(bangs on board)
- [Chris Ramsay] This is how I perform in close-up magic.
I walk around with a close-up pad,
and I'm just like, oh, ladies and gentlemen,
I want to show you a little bit of
a card effect here, it works the glutes.
If you actually take a card and put your hand on top of it,
and press down, you can get it to stick to your hand.
Hold on, oh, almost, it like sticks to your hand,
and then it looks like it vanishes,
because it stuck to your hand, so look.
Ah, geeze, okay, hold on, oh, there it is, there is it,
okay, gone, gone forever and we'll never see it again.
Yeah, I have no idea where it went, to be quite honest.
You can also use other things like this.
Here, we got this ordinary notepad, completely ordinary.
And we're just going to leave the card under the notepad,
and it actually, if you have a look, it's gone, yeah.
It traveled through the...
That's the Rub-a-Dub Vanish, you want to learn it?
♪ Mic check, mic check, one two, one two ♪
♪ Gotta raspy voice and now whatcha gonna do? ♪
I'm just kidding, hi, welcome back.
For those of you who notice, my voice sounds like
I could be a voice actor today.
(dramatic overture) One man, one deck of cards.
Chevy Silverado, like a rock.
I think I've got a career in this.
What's goin' on guys?
Welcome back, just got back from New York.
(groans)
Which is kind of strange, man.
Turns out there was like a bombing,
like a couple blocks away from where we were staying.
I hope everybody's safe in New York, staying safe.
Kinda scary, but hopefully today
we're can take your mind off the bad world,
and bring you some magic, some much needed magic
into your lives, that's right ladies and gentlemen, today's
(mumbling)
Today we're going to learn about one, vanish...
One of my favorite card vanishes,
probably actually my favorite impromptu card vanish.
This is also known as The Rub-a-Dub.
Best card sleight name ever, right?
Am I right? Rub-a-Dub.
(classical music) Ladies and gentlemen,
today you are going to witness the Rub-a-Dub.
Children, shield your eyes.
(whistle)
(mouth pop)
Ooh, where'd it go?
So that's one way of doing it.
They're many ways of doing the Rub-a-Dub.
I'm going to walk in to a few of those moves,
two of them in particular and help you guys
routine something, if you wanna learn to routine,
but this is, I would say, an intermediate slight.
It starts off pretty awkward if you're just practicing
but after you get the hang of it, I'm going to give
you a few tips that's going to make your brain melt.
So the Rub-a-Dub has a bit of a history.
Expert card technique, I believe, Dai Vernon,
and also Ed Marlo, yeah, the two heavy hitters
in card magic, Ed Marlo had a similar routine
which he called Rub-Away, where you just
rub one off and the card would vanish.
There are face-up versions, there are
a whole bunch of different visual
versions of Rub-a-Dub, I'm going to teach you
my handling on the Rub-a-Dub and why
I think it's the cleanest one of them all.
So without further ado, my little ram-fam army,
let's get into the tutorial right now.
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
All right, so first thing's first,
I wanna teach you a version which requires
a surface, something I do not have right here,
so let's get a surface.
(whistles)
There we go, okay, this is my favorite version
of the Rub-a-Dub and it looks something like this.
Gone!
How I usually perform this is not just like that,
so I'll have a table normally or something else
you can use your knee, you can use
somebody's cell phone, you can use
the back of their head, which I wouldn't
recommend unless they're very small
because it makes it a lot easier
if you do it on small children, okay?
But basically the routine that I have
is to explain it, I'm going to show you
how a magician makes a card vanish,
(chanting music) how he makes it disappear.
If you put a card down and you press it
to your hand hard enough with some moisture,
some moist, moist... - Moist.
- [Chris Ramsay] It can stick to the palm and look
like it vanishes, let me try that again.
Just kind of stick it, there we go,
okay, yep, yep, there it goes, see
how it kind of looks like it vanishes?
Now you're left here, which is super awkward,
so then all you gotta do is, oh, and it's gone.
The reason I like that version
is because you're sort of conditioning their mind
to remember something that isn't necessarily there.
Your mind has a tendency to delete things
that don't matter, okay, so by doing this
on the first try, they're remembering this image,
the image of the card here and the card on my hand,
they're remembering this image,
and then I'm instantly sort of
picking up where I was, doing it again,
and now I have nothing, and so their brain
only remembers this image and then this image,
and puts it together, so a lot of the magic
is actually happening in their mind holes.
That's that, and how to do this?
Now, normally a lot of Rub-a-Dubs,
let me grab my table here, lot of Rub-a-Dubs,
people do this on the inside and then
they cover it up and then it goes away.
They kind of like, and although I think that's okay,
the technique that I use makes it,
I think, just the visual retention of the card
is a little bit stronger and what I do is
that I actually let the card protrude on the other side.
And that illusion of the card being there
makes it so much harder for the mind
to perceive that it shouldn't be there,
or that it isn't, you know what I mean.
How this is done, basically what you're going to do,
and again, there are different ways
to do Rub-a-Dub, you can do, some people
like to do it here where they go like this,
and then it's gone, you know, I think it's cool,
I'm just so used to doing it my way.
So this basically, you're going to hold the deck
like this and all you're doing is, your thumb,
your dealer's grip, and your thumb's going to come
over here, so on the far side of this side,
push all the way over until it's literally
not even contacting the deck, okay?
You're trying to push it past the deck
as far as possible and sort of your middle finger
and ring finer here are, hold on, focus,
your middle finger and ring finger here
are the ones holding onto it, okay?
And the move looks like this and then
as you come back you slide it back.
