Customer rank: +1 Lewis Ganson, mostly known as author of magic books, was also himself an expert stage card manipulator. This ebook is a complete course in the art of manipulating playing cards, from back palms, to catching cards, card fans, flourishes, gimmicks and holders, and how to put it all together into a routine.
Contents:
Manipulation of Playing Cards
- The type of cards to use
- Preparation of the cards
- The back and front palm
- Showing the hands empty when cards are palmed
- To show the backs of the hands with fingers apart
- To steal the cards from one hand to the other
- Combination of "steal" and back and front palm
- Continuous production of single cards
- Cards vanished singly from the hands
- Continuous production of fans of cards
- The silk through the fingers
- Manipulation in gloves
- The type of gloves to wear
- To "steal" the load from the glove
- The load outside the glove
- To remove the gloves and still produce cards
- Obtaining a load by putting on gloves
The Art of Card Fanning
- The type of cards to use
- Quality
- Design
- Preparation and care of cards
- Requirements
- Arrangement
- Methods of Fanning
- Thumb Fans
- To close the Thumb Fan
- The Fan Separation
- The Visible Changing Fan
- The Fan "steal" and production
- The Giant Fan
- Endings for the Giant Fan
- The Second Fan
- The "Rip"
- The single-handed Waterfall Shuffle
- The two-handed Waterfall shuffle
- The"Spring" Fan (blank)
- The "Spring" Fan (to show the indices)
- The single-handed Fan
- The Fan False Shuffle
- The "Ace" Diminishing Cards
Flourishes
- The "Spring"
- The Arm Spreads
- The Single Spread
- Endings for the Arm Spreads
- The two-handed Catch
- The Hat Catch
- To change the pack by the Hat Catch
- The "Turnover"
- The "Turnover" Catch
- The Back Arm Throw and Catch
- The Double Arm Throw and Catch
- The Upper Arm Catch
- The "Mulholland" Catch
- The Upright Spread
- The Walking Stick Catch
- The Handkerchief Balance and Catch
- Two Catches
- The Drop Catch
- The "Ribbon" Catch
Suggestions for Routines
1st digital edition 2015, 90 pages. word count: 22693 which is equivalent to 90 standard pages of text
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