|
|
-0- New user London 58 Posts |
Hello all,
I just thought I'd ask about something I've been thinking about these last few weeks. Shuffling, a staple of many card effect, whether controlled, false or utterly normal. The problem occured to me that especially in the beginner a lot of these controls, and false shuffles tend to be either the hindu or overhand. If like me when you play cards with friends or similar you invariably use a riffle shuffle (one done well is a better shuffle, google for a maths site on it if you must). Also there's the problem of if you do say 3 card effects in a routine, the first three you use a control where needed to get the card where in the deck you need, when you shuffle you perform a riffle shuffle (or if it's false you use a Henstein of shufflesque (in the hands), or a zarrow/push-through (tabled)). say the third routine needs you to shuffle keeping a clump of cards on the top, so you use the old favourite, the jog-shuffle. Wouldn't this seem odd to spectators seeing you use a different shuffle. So I suppose my question would be do you standardise? or do you use the most appropriate? Personally if I could manage it I'd happily use a riffle (or false variations) all the time, I don't use overhand normally, so it would appear out of place, and although I know it's popular in some parts of the world, I've never seen anyone use the hindu shuffle who wasn't a magician (actually, once I think). Another question would be which parts of deck control done in a shuffle can you not do with the good ol' riffle shuffe or variants, along with a good control (side steal, pass, whatever floats your boat). Thanks for your time, just thought I'd see others opinions on this. Sorry for the ramble.
Regards,
-0- |
Essie Loyal user Boulder, CO 278 Posts |
I just use whatever seems appropriate. I think that as long as you don't focus on it, people don't really care a whole lot one way or the other, especially since it's assumed that you're really good at lots of techniques with cards just by being a magician. That said, I don't really use the hindu shuffle a lot, since it's similar enough to the overhand shuffle for most purposes, and some people think it looks weird (since it's not a shuffle you see a whole lot).
"Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable."
-Jeff McBride |
kramerica2010 Veteran user 329 Posts |
Put yourslef in the shoes of a layman. Do you really notice the difference between the shuffles? If so you are extremely observant. All you process in your brain is that, "ok now the magician is shuffling." You don't notice the differences. When I was not a magician and watched David Blaine, I was floored. Especially with his acr. Looking at the footage again as a magician, I noticed that he used many different turnovers. I never realized that one turnover was different from the other. The point is that THEY don't NOTICE! don't be worried aboot that. Just another thing that can stress you out while performing
|
The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » The workers » » Standardising on a shuffle. (0 Likes) |
[ Top of Page ] |
All content & postings Copyright © 2001-2024 Steve Brooks. All Rights Reserved. This page was created in 0.01 seconds requiring 5 database queries. |
The views and comments expressed on The Magic Café are not necessarily those of The Magic Café, Steve Brooks, or Steve Brooks Magic. > Privacy Statement < |