The Riffle Force (Practice) (Patreon)

The mechanics behind the riffle force, including advanced and simplified variations. This will be your bread and butter force for quite some time.

PRACTICE DRILL: Make sure you know what the top card is. Perform a swing cut, but catch a break in between the packets when completing the cut. In other words, you have centralized the top card and hold a break above it. Now, perform a riffle force, thumb the card off, giving it to an imaginary spectator. Reassemble the deck. Now, cut off the top half of the deck in end grip and have the selected card replaced on top of the left hand's cards. Put the right hand's cards back down on top, but catch a left fourth finger break (i.e. a pinky break) between the two halves. Control the selected card to the top with a double undercut. Now, perform an in-the-hands riffle shuffle, but keep the selected card on top. Finally, regrip the deck for an overhand shuffle, run the top card, then shuffle everything else on top. You have now controlled the forced selected card to the bottom.