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Bizzaro New user 21 Posts |
But I hafta ask.. what is yer honest to gawd favorite card sleight to do? Just for yourself, just to get away with. Just to AMUSE YOURSELF!!!
Why not.. it’s fun? (I like false shuffles of a sort. They amuse me.. and the "Elmsley Count" that I do... much different from others.) Have fun.. Bizzaro. |
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Michael Peterson Inner circle is where I'm trapped, because of my 4071 Posts |
Well, I do a single card vanish using the Tenkai palm. I do it in front of the mirror a hundred times a day, but I don't use it for spectators.
I can also amuse myself for hours doing the wink change. |
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J R Thomas Regular user Champaign Illinois 138 Posts |
The diagonal palm shift. I became enamored of it several years ago. A group of us were going to Abbott's Closeup Convention a trip of about 3 and a half hours. I was riding in the back seat with Don England. I watched him do it and was just blown away even when I saw it from the best angle I could find. I've worked on it ever since. It just feels good.
Those who hear not the music
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Dorian Rhodell Inner circle San Francisco, CA. 1633 Posts |
I agree with JR. I love the Diagonal Palm Shift. Steve, I'm positive you can attest to that. For some reason, I also love to do Vernon's Time to Change transfer on page 41 of the Inner Card Trilogy.
Take care, Dorian Rhodell |
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Burt Yaroch Inner circle Dallas,TX 1097 Posts |
If I have a deck of cards in my hands my fingers are usually doing Green’s Windmill move (his in the hands version not his on the table version). It’s a great top change but I have never done it in performance. I just like the feel of it.
Gotta run, I hear the dork police.
Yakworld.
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Ian Rowland Special user London 889 Posts |
Card spinning. Ever since I hatched a way that works for me, I love making cards fly out, spin and come back. I do it while watching TV. It's pointless, but it's flashy and magical and I love doing it.
www.ianrowland.com . Working Magic.
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Thomas Wayne Inner circle Alaska 1977 Posts |
When I have idle time on my hands - and a deck of cards in them - I practice (over and over and over again) Neal Elias "Multiple Card Shift", the "Gravity Pass", and my own "Backslider’s Pass".
Unlike many of the responders to this query, I use these moves in several of my routines. Most interesting, though, is that when I am doing such fiddling in public I have had people watch me repeatedly do the Elias shift and actually think it is a stand-alone effect; the four Queens (Aces, whatever) are inserted into the deck in four different locations, one pivot cut occurs and suddenly they’re back on top. It’s a miracle! Regards, Thomas Wayne
MOST magicians: "Here's a quarter, it's gone, you're an idiot, it's back, you're a jerk, show's over." Jerry Seinfeld
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Stephen Long Inner circle 1481 Posts |
Shooting a card out from the butterfly cut.
I just love watching it spin through the air and then catching it in my right hand. I have been known to attempt ’through the leg’ and ’behind the back’ cuts and catches when I was especially bored, never suceeded in either of them, fell over and sprained my wrist a couple of times.
Hello.
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Jack Veteran user 371 Posts |
Harry Lorayne's 'Ultra Move'. I used to anger my magic buds because I could do it quite easily, and none of them could at all. Diamond Jim is about the only one that I remember who could do it. To me it was a card-mechanic accomplishment.
Magically, Jack |
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rnaviaux Loyal user 287 Posts |
Side steal as replacing top packet. (Can't do it otherwise.) Do that for a few hours and the do ultra move for a few hours. Fun, fun, fun!
randy |
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donaldlaporte New user new hampshire 46 Posts |
I always catch myself doing long distant spinner.
don |
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bigjoeblue New user akron ohio 82 Posts |
I'm with Ian on this one, Check out his site, go to card shooting, and make sure you don't have anything to do for a couple of weeks. I'll give you the link ( I hope this is proper in the cafe) find the Jean Pierre Vallarino shot. I'm already using it in a routine, and when I'm not, I'm sitting at home laughing shooting cards all over the house.......HAVE FUN joe http://www.geocities.com/mvvenrooij/master.html
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Michael Peterson Inner circle is where I'm trapped, because of my 4071 Posts |
Thanx for the link, the Valerino card shot is excellent. I have been trying to figure it out for years.
I'm off to go pick up cards off the floor |
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Carl Rheuban New user Malibu, California 90 Posts |
I used to love to spring cards when I was watching TV or sitting around, but it got on my wife's nerves. Now I always have a card or some other object palmed whenever I am sitting around (unless I am practicing something specific).
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Barry Mink New user 23 Posts |
Daryl’s Hot Shot Cut has kept me busy many an hour while just sitting around. I have been spending time with Greg Wilson’s Phoenix Split flourish by spinning a double and having it split at the last second before catching it.. Haven’t got it down It takes a lot of time. Trying Ian Rowland’s Card Spin he described on his website is good and I am going to switch over to making this one my priority. Barry
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Ian Rowland Special user London 889 Posts |
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Hi Barry. I'm very flattered that you looked at the card spin technique I describe on my site, and that you like it, but please may I just make a couple of points? First is that it's nice of you to describe it as my technique, but I'm pretty sure it can't be original with me, and that I must have accidentally re-discovered someone else's method. I have been trying to find out whose method it is so I can give due credit! I even started a thread on this 'Pick a Card' forum, requesting information on this very point, but no-one has thus far been able to help me. Nor has anyone else I've asked (even Max Maven doesn't know). I just wanted to emphasise this point in case anyone thought I was trying to pass someone else's invention off as my own. Secondly, if the method is mine, then I guess I'm allowed to name it. On my website, I call it the Floffalog method. This is because in terms of being easy to learn, it's as close to falling of a log as card spinning is ever going to get! Thanks again for your kind words, and good luck with it. I honestly believe it can be mastered inside 10 days. To prove this to myself, having learned it with my right hand (as pictured on my website) I learned it all over again with my left!
www.ianrowland.com . Working Magic.
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Alewishus Inner circle parts unknown 1226 Posts |
I like to pink count 10 cards and then cut them to the bottom then again, and again ( five times in total)...then finally two card and check to see if I'm where I should be: back in original order. I know, sounds sorta boring.
I think I'll start timming myself to see how fast I can do it.
Sack subs, ok Ross?
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Reian Regular user Hawaii 117 Posts |
I do the snap double lift, it's just a habit. I don't even lift, I just do the snapping.
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Tilt Veteran user L.A. 387 Posts |
The Pass. I do every pass I know, but practice the classic pass the most.
Tilt |
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Fon Regular user London, UK 200 Posts |
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On 2001-12-13 16:14, Ian Rowland wrote: I'm with you on that one, Can't resist it, Also a simple one handed cut. I'm forever doing it! Fon
Always thinking..........?
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