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- Yeah, what's up guys? Welcome back.
Today, we're back with another Magic Monday,
as you can tell by the caption, the thumbnail,
and the intro.
We're gonna be teaching you a really cool
slight-of-hand card trick,
so get out your deck of cards, crack your knuckles,
and let's get to learning.
Before I do, another topic of magic,
a friend of mine Tobias Dostile who is an incredible artist,
I sat down with Tobias last year in Las Vegas.
He was producing this magic trick,
which you guys can buy right now.
I'll leave the link below.
I'm not getting paid to talk about this,
he's a friend of mine.
This is a dope trick, probably one of the greatest things
that I've seen in years.
Definitely the greatest thing I've seen all last year
in terms of magic tricks.
Tobias is an artist and we talked about this trick
that he's releasing, which uses his art and magic.
And it's basically using his shadow.
And here's kind of what it looks like,
you can see him plucking the card out of his shadow
and putting it back.
It's just so creative.
There's so many different things you can do with this.
I believe he has a routine with a rose.
He does hand stuff, so like sort of shadow puppets
with like bunnies
and all sorts of really really cool things.
At one point he produces like a C3PO
and it's super magical and it can be done literally
with an iPhone light, just on a blank wall anywhere,
in a hallway, wherever you'd like.
Or you can play this for a massive stage
if you have a big projecting light,
this can play for a thousand people.
So it's something really cool that transcends
a sort of close-up stage illusion thing,
reminds me a lot of what Teller did with the rose.
So here's a bit of Tobias talking about this.
- [Tobias] With this project I'm bringing out now,
it's actually the first time I've gotten to combine
this art stuff I'm doing with the magic stuff
that was always running kind of parallel.
I mean, there always was inspiration in (mumbles)
but it was separated always, like you know.
If you do art, you don't wanna, the art speaks for itself,
you don't have to stand next to it and do magic tricks.
The art is already like,
I think art can maybe do more than a magic trick,
it's like a bigger picture.
- So I left the link below to that
if you guys are interested.
I fully vouch for this product.
I've seen first-hand, I think it's amazing.
The gimmick is incredible.
I'm gonna stop ranting about it,
but it's really cool and you guys should
definitely check it out if you're learning.
If you wanna learn something new over the summer
and sort of freak your friends out,
this is actually really good.
Today, we are here for a tutorial.
We're gonna be learning portal,
so my variation of portal by Dan Buck.
This was, I believe, first released in the trilogy
and basically where a card is selected,
lost in one side of your hand,
and appears on the other side.
You're creating like a portal,
where it like teleports from one hand to the other.
Visual, slight-of-hand intensive a little bit,
you guys can practice.
Without any further ado, let's get into learning portal.
Alight, so for this trick I'm going to be using
the Dan and Dave Red Smoke and Mirrors.
I don't know if these are still available
but if you're ever looking to buy playing cards.
You know I get hit up a lot,
people ask me where do I find the cards that I find.
How do I know what are good quality cards?
And I'm gonna be frank with you,
go to Art of Play, I'll leave the link below.
That's where I get probably 80 percent of my playing cards.
I'll leave the link below if you're ever shopping
for playing cards, definitely use that link.
It helps support me as well, so much appreciated.
So first of all, what you wanna do is get a spread.
They're gonna touch a card,
so let's say they touch this one here.
So what you're gonna do is use this side of the spread
to turn over this card and now your middle finger
is going to be on this card here, okay?
I'm gonna slide this over and I'm gonna use this card
to turn it over and as that card turns over,
my middle finger is going to pass it to my thumb,
sort of clipped, just like that, okay?
So again, if I were to turn this one,
I would use this one like this.
There's kind of an illusion happening
because your eye is following one thing
and you're seeing another.
So while you're seeing this turn over,
your eye is kind of being thrown another image
of that being turned over.
So it's kind of following along,
which is kind of a cool illusion.
You can also just drop it on the deck like that
if you like, but for this purpose of this trick,
you need to turn it.
And then as that turns, you need to grab that one,
because now you're in position
to placing it within the fan.
So you want to place it roughly around the middle.
You're going to feel it on this index finger here,
you're going to feel it sort of rubbing
against that index finger when you place it.
Here is the tricky move,
because now your get ready over here
is basically pushing this card out
and getting like a straddle grip on the index and pinky.
Okay, but that has to be covered,
you can't do that like this 'cause that's a bit awkward.
