Thursday, June 3, 2010

Download Faro Shuffle by Homer Liwag

Moves Taught:
The Faro Shuffle
The Filipino False Faro or FFF with several variations

Effect Taught:
Triumph



Thoughts:
On this latest 1on1 Homer teaches you a classic, over 300 year old, sleight that every card magician should know and love. The Faro Shuffle (or Perfect Shuffle) is a beautiful, effective, and moderately easy move that can serve a variety of purposes in card magic and even flourishing.

Homer's teaching of the classic move is very good, with only one small detail left out. The fact that the faro can, after 8 repetitions, be totally false, is never mentioned. Though this is a small note, it is something that Hugard and Braue discuss heavily in Expert Card Technique and I thought it would at least be mentioned briefly. However, that one small note does not take away from the great teaching of the actual sleight itself.

Next, Homer teaches his great Filipino False Faro, a visually and audibly stunning false shuffle.
The basic concept behind the shuffle is something I thing most card workers have probably at least played with at one time or another, I know I have. But I never thought it could be as beautiful and deceptive as Homer makes it.

The shuffle is fairly easy if you have some Faro experience, but will definitely take the development of a knack and will be greatly affected by your cards as well.

Like many false shuffles, the FFF does leave the deck cut, though the individual order is not disturbed. To solve this, Homer then teaches several simple variations that retain full order very deceptively and take no more practice after learning the sleight itself.

After this, Homer teaches a beautiful Triumph routine using the FFF to make it extremely fair and simple. He also talks about a nice touch that the FFF allows you to do during the effect that completely alters the entire Triumph plot like I had honestly never thought of before. 

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