Breather Crimp

74 entries in Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Breather Crimp
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
, Dai Vernon The Breather Crimp
Related to
Variations
 1987
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1
96
Breather Crimp
Nov. 1988
Apocalypse (Vol. 11 No. 11)
1571
Bob King The Breather Crimp also putting it in in front of an audience while apparently removing a bent/crimp
 		1990
More Magician Foolers
20
Breather Crimp
1992
Totally Out Of Control
98
Breather Crimp
June 1992
The Minotaur (Vol. 4 No. 2)
1
Bob King Putting In The Work also in front of an audience apparently removing a bent
Also published here
 1992
The Breather
3
Bob King Basic Routine controlling a card with breather crimp
 		1992
The Breather
3
Breather Crimp
Mar. 1993
The Minotaur (Vol. 5 No. 1)
6
Bob King Putting in the Work also in front of an audience apparently removing a bent
Also published here
 1993
The Breather 2
28
Jerry Mentzer The Breather Crimp some information, chapter "Breather Crimp Mysteries"
  • How to Crimp the Card
  • Basic Handling (cutting to the crimp)
 		1993
Card File
165
Breather Crimp
1994
Roger's Thesaurus
104
The Breather Crimp
1994
Paramiracles
21
Breather Crimp
Mar. 1997
Apocalypse (Vol. 20 No. 3)
2771
, Dai Vernon Breather Crimp
Related to
 1997
The Card Magic of Nick Trost
308
Tom Gagnon Easy Breather making a breather crimp
Also published here
 1997
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 65)
1313
Harry Levine Prime Cut cutting to a breather crimp
 		1998
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 69)
1423
Harry Levine Climbing the Aces with up the ladder cut and breather crimp
 		1998
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 69)
1428
Harry Levine Waiting to Exhale (Controlling the Breather) placing breather card over selection
 		1998
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 69)
1432
Harry Levine Extras controls and ideas using the breather crimp
 		1998
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 69)
1440
Breather Crimp credit information
 		1998
Vis à Vis
54
Breather Crimp
1998
The Mysteries of my Life
15
Breather Crimp
1999
Tricks of my Trade
73
Neal Elias Then There's The Breather Crimp forcing the breather crimp
Related to
 2001
New Card Controls
60
Breather Crimp
2003
Card Fictions
10
Karl Fulves* Freeing Up edge-marking the breather crimp
 		2003
Off The Books (Issue 5)
75
Breather Crimp
2004
World Tour Lecture Notes — Set 1
4
Wonder Man Fred Buffalo Bill spectator cuts the deck, removes five cards and thinks of one, card is divined
 		2004
Semi-Mental Journey
127
Breather Crimp
2006
Power Plays
108
Long-Sides Up Bend alternative to breather crimp
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
93
Breather Crimp
2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
95
Breather Crimp
2008
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1
253
Breather Crimp
2008 (ca.)
Don't Xerox Lecture Notes
23
Breather Crimp
2010
Reinventing the Real
80
Troy Hooser Breakless Passing Pass without break, use breather card
 		2010
Moments
123
Ben Harris, Steve Shufton X-Ray spectator cuts anywhere, turns card over, replaces top half and cases deck, performer divines card and names its position, five crimps
  • Impromptu X-Ray Opportunities (setting up on the fly)
Related to
Variations
 2010
X-Ray
11
An Addendum of Ideas
  • Heavy Breather
  • The Coin Method
  • The "X" Method
  • The Tent Method
  • Infinity
  • Mechanical Means
  • The Commonality
  • The Selection, or the One Above?
