How to Do a Card Cascade | Magic Card Flourishes

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Hi, I'm Mike Patrick, and this is How to do a Cascade, a shuffle flourish. You take the cards, you shuffle them, and you allow them to simply cascade into your other hand. The method is that you must do a pharaoh shuffle. The better your shuffle is, the more smooth the cascade will fall. If you have big gaps in between it won't look so good, so this is why you wouldn't do it with a riffle shuffle. You need a lot of precision. So you do a pharaoh shuffle and you put them into an upside down "v". It looks like a "v" from my perspective, but you do it like this. You'll have to experiment with your hand size exactly where you want the cards to be positioned.

You go into this like you're going and you place your thumb in between here, and I can hold this like this indefinitely. When you're ready to do the cascade, your pinky is here, your index finger is here, your thumb is on top, you place your other hand underneath, and you simply let go with your thumb. The cards will fall naturally in this position, and you'll have to deal with the fear of them falling all over the place a few times. Once you get past that to just let go and they will fall straight into a cascade.

I often don't even bother using my thumb. What I do is I just shuffle them, position them, get these cards in a position I just let this hand drop right in front and it starts immediately. It's a very, very impressive way to end your shuffle. That's how you do a cascade.

[muhammedabdullah]

Important tips for the cascade:
-keep the faro even
-try to keep the sides of the v-shape equal
-Don't make the cards fall in front of your hand, try to make them go through your index and pinky by stretching them out and moving them upwards while the cascade is happening.This is the most Important tip.

Good Luck!

[GeraltBosMang]

These tricks are both good looking and fun.
Thanks 

[bRadicalmagic]

...and thank you Mr. Jerry Andrus for creating our card waterfall as well ! ! !

[erinhopper]

i kinda have the cascading motion but i drop all the cards :/

[chanclaverde]

Tip to get into cascade position smoother: push the cards in edge-to-edge after faro and tuck them all in slightly, then shift the hinge / joint down to the other end and it's easier from there than fumbling around with the cards to get into position.

Even smoother to get into "position" (albeit different position) is to just use your index finger in place of your thumb and your thumb holds the bottom of one half instead and pinky on the bottom of the other half.

Be sure to move your middle and ring fingers behind the pinky deck while shifting the two halves.

[lolloknollo]

You guys are so cool with your "first comment"

Nice video

[b_ouncedatazz]

I followed all the steps correctly but it just all falls in one big clump

[qhd-]

Your big teacher thank you for all your trick ..

[alexo]

I think... for me it is a great tutorial. thank you very much. i can do this now! :)

[DylansWaffles]

thanks for the awesome tutorial this helped alot!

[RaySmith]

Practice and you will get better nice tutorial!

[Neom]

the most important thing was forgotten to explain. how do you have to hold your hand to catch the cards and how high you have to hold your hand. If you explain something that you can do yourself, you often have to mention the little things, because you do not even notice them anymore. But for those who can not and want to learn, such trifles are extremely important.

[Brayguanzo]

This is a trick that requires prerequisites skills. You need to be good at doing a faro shuffle. After that, its easy. Figuring out hand placement is the only real trouble. Imo the faro shuffle is harder to get then this.

[jacobblight]

I've been doing this with a riffle shuffle

[gitchygamr]

Btw its super hard to do this if you have smaller hands

[sdonohue]

This guys website dont work can anyone else get to it?

[LCPL_Cat]

my cards don't fall they just stay there. like 4 will fall then it will stop and i have to shake my hand to get them to continue to fall

[samkwok]

The Card Cascade is wrong~Card Cascade with Thevirts style will be much better

[ChronicalV]

Pause it at exactly 1:32... hahaha that face though...

[itsvxzy]

it worked nut cards are going slow i did it with riffle shuffle