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I have noticed that the overhand shuffle in royal road to card magic is different to the other methods I've read, such as the one in Mark Wilson's complete course in magic. Can anyone help shed some light on this?

there are a few methods in Royal Road, but I thought they were both pretty standard. I mean an injog is an injog is an injog and I don't think there are many lift shuffle discrepancies...

I don't think they are that different. Maybe just a language gap because RRTCM is a bit older?

I find really with the basic overhand shuffle both mark wilson and rrtcm give you good description, although its like most things learn which one you think is best for yourself and master that.

TLS

What I mean is, that the standard "genuine" overhand shuffle in royal road has different hand positions than the one in mark Wilson's.

The term 'overhand shuffle' is used to describe the basic actions of the shuffle. The small details in the way the hand is held and the exact positions of the fingers is just a matter of personel preferance, so each teacher will be describing their own way of holding the deck. If you watch people shuffling by the overhand method you'll notice that no 2 use the exact same hand positions. It is still an overhand shuffle though.

jim

Oh, thank you! That explains it!