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00:00 I love all different types of multiple shifts and they're sprinkled all throughout Card
00:11 Magic's literature and I urge you to look them up.
00:14 A few in particular that inspired me to create this Fingoli control, one is the Larry Jennings
00:21 Multiple Shift or the LJ Angle Palm Steel.
00:24 You can find it in Jennings 67 by Richard Kaufman.
00:30 Check it out, he's a genius.
00:33 Also by Richard Kaufman is the Complete Works of Derek Dingle and there's a multiple shift
00:39 in here on page 119 and he credits Frank Thompson and Larry Jennings as inspiration and there's
00:48 some similarities and a lot of differences to this Fingoli control.
00:53 So check out those references so you can get a better understanding of the history, credits
00:57 and inspiration for this Fingoli control.
01:01 Thanks.
01:04 The first step in learning this Fingoli control is to dribble the cards off the thumb into
01:12 the left hand or vice versa if it's a different hand.
01:16 What you do is you hold the pack in overhand grip, first finger on top.
01:21 You're going to rotate the hand, palm up clockwise and then the first finger is going to apply
01:27 pressure and you're going to pop the cards one by one off the thumb.
01:36 So you want to get this down fluid, you want to get it down where you don't have to think
01:41 about it.
01:42 If you can do this, you can drop them in your hand and all you're doing is turning your
01:46 hand palm up and releasing them off the thumb.
01:48 So practice that a little bit, get comfortable with it and then move on to step two.
01:54 Once everyone's comfortable springing the cards off the thumb into the left hand, you're
01:58 going to move to the next step which is to angle jog the card out of the pack and you're
02:06 going to get into this position.
02:09 The way you do this is take the card, place it into the middle of the pack and push the
02:16 card into the deck.
02:18 The first finger goes on the bottom of the pack, the nail riding on the bottom.
02:22 You're going to push the card, push it in and you just push to the right.
02:29 There's one corner here, the pinky is holding the bottom right hand edge.
02:35 You're going to pull the card through the pack.
02:37 This is also very similar to the diagonal palm shift which you can find at Herd and
02:44 then you're going to take the third finger and you're going to push this side.
02:51 So now you're going to have it in this position, the card.
02:54 Now you'll straddle the grip of the card between the pinky and the first finger and in this
03:00 position all that needs to be done, once you take the card and push it through the pack
03:07 and have it in this position, all you need to do is turn the right hand clockwise and
03:15 up and spring off the thumb.
03:22 So now all you do is the Sphingali Dribble.
03:26 Push the card through the pack, angling, straddle grip with the first finger and pinky, turn
03:32 palm up and dribble off the thumb.
03:36 So when you combine all the actions it should just look like you pushed the card in somewhere
03:42 lost into the deck and you control it to the bottom.
03:46 Now you can do that with four cards, five cards, it's really good for a multiple selection
03:52 routine.
03:53 You place everyone's card in different spots, push them into the pack, everyone's card is
03:58 lost into the pack, your hands are out here.
04:01 It's done on the offbeat as well, it's not done on fire, no one's really looking at the
04:05 pack because everyone just looked at their card, you placed it into the deck and you
04:11 say okay everyone can see their card, you push them in, and you go, yeah, it's just
04:14 kind of, your cards are somewhere in the pack, it doesn't really matter.
04:18 You want to have this casual attitude as you do this control.
04:21 It's not a burn the hands control, I mean it can be burned because we want all of our
04:25 sleight of hand to be flawless, as flawless as possible, but it's a super casual control.
04:32 You push the card in, it's somewhere in the pack, it's done in a second and it's done
04:37 on the offbeat where no one's really looking at the deck at this point.
04:41 Here's a really cool application for this Fingali dribble portion of this control.
04:48 If you dribble off the thumb and you tilt back the pack a little bit further, the cards
04:54 will actually unweave, jet forward and backward, and if you square at the same time push to
05:02 the right, the cards can be unshuffled so to speak.
05:11 This is the concept of the false shuffle.
05:13 Let me go through that again.
