You must be thankful to have such huge hands. My thumb cant even barely grip the deck and my ring fingers are just too short to cut the deck. Plus, my fingers are too small the hold the cards in place after performing an L-Cut.
I had a bad habit where i was doing the Charlier packet drop, then this awkard dopey spin of the top packet, then just finishing the Charlier as normal. Not fluent, not cool. But I realized from this video that my index finger needs to stay on the top pack all the way round. And as the top pack gets near its full rotation, the index finger is now both rotating the top packet and lifting the bottom packet. That was the key! And at the last moment, indexy boy transfers to the bottom packet, finishing the lift and dropping the top packet. Then move index out the side to close. Thanks for this!
Another tip is to soap the cards. The late Tommy Edwards, out of Chicago, used Cashmere Bouquet soap to rejuvenate a deck for card magic. There are a number of videos on soaping cards, on RU-vid. I use Cashmere Bouquet or Jergens, which seems to work as well. Some use Dove. I especially find it useful for slicking the smooth sides of a rough and smooth deck, dramatically extending the life of the deck. For R & S, I prefer to use 100% plastic cards, because they resist humidity really well. But, I'd only use plastic cards for R & S because they simply don't handle like a paper deck.
tutorials on cardistry should never be shown from the viewers perspective...im trying to learn how to perform the move so show it from the performers perspective...
You know, I didn't need a tutorial to show that it's an almost fully pushed ub faro, that's not the hard part, you don't need to spend almost 4 minutes explaining that. It's the most obvious and free part. But when you after that say "just push the hands in different directions and there you go" and show it for a couple of seconds, because that part is the one everyone looks up the tutorial for - when they couldn't make the faro bloom. It really doesn't help to say "just pull and and it'll happen" when it doesn't. And then just show it repeatedly happening. And all the tutorials for this move are like that, spend forever talking about the faro but then say "the bloom just happens" when my cards don't open up. In fact most tutorials like this need troubleshooting section more than showing how they do it. Like usually you're doing something wrong even though it looks fine when nobody mentions it in the tutorials.
I did not know that the cut made a difference, all these years I now understand why some decks faro shuffle easy and some are difficult. Thanks for filling me in!
I just got this deck at Dollarama for half the price. Except for a covid -related gap, they regularly have a deck of nicer bikes, and right now is this one. I've greatly expanded my collection from there before COVID locked things down.
@@MultiSandman75 It's funny when I see a deck there for a couple of bucks that sell at the gaming store for $15. Used to be like that at Walmart. They do have one deck regularly that I haven't seen elsewhere... a black one that looks different than other Bicycle black decks. But that's about it.
Do you sweat your hands? I do, not too much, but aren't the most dry hands in the world. I wash them frequently to keep them clean but still about two or three weeks are totally grey at the sides and swollen... any tip for this issue?
i had a bicycle card it last me for 10years with perfect conditions no shape no dirt even i use it sometimes, but yeah i do just play everyday, but sometimes, and i keep them always safe as possible, but now i need new one, cause it get damaged.... that life, but it very hight quality, i recommande to people to use thos type of cards Bicycle Standard or Rider Back the most used cards for Magic/Poker
That "earthquake" move, for testing how worn a deck is for cardistry, is so useful! I hadn't seen that anywhere else. Thanks! (it reminds me of the earthquake shake tables that engineers use for testing)
Having trouble with this, I am using a monarchs deck that I also used to learn the faro and a few other moves. It is relatively new, but it just clumps up into many packets. It also does this when I try to dribble. Any tips?
I've never seen you before but then I saw this vid and it looked cool so I learned it and it was super easy because you made it super easy to learn so thanks man. and I subscribed and liked.
