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adamomagus
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What are the top 10 sleights that you most value (in order, 1 being the most valued)? It can be those you have not yet mastered, also. If you can't think of 10, you can do 5 instead. I'll start:
1. Overhand shuffle control
2. Palm
3. Break
4. False Cut
5. Double Lift
6. Glimpse
7. Pass
8. Crimp
9. Force
10. Glide
There's my 2 cents. 
Last edited on Oct 1, 2008 at 7:43 PM by adamomagus.
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| Posted On Oct 1, 2008 at 3:59 PM |
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The ten sleights that I value the most would probably be:
1. False Shuffling
2. Palm
3. Glimpse
4. Tabled False Cuts
5. Spread Cull
6. Diagonal Insertion Control
7. Pass
8. Crimp
9. Double Lift
10. False Count
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| Posted On Oct 4, 2008 at 1:14 AM |
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colelamothe
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1. overhand false shuffle
2. false riffle shuffle
3. double lift.
4. jog in card
5. glide.
6. pinky break
7. fan
8. triple lift.
9. force
10. palm
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 4, 2008 at 9:10 AM |
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Huh, I've never really considered the break or the jog a sleight. Just sort of something you need to use in order to use a sleight. Like the overhand shuffle for the overhand shuffle control.
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 4, 2008 at 10:20 AM |
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I considered the break a sleight, but not the injog. When I said overhand shuffle control part of it was the injog/outjog.
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 4, 2008 at 10:34 AM |
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Right, though the break is basically what you use for almost every sleight, it doesn't seem like one...
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 4, 2008 at 12:08 PM |
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Hmm... yeah I guess so. It's technically a sleight, but it doesn't really seem like one.
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 5, 2008 at 1:40 PM |
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My Top Ten:
Double lift
Elmsley Count
Half Pass
Herman Pass
Mercury Card Fold
Thomson/Conover False Cut
Double Undercut
Force
Tilt
Substitute Transfer
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM |
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For one, welcome to the forums Kolin, and another thing, personally I consider the pass as a generic move, not really types of passes... that's just my opinion.
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 5, 2008 at 8:42 PM |
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Yes, welcome to the forums Y2Kolin. I think that your list was a little bit more precise than the rest of ours, which is good in it's own way. (Though I find only 10 specific sleights would be a bit to limited for my personal tastes, I did include one specific control) I also think that the Pass is quite generic, and each Pass has different uses in different situations. One might require that the deck be handled in a way that may need justification. Also, I thought it was interesting that neither false shuffles or the palm were on your list, as I'm not quite sure how you would handle controlling cards without the use of the pass, which is a bit disadvantageous since you can't have the deck shuffled then. I am aware that this is a list of sleights you find most useful in your personal style of tricks, though I use false shuffling techniques so much, that I'm wondering how you prefer to control cards.
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 7, 2008 at 1:34 AM |
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can you teach me some cool card trick?
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 7, 2008 at 7:41 AM |
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Hello motmot, welcome to the CTI forums. Hopefully you'll learn a lot. There is another section for learning card tricks, which is entitled "Share an Effect". No one has posted any card trick tutorials yet, possibly because of lack of cameras. There is another section available only to elite members, called "Share Secrets" which seems to be based on techniques or trick ideas more than tutorials themselves. If you haven't already, I suggest you go to http://www.themagicteacher.com to learn magic tricks. Stick by here as well, as you might learn quite valuable information.
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 7, 2008 at 4:04 PM |
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Welcome motmot, welcome to CTI as well. You can learn some very valuable information here, that you wont get anywhere else  . Once again, themagicteacher.com is a good starting point. Another note: This isn't so much concentrated on specific tricks (sure, that's part of it), but more of technique and presentation. Don't overlook these 2 things.
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| Re: Top 10 Sleights |
| Posted On Oct 9, 2008 at 10:12 PM |
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Well with the proper combination of teqnique and presentaion you can present almost any trick, and can come up with some interesting tricks
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