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Postby katrielalex » Mar 13th, '06, 09:18



DannyHaze wrote:Where do you get a marked stripper deck?


Buy a Stripper deck and mark it yourself...You could PM JohnDoe for a marking system that you could do pretty easily.

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Postby el topo » Mar 13th, '06, 11:31

In Card College (I do not remember which volume) you can find Le Paul's control. The spectator inserts a card into a fan and can even tap it in himself. The magician then closes the fan and controls the card. You may want to check that out.

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Postby Tomo » Mar 13th, '06, 11:46

DannyHaze wrote:Where do you get a marked stripper deck?

If you don't want to make your own, Google for DeLand. That should get you started.

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Postby Bcfaigg » Mar 13th, '06, 22:51

el topo wrote:In Card College (I do not remember which volume) you can find Le Paul's control. The spectator inserts a card into a fan and can even tap it in himself. The magician then closes the fan and controls the card. You may want to check that out.


I use that control myself - learnt it in one of the ellusionist Ninja videos - looks completely reasonable, and as long as you know what you are doing, you have complete control.

However, as somebody else said, you need to look to diversify your act - after 3-4 tricks where the spectator 'loses' his/her card in the deck and you reproduce it in a new and fancy way, they are going to smell a rat and no matter how clever and invisible your techniques are, they will know you aren't really losing it - it is not rocket science.

Some packet tricks - Twisting the Aces, Jumping Gemini, McDonalds Aces - will all blow the spectators away.

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Postby DannyHaze » Mar 14th, '06, 08:19

When using a stripper deck, don't you flash the second card when doing a DL?

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Postby katrielalex » Mar 14th, '06, 09:49

No. The two cards are exactly square and unless the spectator is really really really thorough with his examination he won't find anything.

Remember, there's no reason for them to suspect that you are using a gimmick deck unless you actually give it away. Just handle the deck casually and you should be fine.

You seem to be asking a lot of questions about the stripper deck - why not just buy one and see for yourself. If you don't like it you could always resell it here :).

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Postby Tomo » Mar 14th, '06, 11:09

DannyHaze wrote:When using a stripper deck, don't you flash the second card when doing a DL?

Nah. just keep the deck square and you can turn them over as one, but slide off the top on its own to show a colour change or whatever. It's a good idea to practice stripper moves in the mirror (oo-er, missus) to get a feel for when the move is nice and tight.

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Postby DannyHaze » Mar 14th, '06, 16:26

I think you the specs will se two cards if the controlled card is second from the bottom. That is because it is ****** than the other cards.

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Postby katrielalex » Mar 14th, '06, 16:37

DannyHaze wrote:I think you the specs will se two cards if the controlled card is second from the bottom. That is because it is ****** than the other cards.


Not quite sure what you're talking about here, but I don't think you know exactly what a stripper deck is or you'd know that it will work as a normal deck in every regard until you want to control a card. Why not just buy a deck, it's pretty cheap!

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