Moves & Techniques in Cards: page 4

Allan teaches two fingertip controls, one by Charlie Miller from Expert Card Technique and the other by Ed Marlo from his Fingertip Control book.

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This is a basic card control - easy to do, but also easy to mess up. It allows you to control the top half of the deck. Allan teaches several fine points and variations, including the slip shuffle where the bottom card is maintained during an overhand shuffle.

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A terrific control from a fan, created by Paul LePaul. You insert a selected card into a pressure fan. After closing the fan you have the selected card jogged, which allows you to take a break above or below.

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A jogged card can be seen by a spectator if the pack is placed on the table. Allan teaches you how to use a dribble to disguise the jog, but at the same time allows you to maintain the jogged card.

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This is a Paul LePaul control, one of the classic, easy, but wonderfully deceptive techniques to get a break above a selected card.

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Use a Kick Count to crimp a peeked at card.

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This Steve Draun idea allows you to peek the card while you do fan cards using a pressure fan. This is in contrast to techniques where you glimpse at or after closing the fan.

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Once you have mastered the Maintain Break With Fan technique you can use this idea to rather glimpse a card than keep the break.

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This is a glimpse Johnny Thompson liked to do. It is a very deceptive glimpse, executed at an off-beat moment and literally undetectable.

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Once you hold a break, this technique allows you to peek the card while you square up the deck.

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This is a very deceptive technique. It allows you to keep a break while doing a pressure fan.

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Here you will learn a couple of ways to cut cards to the top or bottom. Allan also demonstrates the Kick Count which is used to change the break from under the card you want to control to above the card.

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This is a wonderful Roger Klause idea to openly display a deck merely resting on your fingers while maintaining a break.

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Once you have a break you want to handle and display the deck such that it appears to be impossible to hold a break. Here is one sequence of bends and riffles developed by Ed Marlo and published in his Card Control Series from the 1950s.

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Let a spectator peek a card from the deck and catch the break with your little finger. This is a very deceptive method and avoids the over-used line "pick a card".

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Holding a little finger break is probably the most basic and important technique to master in card magic. Allan teaches you how to make this break invisible.

runtime: 1min 54s

Allan applies the Double Deal to a quick 3-way sequence popular in color monte routines.

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The double deal is to secretly deal the bottom card together with the top card. Here Allan combines the dealing action with turning the card(s) face up on the deck revealing the bottom card.

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This is a well thought out Dai Vernon version of the Glide. Every finger position and movement has its reason. The Glide is not necessarily the most deceptive move, but it is easy to do. This version is very deceptive. As is so often the case, Vernon elevates a simple move to a masterpiece of deception.

runtime: 1min 8s

You can achieve a terrific illusion with this one-handed center deal of the push off variety.

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This is a heirophant type card change using the Push Off Center Deal.

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This is a nice idea how to practice your false deals.

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Allan's PIP or Put-In-Place technique is here applied to a push off center deal.

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The push-off-center deal is quite a bit harder to do than the strike-center deal, but it is also more versatile. Allan executes it flawlessly.

runtime: 2min 43s