talkmagic.co.uk

I have come up with a use for the backslip, but I don't find the method for covering it as described in the TRRTCM works for the way I want to use it. I can't cover it by turning my left hand over because that makes no sense in the context of how I want to use it. I want it to seem as much like I am cutting the pack rather ingeniously to a specific card, and as I say in this context, turning my hand over after I made the cut makes no sense. Can anyone give me any tips, or point me in a direction in which I may find some tips, or perhaps suggest where I might learn another sleight to achieve the same effect?

Cheers

Laurens

If you're not riffling with your thumb, and just want to apparently cut to the card, try holding the deck with your thumb on the face/back of the top card, index finger round the top, pinkie round the bottom and the other 2 at the "open" long edge. Use the thumb to retain and take the cut cards out to the side.
It's a quasi-mechanic's grip, but with your hand shifted round the deck slightly towards the top.
And it goes without saying to do the cut on an offbeat if you're doing a sleight.
That's how I do it when I need to just randomly or absent-mindedly cut to a card.
My other method to cut to a specific card is to use a s***t card.

Ian

isb wrote:If you're not riffling with your thumb, and just want to apparently cut to the card, try holding the deck with your thumb on the face/back of the top card, index finger round the top, pinkie round the bottom and the other 2 at the "open" long edge. Use the thumb to retain and take the cut cards out to the side.
It's a quasi-mechanic's grip, but with your hand shifted round the deck slightly towards the top.
And it goes without saying to do the cut on an offbeat if you're doing a sleight.
That's how I do it when I need to just randomly or absent-mindedly cut to a card.
My other method to cut to a specific card is to use a s***t card.

Ian

Cheers for that, I'll give that a shot.

On my initial few tries it seems easy enough to do, but a little noisy. I can get it pretty much silent if I try, just need to practice that and work on doing it quietly.

My other method to cut to a specific card is to use a s***t card.

My mind interpreted that to mean something other than what you intended for a moment there (its the *'s that did it)

EDIT:

In the context of how I want to use this sleight, it actually works as a cover if I turn the cards so their backs are towards me. Then it looks like I am glancing at the end of the cards in order to count them, this covers the actual move as I cut the cards.

Thanks for sharing it

When I put my left thumb into the pack to hold the cut postition I kind of turn the deck towards the spectator so the bottom card of the top section is facing them if that makes sense. I then lift the top section up and slightly toward them whilst saying take a look at your card. Because I'm talking it hides any possible noise of the card falling and also the movement towards them seems to hide the method quite well.

Shaun.