The Tabled Faro Shuffle – Sara Rodríguez

In this tutorial you’ll find eight sections, each corresponding to one of eight steps, in which I’ll share all my tips and ideas to be able to perform the Tabled Faro Shuffle perfectly. From the detailed position of the fingers, to the most precise details to control whether the Faro is an In or Out shuffle, in an accessible, rigorous but simple way, which will help you lose your fear of this technique, or if you already work on it, correct possible mistakes and make it progress. Did I say progress? It’s not enough to progress, I’m talking to you about perfection. Beautiful and maybe pathological.

I will also share with you observations and reflections on this elusive shuffle, and on why sometimes it is worth pursuing a challenge of this magnitude, even if only, simply, for the pure pleasure of doing it. That, in this tutorial, but, in this pamphlet, I do not have the space or opportunity to detail for you all the advantages it will have for your magic and for your own life to do it. Truly.

“[...] Beneath that stillness lay a level of precision and structure beyond comprehension.” Shimpei Katsuragawa

Audio and subtitles in English and Spanish.

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Content:

1. On Types of Faros
2. Materials
3. The Exact Cut
4. Preparation
5. The Weave
6. Correcting Errors
7. To Faro In or to Faro Out
8. Appearance Matters

About the author:

I have devoted most of my work and study to the perfection of card magic technique, and in this particular case, trying to analyse and understand in a deep and complete way how the cards interlace in such a pleasurable way and full of possibilities. If this doesn’t cheer up your next rainy day, there’s nothing more I can do.

If you need to know who I am, my name is Sara, and I am a professional magician, lecturer and founder and member of the company Magia en la Manga. After more than ten years on stage, I have performed at all kinds of events: from a lost village in rural Galicia to the stage of the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, on the television programme Penn & Teller: Fool Us. But instead of wasting time reading this, you could be practising.