05:16 Off the right thumb, the cards will jet out, and if you angle jog the top cards, if you
05:24 angle them to the bottom cards, you'll get this and you can actually push them through
05:30 the pack and then when your spectators are watching you can shuffle the deck, creating
05:37 the illusion that you shuffled the pack, but you shuffled the same cards into the exact
05:42 same position that they originated.
05:46 Once again, you just tilt back a little further on this Fingali spring dribble, push them
05:53 through the pack and you can shuffle the pack.
06:03 Now a very old trick called Remember and Forget by Hofzinser.
06:09 You have a spectator take out two cards, remember both of them, so the nine of diamonds and
06:15 the seven of spades, you tell them to forget one and remember one after you tell them to
06:20 remember both.
06:22 So remember both cards and now you tell the spectator forget one and remember the other.
06:28 Place them into the deck, do this Fingali control, they're lost in the deck.
06:35 Now you tell the spectator that you'll cut to the card that he's remembering.
06:40 You pull down two cards with the left hand, little pinky, and you catch a break.
06:49 So again, you can either buckle by pushing down with the first finger to get a two card
06:57 break on the bottom with the little pinky, or you can just pull down, Marlow pull down
07:03 style.
07:05 Now what you're going to do is the molecule cut.
07:11 You break the deck into three packets, but the third packet is just those bottom two
07:17 cards, so you control them to the top of the deck.
07:22 But before you do that, just do an all around square up.
07:26 So let's backtrack just to make sure everyone's with us.
07:28 Nine of diamonds, seven of spades, remember both cards, now I want you to forget one of
07:32 them and remember one of them.
07:34 It's your choice.
07:36 Place them into the deck, do this Fingali control, square up, glimpse the bottom card
07:43 as you do an all around square up, so the seven of spades.
07:47 Now you're getting the break, either the Marlow pull down or the buckle.
07:53 I prefer the Marlow pull down.
07:56 Now you're going to do the molecule cut, bringing just those top two cards to the top.
08:05 I mean the bottom two cards to the top.
08:08 So you do the molecule, the third packet is just those two cards.
08:12 You remember the seven of spades, you glimpsed the seven of spades.
08:16 So now you ask the spectator what was the card they remembered.
08:19 You can get a break under the two cards, depending on what he says.
08:24 If he says seven of spades, then you get the break and you do your favorite double lift.
08:33 And so you successfully cut to the spectator's card and you do a double lift, showing oh,
08:40 you remember the seven of spades.
08:41 Now you ask the spectator what was the card you forgot, which is an interesting question
08:46 because how could he remember the card he forgot?
08:49 But if you remember the beginning of the trick, you ask him to remember both cards.
08:55 So he will remember the card he forgot, which is the nine of diamonds.
08:58 So you have a nice change.
09:00 For instance, if he remembered the nine of diamonds, you know that the seven of spades
09:05 is in the second position because that's the card you glimpsed.
09:09 So you would take the nine of diamonds and now all you have to do is switch this nine
09:14 of diamonds for the seven of spades, which is the now card that they forgot.
09:20 You can do a top change.
09:22 You can do this, which is taut and then some.
09:29 You can do another double lift.
09:35 There's many ways to change it.
09:36 You can do a Marlowe change where you set this on top of the pack and switch it.
09:41 A bunch of different changes scattered throughout the literature and DVDs.
09:46 So check it out.
09:48 Make the routine yours and that is remember and forget.
09:52 That's just the basic overview.
09:54 But usually you would have three spectators each take two cards and just follow the same
10:02 procedure.
10:04 Svengali control and the break above two.
10:09 Do the molecule, bring them to the top, da da da da.
10:13 And then you do the same thing.
10:14 Get a break above the bottom two cards, molecule them to the top.
10:20 And that's why the molecule cut is really interesting for this trick because in older
10:25 versions of the trick, you'd have to do double undercuts to get rid of some of the cards
10:30 or slip cuts or swing cuts.
10:32 But with the molecule, you're just getting a break above those two and you're bringing
10:36 them to the top.
10:37 And it really looks like you're just cutting the deck.
10:39 So think about that and how you can utilize the molecule cut and the Svengali control
10:46 in different tricks and different applications and come up with your own variations and ideas.
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