Moves

This video is packed with top notch information. You get 6 bonus effects in a PDF. And you get 17 video clips in MP4 format demonstrating and teaching advanced card sleights such as the Top Change, Zarrow Shuffle, Side Steal, Perfect Tabled Faro, Cardini Multiple Shift, Forcing and Palming. Steven is an accomplished card handler and performer. Learn from his experience and advice.

Steven Youell sold the same information on two separate CDs. We have bought the rights and combined them into this one download product.

• EFFECTS
  • Blinded By The Sleight
  • Gaffus Maximus
  • The Infamous Non-Working...

This collection of videos features an outstanding selection of 16 original card sleights, Ace Productions & other Eye-poppers, all demonstrated and fully explained on 32 video clips!

We also offer a second volume Move Mastery 2 and a third volume Move Mastery 3.

• Fasteal 1
• Fasteal 2
• Fasteal 3
• Blink Change
• Block Center Palm
• Fan Pass
• Palm Add Bottom
• Palm Add Top
• No Table Second
• Palm to Palm
• Riffle Pop
• Explosion Pop
• Ace Production 1
• Ace Production 2
• Rotary Transformation
• Two-handed Pass (Classic Pass)

It is supposedly the first book devoted to a single sleight - beautifully layed out with photos as well as drawings off all stages of the invisible pass. A detailed and thorough explanation of this form of the pass. The pass is a difficult move. Many books barely scratch the surface when they try to teach a shift or pass. This book is entirely devoted to a single move and leaves no open questions.

In a letter to Paul Fleming Nov 5th 1944 Fred Braue talks about his "invisible pass" for the first time: "...I mentioned earlier a special interest in the "pass". Jean and I are doing another little...

It took us two years to track down a copy of these elusive instructions to the bottom deal. Gary Plants, the man with the best bottom deal alive, wrote "The Artanis bottom deal is probably the closest thing in print to the type of bottom deal that I do."

The really cool part of this ebook is that you can study the bottom deal audio-visually: hear, see and read. Artanis explains verbally how to do the bottom deal, you can study 12 photos that capture every stage of the bottom deal, and you can read a set of instructions. The electronic format allowed us to further improve the audio-visual...

Learn the In-The-Hands Faro Shuffle

Many magicians consider the faro shuffle to be one of the toughest moves in card magic. The thought of performing consistant, perfect faros seems an impossible dream - until you read this ebook.

The ability to do perfect faro shuffles is a powerful weapon in the card magician’s arsenal of sleights. It is a genuine shuffle; the cards are truly being mixed. But it is also a controlled shuffle, meaning that the resulting order of the cards is not random. For this reason, it is an excellent adjunct to memorized deck work. Michael likes to start with a memdeck...

This collection of videos is the sequel to Move Mastery 1 and contains over 20 killer moves demonstrated and carefully explained in 36 video clips. Running time of over 2 hours!

There is also a third volume in this series Move Mastery 3.

The moves are:

• Riffle Pass
• Riffle Pass Variants
• Shaded Herrmann Pass (plus Palm Add)
• Peek-a-Poo
• Insta-Reverse
• Two Color Changes
• Invisible Card
• Riffle Lap
• Spin Cut Lap
• One to Five (plus Maze Lap)
• PAUS (plus Tenkai Talk)
• Two False Cuts (plus Blind Riffle sequence)
• Scoop Switch
• Under Switch
• Toss Switch
• Two Bottom Palms
• Double Flight
• Deck Switch

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Move Mastery 3 contains 1hr 40 min of amazing sleights with playing cards. Demonstrations with explanations. Plus a bonus clip of Duffie demonstrating (no explanation) the Legendary Fred Robinson Middle Deal.

We also offer volume 1 Move Mastery 1 and volume 2 Move Mastery 2 in this series.

• Ace Production 3
• Flush Cut
• Multable Shift
• Riffle Force Touch
• Spread Pass
• Spread Control
• Triumph
• Peek Steal
• Shuffle Palm
• Spread Switch
• Center Double
• Dapeeko
• Charlie Miller Waterfall Control
• Blind Cut
• Ace Production 4
• Second Deal Lapping
• Strike Second Deal
• LePaul Second Deal
• Bottom Deal
• Legendary Middle Deal (Demo-only)

Here is a low resolution demo. The video on the disc is higher resolution.

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Allan Ackerman discusses five types of palms: magician's palm, gambler's flat palm, Tenkai palm, clip steal, gambler's cop. He addresses bad habits, mistakes, and use philosophy.

runtime: 6min 6s

Learn how to move from one palm to another, for example, how does one go from a magician's palm to a gambler's flat palm.

runtime: 1min 8s

This is a technique, developed by the Professor, how to move the top card into a magician's palm while maintaining a high arch in your palming hand.

runtime: 57s

If you need to palm several cards at once, this is an effective method. Originally this move appeared in The Royal Road to Card Magic.

runtime 54s

This is another technique to palm several cards at once from the top of the deck. Here a special little finger break enables the move.

runtime: 1min 2s

This is Larry Jennings' version of Joe Berg's palm, originally published in Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. It is a multiple top palm.

runtime: 46s

This is a move that comes originally from gambling. It is hard to do well, but Allan gives you a number of valuable tips.

runtime: 2 min 6 s

This is a move Ackerman developed himself. While riffle shuffling you palm the bottom card into a gambler's flat palm using a Kelly-type movement.

runtime: 1min 27s

Top palming a card with the right hand is typically exposed on the left side. Allan shares a tip that makes a top palm essentially invisible from 360 degree.

runtime: 22s

Tony Slydini used this move for his famous helicopter card trick. A card is stolen into a Tenkai palm while it is inserted into a fan.

runtime: 56s

This is an idea by John Cornelius where a card is pushed into a fan and during closing the fan the card is stolen into a Tenkai palm.

runtime: 1min 17s

Learn how to go from an overhand shuffle directly into the gambler's cop.

runtime: 1min 54s

Learn how to hold out a gambler's cop and how to perform the add on to get the cards back to the deck.

runtime: 22s

This is a very efficient and deceptive move by Steve Draun. A card which is inserted into the deck automatically ends up in the gambler's cop.

Chris Wasshuber independently developed this move in 1993 during his stay in Japan including an important visual convincer. If you want to learn this improved variation email him. He might be talked into releasing it. If you can't get Chris to talk then check out the Huot/Duperre control from Magic Menu volume 10. It is very similar to what Chris is doing.

runtime: 33s

Allan teaches the basics of the gambler's cop.

runtime: 53s

This is a palm from Gen Magazine where the top card from a pressure fan ends up in the gambler's cop after the fan has been closed.

runtime: 26s

Developed by Ed Marlo, it is a well covered method to palm one or several cards from the bottom into a left hand magician's palm.

runtime: 1min 53s

While you perform a double cut you palm off the bottom cards. This move was developed by Art Altman.

runtime: 1min 15s

This move was developed by Allan Ackerman. You start out with a convincing type of control. By angling the card correctly you can have it automatically end up in a left hand magician's palm.

runtime: 2min

AB stands for Ackerman-Barnhard. It is a way to palm the bottom cards from an overhand shuffle.

runtime: 2min 15s

Palm the bottom cards during a swing cut. This move was developed by Allan Ackerman.

runtime: 2min 1s