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A Riffle Force is described in an unpublished notebook c. 1800. Will Houstoun transcribed the book and published it as //The Notebook//, 2009, p. 35. The anonymous author mentions this force was used by Philip Breslaw. (It does not, however, appear in // | A Riffle Force is described in an unpublished notebook c. 1800. Will Houstoun transcribed the book and published it as //The Notebook//, 2009, p. 35. The anonymous author mentions this force was used by Philip Breslaw. (It does not, however, appear in // | ||
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+ | In the early 1900s, the long card was traded in for a stepped pack. A magician with the initials T.H.P.L. contributed a timed riffle force with the upper packet stepped forward a quarter of an inch to // | ||
The first published explanation of the Riffle Force using a little finger break and the now popular strategy of stopping the riffling where the spectator likes before simply cutting at the break instead, seems to be in Theodore Annemann' | The first published explanation of the Riffle Force using a little finger break and the now popular strategy of stopping the riffling where the spectator likes before simply cutting at the break instead, seems to be in Theodore Annemann' |