Back Palming and Front Palming,

of a single card.

: )

. . . . . . . . . .

I'm reading Servais Le Roy's Biography/Auto-biography, in the moment;
and find it fascinating,
the description, of his early Shows ..
where he was producing,
then vanishing a single card.
...claiming to be the first, to perform the feat,
after learning the technique, personally,
from Doc Elliot.

There is a lot of talk, in the text,..
about "the correct technique".

About a lot of 'nuances',..
without ever mentioning anything specific.

Cardini, also mentioned this,
in his only meeting with Max Malini.

Max fully baffled him...
with his card palming.

What ARE the 'finer points'?

What should I be ... 'trying for'? ... avoiding?

I'm thinking of 'doing' just ONE card ...
then 'hang it' ...
or 'rise it'. ala Thurston.

But first .. . the Palming.

Any,..'Top' recommended sources, of schooling?

Finer points, and/or tips?

Thanks in advance.
gallagher

Use Bridge size cards

Thanks Ken(!).
..maybe I've posted, in the 'wrong' Forum. ????

I'm working with Henry Hayes' 'Amateur Magicians Handbook'.

He mentions, SPECIFICALLLY(????), with this move:

"It's over-done, out of fashion,...but probably will come back...someday."

Therefore, he goes about 're-teaching' it.

Performing 'it', as slowly, as Malini or Thurston, or his mentor T. Nelson Downs

is real magic(!).

Tricky....

We'll see ...

hopefully, the audience WON'T(!).

Still working on it....

Take care Ken!
gallagher

My opinion here should not count for much.
I worked on this a lot as a teen - and became "adequate."

Today, I can hardly deal cards without dropping some. For magic effects I need something more solid than cards.

Point is, what is your objective compared with the price? Who is your intended audience for this skill set?

Hi Ken(!), sorry I've missed 'this'(!),...'till now!

Actually, I'm NOT planning on using 'cards',..Playing Cards. : )

I'm playing with the idea of: playing card sized,...plastic.
White on one side,..Black, on the other.

I'm after an 'eye candy', magical effect.

The production.
Vanish,
Production.
Colour-change/Colour-change.
Vanish.
. . .
Production.
Boomerang throw ... twice or thrice.
Vanish.

?
...maybe a 'hand to hand' 'magical' ... toss/catch/toss ...(?)

In any case. Eye Candy.
Calm. Visual. MAGICAL(!)
Beginning wirh 'nothing'. Ending with 'nothing'.

Watcha think?
gallagher

You might want to consider Jeff McBride's 'The Art of Card Manipulation' DVDs (Vols. 1-3). Jeff is a great teacher and I find it's very useful to see someone go through it step by step from various angles and give you "drills" (exercises) to repeat to learn the sleights.
The three videos can be purchased separately or as a set.

Volume 1 contains:

Thumb Fan and Closing a Fan; Pressure Fan; Charlier Cut; One Handed Fan - S Fan; Wink Change; Springing the Cards; Waterfall Shuffle; Cards from the Mouth; Riffle Palm; Blank Fan; Window Change; Ed Marlo Snap Change; Ken Brooke Single Production; Perfect Production; Snap Production; Back Palm Productions; Pivot; Le Paul Spread; Hip - Hop Pop - Out; Ribbon Spread and Turnover; Twin Peaks; D'Amico Multiple Shift; Roy Benson Move; Steve Beam's Auto - Magic Aces; Goldston's Card Flower.

Volume 2 contains:

Back - Palming - Single Production; Thurston Five - Card Vanish and Reproduction; Preparing the Cards - Best Cards to Use; Split Fan Productions; Front Hand Split; Cards From the Silk; Gloves and Cards; Body Loads and Steals - Clips - Vesting; Acquitments - Reverse Benson Move; Flying Cards; Arm Spreads and Turnover Spread and Catch; Cardini's Bluff Spring - Waterfall Fan; Color Fanning - Color Changing Fan; Bluff Spread - Fanning Decks; Double Fan - Splitting the Fans; Rising Sun Fan; One - Hand Circular Fan; Windshield Wipers - Slow Motion Fans; 4 Ways to Fan a Fanning Deck; Double Tier Fan (Giant Fan)Wheel of Cards; Ganson's Glued Deck Version; Challenge Card Fan Production - Garcia.

Volume 3 contains:

One Handed Shuffle; Triple Cut; Paul Draylin Cut; Butterfly Cut; Curly - Q Move; Auto Cut - Rolo - Deck; Boomerang Card; Card Spinning; Garcia's Eclipse Production; Card Production; Japanese Card Production; Del Rosso Buffo; Garcia's Million Dollar Production; Cardini's Cards and Silk with Tenkai Palm; Packet Vanish; Single Card Production; Squeeze Production; Card Production Routine; Euro Edge - Palm Production; Tenkai Toss Vanish and Transfer; McBluff Production; Mercury Card Production; Diminishing Cards; Interlock Production; History of Playing Cards.

You might want to look at "The Stage Card Magic of Salvano". It is a DVD made by Salvano shortly before he passed away. His techniques are slightly different than found on the excellent McBride videos. It (and others) are sold by his son at:

https://www.salvano-jr.com/dvd-salvano.php

You also might also look into Tony Clark's video on card manipulation:

https://www.tonyclarkmagicstore.com/prod......pulation

Vernet (the thumb tip guys) put out a nice set including two decks of cards (exhibition fans deck and manipulation set) with a good training DVD: (This is carried by most magic stores and even Amazon. Here's a link so you can check out the advertising):

https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S20332


There are more tutorials out there, but between McBride and the few I've given you should have more than enough instruction to build the routine you want. They are pretty basic.


And just for fun, here is a clip of one of my all time favorite manipulators the fantastic Buka doing his act, enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzj_60quCE

Hey guys(!),
I REALLY appreciate the advice!

I have to admitt,
I was always 'afraid', of Jeff McBride's 'Tombe'!
because of the depth(!).
...the amount of informations,,.in ALL directions,.,he offers.

I'm scared .. I'll drown(!).
...i know me(!..!).
Put me in front, of a doughnut stand,..
and I wanna taste 'em all!

Harry(!), thanks for the 'Buka clip' tip!
*** wOw!..!! ***
I DID(!) enjoy! : )
REALLY Great. Thanks.

( I'd seen him, 'assisting' the Juggler, Buba,,
but NEVER knew what 'he' did.
Fantastic!
They must have been a really fun team. )

My 'bottom line'...
I am going to pick up Jeff McBride's Volume 2

David(!),..THANK YOU(!), for providing the Table of Contents!

gallagher

p.s.: If you don't hear from me....again...
I drowned! : )))))