So you're gonna wanna cover it up
with maybe half of these.
So you're gonna come here and as you bring your hands over
you're gonna get ready for the straddle.
You're gonna grab everything except for
the card that is there, right?
So my index is the only card,
the only finger on that card right now.
I've got a little spread.
All I'm gonna do is use my index and middle finger
and I'm gonna put my pinky down here to stop that
and I'm just gonna pull it down.
Super simple, right?
We'll get into that motion again.
So you're here, you show them this card,
and you don't have to be all, you know,
oh here's your card, there's another card.
You don't have to be all jerky.
It can be a nice, smooth motion.
The nine of diamonds.
We're gonna place it somewhere in the middle
until it hits my index,
like the pad of my index finger here.
I'm going to get ready by doing this,
but I'm gonna do that underneath the spread here
so that's covered.
I can release everything at this point,
which is great.
I'm kind of holding everything here
and you're just gonna pull apart where that card is.
So wherever in the spread that card is,
that's where you're gonna pull apart.
So now you're left with only that card under the spread.
That one can be pulled down, like we said.
Again, all you're doing is this.
You're just literally hiding it.
And here's the cool thing, the pressure on the pinky
and on the index finger is gonna create this like bubble,
right, if I squeeze them together.
And now if I let go of my index, that card shoots out.
And you're not gonna wannna shoot it out,
you're gonna wanna catch that in the spread.
Now this card, three of clubs.
Place it in the middle, I feel it on my index.
I am going to do the get ready as I come around here.
Let go of everything except for that card,
as you can see.
Now I have a spread over here, a spread over here.
This card is freely moving, I can make it vanish slowly
or I can make it vanish fast
and then this is going to pop out just like that.
You close everything up and you can extract that card
and show them that it's the same card, okay?
Now the trickiest part of all of this
is definitely gonna be this here.
This is a bit of a nuisance to learn,
but once you get the hang of it,
it allows the card to pop out.
I'm gonna try to catch it with this hand.
There you go, kind of like that.
It's gonna be a little bit more difficult to get.
It's a knack, definitely a knack,
especially when you're here and you gotta come around
and place the rest of the cards, you know, overtop.
So now you're left in a position where you're like this,
that card's bending to the pinky and index
and the rest of the spread is on top,
so that when you flick it out, it gets sandwiched
between that spread.
So again, you wanna do the turnover here.
I wanna push it until I feel it on my index, right there.
Here, I'm gonna do my get ready,
but as I do my get ready, I'm gonna bring my other hand over
canceling that motion, sort of hiding it.
And now I'm gonna let go of everything.
So if you can see here, I literally let go of everything
except for that card.
Right, that card is the one, that's my guide right there.
That lets me know where the spread separates.
Now I have two spreads.
I have one where the card is underneath.
And I have another one where their actual selection is.
I'm going to make that disappear in any way you want,
you can do it slow, you can do it fast.
And over here, oop, see?
Sometimes she just doesn't go.
And over here, (laughs) it shoots out.
Now, in a real-life situation, if it does shoot out,
it doesn't matter that much
because it's still gonna be magical.
Keep it over a table, maybe it'll shoot across the table.
That's cool.
But ideally, you'll wanna control it to a point
where it doesn't shoot out as much
and you can sort of stall it in mid-flight,
kind of like that.
That is my version of the portal by Dan and Dave.
Practice makes perfect, definitely not an easy move.
You gotta learn how to spread, first of all,
you gotta be comfortable with that switch,
which I might add is probably a lot easier
in the double they teach,
but the double they teach is really really good.
You're here, you gotta be able to do that get ready
as you grab everything except for that card.
That's gotta be done in a swift motion,
can't take too long 'cause you don't want that to be fishy.
That disappears, that reappears.
Sometimes it'll shoot out, it'll be like right there.
Like how cool is that?
But yeah, with practice, you'll get the knack of it.
And that's it for portal.
Alright guys, thanks so much for watching.
Hope you enjoyed that, hope you practice this move.
Again, thank you to Dan and Dave for allowing me
to teach this.
Check out Art of Play if you're looking for playing cards.
Check out my buddy Tobias's release
if you guys wanna learn that as well.
Something really cool for you to dabble with.
And we'll see you guys on Wednesday for another puzzle.
Go Raptors, in five!
And we'll see you then, peace.
- [Woman] (speaking in a foreign language)
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