Top 10 Most Difficult Card Moves According to Erik 

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I mean... _you_ can talk about it. I feel like I don't have the qualifications to even talk about how good he is. 😂

If An Octopus Could Palm isn't difficult, it's next level! So good. Such a big fan of Dan and Dave before the commercialism. (No judgement on them, just I'm no longer into it :)

In this instance he just means that he's not going to stop the video and teach it here. Most magicians share the contents of The Expert at the Card Table without hesitation. The author has passed away and the book is well within the public domain. In addition, there really aren't any magicians performing the Erdnase One Handed Shift as the highlight of their stage act. It's not like they are making their livelihood from that singular move. So, Erik just decided not to teach it here. Alex Pandrea actually has a great tutorial on the move available here on RU-vid if you'd like to learn it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MsJKMS6GxbE.html To your points: 1. The Erdnase One Handed Shift can be learned in one of the most popular card books of the last hundred years. If people want to learn it it's easily accessible. 2. As long as the Expert at the Card Table is as hugely popular as it is now, people will be familiar with its contents. The knowledge in that book isn't in danger of dying out any time soon. 3. He could have taught the move but this isn't a video that is about teaching moves. It's already 35 minutes long. If he broke down every move it would be extremely long. Erik goes live on Instagram every week teaching moves in depth from classic books. He is currently walking through the chapters in Expert Card Technique. With that said, there certainly are things that we shouldn't be sharing without the proper permissions and crediting. Mainly out of respect to the creators of magic. Unauthorized sharing, lack of crediting, and blatant exposure has prevented many magicians from sharing some of their material including the likes of Kevin James, Steve Fearson, Robert Harbin, and Franz Harary. If we don't pass along our knowledge it does have the possibility of dying, but if we share someone else's creation without permission we risk alienating some of out most creative minds from which we can learn the most.

Thank you for that. I've been trying for twenty years. I'm a slow learner

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Madison covers they Muck Shun, we haven't seen him talk about the MacMillan switch. For this move you really want to go directly to Jason England. He teaches the move on a download, on the Unreal Work, and in his lecture notes.

@@penguinmagicshop He has a video titled "A Macmillan Card Switch Idea". madison.cards/collections/madison-training-vidoes/products/the-madison-masterclass-collection

Yeah, he's not doing the MacMillan switch there. He's doing a Ross Bertam Tenkai Switch and calling it a Macmillan Switch. The MacMillan switch starts in a gambler's palm, the corner of the card slips under and helps the tables card into a deep palm. The cards run against eachother as the switch happens. The cards never enter Tenkai. You can see the MacMillan Switch exposed here at 2:22: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BJJqqwN5mCE.html Madison's move switches a card from Tenkai to Tenkai with very little contact. It looks nice, but he's mistitled the move here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-asJFUEZIHMk.html

Hey! I probably should have given DPS an honorable mention, but TBH I don't use it that much. I have other things I use instead. But you make a good point.

I disagree the DPS is much easier to do than a One Handed Top Palm in my opinion. Case in point, I can do a passable DPS and cannot do a One Handed Top Palm worth beans. I would go as far as to say that a DPS is easier to do than a second deal, a classic force, or a classic pass.

That's definitely an advanced move but Erik considered it to be easier than the other moves discussed in this list.

These are all difficult moves Eric can do, he can't do the Antifaro.

@@penguinmagicshop so that is the most difficult Move cause he cant do it ;)