- Thank you to James Coffy for hooking me up some coffee,
this hat by the way, so I know I haven't posted in some
days and I promise you guys a tutorial.
And today I'm gonna teach you something but first
I wanted to also talk about something.
On this channel I've taught lots of magic card,
magic coin, magic mentalism, you guys have learned
quite a bit and one question I often get asked is
Chris why don't you teach like full routines
that we can actually do.
And I have a little bit but I'm hesitant in doing so
and here's the reason, this channel is not about showing
you guys the exact routines that you can go out and perform.
And the reason for that is if we look at magic as an art
form, blatantly you're just taking someone's routine
and performing it verbatim as they taught it.
I mean that's not really art that's kind
of like tracing if your drawing, right.
I like to focus on the different moves, slights
and things that you guys can do and then fill you guys
in on some theory and then hopefully your creativity takes
flight and you guys can come up with your own routines.
And I think that's really the basis of magic that
should be your focus in magic, now learning moves
is important, learning slights is important but I think
all in all your creativity and your imagination is the most
important thing when it comes to magic and art.
So it's really up to you guys to take all these tools
and to create your own things, whether it's a force,
a peak, steel, control or color change or whatever it is.
It's up to you guys to take those little tools, put them
together and come up with your own justification,
your own story to present to the audience and that's
a really, really important thing.
So today I'm going to show you a move, I'm gonna show
you something that I love doing and I'm gonna tell you why
I love doing it, one of the reasons is because it feels
real, it feels like it's real, it feels like it's normal.
And the feeling I and I've said this in my last tutorial
the feeling is so much more important than the way it looks.
You can perfectly farrow a deck of cards in front
of the audience telling them how amazing it is,
how all of these cards are being intertwined and shuffled.
You know you're holding the cards and the spectator
kinda feels like well you're a magician and you're
probably doing something funny to those cards.
So I really want you guys to think about this, I really
want you guys to think about how the magic feels.
Does it feels like the cards are being shuffled,
I mean that weighs way more in my book than if it
looks like it's being shuffled.
Because if they feel it then they let go and they're not
looking for how you're doing it, they're kind of okay
with it 'cause they feel like it is shuffled so
so they're not thinking about it.
That's a very, very important thing, that's only something
I have started to learn later on in sort of my magic
career then at first the moves have to look great and the
slights have to be perfect but at the end of the day
it's all about feeling and does it feel real.
Danny Dorkey's is a great example of this
and Lennart Green these guys they kind of hold
the cards like this and they shuffle and they're all
like here take the cards and that just feels right,
it feels like wow okay card control is out of the window
because obviously those cards are shuffled.
Versus here look watch me shuffle and they're burning
your hands and everything, I think it's just one of those
things where if you feel it's right and they feel it's
right and then you can move forward with the actual magic
and the performance and not concentrate on the move so much.
Enough ranting I'm gonna get into this tutorial
something that I use quite a bit but before I do
something cool came in the mail, this here, check this out.
This is a sort of pyramid box sent to me by the guys over
at Theory11 and it's a puzzle box and that reveals
a rare deck of cards within it so let's check it out.
It's not really a puzzle box it's pretty much a level
one but it's a cool storage unit.
A lot of you guys were curious and commented on their
Instagram post and asked me to review this so just
gonna sort of quickly show you this
and we'll get into this tutorial.
A very, very cool keepsake to sort of keep on a shelf
it has a bit of a puzzle to sort of reveal something
not hard just literally had to play with it for 30 seconds.
And found out exactly how it worked but still pretty cool
so basically you have these different layers on the pyramid
you turn the first one, all right that one turned.
Second one doesn't turn, this one you try
and eventually oh, there you go that one turns and that's
a really cool mechanic that sort of reveals this rare deck
that's inside, this one happens to be the Jaqk Cellars deck
which was a super rare deck that they produced.
I don't own one of these I don't feel like opening it,
I kinda think it's cool that it's a keepsake.
Deep down I was wishing that there was a gold monarchs
in here kind not gonna lie, kinda disappointed
about this purple deck but I don't have it so
was pretty happy about that, so that goes back in
and you can close that right back up by turning that.
So once again just a cool thing, I'll leave the link
below where you guys can buy that if you're interested.
I know there stocks are pretty low 'cause these are all
hand made, just a pretty cool thing to keep on a desk.
I'm definitely gonna find a place for it on my shelf.
Turn that top one turn this one here and that slides open.
So the mechanics are really, really cool.
You got some cool little logos here as well
which are card playing car logos, just a cool
little thing to have on your shelf.
It has that feel, it feels like a puzzle, it sort of is.
