Aaron Fisher's Gravity Half Pass Performance

[Morgan B]

Two years on one move?! You're very committed to your magic. That's twice as long as I've been doing magic...

...and it shows in your work. I will pay you $100 to take down all your Youtube posts...and never post another thing on video again. You should take it Matthew, as it's more than you will make in your magic career.

As for the gravity half pass - it's gold from that angle. Nice work.

 

[fercloseupartist]

Thank you for your comment.

 

[Jordan Lapping]

Good work on the Gravity Half Pass! Congratulations on getting so far with it. However, there are a few key details that I think you should consider, they are important and you seemed to have missed them out on every performance:

• Your right index finger should stay curled on top of the deck, it should not be stretched out and touching the outer short side of the pack. The reason for this is to keep handling consistency -- it should look like the deck is held in a (slightly deeper) Biddle Grip. By changing the grip as you do, it gives unneeded tension to the deck; almost like you know something is going to happen because of it.

• The action should take place as the deck is moves to a higher grip. As it is right now, it is like most other Half Passes; you're simply doing the action under squaring -- this is not why Aaron invented the Gravity Half Pass. What you should do instead is give a reason for the slight inevitable finger movement, like Aaron created it for. Thus, it's not longer an unneedy "squaring action", but actually the fingers moving the deck into a higher grip on the fingertips.

Other than that very well performed, and I would like to congratulate you for getting this far! It is certainly a difficult move to get down, and I think you did very well despite the few details.

Jordan

 

[fercloseupartist]

Thank you kindly for your words.

I just want to mention a couple of things.

1) About the index finger being curled on top, it's not necessary, that's how Aaron actually performs it. I"ve seen him at the castle and on one of his dvds, that's the reason why I extend my index finger, to me it's a lot easier. If you ever get a chance to get one of his dvds PLEASE DO, THERE IS SO MUCH GOOD MATERIAL.

2) I did forget to raise the deck to my finger tips on the video because I was just thinking about my hands not going out of camera, that shouldn't be an excuse because I always raise it to my finger tips in a real performance, I just forgot this time. Actually if you have his book then you know that you don't really raise the deck to your finger tips, it only appears that you do.

Thank you again for your words, it's a really hard move to master, I'm not there yet but I'm working on it a lot.

Thank you.

 

[Jordan Lapping]

Not a problem, I was merely echoing what Aaron described in The Paper Engine. I have his book and DVDs ("Fisher Speaks" and "The Aaron Fisher Lecture") he explains to use the points I gave; to curl the index finger on top and to literally raise the deck to fingertips. However, I do suppose it is down to personal preference.

Warm regards,
Jordan

 

[fercloseupartist]

Thank for your comments brother,

As a final comment, I do raise the deck to my finger tips on performance but because I was so focused on my hands not going out of camera y completly forgot about it.

I extend my index finger because I saw Aaron doing it like that at the castle and on the dvd, as you know since you have the dvds.

However he can do the half pass with the index finger either extended or curled, having the finger extended helped me more.

Thank your again for your comments, I'm a big fan of yours, I've seen many of your videos and I think you are a very talented kid.

 

[Jordan Lapping]

That's very kind of you to say, Fercloseupartist. I appreciate the words, they are inspiring. I understand completely with your side of the story and I want to wish you a good future with your Gravity Half Pass.

Take care,
Jordan

 

[fercloseupartist]

Thank you

Good luck to you as well.