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Slippery Cards?

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Shawty

Apr 12, 2008
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Aight, so im new to cardistry, started out with those decks you get in magazines and so on. Yesterday my Xtreme Beginnerz DVD arrived along with my bicycle rider back cards, one thing that struck me odd, the cards are to slippery i'll drop then doing the simplest thing. Is this normal?

Is it that im just used to cheap magazine decks?

Are tally hos less slippery than bikes?
 
Welcome to the real cards world :D.
Yes, at first, they are slippery. That is very good for fanning. I suggest you learn that.
 
Aight, guess i'll get used to it. Btw, im curios, how does making the cards slippery make them better for magic/cardistry? :p
 
actually being slippery has very little to do with card magic
they have to be smooth enough so you can make a good spread so people can choose their card
anything beyond that is not really necessary
it can even hinder your magic (ie double lifts)
but it is a mark of quality
 
lol, thats funny, becouse when I was starting magic, i lived in Costa Rica, where theres LOADS of humidity. So all my cards where clumped up, and the worst thing was, i thought that was normal!
So when i got a brand new bicycle deck all my fans and stuff where perfect, becouse i was so used to clumped up ones.

But nobody cares, so, back on topic, I say that youll get used to it.
 
yea use them for a while so there less slippery and more "broken in"

truth be told, most people, myself included, cant do half the things we can do with a normal deck than what we can do wit ha slippery one

just keep using it, shuffling it, practicing fans ect.

soon thell feel great
 
I had same expirience. I started with "magazine" decks, and than i got Bicycle Ghost deck. I taught they were slippery because they are custom deck, but when i got ordinary Bike's, they felt the same way...

Stupid story...

Anyway, they are good for fanning, spreads, some colour changes (Erdnase, Ego...).
 
Check out this thread I made at Decknique. It might help you. At first, the cards are very slippery out of the box. After breaking the deck in and getting it the very, very slightest bit moist (I mean really slightly... like barely) it will start to feel much better. After a while it will be perfect. The perfectness won't last forever so put the deck away in a cool, dark place for like 2 months. It will feel much better after that.
 
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