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Inside the Elegant, Mesmerizing Subculture of Card Juggling

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The video is almost entirely in slow motion though, I looked it up and prefer to see them in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_M_aRtX-bA (does have some slow times but only for a second at a time)

I liked some of those tricks a lot. Others made me slightly anxious. Very strange

Oddly enough this was a hobby of mine along with doing close-up magic as a child - and is still something I enjoy doing when I'm thinking (I like keeping a deck of cards near my desk). I think after holding cards and constantly doing tricks - this became the next extension of playing with cards.

I think it's definitely similar to skateboarding or playing improv jazz on the piano where a number of small moves must be mastered to then allow you to stack them together rather than full sequences that have to be perfectly mastered. A good place to start is with Fold 2.0 if you're interested in something easy that looks cool[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3goA-Ci6t8

Couldn't tell if the writer was being subtlely ironic about the origin of the term poop deck, but presumably it's some kind of play on the nautical phrase "poop deck". The latter term originates from "la poupe", which is the French word for "stern".

I think you're just misunderstanding. He is not talking about the origin of the word, "poop deck" in normal English vernacular. He is referring to why these Cardists call worn out decks, "poop decks": because the video referencing the "poop deck" was shot in a bathroom with his bathroom deck he keeps in there

I wonder if that'd be good manual-dexterity training for medical students who aspired to become surgeons, the way years of playing piano and guitar made it easy for me to learn to touch-type when I was a teenager.

“If anyone wants to make a living out of it, I don’t think it’s possible" ... challenge issued! (From a cardist, no less.)

Cool to watch, weird as a hobby. Thats what makes hobbies interesting though.

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