Cardistry

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Cardistry is the non-magical manipulation of playing cards,designed to impress through dexterity and style rather than by fooling people.[1] Cardistry makes use of "card flourishes" which are fancy stunts done with playing cards, as distinguished from card tricks.[2]Card flourishes were originally used in magic by magicians to enhance tricks (ex:fanning cards to offer a spectator a card). It is just recently that the art of doing card flourishes evolved to the point where it has become a standalone art, Cardistry.

Cardistry is sometimes confused with magic because it was occasionally used to mean the art of doing solely card tricks. This was a term generally used in the past and is currently being recognized by increasing amounts of people as the current art. Some people who practice cardistry don't call it by such. Card Manipulation is used, along with "XCM"(see below). These terms are both correct however, it should be noted the "Card Manipulation" has and still is used to describe the manipulation of cards in magic sleights to create the needed illusion called for in a magic trick.[3]

Practitioners of Cardistry, Cardists, exist all over the world and because of this, Cardistry has been separated and spearheaded by multiple Cardists. One separation, called "Extreme Card Manipulation (XCM)" was created by De'vo vom Schattenreich. It utilizes the same flourishes as cardistry, but also introduces the concepts of "perching", "variable surface" and "water manipulation"(with plastic cards).

[edit] General Flourish Categories

  • One-Hand Single Cuts
  • One-Hand Multiple Cuts
  • Two-Hand Single Cuts
  • Two-Hand Multiple Cuts
  • Fanning
  • Springs and Drops
  • Arm-Spreads
  • Two-Hand Shuffles
  • One-Hand Shuffles
  • Deck Flips, Twirls and Spins
  • Table Flourishes
  • Throwing and Juggling

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://cardistry.com/
  2. ^ Cestkowski, Gerald [2002]. Jerry Cestkowski's Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes. Printmeister Press. ISBN 0976360802. Introduction, pp.1 .
  3. ^ http://more.cardistrz.com/cardistry_faq.php

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