Video Demonstrations from Curious Weaving
Separation in Thirds (Page 20)
This is a variation of Christian Engblom's Anti-Faro, but instead of separating out every other card, it separates out every third card. The level of difficulty for this technique is similar to that of the Anti-Faro. This technique is briefly explained in Curious Weaving, but the explanation is written with the assumption that the reader already knows the technique for Christian Engblom's Anti-Faro. |
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Perfect Riffle Shuffle in Pairs (Page 24)
The double faro is an obscure technique that allows for the deck to be weaved into pairs rather than every other card as would be the case in a regular faro shuffle. The double faro is described on page 8 of Curious Weaving, but this is a more difficult variation using a perfect riffle instead of a weave, described on page 24 of the book. |
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Double Weave in Thirds (Page 17)
This is a technique similar to the double faro but instead of groups of two, the cards weave together in groups of three. There would typically be two weaves required for this, but I eliminate the first one by using a perfect riffle instead. The method using two weaves is described on page 17, and the perfect riffle shuffle technique that I use is described on page 23. |
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Inverted Rising Card (Page 25)
This is a card location that I find very satisfying. I describe two slightly different methods in the book, and also provide a method for an alternative ending that makes use of Dai Vernon's Interlock Principle for a slightly different effect. In this video I am using the second method, described on page 30. |
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Triple Faro Shuffle/3-Shuffle (Page 20)
This is an interesting concept that will be familiar to mathematicians; The deck is divided into three equal groups and then weaved together so that they alternate in an ABCABC pattern. Theoretically, this could be extended to more groups of cards; a 4-Shuffle for example would be weaved together in an ABCDABCD pattern, and so on. |
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