(upbeat music)
This is all you're doing, really,
all you have to do is practice that,
but what makes it really appealing
is that the visual retention, there's
a misdirection happening because if I'm here
and I'm showing this, this hand retracts,
there's no protruding card, and this hand's here
and they remember seeing the image of the card
being right here and so there's no time
for it to go back to the deck because
your hand's already back here and
that makes it very, very strong.
You're here, your hand's going to come over top,
and just let it protrude just a bit,
and right before I'm going to go down,
that's when I'm going to start retracting.
So without my hand, it kind of looks like this.
Okay, I know that makes no sense whatsoever,
but that's what's happening except
with my hand there, it looks really good.
I'm looking at the camera right now, the monitor,
and I'm like, ooh!
That is the Rub-a-Dub Vanish and again,
don't just do the vanish, you can do
you know, there's like the invisible
cards routine, or the traveling
invisible cards where you're here,
you know the card goes away and then
you're like, oh, it's in the box
and then they lift the box and it's underneath
or something, you can have it like also
travel to your pocket, so you're like, boom,
I'm going to put it in this pocket,
which is pretty crazy, but look
it's actually over in this pocket
and they can check your pocket,
yeah, don't have them do that,
so that's the rou...
There's a whole bunch of routines that you can
do with this, so imagine it's the ability
to make a card vanish, either a selection,
a random card, it can also be used to,
let's say you have an object, all right.
I've got this little notepad, now I can say
okay, we're going to leave the card
under the notepad and we'll get back to that in a second.
The idea is that it looks like you're placing
something under something else,
you can leave it there and then you can
palm off a selection and then, you know,
sort of go get it and say, oh, it was
a five of clubs under here the whole time.
Simple idea, but there's a lot
you can do, so the idea is that you're
vanishing a card and you can bring it back.
Or you don't have to, you can let it
sort of be vanished in the nether of the universe
and that's your choice, your life, you do what you want.
The other Rub-a-Dub Vanish, my voice,
the other Rub-a-Dub vanish, an ariel of it,
no, it's not an ariel, it's just kind of like,
if you're not at a table and you want to make it look like
it vanishes, I love this, let me do this
for the camera here so you guys can see this.
(mouth pop)
It kind of like, you see it the last minute
and Bebel does this, he kind of
does it from here, so he kind of just
(mouth pop)
and makes it disappear, which is the same principle,
except you're like, you're clamping down on it,
and Bebel does it and he goes
(mouth pop)
and it's like, oh, where'd it go?
And he goes, oh, I produced it, it's right here.
And he has this whole routine which is beautiful,
but what I like to do is instead
have them see the face because
I think that this just looks really good.
And the reason for that, it's kind of like
the perception controls, you know when you're here
and you see a card and then you do down here,
whomp, and so you have this window
right here, in that window anything can happen.
Cards can shift, cards can move,
you have like a small window between
the last point when they see the card
and when they start seeing the back of the cards.
It's a small window but you can get used to it,
so when they see the card here,
you know, here, I'll take this card
and we'll just hold it over here
and boom, boom, boom, boom.
(finger snap)
Oh, it's over here now, it's over here.
I don't know, whatever you want to do.
Honestly, there's 1,000,010 routines
you can do with it, you're here, basically same thing,
and again, you can let it protrude,
that space and your thumb and hand's going to come over it
so practice like, just practice
grabbing a card and what that would look like.
That's kind of what it would look like.
If I were to grab a card like that
in that fashion, would be like this, right?
So again, you can condition them and be like,
oh look, I'm going to make this card disappear
in a second if I just sprinkle some hemp seed and
(mouth pop)
gone, gone in the hemp seed, so whatever you want to do.
That's, oh, I got a text, very cool,
very cool, a text message, I'm going to have
so much energy, I had a protein shake,
I went to the gym, I'm like feeling it, guys.
I'm feeling it, I'm getting in shape.
I have no voice, I'm dead inside.
Here, all right, same thing.
You're going to bring it up, you're going to go over,
and as soon as they lose sight of that card,
as soon as you're here, at the same time
as you're going down this is going to be retracted.
So here, retracted, and then immediately
this hand goes away so you're here
all right, they see that card, they see
that for the last second.
(mouth pop)
Gone, gone, gone, where'd it go, who knows?
No one will ever know, peace, that's it.
That's it, so I'm not wearing any socks.
So yeah, who's going to pick that up?
Not me, anyways guys, play around
with some routines, you know, try
to figure something out and don't hesitate
to tag me unless it's bad and then,
don't put my name on it, but if it's good,
tag me, I'd love to see it, love to see your ideas.
Come up with a little routine, you know,
place it under a mat, under a box,
under a phone, under a car, whatever you want to do.
Okay, out y'all.
Okay, so that, there you have it,
that was a Rub-a-Dub Vanish and what to do with it.
I hope you guys enjoyed that, again,
one of my favorite things to do.
It can be done like, you don't even
have to produce it after, that's what's beautiful
about this, it's just kind of like
the card vanishes and they're like,
what, what happened, what, wait, what, what, what, what?
And you're like yeah, I know.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed that,
I had a great time in New York.
I got some more footage for you guys
this week as I said, I've got my talk coming up,
I performed some magic for Gabriel Sayegh,
he runs a fitness channel, you should check him out.
Did a really cool, really cool effect on him
and then I also filmed something with
Mike Boyd, Mike Boyd who runs Learn Quick,
so stay tuned for that, lots of content coming,
lots of content, lots of content coming at you.
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will be soon, okay, all right, peace.
Close-up pad, and you can just, oh, that was crap.
- [Button] Flush.
- [Chris Ramsay] Stop, these things, by the way, lot of fun.
So if you're at a convention and someone
shows you a magic trick, just like,
as soon as they show you, you bring this out,
you just go, oh, that was cool, man.
- [Button] Flush.
- [Chris Ramsay] And then just, and then just walk
to the corner of the room and stand here like this.