Cardistry

Cardistry is the non-deceptive manipulation of playing cards, designed to impress through dexterity and style rather than by tricking the eye. [http://cardistry.com/ cardistry.com] Clarifyme|date=August 2008 ] Practitioners are knowns as cardists. Cardistry makes use of "card flourishes" which are fancy stunts done with playing cards, as distinguished from card manipulation tricks such as those used by stage magicians and card sharps.cite book
last = Cestkowski
first = Gerald
title = Jerry Cestkowski's Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes
publisher = Printmeister Press
origyear = 2002
isbn = 0976360802Introduction, pp.1] Card flourishes were originally used in stage magic by practitioners to enhance tricks (ex:fanning cards to offer a spectator a card). It is just recentlyClarifyme|date=August 2008

General cardistry categories

* One-hand single cuts: Any method used to cut the deck into two packets and switch the two, using a single hand.
* One-hand multiple cuts: Any method used to cut the deck into more than two packets and reorganize them, using a single hand.
* Two-hand single cuts: Any method used to cut the deck into two packets and switch the two, using two hands.
* Two-hand multiple cuts: Any method used to cut the deck into more than two packets and reorganize them, using two hands.
* Display cuts:Fact|date=July 2008 Cutting the deck into 2 or more packets and holding them in whatever position is called for by the display.

Dan and Dave Buck

Daniel Madison

De'vo

Brian Tudor

Andrei Jikh

Richard Z

Jason Makasiar

Bone Ho

Cardistry Communities

A cardistry community is a forum where flourishers visit to discuss idea's.

Cardistry communities created, in chronological order:

[http://www.decknique.net Decknique]

[http://www.justflourish.de Justflourish]

References

See also

* Card manipulation
* Card sharp