Every year or two I make a new 'tribute to Erdnase' video just to keep a log of my improvement. It's taken me a few weeks, but I've finally finished the latest video.
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Thoughts on card cheating technique and magic by Jeff Wessmiller. Includes videos and notes for the serious student and hobbyist of cardsharping and magic.
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1 comment:
This is from a friend on the Cafe- What do you think?
The Good:
I loved the transformations, most of which looked like real magic, and I you get into bottom palm faster then anyone I've met.
The Bad (not actually bad, but rather "ok"...):
You need to figure out what the dirty hand, for the bottom palm, needs to be doing after the palm. You get into the move well (square up), you do the move well (wicked fast), but then you have this cramped looking hand sitting on the table. In all fairness though, I have the same problem. My right hand palm work, as yours does, looks fairly good. My bottom palm though... I'm rereading Quinns fools of fortune, and there are some interesting ideas regarding palm work in there that I'll pass along when I finish (obviously not on bottom palm work though).
Second, the deals were just ok. I don't like the pause after the bottom comes out. You leave it in your hand then drop it to the table, which causes an odd beat. You are, of course, free to disagree, but I think its more effective, especially with a bordered deck, if you simply deal it to the table with an up and down motion (back and forth is more natural, but I only use it with borderless cards).
The Ugly:
The false shuffle. Brother, why do you need so much cover? It's a 13 card stock on the bottom, but your shading the entire deck! You could have done a deck vanish or cold decked.
Check it:
Uppercut the deck to the right. Left thumb holds the cards have way up and begins the shuffle from there (so as to avoid hitting the stock on bottom). Middle finger and thumb of left hand are positioned on the two right corners, covering the majority of the left hand portion, but the right hands portion is fairly exposed. Once the weave is finished, push down slightly and forward (but not enough to spread the cards like for a zarrow) on the left packet with your index finger and square up. It is indistinguishable from a normal shuffle.
If you feel it is abhorrent to deviate from the actual Erdnase fingering positioning, it is possible to do the whole sequence using Erdnse's open and artful shuffling and squaring up procedure (which he describes for maintaining a small bottom stock). But no where in Erdnase does he describe the full deck cover you were using.
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