Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy

Contents

• Foreword (Tony Giorgio)
• Introduction
• Jennings Talks About his Early Exposure to Magic
• CHAPTER ONE: THE BREAKS
• History
• The Left Pinky Break in the Center or Bottom of the Deck
• Cliff Greens Multiple Buckle Technique
• How to Spread Cards and Conceal the Break
• The Left Pinky Break on Top of the Deck
• Robert-Houdins Method
• Okashina Dekigoto (Japanese Twisting the Aces)
• The Buckle Count
• The Push and Pull
• The Double Push Off
• The Thumb Count and Right Thumbtip Break
• The Biddle Grip
• Dai Vernon's Squeeze Break
• Two Hands
• One Hand
• Rescuing a Break (Dai Vernon)
• Verdnase Break (A Right Pinky Break)
• To Transfer a Left Pinky Break to a Verdnase Break
• Erdnases Revolution from a Verdnase Break
• The Jennings Pulldown
• The Basic Technique
• As a Glide
• As a Cut Which Retains the Bottom Card
• A Brief Yet Ambitious Effect
• Greek Break
• Converting a Greek Break into a Pinky Break (The Preferred Readjustment)
• Dai Vernon's Greek Break Cut
• AutoBreak (Lin Searles)
• Jennings Talks About the Need for Tools and Practice
• CHAPTER TWO: DOUBLE AND TRIPLE UNDERCUT WORK
• History
• The Double Undercut with a Verdnase Break
• 1. From Top to Bottom for a Single Card
• 2. From Top to Bottom for Multiple Cards
• 3. From Center to Top (or Bottom)
• A Wee Equivoqu
• Four-Card Cutting Control
• Braue Reverse (Jennings Finesse)
• The Four Ace Bet
• Gordon Bruce Outjog Addition: First Handling
• A Placement Cut
• The Double Undercut with a Block Pushoff (the Reverse Double Undercut)
• 1. From Bottom to Top for a Single Card
• 2. From Bottom to Top for Multiple Cards
• Method One
• Method Two
• Method Three
• The Double and Triple Undercut Combinations
• 1. From Center to Top, Top Stock Retained; Also a Multiple Control
• 2. From Center to Top, Original Top Card to Bottom
• 3. Top and Bottom Cards Transposed with a Double Undercut
• Devious Open Prediction
• Unpredictable Prediction
• Cheshire Aces
• Kings Trap Choice
• Four Kings Trap Three Choices
• Sandwich sans Roy
• In Two Places at the Same Time
• A Magical Appearance
• The Paradoxically Simple Sandwich
• Quick Reverse
• The Simplex Visitor
• ATFUS (Elmsley/Marlo) with a Verdnase Break: Version One
• Without Warning!
• Always Cut the Cards
• Version One (Ungimmicked)
• ATFUS with a Verdnase Break: Version Two
• Version Two (Gimmicked)
• Gordon Bruce Outjog Addition: Second Handling
• The Joker Finds a Thought-of Card
• Placement Cut Collectors
• Elaborate 21-Card Force Mated
• Jennings Talks About the Double Lift and Top Change
• CHAPTER THREE: MULTIPLE LIFTS AND MORE
• History
• The Hit Minus One Double Turnover
• The Covered Double Turnover
• The Covered Triple Turnover
• The Expedient Lift
• The Dead Certain Double
• The New Theory Getready
• The Vernon Light Lift
• The Dai Vernon Pushoff (Jennings Fingering)
• The Larry Jennings Pushoff
• The Stuart Gordon Lift (Jennings Finesse)
• The Quick Tip Turnover (Covering Large Multiple Lifts)
• Quick Tip Count Down
• Center Double Lift
• Jennings Turnover Switch
• A Graceful Way of Holding a Double Card with the Left Hand
