I'm Joe Marshall with expertvillage.com, and today we're going to discuss flourishes. This is a quadruple cut; it involves 4 packets that just somersault around each other. It looks really confusing. Actually, it looks really good when you do it properly. You just might add this in to one of your extreme card manipulations. Or if you're doing a magic trick at a party, you throw this is in before you start. You don't want to do this in the middle of a trick. You probably want to do this afterwards or before. It looks like this. This is taking 4 packets and mixing them around, then bringing them all together. Broken down into it's moves, you hold the deck as if you're going to deal the cards out. The hand comes on the top, first finger peels off a packet, your middle finger peels another packet. Your thumb of the same hand peels off the last packet, so it's like that. Then your middle finger and thumb are going to grab this middle packet here, like so as your other hand brings out those packets. Your hand comes back around, your middle and pinkie finger grab as your ring finger stays on top and pulls that packet out, and you'll readjust here. The same thing will happen below that has happen before. So you're in that position, your middle finger comes around to grab that packet, shoves it forward to where you're ring finger can stay on top. Your middle finger and pinkie will actually pull that packet out as your hand swivels back around. Your middle finger and thumb grabs the other packet, as again, your hand pulls forward to clear that packet, and then you're stuck in this position. You're just going to close all 4 packets together on top of one another. The bottom one, the middle one, and the top one come together and close down on the packet below. That's the quadruple cut. It just as watching it over maybe slowing down and breaking it into steps. There's isn't really much more I can say about it except for just follow the packets and actually have a deck in hand when you're trying to learn this one and just walk through it simultaneously.
