Title: Hand Sweating?
EngHua - September 4, 2007 11:00 AM (GMT)
When i am practising card tricks and sleights, my hand will keep sweating, and make the card stick together, anyone face the same problem? Any idea how to slove the problem?
Kam - September 13, 2007 11:27 AM (GMT)
It used to happen to me in the beginning. Some people say talc powder would make things better, some say wash your hand before practicing. But I guess it's all about conditioning your hands to the practice.
What I hear more is people's hands sweat when they perform in public. Again, it takes some time to get used to and once you got your bases covered, you should be able to do things swiftly without getting sweaty (or worse, jittery!)
Adlan - September 13, 2007 01:16 PM (GMT)
In some cases, Hands will sweat no matter what, like mine. It's actually a medical condition, but I don't remember the name.
However, in times of performance, Anslem Roy has advised me to put some Cola (Yes! Cola!) on my hands. It will hopefully reduce the sweating.
EngHua - September 13, 2007 01:21 PM (GMT)
Thanks for the advices guys, hopefully the cola can help me.. I will always remember the 3P rules, practise, practise and practise..
Christopher Ng - September 14, 2007 08:57 AM (GMT)
Haha, I dont see any relation between practice and hand sweating :P
For flourishes, yes, sweating is an issue
Its alright if your hand sweat, we are here in malaysia
Give the cards some dribble and spring if you think that your card is getting wet, it may dry the moistures collected on the cards
Change your deck when u realise it has turned into yellow from white...
I guess the spectators whould prefer to handle a clean and new card rather than yellow old oily and dirty card
:P
Jeremy Fu - September 14, 2007 05:55 PM (GMT)
I use USPCC cards to do spring
My fren noticed it
I taught him the way to handle and spring the cards
I lend him my bike for a day
Hardly 3 hours later he came back to me with my cards
His hands were sweating and so did my cards
Moral of the story : Do not lend good quality cards to strangers.. :!!:
Jarrett Goh - September 15, 2007 02:34 AM (GMT)
Mmm.. Malaysia is indeed humid, Australia is relatively dry so my deck hardly feels sticky, the moment it reaches Malaysia it turns all moist :unsure: Card spring should work I guess, never quite tried it. :rolleyes:
Amane - September 15, 2007 04:59 AM (GMT)
My solution is just open a new deck...
what I advise you to do is open about 3 decks at once
and rotate the usage.
your cards will last a lot longer.