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Postby rabbit » Jun 12th, '06, 20:57



I know I know... it isn't anything amazing, or even a magic trick for that matter, but I JUST learned it and I think it's pretty cool, I've only been able to do it for a few hours now, what do you think?

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Postby EckoZero » Jun 12th, '06, 21:04

Ah the good old charlier cut.
I liked it, was performed smoothly.

Keep it up!

You wont find much better anywhere and it's nothing - a rigmarole with a few bits of paper and lots of spiel. That is Mentalism

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Postby katrielalex » Jun 12th, '06, 21:47

Not bad. The only technical comment I have is that you should let the original top packet drop instead of lowering it with the fingers. It lets you speed up the cut and make it a bit more fluid.

Now, 2 weeks of practicing!

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Postby stevebo » Jun 12th, '06, 23:05

Nice.

Keep the index finger and pinky on the short sides when executing the cut to keep the packets square.

And here's a nice little tip after a while of practice... get two decks of cards in their boxes and do the cut with the two boxes. Then try doing the cut with your cards and you feel like it needs no effort at all! :D

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Postby costas » Jun 14th, '06, 04:47

Rabbit,

Magic Tricks, Sleights, Flourishes and pretty much anything associated with the Magic Arts is very welcome as a post in the file sharing section. And I am sure that many members here will be keen to review your work.

The Charlier Cut is a very important tool and it is not only used as a flourish. There are tricks that require this manoeuvre to be used as a kind of sleight (which I am sure you will run into in the future :wink:)

By the way I thought your performance was pretty smooth by my standards.

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Postby rabbit » Jun 14th, '06, 05:59

Thanks everybody for the comments... I wasn't sure if because this was a magic forum, people were only supposed to post "tricks" or not. If you'd like to see my first REAL trick look here.

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Postby stevebo » Jun 14th, '06, 10:10

Bleh, I get shouted out for my flourish videos lol. That's why I haven't put one up in a while :P.

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Postby bitsnpieces » Jun 14th, '06, 10:18

Nice Charlie Cut. Can you do it with your right hand also? Once you can do it with both hands smoothly, you can do the Butterfly Cut or other cuts which I've seen but don't know their names of. :P

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Postby rabbit » Jun 14th, '06, 15:00

actualy I can do it with my right hand as well, it's nowhere near as smooth tho :roll:

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Postby katrielalex » Jun 14th, '06, 16:34

bitsnpieces wrote:Nice Charlie Cut. Can you do it with your right hand also? Once you can do it with both hands smoothly, you can do the Butterfly Cut or other cuts which I've seen but don't know their names of. :P


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Postby rabbit » Jun 14th, '06, 16:52

katrielalex wrote:
bitsnpieces wrote:Nice Charlie Cut. Can you do it with your right hand also? Once you can do it with both hands smoothly, you can do the Butterfly Cut or other cuts which I've seen but don't know their names of. :P


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That was really awesome! I can't wait until I'm able to do things like that!

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Postby katrielalex » Jun 14th, '06, 20:46

That was really awesome! I can't wait until I'm able to do things like that![/quote]

Thank you :) Once you have teh Charlier down then you should be able to get teh KatiKut down pretty easily. A couple of days practice, no more. Teh.

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Postby monsieur incredible » Jun 14th, '06, 23:04

i managed to get it after 15mins but its doing it quickly thats killing me

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Postby rabbit » Jun 14th, '06, 23:31

Ya it's actualy not that hard! I can do the katikut now, but only slowly, and rather sloppy.

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Postby Dominick » Jun 15th, '06, 00:23

I'm in love with The KatiKut.

Nice job with your Charlier though, just make it a little more smooth.

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