I disagree with the general consensus here, that you should learn the pass. Not a good idea, in my opinion, and here's why;
The pass is very effective, yes, but you have to provide ample misdirection to pull it off. Now someone's gonna yell at me and say something along the lines of "if you're skilled enough, you shouldn't need misdirection!". Indeed. But the person in question has just started magic, why should he learn a fairly complex move (taking everything into account, it is fairly complex) when he's so new?
Personally, I'd recommend using that pinky break you've learnt once the card's in the pack, and simply cutting to it, and then shuffling the deck retaining the top card.
It never has to be more complicated than that.
-Sam H
along the lines of "if you're skilled enough, you shouldn't need misdirection!".
-Sam H
I disagree with the general consensus here, that you should learn the pass. Not a good idea, in my opinion, and here's why;
The pass is very effective, yes, but you have to provide ample misdirection to pull it off. Now someone's gonna yell at me and say something along the lines of "if you're skilled enough, you shouldn't need misdirection!". Indeed. But the person in question has just started magic, why should he learn a fairly complex move (taking everything into account, it is fairly complex) when he's so new?
Personally, I'd recommend using that pinky break you've learnt once the card's in the pack, and simply cutting to it, and then shuffling the deck retaining the top card.
It never has to be more complicated than that.
-Sam H