Anti-Faro and practical magic

Sep 23, 2009
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Yes, I'm referring to the move but no, not the book.

A number of Youtube videos have been put up. IMO this is one of the best. It's perfect after adjusting one card!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRED7bz6ylg

I know most videos of this type are just for demo purposes but I find it funny that most people who do the move execute it and then do a bridge to put everything back together effectively negating the move!

In terms of practical application, stripping the cards out after the move by pulling them apart might seem too obvious — assuming you wanted to get the deck back to pre shuffled/weave state. I mean you do that with the anti- faro but then you'd have to separate and cut.

One idea I had is after you do the anti-faro, while the cards are now effectively a perfect faro, is to lay the 'weaver' on a table and finish with a push through shuffle. I think of it as one step back, two steps forward: 'back' being the anti-faro, (carry me back to old virginity!), and the 'forward' part is picking up the push through shuffle mid-stream by finishing and then pulling out and slapping. No. Not that.

Mad skillz on both. But if you can do the anti-faro then I think you could probably execute a good push through shuffle with some practice. Just my .02.

Full disclosure: I cannot do either move. The push through shuffle interests me and I'm probably going to buy Jason England's Foundations DVD in the near future.

Note: Not being intimately familiar with the anti-faro I don't know what state the cards are in after the move. I'm wondering if there's enough air between the cards after it to accomplish a push through shuffle without undue fiddling with the deck. Maybe someone who does this move, even if you're still just practicing it, could weigh in on this.

Thanks,
Peter
 
Jul 13, 2010
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I think it can be practical for memdeck work, especially if you can do a partial anti-faro. I can´t do an anti faro like that, just a normal faro. But i use the Tamariz-Anti(4)-Faro from time to time, which requires no sleight-of-hand at all.
 
Sep 23, 2009
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I think it can be practical for memdeck work, especially if you can do a partial anti-faro. I can´t do an anti faro like that, just a normal faro. But i use the Tamariz-Anti(4)-Faro from time to time, which requires no sleight-of-hand at all.
Is that from Mnemonica?
 
I think that this isn't a real anti-faro. I told my friend a while ago about it and he did this to me. Using a stripper deck he alternated every card and did a simple spring and stripped out the cards. I'm sure that this is what is done here. The anti-faro should not need that cards to be pulled through each other. After the spring they should already be in place/weaved. That's just my thoughts though
 
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