The Drop Cut Card Trick

Video Transcript

" I’m Joe Marshall with expertvillage.com, and today we’re going to discuss flourishes. This next move is just a one handed spread with a cut involved. It’s just a fancy way to show a cut and put the deck back together. Again, it’s one handed spread. Cut the pack and let it tumble on. In slow motion, broken down it looks like this. You take up the deck. Again, as all the moves are done, middle finger, ring finger, thumb on the back, pull of the packet, you get it into the ready position to do a one handed spread and that’s there. First finger on top, two middle fingers on the side, pinkie on the bottom, thumb goes down the corner, spreads, do your one hand spread. What’s happening over here is this packet comes up, your thumb peels off a portion, you stick your spread into that portion so that this cut packet is on top. Essentially, you’re just going to turn your hand over. This packet is going to fall over the back of your hand like so, and land onto the packet that’s waiting below. Again, comes up over the top, gets into the one handed fan. This packet is broken into two, you separate there, you let that packet fall over the back of your hand and tumble onto that packet, and then you’ll close the fan up on top of it. The only thing you really have to look out for once you’ve mastered the one handed fan and you can cut the pack and let it sit there is the distance at which you’re going to want it to fall. If it’s too high, it’ll tumble one and a half times; if it’s too low, it’ll only tumble half. You just have to get the knack down for actually where it’s going to do one complete revolution and fall back down. "