- Alright folks, so normally I do this big B roll entrance,
this whole cinematic whatever,
but honestly, this is a trick that I use a lot
and it's just a go to, you don't need any set up really.
You just grab two cards that look alike,
and this is what it looks like.
This is a uncut performance of this effect.
I'm gonna get these two kings,
they're gonna help find your card in a second,
but for now I'd like you just to
take a card out, this one here.
(energetic music)
That's the four of hearts, perfect.
We'll leave the four of hearts somewhere
in the middle of the deck and using these two cards,
the two kings, I'm going to find your card.
Here's how we're going to do that.
If I just estimate, I think somewhere
(inhales deeply)
I think somewhere right about,
I think that's actually perfect.
(energetic music)
Here we go, it was your card.
The four of hearts between the two kings.
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
That's it guys, I'm gonna teach you a few ways
to get into that and how to perform it.
Super simple trick, very fun to do.
Something you can do on the fly.
Something that I do as a bit of a go to
when someone asks me to see a trick.
It's one of them that I pull out of my sleeve so
I hope you enjoy it and let's get into it.
Yo, what's going on guys, welcome back.
Today we're going to be taking a look at a go to effect
for a lot of magicians, myself included,
something you can do without any preparation at all.
It is the hot shot cut, a way to produce a selection
in an aerial manner and catch it in your other hand.
I'm also going to teach how to catch it between two cards,
which is a cool little variation.
I saw, actually, David Blaine use this
for the first time years ago on a special
and since then I've been doing it.
(laughs rapidly)
It's nothing super complicated,
but it adds a little bit to the effect.
I'm gonna show you guys two ways to do a one handed cut,
so you're gonna learn two different types
of one handed cuts in this tutorial,
so crack your knuckles.
Also, for those of you who haven't
checked out yesterday's video,
I uploaded a video yesterday, a vlog,
where I performed some magic,
some really cool and strong, powerful sort of
mentalism and prediction magic.
Check that out if you've got a sec,
and stay tuned for Wednesday.
I'm gonna be dropping the b ball videos
when me and Wes Barker went one on one in basketball.
The results are interesting, I'm just gonna say that.
No spoilers, but it's gonna be an epic video.
Hope you guys tune in for that.
But without further ado,
let's get into the hot shot tutorial.
The first one handed cut's gonna look something like this.
Kinda like the midnight shift, just like that.
You're going to obviously do it a little bit differently,
but that's what it looks like if you were to just
cut the cards and the second one is going to look like this
(soft music)
Alright, so those are the two
cuts that you're going to learn.
So hold it in straddle grip and you're going to
put your index beside your middle finger,
and then from here you're going to let go
of every finger except the thumb and the index,
and your middle finger is going
to travel to where your thumb is.
Now if you have small hands you can use your ring finger,
but normally this should not be a problem.
You're obviously gonna have to stretch these fingers
out a bit so at first it will be a little bit difficult,
but just, you know, work through it.
This finger goes on this side,
and then you're going to add pressure
with the middle finger this way
and it's gonna automatically split the deck.
Now once you're here,
(music)
okay, you're going to close it up
and you're gonna notice your index
is still underneath, is still caught here,
and that index is what's going to
allow you to pull out one card
to the side just like that,
I said one card, okay, get back in line.
One card like this so you're like
in this little gun position
Now once you're here, your middle finger is going
to apply pressure here, right on the corner.
So again you're gonna do that
midnight shift where you're here,
wrap it around and your index is going to get caught there.
Like I said, this part of your index right here
is going to rub that card so it kinda comes out like a gun.
Once you're here you wanna close up the deck a little bit
don't leave too much of a gap,
cause if you leave that gap there'll be
no pressure for the card to build up.
So as you're here you'll wanna close that gap
and you wanna use your middle finger
and get to the pip right here,
and just apply pressure upwards
it'll eventually just fly out and spin.
Alright, that was a very bad example.
But in real time, you're here.
(upbeat music)
You're gonna have to practice just
holding a deck like this, oh that's weird
I just came up with something.
You need to practice holding the deck like this
so that you can do that,
and then once you're here,
boom, and it pops out.
The second cut, however, is a little
bit more complicated, maybe not.
Maybe for some of you it'll actually be easier.
You're gonna start off like a charlier,
so just like you were about to do
a charlier cut or a revolution cut.
So this is kinda like an opposite of the revolution cut
cause you're not going this way
you're actually gonna go the other way,
and how that works is I'm going to
move my index and middle finger out of
the way and I'm going to just move my thumb forward,
so my thumb is going to move forward,
and that's gonna cause this portion
to rotate this way instead of this way.
