Category Archives: Classics

This is a very easy shot but gives a great effect. As seen on World Greatest Magic by Jean Pierre Vallarino. Hold the deck on his side with the left hand. Now the back of the deck is facing the audience. Take a card and put it in the deck from the right side, the […]

This shot I came up with while practicing the lateral Palm. If you have the card in lateral palm you bent the left corner of the card inwards with the middle finger which contacts the thumb. The thumb and the middle finger flicks the card with a circle motion and shoots it forward. This can […]

A variation for shooting a card is from the side of a table. Get a card in lateral palm and hold the card with the thumb against the side of the table. By pressing on the card and pushing the card outward the card propels away. You can use this method for faking a shot […]

If you spread the cards with you hands under the spread you can take half of the spread in your right hand like you let a spectator pick a card from somewhere in the middle. When you flick your ring finger towards you, the card on the bottom of the spread will shoot towards you. […]

The method can be used for single as for multiple card shooting and goes like this:The cards are gripped between the little-finger and the index-finger, the same way if you clip the card in your hand as you prepare to make a one handed fan (straddle grip). By giving pressure with the fingers on the […]