One hand perfect faro.

[TheatreHead]

I was on Joshua Jay's site and it said that "Less than fifty people worldwide can execute a perfect, one handed-shuffle."

(Source: http://www.joshuajay.com/#/photography ; the second last photo)

Does this sound inaccurate to anyone else?

 

[chriswiehl]

not sure. but possibly. if its executed most every time.

 

[oooo191]

i can just do a perfect one handed faro it can be easy but if u want to do it with speed then its a pain in the a***

 

[funkymonkey477]

By perfect does he mean a single card on top of a single card etc, etc...

 

[Mike.Hankins]

And the purpose of this is?

 

[TheatreHead]

And the purpose of this is?

I was surprised at that number. I thought that surely there's been more than 50 people who have devoted practice to learning the move.

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the number were that low. Actually, if it were more than a dozen I'd be surprised. Mostly because it's really a very specific skill with little application. The people that are going to focus on that particular skill enough to master it are few and far between.

 

[Anzodd]

You can apply this move in a lot of ways. Besides just looking cool, you can look cool, and do an effect all while it seems you are just shuffling the deck in a really avanced way. Which takes away from it being a "move" in the eyes of a layman. I wouldn't be suprised if that was an acurate estamate of people that have perfected this move.

 

[CorbinB]

I can do a table faro, not one handed, but it's perfect about 1/3 to 1/4 of the time, and I've heard a table faro is the most difficult shuffle. I'd ask Andrei about this one

 

[Likenthrope]

I can do a perfect one handed faro. Deck must be broken in. I have practiced the one handed faro for about 3 years perfecting it for a trick done by Ricky Jay where instead of completing the shuffle with a bridge move you just hold the cards and have them spill to your hand about a foot below and the final selected card is left. Very cool.

 

[TheatreHead]

I can do a perfect one handed faro. Deck must be broken in. I have practiced the one handed faro for about 3 years perfecting it for a trick done by Ricky Jay where instead of completing the shuffle with a bridge move you just hold the cards and have them spill to your hand about a foot below and the final selected card is left. Very cool.

Is that the notis cascade shuffle? That's a sexy move. still can't do it one handed -_-

 

[Likenthrope]

Is that the notis cascade shuffle? That's a sexy move. still can't do it one handed -_-

You are correct. It is the Notis Cascade. I'll record it sometime this week and post it back on this thread.

 

[JDENredden]

I have seen Trashmanf do one in his videos, he then went to do a one handed giant fan. Really cool.

J.

 

[Flex]

damn, on my 5th try, I missed by 1