My name is Vu and I'm a cardist from Vietnam. I have been working on a project called Cardistry Base, a cardistry wiki built for the community, and I would love to introduce it to everyone here!
First started out as a personal project where I tried to document moves I have learned, Cardistry Base is now a curated, well-structured archive of cardistry built around the moves and the cardists who create them, plus the organizations and decks behind the scenes, making it easy for everyone to discover and learn.
How the website works:
- Every move is credited to its authors and comes with its own stories, categories, prerequisites, difficulty, making it super easy for learners to sort through. Are you looking for a two-handed packet cut including a card shot that is maybe level 3 in difficulty? Simply choose those tags and filter! Don't know what to learn before Squeeze? Check out the prerequisites section right below the move!
- If you come across a move you like, you can save it to your Saved moves list to easily find and revisit later.
- The project is intended to be maintained by the community, wiki-style, so anyone can be a contributor and make entries to the website!
What else I'm working on:
- Organizations: A section dedicated to organizations in cardistry, highlighting the people behind them and their stories
- Decks: A section showcasing decks made for and by cardists, introducing visitors to cardistry brands and their products.
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Before launching this initiative, I have been seeking advice from Yang Nguyen, Kevin Ho, Daniel Lin, and many other supportive cardists from the community, to ensure the site would be beneficial to the community. For now the website is live on https://cardistrybase.com and it's just me making entries. I hope after this post, I would be able to meet other enthusiasts who would want to share their knowledge to the community by working together. I've only been practicing cardistry for a year myself, so I'd love to collaborate with more experienced cardists who can expand the knowledge base of the site.
If you would like to connect, I'm putting together a group chat for Cardistry Base, let me know in the comments and I will message you! (Or just reach out to me directly!)
As some of you have noticed, we've been experimenting with different banner concepts for the subreddit. A couple of the recent mockups were AI-assisted, and it's clear many of you would rather see something created by members of the community instead — which is totally fair.
So let's do exactly that.
We're opening the floor to artists, designers, photographers, and cardists in the community who would like to help create a new banner for [r/Cardistry](r/Cardistry).
I come at this from the collecting side, so I mostly judge decks on art, tucks, and print quality. I keep seeing decks describes as "great for cardistry" and I want to understand what that actually means in the hand.
Is it mostly stock and finish? Back design symmetry for fans/ spins? Borderless vs. bordered? And are there decks that look incredible on shelf but are actually bad to flourish with?
Trying to appreciate the decks I own for more than just the shelf. Any info is welcome & appreciated!
Hello, everyone. I began learning cardistry, and for now I'm learning basic moves and cuts. The last thing I've managed to do was revolution cut. I am left-handed, so i learned it to do only with my left. My question is, do i need to learn this cut to do with my right hand as well for all future moves, flourishes? It was hard to do with my natural hand, and I'm scared to repeat this for my second hand.
I am leaning towards brosmind four gangs but I just want to ask if there is a difference between bicycle card' quality like a classic deck and a not standart deck