  • The Controversy
  • A Six Card Arrangement
  • Outs
  • Finally
 		2010
X-Ray
22
Dai Vernon The "X" Method Breather Crimp
 		2010
X-Ray
23
The Tent Method lengthwise breather crimp
 		2010
X-Ray
23
Felix "Nicolino" Schellenberg Ex-Ray doing the trick with a stacked deck which is used in the out
Inspired by
Related to
 2010
Ex-Ray
[7]
Breather Crimp
2011
Reflections
84
Breather Crimp
2011
Ontology Project
14
Breather Crimp
2011
Making the Cut
51
Breather Crimp includes technique for setting up breather crimp openly in performance
 		2011
A Book in English
77
Tom Gagnon Easy Breather method for making a breather crimp
Also published here
 2011
Avant-Cards
201
Breather Crimp
2012
Lessons in Card Mastery
92
Breather Crimp
2012
Seventeen Secrets
49
Breather Crimp
Sep. 2012
MAGIC (Vol. 22 No. 1)
68
Breather Crimp offers tip to make crimp less visible
 		2014
Applesauce
31
Jared Kopf Repelling Breathers withstanding heavy riffle shuffling, two breathers
Inspired by
Related to
 2016
Nothing but the Family Deck
7
Reverse Breather Crimp
2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
36
Breather Crimp
Mar. 2018
Genii (Vol. 81 No. 3)
38
Scott Robinson Sprite a coin vanishes and reappears in deck three times, each time locating a selection, Breather Crimp
Inspired by
 2018
Pure Imagination
155
Breather Crimp how to put it in
 		2018
Pure Imagination
155
Tom Gagnon Easy Breather brief, way to apply breather crimp, see also p. 41
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
1
Tom Gagnon Establishing Break at Breather Crimp one-handed with tabled deck
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
2
Tom Gagnon Heavy Breather breather glued onto another card, thick breather
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
328
Breather Crimp
2019
Secret Language — Volume 1
176
Quick Breather only corners
 		2019
Tesseract
199
Ryan Plunkett Breather Crimp
  • Applying the Crimp
  • Punching the Crimp
  • Edge-Marking the Crimp
 		2020
Distilled
103
Ryan Plunkett Two Subtleties for the Breather Crimp intro
 		2020
Distilled
123
Ryan Plunkett 1. A Replacement nonchalant handling to place card next to breather crimp
Inspired by
 2020
Distilled
123
Ryan Plunkett 2. A Natural Spread Break deck spread onto table from left-hand dealing position until stopped, force or to replace card, breather crimp
Related to
 2020
Distilled
126
Shimpei Katsuragawa Crimpromptu modified breather crimp
Related to
 2022
La Campanella
83
Francisco Mousinho Cutting to a Crimp right hand cuts half of the deck which is in left hand to the table, hidden Charlier cut action, here with breather crimp
 		2022
Shrouded Soul
93
Breather Crimp
2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1144
Ben Daggers Uncommon Sense finding several cards using the five senses and several humorous props
  • Part One: Sight
  • Part Two: Hearing
  • Part Three: Smell
  • Part Four: Touch
  • Part Five: Taste
 		2022
The Elusive Illusive
169
Joshua Jay Breather Cards at intervals in a memorized deck, how to make the breather crimp
 		2024
Particle System
24
Joshua Jay Super Breather different type of bend
 		2024
Particle System
25
Joshua Jay, Ben Harris, Steve Shufton Memorized X-Ray spectator cuts anywhere, turns card over, replaces top half and cases deck, performer divines card and names its position, four crimps
Inspired by
Related to
 2024
Particle System
68
Joshua Jay Breather Cutter spectator cuts deck in the hands and remembers bottom card of top half that he cut to, performer divines it, four crimps
Inspired by
 2024
Particle System
72
Curtis Hickman "Hickman's" Optical Shuffle a mixture between a cut shuffle, optical shuffle and back and front and back shuffle
  • Part I: The Overhand Cut-Shuffle
  • Part II: The Optical Shuffle
  • Part III: Putting It All Together
  • Credits and History
 		2025
Hickman's Unfinished Lecture Notes
15
Juha-Matti Ristiharju Card Control essay on card controls, Breather crimp control
  • A Little About Key Cards
  • Breather Crimp
  • Controlling the Breather
  • Controlling Cards with Breather
  • Other Possibilities
  • Other Style Controls
 		2025
For Friends
15
Juha-Matti Ristiharju Totally Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
2025
For Friends
129
Putting in a breather crimp
2025
Things That Go Bump In The Night
31