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i've found out some sort of method for it, but its very slow and hard to do(angles), so could someone PLEASE explain the classic pass in plain english for me? royal road has not only large words like phlaranix and phalangie, and whatnot, but the instructions are written for left handed dealers. i deal with my right hand. can someone please help?

I'm sure others can point you in the direction of DVDs or books that can help you out - personally I like to the challenge of these words. Think of it as vocabulary building.

This site helps me no end: Dictionary.com

That or get hold of a good, easy to use dictionary.

Why not try

On the Pass with Richard Kaufman

or

The Pass with Randy Wakeman

I personally don't really like the Classic pass - it is not invisible and requires great misdirection - which is hard when you need 2 hands . I like the Spread Pass and the Invisiturnover Pass, myself...

Kati

EDIT: BTW, a phalange is one of the sections of your finger, between the joints.

I always find naming of the parts of the hands and digits difficult when described in manuscripts etc. Each finger has three phalanges and each thumb has two. They are the small bones of the fingers/thumbs and the singular of phalanges is phalanx.

The parts of the hands/digits are described in the CC books. I don't know if there's been a thread here detailing them for anyone who doesn't have the CC series. Maybe I'll think about it for colleagues here. It would, after all, be a good way for me to put something useful back into the forum!

I'm sure that a description of the parts of the hand (in magician's terms) would be extremely useful for a great number of members here. So go for it .

Also, by "CC" I assume you're refering to the Card College series? Just to clarify.

I'd recommend Steven Youell's CD "Hacking the Pass". It has descriptions of two of Steven's hybrid passes on it and is very very thorough.

Thanks Will. I've already started looking for diagrams on the internet but everything's in far too much detail. I'm not sure where I'd be re: copyright so I'm not going there!

I've made provision to get some digital photos of someone's hand from the back and front so, as soon as I have them, I'll get busy with MS Paint (etc.)!

Is Born to Perform by Oz pearlman a good place to start for the pass and variations of it?

Kati, I know this is one you recomend.

Thanks

Najis wrote:Is Born to Perform by Oz pearlman a good place to start for the pass and variations of it?

Kati, I know this is one you recomend.

Thanks

I'm getting predictable here !

Born To Perform doesn't really cover the pass. There is a short clip on the Classic Pass, but apart from that nothing. It focuses more on other card controls such as the cull and the Hindu Shuffle Control - which IMHO are much better because, as everyone says, there's no point moving 51 cards to control 1. Also, I find that the Classic pass is quite hard to do because there is no logical motivation for the move (i.e. invisiturnover pass is to turn over the deck, {dunno name} pass is to square it up...).

There are a couple of good passes (Outjog Spread Pass and Backstage Pass) in Pyrotechnic Pasteboards - which, by the way, is a great DVD .

Kati