Outside of a couple of simple but very good effects, this download is a description of Osterlind's
Breakthrough System, which produces a random-looking deck that can be used to identify the next card
starting anywhere in the deck. This convoluted system is inferior IMHO to a standard memorized stack
(I use the Aronson stack), partly because the latter allows you to know instantly any card at any
position in the deck. So besides Osterlind's tricks, you can do other more powerful effects, like
Ortiz's Zen Master, with any memorized stack.
Hi read your comment about the Aronson stack.which one his books could I find this in. regards Bill
The stack itself is at Simon Aronson's website, in a free PDF called "Memories Are Made Of This".
Simon's books all include dynamite memdeck effects:
Bound To Please
The Aronson Approach
Simply Simon
Try The Impossible
Art Decko
I believe these are available from both Simon and from Penguin.
There are many published stacks out there for memorized deck routines, and they are mostly interchangeable. Tamariz and Ortiz have stacks, for example. You just have to use whatever determination you can muster, when you aren't working on your classic pass, to memorize one of them. Aronson describes one way to do it. Once you have a stack memorized, you'll be able to remember it for a very long time by reviewing it in your mind occasionally, unlike what Osterlind says.
The Osterlind's breakthrough system is not inferior to others memorized stacks. Even with this systeme, you can know instantly any card at any position in the deck, IF you learn the order of this system, as with any stack. As Darwin Ortiz says : you shuffle a deck, then you learn the order of this deck, and you have a memorized deck. But of course, you can prefer one particular system because it is easier to learn or because it has some specific properties.
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no breakthrough for me
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