push off double lift

the most commonly use sleight in card magic, the double lift.



i first saw this kind of double lift to my friend john™ after that i fell in love with the sleight. this is the most natural DL ive seen so far also the hardest. i asked john if he can tell me who invented this kind of DL and he said he read it somewhere in the book of alex elmsley, i search it but i cant find it, john also forgot where he read it.

then while reading marlo in spades book i saw a very similar method but sleightly different approach to it. the name of ed marlos DL is "best card push off".

so if you know where can i find the reference of the push off double lift i use right now please tell me :D

thats all for now if you have any question just PM me.

elmsley count

ok im back again after 1 year hehehe, starting today my blog will focus on different kinds of sleights, first is the elmsley count :D.

so why elmsley count? well elmsley count is one of the most used sleights in card magic
but even though it is by many magician i still see many magician doing it the wrong way, they think that their elmsley count is correct not noticing what is wrong in their sleight. here ill try to point out the common mistakes magicians do while executing ng elmsley count.

first common mistake is the first and second finger clipping the card and the
second mistake is not squaring the packets

just check the video for reference

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what is the first name of the inventor of elmsley count? (the answer is the password)

also in the video is the different handling of elmsley count (theres a lot more handling of elmsley count but i only put the most common i see).

i wish that this video can help you improve your elmsley count

ok thats all for now. if you have any sleights that you want me to tackle just pm me
and ill do it.

my first cardistry video

last night i was bored so i was thinking what can i do, so i said to my self i'll just
shoot a video about cardistry, i picked my cam and tripod then some lights and viola im ready to shoot. i've video shoot for almost 30mins then proceed to edit in my computer using sony vegas 8.0 this is my first time editing in sony vegas so i tried everything i know to accomplish what i want.

the video consist of my currently favorite flourishes like:
squeeze
ragnarok
anaconda dribble
the werm
sicked and twisted wings of the mockingbird
00.327.000
akira
pandora
curly cue

all of that flourishes are from:
daren yeow and kevin ho of the virtouso
dan and dave buck
bone ho
and mr paul lepaul

ok some info about my cardistry life, i started practising seriously just last june so it would be 2 months of non stop pracitising(ouch my hands hurts)
i liked cardistry for 2 reasons:

*first is because i love hard moves and its such a fullfilment for me when i finished something like the flourishes above

*second is because i like it when i saw someone doing cardistry in any videos



i named this video cardisTRY with the "try" word capitalized because i want to have the word cardistry a meaning with this video with is "trycks(me) is TRYing to do cardistry"

i hope you like it,
-trycks