• Uncommon Methods of Getting Ready for the Double Lift
• First Method (End Over End Turn)
• Second Method (Pivot and Duck)
• Third Method (Outjogged Pivot and Duck)
• Fourth Method (The Long Distance Double Lift Getready)
• Vanish and Reappearance of a Card
• Fifth Method (The Gordon Turnover and Isolated Reverse)
• Unloading One Card from a Double Lift
• First Method (Sideways Turnover)
• Second Method: (End Over End Turnover)
• Third Method: (The LJ Change)
• Fourth Method (A Two-Card Change)
• When the Double Card Leaves the Hands
• First Method: Bounce Double
• Second Method: The Free-Fall Double
• New Dual Discovery
• Third Method: Warp and Drop
• A Simple, Yet Strong Prediction
• Fourth Method: Marlos Two Card Throw (Jennings Finesse)
• Ambitious Card Interlude
• On Transpositions
• The New Double Double
• Vernon's Clean-Up Move
• The Bastard Son of the King of Hearts
• Everyman's Transposition
• Circus Transposition
• The Depth Illusion (Original Dai Vernon Get-Ready and Technique)
• Deep Transposition
• Deep Transposition II
• Numerical Aces Plus One to Four
• Return to 1002nd Aces
• Version One
• The Covered Double Turnover as an Add-On Move
• Version Two
• The Misdirective Outjog Switch
• Version Three
• Version Four
• The Hofzinser/Leech Switch (with a Verdnase Break)
• Slow-Motion Five-Card Ace Assembly
• The Card that Changes in Front of their Eyes
• Vernon's Depth Illusion
• A Mysterious Visit
• Larry's Pocket Twins
• Four Aces and Four Selections
• The Strange Case of the Unsinkable Ace
• Version One (Ungimmicked)
• Version Two (Gimmicked)
• In Space
• Version One (Ungimmicked)
• Version Two (Gimmicked)
• Remember and Forget-Me-Not
• Triumphantly Turning Back Time
• Ambitious Classic Revisited
• Jennings Talks About Where to Look
• CHAPTER FOUR: THE RELUCTANT PACKETEER
• (Tricks Which Rely Mainly On False Counting a Packet)
• History
• The All-Count Technique
• The Elmsley Count
• The Flushtration Count
• The Hamman Two as Four Count
• The Hamman Count
• Finessed Hamman
• With a Verdnase Break
• The Simplest Twist
• Twisting the Leader
• Underground Oil and Queens
• One-Hand Maestros Poker Demonstration
• The Grismer Count
• Eight Damned Queens
• The Rhythm Count (With Four Cards)
• The Eye Popper
• Finesse for Adding a Card to the Face of a Packet
• The Rhythm Count (With Five Cards)
• The Final Reset
• Secret Subtraction with a Verdnase Break
• The Rhythm Count (With Six Cards)
• Four Cards All Alike
• Version One: LJ Multiple Display Sequence
• Version Two
• Version Three
• Original Uni-Flection
• Four Cards All Alike: Version Four
• Four Cards All Alike: Version Five
• Progressive Assembly for Magicians Only
• Walton's Four-Card Brainwave: LJ Finesse
• Knoxville Aces Rethought
• Tilting Through Time
• False Count As Add-On
• Twisting the Aces
• Jennings One-Hand Spread/Display
• A Treatise on Bro. Hamman's The Magic Cards
• Method One
• Method Two
• Method Three
• Method Four
• Method Five
• The LJAC Magic Cards (Method Six)
• The LJLF Magic Cards (Method Seven)
• Jennings Multiple Display Sequence
• O Henry Gets Jazzed
• O.J. Aces
• Wild Card Jennings Style
• Look An Illusion!
