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“This is the hardest one handed display ever created. I mean, this really IS crazy.

Have you ever tried doing a simple house of cards onto a table?

Have you tried doing it using only one hand?

Now try it without a table and form this huge sculpture in 40 seconds!!!

This is insane…

If you like good card flourishes or at least you have played The Legend of Zelda then I’ll understand if you can’t stop replaying this video over and over again.”

-Alejandro Portela

“I did play legend of zelda myself and forming a one-handed triforce is an idea that has been tickling that fractal-friendly mind of mine ever since I did my first square struct.
The complex nature of that particular structure obviously wouldn’t allow me to do a quick and flashy formation, yet I wanted something pleasing to watch…
The solution was to make the formation itself a crazy recasting sequence, made of structures like the pentagon, the square in pentagon, the house, and the triple triad, leading to that dream-come-true climax.”

-Ryoma
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19 Responses to “Legend of Zelda’s TRIFORCE One Handed Display with Playing Cards”

1. TheCuso Says:
   August 19th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

   Who is going to digg, stumbleupon, reddit and retweet this first?

   Ryoma is sick!

2. Mighty Guy Says:
   August 19th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

   OMG Thats just awesome!
   Makes me want to go play some Zelda! LOL

3. Comatose Says:
   August 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

   Refreshing and new, that’s ryoma for you!
   Couldn’t resist. Niiice vid. 5 Stars ;)

4. michael tyler Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 2:41 am

   Always original, that’s why I like my friend Ryoma :)

5. ShoeMan Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 2:53 am

   impossible :<

6. trashface Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 6:36 pm

   well, this idea is surely half-baked but it does smell good in the oven.

   since you’re obviously not a quitter I imagine in a year or two you’ll post a video of yourself executing one of these at a better speed. till then its just your standard ryoma vid, “great concepts done poorly”

7. Ryoma Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 8:00 pm

   Thanks for the nice comments everyone, I’m sorry about redoing a vid of a move that was already in another vid of mine but at least the atmosphere was made different ^_^

   @trashface:
   I don’t know who you are (most likely a poor trashman impersonation), but you should re-read my paragraph to understand better what that vid is, or maybe you should watch the vid before commenting… we obviously aren’t talking about the same thing given all the other commments here and on youtube.

8. Nebelfuchs Says:
   August 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 pm

   Nice video man. The different editing is refreshing for a change.

   @trashface and all the other haterz:
   I wish I could see your stupid faces when Ryoma’s next video will be out. Structure work and routining at it’s best. It will be enough to make all you haterz and hardcorez shut up once and for all.

9. Jamal Says:
   August 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 am

   I thought you don’t like when people say the word “haterz”?

10. Ryoma Says:
    August 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 am

    thanks Nebel :) sliders ftw :D

11. Hiro Says:
    August 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Nice display Ryoma. I really liked the way you built up on each structure to finally get the triforce.

    Also I thought I recognised the music but wasn’t sure until the end. It was nice to hear some X Japan in a video.

12. Nebelfuchs Says:
    August 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    @Jamal… Once more, I’m in awe of your ignorance. You don’t even realize when you’re being made fun of.

    Sliders ftw. :D

13. -Mike- Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 4:35 am

    Yeah, white castles is pretty good…

14. Ryoma Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    lol didn’t know about those square burgers, they don’t exist here. xD Thanks for sharing that burger knowledge, you’re definitely not “McDonald’s Mike” for nothing :D

15. Ryoma Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    @Hiro : I’m glad some people do see it as a recasting sequence and not as a single card struct :) :)
    As for X-Japan haha I used to be a big fan of j-rock, I didn’t expect people to recognize it, well done ^___^

16. Jamal Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    Triforce elites?

17. Leo Says:
    September 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 am

    Editing was lame, cut was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18. Ryoma Says:
    September 2nd, 2009 at 4:07 am

    thanks Leo, if you disliked such editing then you may really enjoy the FunWithAces collab the move was originally featured in amongst other crazy stuff. Be sure to check it out ;)

19. Finley Says:
    September 19th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    what a amazing thing! way ot branch out of the box. i saw kate do parts of the pyramid around the fourth of july. I love to see the progression. i never thought someone would able to do that.

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