§ Current Practice
§ Current Polish
- Spring cards to show off .
- Shuffle with charlier cut.
- peel top card off with angel to display card, put card back.
- Overhand shuffle control to shuffle (Learn Hindu Shffle: control eventually).
- Peel top card off with the Chinese deal
- Show that it's the same card!
- Put card back with flirt flourish
§ Future
§ Bow to Stern: Single card sticking out: Chris Ramsay
- Something called the "plunger principle"?
§ Tenkai palm : pluck card out of air.
§ Bertram change card color change
- convincer: one card is two
- Tenkai palm is a prereq.
§ Flirt Flourish
- Flourish: Flirt
- hold top card between index and middle finger, flip middle and index, then land card back on top of packet.
- Can be used to switch top two cards, by peeling the top card with your pinky and putting the top card in.
§ 3pac flourish
§ Card Spring
- The key insight is to bend the deck such that there is no gap between the deck and the palm of our hand. This will provide enough force on the cards to allow them to be sprung forth.
§ Next
- Chris Ramsay: collection of all tutorials
- Push off second deal
- Bow to Stern: Show card being put in the middle that ends up at the top
- False riffle shuffle by 52kards
- Straddle pass control by Champion Magic
- Card control chris ramsay
- Riffle shuffle from 52kards
- Sybil
- Basic passes: control top card, prereq for color change
- Bertram color change
- Tenkai palm
- Ekatarina list of tutorials
- Hot shot sandwhich: magic trick
- Chris Ramsay list of tutorials
§ Hiatus (too difficult for now)
§ Learnt
- How to get started? 1. Basic grips (School of Cardistrys youtube channel and start from their first video "grips) 2. Cuts 3. Flourishes
- Dealer's / Mechanic's grip (thumb left, index top, others right)
- Straddle Grip (pinky bottom, index top, thumb left, others right)
- Biddle Grip
- End Grip (two index fingers opposing each other)
- "Z" Grip
- Basics: Thumb Fan: key ingredients are (a) hold the palming hand straight so fingers don't intervene, (b) thumb grip should be strong to allow index finger to go wild, (c) pull with the index finger in a semicircular arc. I practiced this for two weeks till it suddenly snapped into place.
- Overhand Shuffle
- Overhand Shuffle: controlling the top card
- Basic Cardistry: Charlier Cut : Cut, pick it up, slide, hold. Dealer's grip little finger is useful to keep the non-picked-up part of deck from sliding!
- Basic Cardistry: Thumb cut
- Chinese deal
- Overhand Shuffle control
- Basic Cardistry: Revolution Cut
§ Card control
§ Long term
- Cardistry bootcamp
- Basics: Scissor cut
- Basics: Swing Cut
- Basics: Card spring
- Basics: Pressure Fan
- Basics: Faro Shuffle
- Basics: Sybil Cut
- Basics: Werm
- Basics: Hot Shot Cut
§ Resources
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