The Cascade Control has a bit of a story around it for me personally, here's how it went:
I remember hearing that the original execution of Charlie Miller's Cascade Control was fairly inadequet to perform 'under fire'. It was sort of like performing an Anti Faro - it was never very consistant upon execution. As a result, Paul Chosse revamped the handling to what is now used in
Card Finesse, Volume 2 (which is the method I currently use).
However, when I originally learned this move, it was from Ian Kendall's "
Bastard Hard Moves Made Easy" CD, which I later found out was his take on the Paul Chosse’s method. I felt quite happy with it until I saw the realization that the mechanics were unnatural in grips, and in my opinion definitely butchured. This hit me right between the eyes during FISM 2006 when I got the priveledge to see Ricky Smith perform the move -- I was gob smacked. You can even hear me say "Oh, sweet!" during the take.
I then looked around for different explanations and finally came across
page 77 of "
Card Finesse, Volume 2". Luckily for me, this had the perfect mechanics I was after. It looked like a regular waterfall flourish (where the left thumb was not supporting the face of the deck during the waterfall, unlike Ian Kendall's explanation) -- what more could I ask for? Since then I started working on the timing and found it was a much better performance peice to use than the previous, and much more covered; meaning even from the front this was also rather hidden which came as a surprise to me.
...And that's where my little 'story' ends.
All-in-all, I would
not recommend you learn from Ian Kendall's CD, but instead save up a bit more and find Card Finesse, Volume II - as I am sure you will be much more rewarded for your efforts. But, like always, that is just my views personally.
Hope this helps
,
Jordan
