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i was out having a couple of drinks the other night, showing a friend of a friend a couple of trick and he says "it would be cool if you could shuffle the cards with that spring" and a minute or 2 later we decided it could be:
half the deck sprung from each hand into the same space on the table so the cards interlace
it started off by springing the cards from barely off the table and it pretty much just looked like a form of riffle shuffle, but from a bit of distance it looks kinda nice, although the cards do fall into a somewhat messy pile. with a bit of work i might be able to remedy that.
anyway, my main reason for the post is to ask someone to point out that i've just gone and stumbled across something that was invented however many years ago (again, i do this too much) and direct me towards where it can be found.
i'll see about getting a video posted later on if I'm not too busy out playing Munchkin all night!

I'm guessing this has been though of and somewhat performed before, but I'm not sure if it would be in a book. It would probably be in a book about advanced flourishing or another book as such. I think it's great thinking of new ways of shuffling. The only thing I've managed to come up with to improve upon it is to do the riffle shuffle and bridge upside down . I call it the "anti-gravity shuffle" .

Alas this has indeed been done before. I used to do it when I went to school around a thousand years ago. I didn't invent it though. I saw it somewhere and picked it up because it amused me at the time. I can't remember where I saw it. There is a slight possibility I got it from the Phil Silvers "Sergeant Bilko" show. I have a vague recollection that Bilko shuffled the deck like this and it got a big laugh from the studio audience because he was known as a somewhat unscrupulous card player.

I've also seen this before, more recently performed by Lennart Green, and I am sure I've seen this done by Tamariz.

I have seen in Card College, something similar.

Half the card table riffled while the other half are sprung from a height and they ineterlace.

Not sure about two halfs being sprung though, not seen it aywhere myslef, but sounds neat

Lawrence take a look in Card College Volume ONE page 176. the Spring Riffle Shuffle

Giobbi states :

"I first encountered this technique in an English pub and have never seen it anywhere since. To the best of my knowledge, it is documented here for the first time."

It might not be the same technique as yours (one for innuendo bingo!!) but it reads as very similar.

hope it helps

best

martin

edited by me due to some rubbish spelling "riggle" shuffle

Also found on The Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes.

Steve

cheers guys. question certainly answered.
i might see about making that video today anyway,

EoPCF also states that it's too difficult to spring the cards into nice rows, an interlacing spread accomplishes much the same thing and can keep the cards in a neat enough order to do giant arm spreads/giant fans etc.

but if you got really good at springing it would be pretty awesome!