It's kinda like Indiana Jones sort of thing,
once I get my background in order this is definitely
gonna have it's place on a shelf somewhere, but yeah.
All right let's get into the tutorial.
All right so this control here is something that I love
using and the reason I love using it is 'cause again it
feels right, it's just sort of hands off and very, very fair
and it leaves you a lot of room to focus on the performance.
So whatever that performance may be whether it's revealed,
whether it's a card to their pocket to your pocket,
whatever it is you can focus on that very, very easily.
So what you wanna do is focus, focus, focus here we go.
So what you wanna do is have them choose any card
at all so let's say the six of diamonds.
What you're gonna do is you're gonna fan out the cards
and you're gonna let them place their face card down
anywhere within the fan and ask them just to really push
it in as much as they can, you close up the fan and at this
what's really cool is that the work is all done for me.
I can really be hands off of this and I can talk,
concentrate, I can put the deck down, I could pick
it back up after and when I'm ready and only when I'm ready
I can give the cards a little dribble and control the card
either to the bottom or the top that's completely up to you.
And so what you wanna do from there that's again
that could be up to you, if you wanna just reveal it
in a way like okay your card here will cut and here it is.
Your six of diamonds you can go into a color change
or whatever you want but again the idea here is to just give
you a tool and then you create your own effect.
So let's say we want to control the card on the top
of the deck this time, let's take the four of hearts
face down place it anywhere in the deck push it in.
Close up the fan and at this point again I'm free to sort
of just handle the cards around and when I'm ready
I can do the move controlling my card to the top
or to the bottom whatever I wanna do but in this case
to the top, the four of hearts.
So that's on top obviously you can go for a double lift
and do some type of color change.
The worse color change in the world by the way
four of diamonds, the four of hearts.
Well you get the idea that's sort of a tool to help you out.
Let's get to the mechanics of this, super simple guys
this is really easy to learn, something you guys can apply
right away, all you really have to know how to do
is a fan and then from there you can double undercut
you can do whatever you want to control the card.
Once you fan the deck they're gonna place the card
anywhere in the middle, anywhere they want,
usually they just kind of try to push it in.
Hold a tight grip on this fan, you can even help them
push it in and you see it still protruding as I do
a fan close so basically you're just pivoting it around
your ring finger and closing it up.
As I do this I can shuck the deck forward boom like this
and if you notice in the back their is one card
protruding right here and that card is indeed
the selection of the spectator, okay.
The card gets placed in the center, we have the queen
of spades, they push it in, you close it up, you can
shuck the deck forward and at this point there's still
one card being in jogged right here.
And that is there selection right here so at this point
what's really cool, a lot of subtleties you can do with
in jog, wanna stop you don't wanna go for the control
right away because again that feels fishy.
You just kinda wanna be hands off, look that was your card
free selection you can put it anywhere back in the deck.
Here's a really cool subtlety you can do, is you can take
this deck from this hand and you can just drop it in this
hand here and you still retain that in jog.
So that in jog stays there the entire time no matter
how many times I go back and forth there's still one
card in jogged and it doesn't have to be crazy
in jogged it could be a little bit as long
as you see it you'll be able to control it.
Very, very simple, queen of spades goes in they push it
do this boom I've got that in jogged I can talk here
and we're still good if I want to control it to the top
I push down on the card, hold my break if I want to control
to the bottom, I lift up on the card and hold the break.
That simple, very, very simple so at this point I'm gonna
control it to the bottom 'cause I'm gonna do like a top
shot reveal so push down hold that break.
I can do a pass at this point but you can also just
double undercut casually, you can give the cards a quick
shuffle whatever you want to do.
The card is now, oops, the card is not controlled
to the top so it's on top I can't do the hot shot so what
I can do is just maybe cyclone boom.
There it is your card, so that's completely up to you.
Sorry for ranting I kind of wanted to give you guys
a cool move to practice and to be hands off with
and sort of really try and perform without thinking
about slights and that's a super valuable lesson
that you guys can start doing is just really be hands off.
Even with that last tutorial I taught with that in jog
over hand shuffle, same thing it just feels like it's
all messy and you can have them hold on to it.
Here hold on to this and that feeling that you're gonna get
that they're gonna get is worth way more than you know
being convinced that the slights
are invisible and everything else.
Just kind of roll with it man, be free
to let your personality shine through,
don't focus too much on the slights.
But that is a really cool way of controlling
cards hope you guys enjoyed that.
All right guys I hope you guys enjoyed that video
I've got a whole bunch of videos planned for next week.
Some really exciting things going on
and I can't wait to share that with you
and if you guys are interested and wanna see more.
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