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FALSE KICK CUT
Published in MUM, October 1998, Vol. 88, No. 5, p. 46 Here are two versions of a false kick cut. With them, you can either keep the top card(s) intact, or maintain the order of the entire deck. TO KEEP THE TOP CARD(S) INTACT Hold the deck face down in the palm-down right hand, thumb on the inner-short end, and the right first, second, and third fingers on the outer-short end. The right forefinger, which is positioned near the upper-left corner of the cards, picks off and swivels the top third of the deck to the left, using the right thumb as a fulcrum; the crotch of the left thumb receives the "kicked" packet of cards and carries them to the left (the standard kick-cut move). The right forefinger swivels another packet of cards to the left as the left hand places its packet below the cards in the right hand, jogged to the right about a half of an inch. Just as the right thumb and third fingertip receive the jogged packet, the crotch of the left thumb takes the kicked packet and carries it to the left. Without hesitating, your right forefinger kicks all of the cards above the jogged packet into the left hand, above the cards already there. The right hand immediately places its cards on top of the cards in the left hand, completing the cut. TO KEEP THE ENTIRE DECK INTACT The moves here are similar to those above. Kick the first packet (about a third of the deck) into the left hand, and immediately kick another packet as your left hand places its cards below those in the right hand, jogged to the right about a half of an inch. Up to this point, the moves are the same. The left hand receives the kicked cards, this time placing them below the jogged cards in the right hand as the right forefinger kicks all of the cards above the jogged packet into the left hand. The right hand immediately completes the action by placing its cards on top of those in the left hand. COMMENT While performing these cuts, please keep in mind that speed is not as important as rhythm. CREDITS I created the false cuts above after a friend described Paul Rosini's false kick cut to me over the phone. Rosini's cut appears in The Tarbell Course in Magic, vol. 3, pp. 197-198.
WHITE MAGIC WORDS: I was discussing this with my favorite card worker and his remarks are worth repeating here: "This is rather interesting because only a week ago Carson Hibbard from Castro Valley, California, sent me exactly the same move as Tom has submitted. The only difference being Carson also uses it as a card control. I'm sure this is the result of two minds working in the same direction. False cuts come and go and there are several variations. For an in-the-hands false cut, this is as good as any. Readers who are interested should also check the Tarbell reference given by Tom. It will also clear up any handling problems you might be having as a result of this description. Though Tom refers to the action as a Kick Cut, as does Tarbell, most card workers today refer to the move as a Swing Cut or Swivel Cut." FYI - My favorite card worker is my friend Mike Rogers. © 1995 Tom Interval 
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