I’m Joe Marshall with expertvillage.com,
and today we’re going to discuss flourishes.
This is a quadruple cut; it involves 4 packets
that just somersault around each other. It
looks really confusing. Actually, it looks
really good when you do it properly. You just
might add this in to one of your extreme card
manipulations. Or if you’re doing a magic
trick at a party, you throw this is in before
you start. You don’t want to do this in
the middle of a trick. You probably want to
do this afterwards or before. It looks like
this. This is taking 4 packets and mixing
them around, then bringing them all together.
Broken down into it’s moves, you hold the
deck as if you’re going to deal the cards
out. The hand comes on the top, first finger
peels off a packet, your middle finger peels
another packet. Your thumb of the same hand
peels off the last packet, so it’s like
that. Then your middle finger and thumb are
going to grab this middle packet here, like
so as your other hand brings out those packets.
Your hand comes back around, your middle and
pinkie finger grab as your ring finger stays
on top and pulls that packet out, and you’ll
readjust here. The same thing will happen
below that has happen before. So you’re
in that position, your middle finger comes
around to grab that packet, shoves it forward
to where you’re ring finger can stay on
top. Your middle finger and pinkie will actually
pull that packet out as your hand swivels
back around. Your middle finger and thumb
grabs the other packet, as again, your hand
pulls forward to clear that packet, and then
you’re stuck in this position. You’re
just going to close all 4 packets together
on top of one another. The bottom one, the
middle one, and the top one come together
and close down on the packet below. That’s
the quadruple cut. It just as watching it
over maybe slowing down and breaking it into
steps. There’s isn’t really much more
I can say about it except for just follow
the packets and actually have a deck in hand
when you’re trying to learn this one and
just walk through it simultaneously.
