Allan teaches two fingertip controls, one by Charlie Miller from Expert Card Technique and the other by Ed Marlo from his Fingertip Control book.
runtime: 3min 36s
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.
runtime: 3min 57s
This is a Paul LePaul control, one of the classic, easy, but wonderfully deceptive techniques to get a break above a selected card.
runtime: 49s
Once you have mastered the Maintain Break With Fan technique you can use this idea to rather glimpse a card than keep the break.
runtime: 44s
This is a glimpse Johnny Thompson liked to do. It is a very deceptive glimpse, executed at an off-beat moment and literally undetectable.
runtime: 1min 5s
This is a wonderful Roger Klause idea to openly display a deck merely resting on your fingers while maintaining a break.
runtime: 59s
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.
runtime: 53s
Allan applies the Double Deal to a quick 3-way sequence popular in color monte routines.
runtime: 1min 15s
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
This is a heirophant type card change using the Push Off Center Deal.
runtime: 1min 26s