Showing posts with label card sleight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label card sleight. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Card Sleights - Double Cut to Bottom
Get a break below the top card (maybe by using your thumb). Cut the deck once, holding the break. Now take everything below the break, and transfer it to the top, making another cut. This leaves the deck the same, except the top card is now on bottom.
Card Sleights - Mexican Turnover
On the table is a face-down Ace and in your hand, a blank-faced card or any other card except an Ace.
The right hand takes its card by the lower right corner, thumb on top and first (i.e. index finger) and second (i.e. middle finger) fingers underneath, the second (i.e. middle finger) finger being bent inward a little of the inner end of the card. The right hand scoops the card by going underneath it from the long side. As the right hand turns over, the thumb moves along the second (i.e. middle finger) finger, transferring the grip to the Ace (which is now held between the thumb and the second finger) and takes that card to the left. The blank-faced card remains on the table.
The right hand takes its card by the lower right corner, thumb on top and first (i.e. index finger) and second (i.e. middle finger) fingers underneath, the second (i.e. middle finger) finger being bent inward a little of the inner end of the card. The right hand scoops the card by going underneath it from the long side. As the right hand turns over, the thumb moves along the second (i.e. middle finger) finger, transferring the grip to the Ace (which is now held between the thumb and the second finger) and takes that card to the left. The blank-faced card remains on the table.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Card Sleights - False Cut
Imagine that you divide your pack into 3 smaller (try to make it equal) packets. Let's call them from the top to the bottom, X, Y and Z.
Hold the original pack into your left hand and with your right middle finger and thumb bring packet Z into the right hand. Take Z over XY and with your right ring finger and thumb get packet X.
To recap: in your left hand you have the remaining packer Y (the original middle one) and in your right hand you have X on bottom and Z on top (still keep them separated - one is held by middle finger and the other by the ring finger).
Now bring Y on top of Z and grab them in your left hand. This means that in your right hand you will only have packet X that you should put on top of YZ that's in your left hand.
Therefore you will end up again with the original XYZ pack.
Hold the original pack into your left hand and with your right middle finger and thumb bring packet Z into the right hand. Take Z over XY and with your right ring finger and thumb get packet X.
To recap: in your left hand you have the remaining packer Y (the original middle one) and in your right hand you have X on bottom and Z on top (still keep them separated - one is held by middle finger and the other by the ring finger).
Now bring Y on top of Z and grab them in your left hand. This means that in your right hand you will only have packet X that you should put on top of YZ that's in your left hand.
Therefore you will end up again with the original XYZ pack.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Card Sleights - Double Undercut
I would like to start a few tutorials on how to perform some card sleights.
This is the first in this series and I hope it will be useful to beginners in card magic.
Double Undercut
Let us suppose that the top card is to be moved to the bottom of the deck. The right hand holds the deck from above (in the Biddle Grip/Count). A break is held beneath the top card with the right thumb. The left hand then cuts the bottom half of the deck off and places it on top of the top half. This is repeated, with all the cards beneath the break going on top. The deck has apparently been fairly cut twice, but in fact the only change is that the top card has been moved to the bottom.
Here is a variation of the undercut on how to cut the deck and bring the top card in its original place again:
This is the first in this series and I hope it will be useful to beginners in card magic.
Double Undercut
Let us suppose that the top card is to be moved to the bottom of the deck. The right hand holds the deck from above (in the Biddle Grip/Count). A break is held beneath the top card with the right thumb. The left hand then cuts the bottom half of the deck off and places it on top of the top half. This is repeated, with all the cards beneath the break going on top. The deck has apparently been fairly cut twice, but in fact the only change is that the top card has been moved to the bottom.
Here is a variation of the undercut on how to cut the deck and bring the top card in its original place again:
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