Hey everyone Jason here welcome back. Today we are learning
how to shuffle cards for beginners. This is the riffle shuffle with bridge in the hands.
It can be done standing, on the table, in your face,
just about anywhere so if you don't
know how to shuffle cards you're in the right place even if you do keep watching
who knows you might improve your technique now I'll show you the move
step by step then we'll see some cool slow-motion footage and at the very end
I'll give you some specific troubleshooting techniques first take
the cards in your dominant hand you want two fingers on the bottom your thumb on
top and one finger on each side then you're going to split the cards about in
half using the other hand like that let's try that a little bit slower so
your fingers are in this position the thumb from the other hand comes over
breaks the cards about in half then it rotates down the other hand helps push
it up and over and the thumb takes it on top now the hands should be in a
symmetrical position from this position you're going to have to adjust your
hands before you can move on there's several things that happen all at once
then it kind of looks like this so to break it down as soon as you get into
this position if your hands are like this and if you'll notice the thumb is
sticking away off the edge and that's not where we want it we need the thumb
to be more like that so you can more carefully release cards one at a time
first we need to move the thumbs back and I can move the thumbs freely because
of the way I'm holding the cards on the bottom securely so move the thumbs back
then you're gonna bring the fingers to the bottom and smash the deck into your
palm like this I mean I forgot to add you can use all three fingers at the
bottom or just two like this whichever is more comfortable so you can securely
hold them that way when you riffle the cards they don't fly everywhere it's
like you don't need a table because you've created your own table in the air
okay so those things happen in fairly rapid succession so from here it's
adjust adjust then you're going to turn your hands
this and then you're going to move your fingers around to the backside because
you need them here to create the pressure at this point you create the
pressure you want a lot and you let them individually fall one after the other
like that you put your thumb on top I move my fingers around here so I'm
holding the cards securely between here and my thumbs and of course these
fingers so everything's held very securely right now next you want to bend
the cards up so it goes like this you're just bending them up into an arch shape
and you really need to keep your thumbs on top like this and you're pushing
inwards so everything's kind of stuck there but when I start to release
pressure from the bottom they ripple together now that didn't look great
because I was going so slow but in real time let's go through it one more time
so you take the cards in your dominant hand note the finger position you should
be doing the same divide the cards about in half immediately you just your thumbs
you bring it in closer to your palm you rotate down move the fingers around then
you can start to release the cards and at this point you really want to make
sure you're bending the cards enough you have kind of an L shape or like a 90
degree angle on both sides like this
push and Bend and basically you're releasing pressure just a little bit
here and that allows the cards to start falling now you're not going to damage
your cards unless you hold them in that place for a long time like I did but
really it's not an issue if you're going quickly because you bend them one way
then you've been in the opposite way so your deck is going like that then like
this and it's not a problem now let's check this out in slow motion
breaking the deck in half rotating it over some grabs the top
immediately repositioning the thumbs grabbing the deck and closer to the palm
fingers go around the back to create pressure hands are rotating inwards you
can see the L shape as the cards are released immediately the thumbs go on
top fingers positioned around create the arch and slowly but surely releasing the
pressure near the bottom
now as promised troubleshooting I actually have four tips to help you here
number one perhaps your cards are getting stuck like this that's no good
so what's going on here how do we solve that it's easy basically when you're
doing this shuffle you need to consider the rotation of your hands so you don't
want to be like this you don't want to be like that you want to be deeply
rotated enough down because if you're just a little bit rotated it's gonna
stick so it's just rotate more downwards like this no problem this no good this
real good number to releasing cards more individually unless in huge chunks
here's the problem we have large chunks of cards here but it's better to have
more of an even mix so how do we accomplish that well it's actually not
too hard again you just need to make sure you have that l-shape I told you
about that 90 degree Bend because what that does is if you look at the edge of
the cards here right now it's hard to release the cards individually because
the cards come at a flat angle here so when you bend them enough like really
bend them you'll see it creates a bevel now it's much easier to release the
cards one at a time
so basically just make sure you're bending the cards hard enough and really
creating an L shape you get a much better result than before number three
now if you're still having issues with big clumps of cards being released all
at once try doing this just turn the cards face up because some decks are cut
in a different way just shuffling the cards face up could make it easier on
you while you're learning give it a try and see if it helps lastly if you're
still having trouble trying to learn this move just grab an older deck older
cards are more flexible so it doesn't require as much muscle to bend them as
well as being less slippery the cards don't slide because they're older when
you're trying to learn with a new deck you might find like they're sliding
around too much and maybe requires too much force to bend them so just as kind
of training wheels you can learn with an old deck but of course you should be
able to shuffle with both of them in the future that's it if you enjoyed the
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