Shriken Origami

 

Origami is lots of fun, but the first thing that people get into trouble with Origami is the difficulty of reading the picture instructions. There are symbols for different folds and names for particular routines, but sometimes you just don't get how you go from one step to the next. Finally we have videos on YouTube to show us anything we want to make and it is so much easier to follow the video than the book.

Now I found this shriken origami video at http://youtu.be/EZdp3yoB3ps . Shriken is the thing Ninjas use as a weapon. They throw them against enemies. When I was in elementary school, some children knew how to make them, but I didn't have a book and I always wondered how to make them. I saw them making it but when I make it without watching them making, I could not make a successful shriken. After all these years, I finally found how to make shriken!

Pictures are great to learn something, but video is so much better. Especially of origami instructions. I have a book of animal origami, which has quite complicated instructions. It takes me about an hour to make a lobster. Sometimes I forget how I understood some steps and couldn't figure out later. Probably you don't want to see one hour video of how to make lobster instructions, but future of Origami learners is bright with the help of videos.