Paste-bored?

I really enjoyed the Ambitious Topper Control, as I’ve been working on a similar control myself for quite a while – seems like you may have messed with it too as I note you mentioned tivo in another post on the move. Anyway, I’ll just briefly go through how i’m doing it:

1. get injog half-way down
2. double to show card on top, turn over and place indifferent angle-jogged
3. do original tivo transpo, turning wrist to show selection outjogged
4. do ambitious riser at an angle while straightening selection
5. square out jogged car and reveal

Just wanted to share it, see if you’ve been messing with the angle-jog
for this also, or just the topper move? I really like the idea of
using the riser as a force – i’ll definitely have to start trying that
out!

Another thing I wanted to send on is my handling of your “An
unnecessary exploration of difficulty in effect form”. I really liked
the effect, but as you mentioned, it’s a bit of a knuckle-buster! Just
wanted to share what I’ve come up with after reading that post:

1. have a card selected and control it to 2nd from bottom.
2. shuffle and cut etc. retaining position of selection
3. get break above the bottom two cards, swing cut and flip over top
half into other hand asking spec if that is there card while tapping
bottom half on it
4. when they say no, drop bottom cards (injogged a little) on top of
reversed half and turn both hands over asking if the bottom card of
deck is the selection (ernest earick method of reversing two cards in
center of deck)
5. when they say no again turn over bottom half and place under top
half – should now have the two original bottom cards reversed in the
center and injogged slightly.
6. tell them its going to jump out of the deck – and do the ambitious
riser which will show the original bottom card above the selection
7. perform jack carpenters impulse change to show the selection.

I think you’ll agree it’s a similar effect with much less work.