Hi,

I have bought The Ultimate Crimp .. The breather from Bob King.

I would be interested to know if anyone use the breather crimp and whats your favorite tricks using a breather crimp.

Thanks

cybercardmagic

Hey cybercardmagic,
My favorite at the moment has to be "Finger Flicker" from Pit Hartling's new book "Card Fictions".

Tyler Wilson

Hi,

I am not sure if I understand correctly, but you actually bought a breather crimp card???

Does it come with anything else? How much?

Ronnie Lemieux

I use it for Pit Hartling's new trick Finger Flicker and I also use it for some of chris kenner's routines from totally out of control,and some marlo routines.

I assume "cyper" is talking about the book/manuscript that Bob sells (one of two or three.)

A superb effect using said card is the 'Guess Your Weight' routine. Troy Hooser has a great variant (Weight your Turn) that eliminates the dealing of 26 cards (via a faro shuffle)

I use the Hooser sequence as a climax to an ace-cutting thingamagig (& to answer your question, that is my favorite breather effect... see: Weighing the Aces, from "Tricks of My Trade.")

Bob King has 2 books on the Breather (both excellent). Every deck I use has 2 breathers in it, one breather, one reverse breather. I'm currently compiling a book of routines, but in the meantime the Breather can be used as a key card,locator card or instantly findable force card for so many effects.

Start with the the 2 King Books and work from there.

With the breather card in the deck, how do you separate the cards at the breather cleanly? the only way I can do this is hold the deck with my left hand and tilt the deck so that it sort of cuts at the breather and falls to my other hand....

I think the correct way is to put it on the table, and then you can just separate the deck at the breather card instantly and casually....any tips on how to do this well??

If you put it on the table use a Light Touch to cut the cards.
Don't try to search to cut at the crimp. Just cut the cards with a light touch and, normally it will be right at the crimp.
It works well for me this way.

I use it for all the Chelman's controls. Blitz and s.o. (not arrived to the overblitz techniques yet.)
J.

Eryanic: With the breather card in the deck, how do you separate the cards at the breather cleanly?

I make a one handed charlier cut. This works very good!

gkfreed: Thanks for your recommendation. I will look around for the second booklet.
I have a question to your reverse breather!!! Whats the advantage / difference to a normal breather???

cybercardmagic

This separation works for me most of the time:

Left hand holds the deck, palm up, at the top of the fingertips. RIght hand lightly goes over the deck to cut, and the left hand drops the bottom half of the deck into the palm. The bottom card of the top half should be the breather card. You can often allow the spectator to make the cut, and with the right timing of the left hand release, he'll be cutting at the breather.

Jack Shalom

Cybercardmagic,
You may like to check out Far Out Of Sight and one of my favourites from the Bob King book Pinnacle Aces Revisited. Both effects work well.

If you work with a fairly new deck and the breather is around the center (more or less 10 cards) it works 100%.

Helo cypercardmagic,
I thought the breather crimp can be made by sort of 'folding' the card?? what is the difference between the one you bought and the one that is 'folded'??

Check Nash infinity as well.

What can you do with the Breather crimp

Also see the "Tricks of Raised Consciousness" chapter in Ted Lesley's Paramiracles. Mr. Lesley describes several locator cards and effects utilizing them.

Brian B

My favorite crimp has to be the snap crimp. Just because it's fun to use!

Hi Alewishus: Whats the snap crimp.

Can you please give a brief description for me????

cybercardmagic

There's a whole familly of crimpls of this sort and some of my favorite tricks utilize these crimps. The decieve miricle gimmick is a great, nearly impromptu crimp. Again, see leslie.

J