frisbee with 2 hands, against your body perhaps like a dodgeball as well. There were also a couple of videos on the net where people would attach glow sticks and sparklers to them and it would be a pretty light show. But wouldn't that totally mess up the Bernoulli effect of how the wing is shaped? Crazy!

I looked up some traditional aborigine hunting boomerangs that have a straight path, but I wouldn't even know what to throw at to practice. Stuffed animals? Pillows? Watermelons?