Chapter 3: False cut nirvana

Chapter 3 covers "False Cuts". This chapter made up for the last chapter. Honestly, I love using false cuts. Even when I don't need to I find myself using them. They are everything I love about magic. Smooth, clean, open, and done right in front of your audience. Starting with a "Optical False Cut" and moving through to the "Slip Cut from Dealing Position" you practice each move and wonder how you could pull these off. They are all so open and the moves are completely exposed. Audacious is the best word I can use to describe these moves. Every one looks so normal. Even the ones that look fancy don't look as weird as the "Overhand Shuffle". Each night I go over these a few times. Moving from a "Optical Cut" to a "Simple False Cut". Then a "False Swing Cut" to the "Triple False Cut". After doing that order a few times I practice the "Slip Cut" a couple times. The one thing in this chapter that I do have trouble with is the noise of the "Slip Cut". So that gets special attention. My issue is where I put my thumb. Set correctly the cut is silent, set incorrectly there is a audible snap as you perform the move. So I slow down and watch my fingers closely. After I get my fingers to land perfectly I can start practicing it without watching my hands. At the end of each chapter is two routines. I love "Hat Trick". So that's the one I have been practicing. It always amazes. Even when I am not at my best the "Hat Trick" never fails. It has worked so good I haven't even tried the second routine. Looking over the book as I write this I can see that may have been a mistake. Next post "Card Controls"!