Expert Card Technique. Jean Hugard
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Название: Expert Card Technique
Автор: Jean Hugard
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Кинематограф, театр
isbn: 9781420971668
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6. Repeat this same running cut with packet I, the break held by the left thumb under packet II ensuring a correct final cut, which will complete the return of the pack to its original condition.
Figures 1 and 2 show how the fingers of both hands grasp the packets during these running cuts. In Fig. 1 the right thumb and third finger are stripping out C as left thumb and second finger retain A and B. In Fig. 2 C has been placed at the top, directly above the bottom packet I, and B is being stripped out in turn by the right hand. Note that the left thumb and second finger now control both packets A and C. B is dropped directly upon C and A is then stripped out by the right hand in the same manner. The left thumb holds a break between packets II and I in readiness for a repetition of this running cut with I, after which the pack will be in its original order.
This particularly illusive false cut can be used with excellent effect after the Strip-Out False Shuffle given on page 84. Take the upper half of the pack in the right hand, riffle it into the left hand packet and immediately strip it out with the right hand as described. Drop it on top of the left hand packet and make the Gamblers’ False Cut with these cards. Thus the cards are apparently fairly shuffled and cut.
The reader will find that, of all false cuts, this is perhaps the best; and, for all practical purposes, the only one he need know.
GAMBLERS’ FALSE CUT
Retaining Bottom Stock
This is another ruse lifted from the gaming table which can be put to good use in many card tricks, since with it the bottom stock is retained after a genuine cut by a spectator. We will suppose that the four aces are at the bottom of the pack and that you desire to keep them in that position. Here is the working:
1. Execute a riffle shuffle, interlacing the corners giving the sides of each packet an upward bend by pressing down with the forefingers, and letting the four aces drop first. Square the cards which will then have a lengthwise crimp making their backs slightly concave, and hand the pack to be cut, Fig. 1.
2. After the cut, A, has been tabled, pick up the lower packet, B, with the right thumb at its left side, the fingers at the right side; let half a dozen cards at the bottom slip off the right thumb, gripping them with the right fingers on the right side only, Fig. 2; the left sides of these cards rest on the table.
3. As you sweep B towards A, press the left thumb on the left side of A, thus lifting its right side about an eighth of an inch off the table.
4. In sliding the two packets together let the six separated cards at the bottom of B pass under A while the remainder go on top, Fig. 3.
5. Pick up the pack, square it and, in doing so, take out the crimp with the left hand. The four aces are still on the bottom ready to be dealt with as you may desire.
CHAPTER 8. CHANGES
THE FADEAWAY CARD CHANGE
There is no more beautiful and effective sleight in the entire range of card magic than the illusive move to be described in the following paragraphs; it is worthy of the attention of every worshipper at the shrine of Tarot.
In this change this is what the spectators see and what the magician himself will see in his mirror: The conjurer holds a card in his right hand, the six of diamonds for example. Momentarily he holds it face downwards, immediately thereafter its face is turned to the spectators who now perceive that the card they have watched closely has changed to, say, the two of hearts.
The Method. Obviously a change of the two cards is made and, since this is the case, the sleight can be used in any number of tricks in which it is necessary to change one card for another. The method is as simple as the change is good; one card is top changed{2} for the other. The secret lies, not in the method, but in the application of the principles of the top change in a new manner.
First of all, hold the pack in the left hand, the thumb lying straight across the top of the pack, the first finger slanting upwards at the outer end and the other three fingers at the right side. The position is very similar to that known amongst gamblers as the Mechanics’ Grip.
Take the top card, the six of diamonds, for example, in the right hand, holding it by the inner right corner between the thumb at the top, the first finger at the face, with the side of the second finger at its top joint pressing against the inner edge. Holding the pack and the card in this fashion, practice the top change, the two hands performing the following functions:
a. Left Hand. Draw back the thumb, bending it, and drop its tip upon the top card near the left side. Straighten the thumb sharply, sliding the top card off the right side of the pack. At the conclusion of the thrust of the left thumb, hold it rigidly straight, pointing towards the right and slightly above the pack.
b. Right Hand. Move the right hand with its card towards the pack, at the same time thrusting outwards sharply with the ball of the thumb, half pushing, half throwing the card upon the pack, Fig. 2. This card slides under the left thumb which, being raised above the pack a little, does not impede the action. At the same moment the top card of the pack, which the left thumb has thrust to the right, is taken by the right thumb, first and second fingers, in exactly the same grip as that which held the first card.
In practice both actions are made at the same moment, the two cards sliding over one another in a fraction of a second. Once the moves are mastered they will be found to constitute an effortless, frictionless and very rapid way of making the top change, the two cards being exchanged in the twinkling of an eye. Masked by the usual covering movement of the hands, this is the finest method of making the top change.
To use these moves in the Fadeaway Card Change, proceed thus: Hold the card, the six of diamonds, in the right hand as directed, the left hand holding the pack at the top of which is the two of hearts. Hold both hands easily about waist high and some eight inches apart.
Show the right hand card by turning its face to the spectators, immediately afterwards holding it horizontally.
Move the right hand, with its card still horizontal, to the left and up-wards in the trajectory of an arc, at the same moment moving the left hand with the pack to the right and upwards, also in an arc, Fig. 1.
The two hands meet and the top change is made as described while both hands continue their upward arcing movement until they are at the level of the chin. The back of the left hand will be towards the audience, while the right holds its card, now the two of hearts, vertically facing outwards. Immediately, with the left hand make a short indicatory gesture, tapping the right hand card with the tips of the fingers which hold the pack, as if to say, “You see?” Figure 1 shows the nature of the preceding action. Figure 2 shows the action at the point marked A in Fig. 1. Figure 3 shows the action at the point marked B in Fig. 1. In the last drawing the hands have been omitted for greater clarity.
The illusiveness of this change comes from two factors. First: Because of the nature of СКАЧАТЬ