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Ghost Counter New user Plymouth, England 36 Posts |
I also have small hands 17cm middle finger to base of palm 8cm wide (7.5cm across the fingers). The problem is that my fingers are short (index finger is only 6.25 cm long from tip to base). As a result, I find The Charlier Cut impossible to do as there simply is not enough overall hand length to allow the packets to clear one another. However, I can do the classic pass quite well, using misdirection as cover to minimise the problem of short fingers not covering adequately.
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Stumpy New user 18 Posts |
I have a few hand issues and I struggle to palm a card neatly with poker cards. It might be easier with Bridge Cards but that'd set me up for a fall if someone provided a deck of poker cards and asked to see a trick, so I learned a neat trick: Work around your weaknesses. If your palming work flashes on the pinky side, then set up a little joke right before the big moment and do your sneaky while (hopefully) the audience is chuckling. Misdirect, or find a better way that lets you get the job done without having to palm. If you can do a card control to top or bottom, do you absolutely need to do a palm for that specific trick? A palm might allow you to skip a step, but if adding three steps makes the trick look more fluid, natural, and believable, I'll add ten to get it done.
I haven't been here long enough to know how the veteran members will react to this, but I might as well speak my mind and be sent off early if that's my destiny: the traditional way to do every trick is beautiful, it's classy, it just looks good. Try to do it that way, really try for it, strive for it. If you can do it cleanly the traditional way, you should. If you can't, figure out which move is causing you trouble and change it. You may have some tricks you can't do, and others that you have to alter to make your performance look good. As long as the performance is tight, how you got there can be an organic process of taking little pieces of this effect and little pieces of that one to complete the trick. Make your performance work for you. I've never had somebody run up and whack my knuckles with a ruler for having altered a classic. There are more ways to eat an elephant than just with mustard on rye bread. Speaking personally, I can't do the Charlier or a one-handed cut to save my skin. So... I don't. I find another way even if it doesn't have as much sparkle. |
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fooksau Loyal user 299 Posts |
True. I have small hands it makes my deck look bigger. the charlier can be done with small hands. Stumpy, very inspiring but it still shouldn't have happened.
How many Magicians does it take to advertise a trick? Three.. One to steal the trick. One to steal HIS trick. And one to write a good review.
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MeetMagicMike Inner circle Gainesville Fl 3501 Posts |
Stumpy you are absolutely right about altering classics when needed but I think you short change the process.
The classic way isn't always beautiful and classy. If they are it's because people have done exactly what you describe. The first guy who did a pass probably did an awful pass that just barely got by. |
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Ghost Counter New user Plymouth, England 36 Posts |
After studying the Charlier pass in some detail, I conclude without any doubt at all that not only are my fingers too short, my thumb is also way too short to hold the cards as they pass. Therefore, as I stated before, it is impossible to do the Charlier pass with hands as small as mine. Obviously, hand size matters in many areas of card magic, for example a standard poker size card is at least one centimeter wider than my wife's hand so it would be impossible for her to palm. There is so much magic that can be done which is independent of hand size that for me at least it isn't an issue. I just do all the other stuff that I enjoy and can do with small hands.
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