Vanishing Inc. Masterclass: Live

You’ll learn Vernon’s Topping the Deck (the proper way), the Erdnase Top and Bottom Palms, and an “Easy-going Bottom Palm.” Then Swiss will talk about what is, perhaps, the most overlooked detail concerning palming: how to replace the palmed card back on the deck. We’ll examine palm replacements by Erdnase, Marlo, Thompson, Vernon, Carlyle, Latta, and more, exploring ways to add the card back to the top, the bottom, from action, and from repose. These moves will be put to work in tricks Swiss will demonstrate and then teach: Paul LePaul’s “Quadruplicate Mystery,” Vernon’s “Travelers,” and Schwarzman/Jennings’ “Night Visitor.”

Whether you’re familiar with this sleight or you’ve always wanted to learn it, you’ll find thoughtful instruction that will set you on a course for mastery. You’ll learn the Turnover Pass, The Taylor/Elias Jiggle Pass, Derek Dingle’s Stroboscopic Riffle Pass, Latta’s “Missing Frame” Riffle Pass, and several other variants. But this course isn’t just about moves! You’ll learn pass-centric material that puts these sleights to work: Jim Swain’s “Passing Along the Vanishing Aces,” Latta’s “Vanishing Collectors,” and Swiss’s original “Slapping the Cavorting Aces.” This is an enormous amount of fascinating material to cover, and Swiss is the perfect person to relay this information.

Ask anything in this live Q&A session.