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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When it is desired secretly to exchange cards by this method, hold both the pack and the right hand card face upwards. With the pack in the Mechanics’ Grip as described, stand facing a quarter to the right; thus the back of the pack is towards the spectators and the face card cannot be seen.
Calling attention to the face-up card in the right hand, make the Fadeaway Change as you turn full face to the spectators. At the completion of the action immediately turn the left hand back upwards, so that the face card of the pack (the card originally in the right hand) cannot be seen.
The changed card may now be placed, face downwards, to one side; or it may be handed to the spectator for safe keeping; or it may be blown upon by the spectator or magician to cause a change to occur.
THE SLIDE TOP CHANGE
It is more than passing strange that, with all the thought expended by card manipulators, both amateur and professional, for so many generations, no really practical method of interchanging the top card with the second, without removing it from the pack, has been evolved. The need for such a sleight has been apparent, and yet the only two methods of producing this effect cannot be termed secret sleights since both necessitate an open manipulation, which, if the sleight is to be used as a secret subterfuge in the course of a trick, immediately precludes their use.
The earliest textbooks give the following method: With the pack held as for dealing, the left thumb pushes the top card off the pack an inch to the right where it is supported by the tips of the fingers. The thumb moves back, drops upon the exposed surface of the second card and draws it back an inch towards the left, tipping it up at its right side. The top card is then slid back underneath by the left fingers and the cards are again squared. As stated this method has no practical value except perhaps as a little flourish, Fig. 1.
The second method, A New Top Change, was first published in 1935.{3} It is an excellent sleight, but since the top card must be faced to effect the change, it cannot be used in those tricks in which the exchange must be an entirely secret one, and in which the face of neither card must be seen.
The method given here fulfills these requirements:
1. Hold the pack in the left hand as for dealing, place the right hand over the pack and make a light squaring motion of the ends with the thumb and fingers.
2. Push the top card to the right an inch with the left thumb, immediately gripping it between the first joint of the right little finger and the flesh at the base of the thumb.
3. Drop the left thumb upon the exposed surface of the second card and draw it to the left until it clears the top card, lifting the right side of the second card a quarter of an inch in the action, Fig. 2.
4. Continue the squaring action by moving the right hand to the left, sliding the left side of the top card under the right side of the second card.
5. Immediately square both cards upon the pack as both hands continue the squaring movements.
The sleight is done in a second under cover of a small and slow motion of the hands to the left, the top card being concealed at all times by the back of the right hand. The uses to which it can be put are many; one will be cited here. Let us assume that in the Ambitious Card trick, a card has apparently been placed in the center of the pack and magically caused to rise to the top. It is replaced at the top and, by means of this sleight, it is secretly placed under the second card. The operator is now in a position to repeat the double-lifting process. It should be noted that as the top card slides under the second card, the left little finger can be pressed up against its face, making a break at the inner left corner and thus eliminating any further get-set move for the subsequent double lift.
THE THROW TOP CHANGE
The main action in this deceptive change is similar to that of the orthodox top change but the details differ radically. We will suppose that the ace of hearts is to be changed into the ace of clubs and that you have the ace of hearts in your right hand, while the ace of clubs reposes on the top of the pack. The table in use should be to your left and a little to the rear. To execute the change:
1. Hold the ace of hearts between the right thumb and fingers at the lower right corner, and the pack in the left hand in the usual position for dealing. Bend the left arm across the chest to bring the left hand in front of the body.
2. Push the top card, the ace of clubs, about an inch over the side of the pack and hold it between the tips of the left thumb and first and second fingers.
3. Swing the right hand towards the table and, the moment before it reaches the left hand, throw the ace of clubs from the top of the pack onto the table and leave the card in the right hand, the ace of hearts, in its place.
4. At once swing the left hand outwards or upwards in a gesture to the onlookers and continue the motion of the right hand a little way towards the table as if it had actually thrown the card there.
Some practice is necessary to time the action perfectly but this is well worth while since, under cover of a turn to the table or of turning and bending to throw the card onto the floor, the change is invisible to the onlookers.
THE TIP-OVER CHANGE
This sleight is an extremely easy one and it is one of the most surprising changes in the whole range of card conjuring. The method of preparing for the change which we are about to describe is a great improvement upon the method given by Merlin in his book … and a Pack of Cards, permitting the operator to perform a bewildering series of tip-over changes with the same card without awkward fumbling. The change itself is made by secretly dropping a second card on the first in the act of turning the latter face downwards. Here are the moves:
1. Hold the pack in the left hand as for dealing, the little finger maintaining a break above the chosen card.
2. Cut the pack at the break with the right first and second fingers at the outer end, the thumb at the inner end. The two fingers are near the left corners with their top joints curled in against the face card, Fig. 1. In actual practice the first finger curls at the top of the pack and is only moved into the position shown in Fig. 1 for a moment, in order to effect the sleight later to be given in item 4. Thus more of the back of the pack is visible.
3. With the left thumb push the top card of the lower portion, the chosen card, to the left. Turn this card face upwards upon its packet by striking its right edge upwards with the left side of the right hand packet. As the attention of the spectators is concentrated СКАЧАТЬ