• Classic Handling
• New Handling
• Jennings Talks About Flourishes, and Patter
• CHAPTER FIVE: AN ASSORTMENT OF TECHNIQUES AND SLEIGHTS
• History
• Repeat Indicator: First Exercise in Holding Multiple Breaks
• The Double Slop Shuffle: Second Exercise in Holding Multiple Breaks
• The Spectator Peek
• Overhand Shuffle Techniques
• New Third Finger Break
• Magician and Spectator Cut to the Aces
• Additional Overhand Shuffle Work with the Third Finger Break
• Overhand Shuffle Jog (Jennings Finesse)
• Jennings Makes Good
• The Last Card
• Erdnase False Overhand Shuffle (Jennings Finesse)
• Shelley's Quadruple Coincidence (Mike Shelley; Jennings Finesse)
• Gordon Bruce False Overhand Shuffle
• Overhand Shuffle Speller
• Free-Cut Poker Deal
• LJ on Vernon's Weight Guesser
• Subtractions
• LJ Unloading Move
• Elevated Rub A Dub
• Unloading Technique from a Packet
• Switches
• New Grip Hofzinser/Leech Change
• Version One: A Covered Switch
• Version Two: A Covered Multiple Top Change
• The Optical Toss and Two Applications
• Optical Transposition
• Red-Black Separation and Mate Location
• The Silhouette Switch
• Controls
• New Peek Control
• Discrepancy Switch
• Bottom Placement
• Four Cards All Alike: Version Six
• The Alpha Control
• Faceless Mystery Card
• Version One
• Version Two
• Two Card Control with a Plunging Cut
• Multi-Directional Simple Shift
• The Atrocious Bottom Deal
• Discrepant See?
• Stabbed Coincidence
• Simon's Business Card Prophesy Displacement (Jennings Finesse)
• T.K. Change
• T.K. No Turn
• New Attempt at Thought-Card Trick
• No-Gaff Handling of Don Englands Collectors
• Double-Deal Drop Switch
• Slip Cut Finesse
• Technique One
• Twin Peeks Control
• Technique Two
• Open Slip Cut Force
• Two Optical False Cuts
• The Lazy Mans False Cut
• Wrist Turn False Cut
• Frank Thompson's EZ Ace Cut
• Your Palms Between
• Method One (With Duplicate)
• Method Two (Without Duplicate)
• Jennings Talks About Intimate Close-Up Magic
• CHAPTER SIX: ALMOST SOLELY SELF-WORKING
• History
• Easy Intuition
• Simplex Four-to-Seven Locator
• Dissertation on an Old Trick
• Version No.1
• Version No.2
• Version No.3
• Version No.4
• Version No.5
• Version No.6
• Smith's Myth Turns Over
• Smith's Pocket Myth
• Triple Discovery
• Triumph for the Terrified
• Two Knowns Equal an Unknown
• Placement Cut with Verdnase Break
• Lucky 32
• Getting to Nine
• The Mysterious Spelling Three
• Number Transposition
• The Relatively Unknown Location
• Flush-ing the Relatively Unknown Location
• Ace-ing the Relatively Unknown Location
• Impossible Fore-Shadowed
• Impossible
• The Close-Up Illusion
• Jennings Talks About Misdirection
• CHAPTER SEVEN: BIDDLING AND OTHER WAYS TO AVOID PALMING
• History
• The Proper Ways to Perform Dai Vernons Strip-Out Addition
• Rapid Transit District (R.T.D.) Aces and Faster Than Light (F.T.L.) Aces
• The Gentlemen Aces
• Vernon Transfer Move (Jennings Finesse)
• DeeVee Miracle
• Verily Visiting
• Two Trips to the Hotel
• Version One
• Version Two
• LJ on O. Henry Aces
• Additions
• Braue Addition Plus
• Beyond Braue
• Stolen Braue
• The D.C.D. Switch
• The Nopen Prediction (No.1)
• The Nopen Prediction (No.2)
• Coincidentally D.C.D.
• Diamond Cut Diamond
• Diamond Cut, Plus Jokers
• Diamond Cuts to Your Pocket
• Not Biddle, But
• The One at a Time Add-On
• Optical Add-On
• Slow-Motion Add-On
• The Transfer Add-On
• Slip Cover Add On
• Meta-Ssembly
• Take and Leave Switch
• Olde Tyme Aces
• Add-On Aces
• Simple Seven-Card Assembly
• Monarch's Quartette the Third
• California Red Prediction
• Mental Reverse
• ATFUS with a Verdnase Break: Version Three
• Multi-Faced Mystery
• Ace-Faced Mystery
• Simple Thought Card to Pocket
• Card to Pocket Move
• Audacious Collectors
• Triple Cut Scatter Load
• Cloudburst Selections