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Now i hope dont want to give away too much of the concept of this trick, but i need to ask this question.

If your right handed and you have the deck of cards in your left hand and your ready to make the pass. Which way is better to make the pass, having your left hand on the top deck and your right hand on the bottom, or vice versa?

If you dont understand what im trying to say then ill have to explain slighty more with a little bit of detail.

Thanks

Daniel.

Hello Mr Cvetkoksi.

Learning the Pass is a largely organic process, in that you pick up bits and pieces from different places. If you want to get into the Pass I'd recommend looking at many different sources of instruction. The end result is normally a mix of whatever has been learned over the years.

To help with your question, if you are holding the deck with your left hand already, then the right should come over the deck to become the top hand automatically.

If you mean "Which hand is better for a right hander?" then I would recommend playing aound with both variations to find the most comfortable. When I first started learning the pass I started in my left (I'm right handed), but then changed to my right after a month or two. This was against convention but just seemed so much more natural.

Regards,
Mark.

I'm right handed and find the easiest way for me is to hold the deck in the left hand and bring the right over the top. But if you're having trouble with this try playing with both ways and see what's easier for you.

Hi Daniel,

unless done invisibly, I think Pass needs some misdirection, or needs to appear as some other normal movement (ie. riffle). If I am holding the deck in left hand, and then transfer it to right hand for the pass, I think it may be harder to hide (unless ofcourse one is super smooth).

depending on the angles though, but most time I tilt the deck vertical (in left hand) before the deed.

Ok guys that helped alot, but i dont know if I explained it properly.

Ok so im right handed, the deck is in my left hand. Do i flip the bottom of the deck with my left or my right and with the top of the deck do i flip it with the left or the right. Which way do you find quicker and easier?

Sorry

D.Cvetkovski wrote:Ok so im right handed, the deck is in my left hand. Do i flip the bottom of the deck with my left or my right and with the top of the deck do i flip it with the left or the right. Which way do you find quicker and easier?

If I understand you correctly, and you are talking about the Classic pass and it's relatives, then the hand in which you are holding the deck is responsible for the upper packet.
The hand that 'comes across' takes charge of the lower packet.

Of course there are variations where this is reversed.

Marvo Marky wrote:the hand in which you are holding the deck is responsible for the upper packet.
The hand that 'comes across' takes charge of the lower packet.

Spot on. And remember that it's the underneath hand that does most of the movement while the covering hand stays as still as possible as it accepts the bottom packet popping up. When I perform it I tend to grip the bottom packet with the middle finger and thumb of my covering hand and use the ring finger of the covering hand to ever so slightly assist in the pop-up as the pinkie and index of the bottom hand take the top packet under. Damn, that was a mad sentence!