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Hi all,

Thanks to all your tips I'm now working my way through The Royal Road and Richard Kaufman's Basic Card Technique.

Firstly I find the RK DVD very useful but slightly overwhelming. I'm not sure the best approach with it. Would you suggest that I start at the beginning and work through, or try learning tricks elsewhere, and refere to the dvd for a good demo of required moves? The Royal Road is very good, but IMO needs a revision with a lot more diagrams!!

Anyway, my main question!

I've been trying to combine what I'm learning from the DVD with what I've been learning from the book - as a way of practicing I've been trying to invent simple card tricks. Here is a routine I've made up, but would like advise on the end:

I insert 4 aces at random points, mutiple shift them to the bottom, overhand suffle and cotrol them to the top. Then start to deal four piles (1st card of each pile will be an Ace), then get specs (imaginary at the moment!!) to tell me where to deal each consecutive cards to make it 'random'. I end up with 4 piles of cards with an Ace at the bottom of each.

I was then thinking of getting them to give me a number for each pile. Perform The Glide, and present each ace at the chosen number for each pile.

So my question! - Would performing The Glide in this way, for four consecutive occasions look too suspicious?

I'd like to hear what you think!

Thanks,

I think you could definitely get away with it - I seem to remember that their is a similar trick on one of the ellusionist vidoes - ninja 1 I think.
Definitely a good, and relatively simple trick to add to your reportoire.

The glide if well done is virtually imperceptible. The problem is that, doing it so many times, a clever spectator might figure out what you are doing - but I wouldn't worry about it.

I would reveal all the aces at the same time, rather than at the end of dealing each pile (this may be obvious to you, but I think it will make the effect stronger, as you can then act surprised and ask the spectator what made him stop at the relevant point for each pile).
Enjoy
Bcfaigg

I tend to use the glide as a force at the start of a trick rather than a sleight for an effect, if you see what I mean.

The effect you've described above has roughly the same result as Poker Player's Picnic, detailed in RRTCM.

However, on saying that, there is no reason why you can't get away with using the glide four times in a row - but remember, the more times a spectator sees something happen, the more s/he looks for EXACTLY what is going on...

Ahh, spectators. Our only real cross to bear...

One way I use a top glide (well before they know what the effect of the trick is going to be, so they are not looking for it) Is to turn the deck face up in your hand (without the spectator seeing it and count from this bottom the number the spectator states. ( but don't just turn the card face up at the count count out all the cards from the bottom face down onto the table so you can reveal all four cards later).

I really would recccomend you use several different methods than just the one. (i.e. if you can do a top card tilt palm you can have somebody else shuffle one of the stacks "just to show everybody how fair it is") then return it it to the top while you're "straightening up the packs"

another option would be todeal the number of cards of the top with a relaxed, but contuous movement of both hands (without showing the bottom card) then deal the last one of the bottom.
in this way, you can have spectator's pick a number and "top or bottom" if you work the idea into your patter. Hope I'm not just muddying up the idea for you. In general though: I don't use the same method for repeats unless the audience already thinks they know what I'm doing (only they're completely wrong)