Nice, try to keep your first finger from moving so much, what i mean is when you do the pass your finger sticks out, when it's just holding the pack not doing the pass its at the top of the pack, sooo cement that finger in place. Another note, everytime you do the pass your hand blocks the pack preventing us from seeing it which is great in a one-one situation but wouldn't help when surrounded. All in all very nice.
Focus on moving your hands less, and especially that left first finger. Right now it looks like you're massaging the deck or something. Lots and lots of hand movement to tip off that -something- has happened, even though your pass is quite fast and invisible otherwise. Though the fact that you're doing this for a webcam also influences how good it looks. In person it may be more obvious, I don't know.
You might want to work on trying to be a bit more open, but I think that's my own aesthetics coming into play.
Oh, and don't use a yellow backed deck with a bright light and expect us to see anything that's happening
I will try to eliminate the hand movement as much as possible, thanks!!!
BTW, does a pass REALLY have to be flashy?@@
cus I see many people doing the pass in a FAST AND FLASHY way while I try to go for Akira Fuji's classic pass.......
IDK if I should go for his one or just do the same thing as people on youtube =\
I think people look at the pass as a move that HAS to be done with little finger movement. In my opinion, I think the misdirection goes hand in hand with the pass. While there are some amazing passes out there that look movementless, the reality of it is, with proper misdirection, you can fly a pass by anyone and make it seem as good as someone whom you have let burn your hands while you executed a perfect pass.
Dan Hauss executes a classic pass while asking the spectator, "Do you know what a pass is?" And while his pass is nowhere near as good as Jason England's...he still makes it work for him, and flys it right by people who thought they were at one time burning the heck out of his hands.
All with proper misdirection.
Thank you to my 12th grade English teacher for teaching me how to write run on sentences...
Mike
I think people look at the pass as a move that HAS to be done with little finger movement. In my opinion, I think the misdirection goes hand in hand with the pass. While there are some amazing passes out there that look movementless, the reality of it is, with proper misdirection, you can fly a pass by anyone and make it seem as good as someone whom you have let burn your hands while you executed a perfect pass.
Dan Hauss executes a classic pass while asking the spectator, "Do you know what a pass is?" And while his pass is nowhere near as good as Jason England's...he still makes it work for him, and flys it right by people who thought they were at one time burning the heck out of his hands.
All with proper misdirection.
Thank you to my 12th grade English teacher for teaching me how to write run on sentences...
Mike
Any movement at all is bad, still, I have never seen a burnable pass with no movement, but I haven't seen some of the top card mechanics passes so I am sure there is someone somewhere that is perfect at it. The best passes happen when there is no perceptible movement. A great way to do avoid this is to do the pass the moment your two hands come together as if simply grasping the deck. Covering the pack for the pass as a change is fine but when doing the pass secretly it simply creates unnecessary movement. Ask if you have any questions.
What do you want to do? What are your intentions with the pass? How are you going to use it?
We can't answer these questions for you, you have to make those decisions.
Ta da. That wasn't hard at all, was it? In order to make it secret, you'll want to keep your hands as still as possible so you're not cluing the spectator that 'something' has gone on. Doing the move as soon as your hands come together (as previously mentioned in this thread) is also highly advised.
My intention with the pass is to secretly transfer a card to certain position; So I dont want to do it in a flashy way =\
or you could have the most obvious pass of all time, and just misdirect them.
Then choose some other move. Using the pass to ONLY move one card to the top is silly, specially when there are better and easier ways to do it.
Look into the Side Steal, and other such moves. Also worry less about fooling people on a message board and a webcam, and worry more about performing it for real people.
Then choose some other move. Using the pass to ONLY move one card to the top is silly, specially when there are better and easier ways to do it.
Look into the Side Steal, and other such moves. Also worry less about fooling people on a message board and a webcam, and worry more about performing it for real people.
Ta da. That wasn't hard at all, was it? In order to make it secret, you'll want to keep your hands as still as possible so you're not cluing the spectator that 'something' has gone on. Doing the move as soon as your hands come together (as previously mentioned in this thread) is also highly advised.