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mavericklancer Elite user Tustin, CA 448 Posts 
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Can anyone direct me to a good resource for learning an in-the-hands spread? I know this is an extremely basic flourish, but it's one I've never been able to do well. I can fan and spring, but for some reason the hand to hand spread has always eluded me.
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Gulyás Imre Miklós Regular user Budapest, Hungary 185 Posts
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It's really easy, I can describe it.
Start from standard dealing position, but put your left pinky in the inner end of the deck. Bring your right hand over the deck, put your right thumb on it, then while your left thumb starts spreading the cards to the right, your right hand is pulling the spread cards to the right. Your right pinky should be behind the spread to not let the cards slide toward you. The cards in your right shouldn't be let to slide totally in your thumb crotch(<-- is this the name for it? lol), they should just cover your first three fingers on your right hand. This is important if you want to learn culling later(card control using the spread)
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mavericklancer Elite user Tustin, CA 448 Posts
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Is there any special technique to spread cards in an S-type curve?
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Steve Griffin New user Brighton, UK 66 Posts
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How's that for luck? I just came on here to ask exactly the same question as Maverick. So many thanks Gulyás!
Now to start work on my C****** F**** =D Cheers, Steve. |
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On 2010-10-21 01:13, mavericklancer wrote: Absolutely. The best S-type spread that I've ever seen was a Lepaul Spread performed by one of the Buck Twins. The Lepaul Spread is hands-down the most beautiful in-the-hands spread. All the Best, Andrew |
MagicJuggler Inner circle Anchorage, AK 1161 Posts
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There's a description of the LePaul spread on one of Jeff McBride's Art of Card Manipulation DVDs.
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On 2010-11-23 12:57, MagicJuggler wrote: Good call.I suppose a resource to learn it would've been helpful. |
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MaxfieldsMagic Inner circle Instead of practicing, I made 3009 Posts
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You should see what Jerry Cestkowski (aka, "The Flourishman") says about the LePaul spread on XB1, disc 2 (his fanning tutorial). Basically, he hates it because it ruins the cards. He shows an alternate in-the-hands spread that doesn't bend the cards.
But there is definitely something beautiful about watching the cards magically spring forth into a LePaul spread, IMO. I think Oz Pearlman did a quick tutorial on it as well. Can't remember if it was on Born to Perform, or one of his other DVDs. He seems to be pretty good at it.
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On 2010-12-17 16:45, MaxfieldsMagic wrote: You wouldn't happen to know if this alternative is in his EoPCF (book) would you? I took a quick look and didn't see anything that mentioned the LePaul Spread. It's certainly not the smallest book I've ever owned so I could easily be overlooking it... |
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