You're here, move these out of the way,
and now what's gonna happen is your index,
so I'm holding it with the ring and thumb right now
and I'm doing this kinda motion because
I wanna get my index where my thumb is.
That's gonna be hard for some of you,
but that's gonna take practice.
So index where the thumb is now
I'm literally holding it between
my ring finger and my index here.
That's all that's holding this deck right now.
Your thumb is then gonna come in
where your ring finger is and now
your pinky here is gonna hold onto
that bottom packet as you go behind,
almost like revolver or trigger.
So it's a little bit like that,
so if you're practicing those flourishes
you actually might be able to do this a lot easier.
So you're here, half the pack is split.
You're going to move the index and middle finger
out of the way so that your ring
finger can slightly rotate it.
As it slightly rotates,
your index is gonna come to where your thumb is,
now you're holding it between the
ring finger and the index only.
(soft music)
Your thumb is gonna come behind and grab that,
so now you're holding it only
between the index and the thumb,
and you wanna get this packet to go behind this.
So right here is your pinky and
that pinky is gripping that bottom
packet so I can go around here.
Line it up. Same thing, your index is stuck in there,
which is perfect, which gets the card out,
and then you can shoot out the card.
So those are the two cuts. Look at that again.
I'm not gonna go through it any longer,
I think that's enough and I think you guys can
just go back and look at it if you'd like.
I can give you a little bit of
behind the back angle if you'd like.
Not sure if this'll help but, here,
index, thumb, come to the back, shoots out.
And the other one, index and thumb,
middle finger comes here,
splits that packet, brings it underneath.
This card's already jogged out.
So those are the two one handed cuts
that you're gonna learn for this.
How do we apply this? Very simple.
All you need to do is to control a selection to the bottom.
Now use any means necessary.
In some other video I taught you guys
the single card straddle pass,
which is this here, it controls the card to the bottom
if you want to learn that I'll leave the video
up somewhere so you guys can find that,
but, oh a poop deck.
So you're here, this card goes into the
bottom of the deck right here, I've controlled it.
You kinda get lost in it because it's a cut.
You kinda don't know exactly what's happening,
so you can't really follow it.
The quicker you do it and the quicker
you get into, I think the better it is.
Control the card at the bottom and then say
I'm going to just give this deck one cut
and actually find your card
over there, it landed over there.
Your card is now there.
So the idea, you control, you can use a double undercut
so if they wanna say stop whenever they want
you look at that card right here, they got it.
Perfect, I'll give this a few cuts.
Now I've controlled it obviously to the bottom,
and once I'm here you can do one of the two cuts,
so if you wanna do this one here,
which is the one I use the most,
and then it pops out.
Or you can do the other one, again, which is this.
I think that one, you get into it a lot quicker
with that one, which is really cool.
Now for the bonus little thing.
I'm gonna show you guys how to catch
a card between two other cards.
This is a very cool thing.
And the idea is the card is shot
and caught between two other selections.
How to start this trick, well you wanna grab
two, let's say two queen cards.
We'll go with the two black kings here.
We got the two black kings,
you can leave those on top, it's fine.
They can take a card out,
so let's say the seven of hearts.
You say, "I'm gonna lose the seven
of hearts into the pack somewhere.
So I think if I'm not mistaken,
I think it should be right around here.
(soft music)
Just like that, between the two kings,
as I said, your selection."
It's a cool magical, nifty, skillful way of
catching a card between two others.
Very simple, you don't need super sticky hands.
You don't need saliva, but obviously if you
have really dry hands you can get some lotion,
stuff like that, that always helps with card handling.
People with really dry hands, you get some lotion
but just any hand lotion would be fine.
Just make sure your hands aren't super oily either.
The idea is if you press it from
the middle you can do it,
but a lot of times what's gonna happen
is that bottom card is gonna come up
with the top card, or both of them will just stay down.
What I like to do, in this case, is pinch,
move this off to the side and then it seems
like it just, because the pressure is
here and here with my index, it's not at the same spot.
So if I separate that pressure it
becomes a lot easier to manage.
So I'm here, I get ready, I test it a little bit.
Okay, I'm good to go, and now,
(soft music)
boom, their selection in between two.
So that's it. I don't know if there's any other
finer points I should go through,
but honestly just practicing this cut
is really cool, I mean it's something you can
apply to cardistry as well as this one here.
These are both cuts that you can grab two identical cards,
bring them to the top, have them choose a card,
control it to the bottom, whatever you wanna do.
(cards shuffling)
Once you're there, you take the two top cards,
you get ready, "I think your card is somewhere
right around there."
So that's that. Hope you enjoyed it.
Practice it and stay safe, stay fit, and have fun.
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