- [Chris] Alright, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it.
I believe that the ace of diamonds has magical properties.
Alright?
There I said it.
I know what you're thinking,
you're probably saying to yourself,
Chris, you're a grown ass man,
surely you don't believe the ace of diamonds
has magical properties,
but I do and it does
and I'm gonna prove it to you right now.
I'll leave the ace of diamonds over here for now and
I'm gonna ask you to take your favorite card or just,
it really doesn't matter,
a random card,
any one that you like.
Thank you.
Show it to the camera and here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna leave it somewhere into the deck of cards
about where you took it.
The idea is that the ace of diamonds,
the magical properties contained within this card are
going to find your card, okay?
I know it sounds ludicrous,
I know it's not as crazy as you may think,
I'm not levitating a building,
but here's the thing,
no matter where you stick the ace of diamonds
within the deck,
it automatically falls beside your card.
There's only one way to do that,
so here,
I want you to take the ace of diamonds and when I say go,
not yet, when I say go,
I want you to throw it within the deck somewhere okay?
You ready?
Go.
Right there?
See I really believe,
and this is gonna sound crazy,
but I'm gonna prove it to you right now,
that the ace of diamonds found your card.
Watch.
Here we go.
Okay there's the ace of diamonds.
Um.
And obviously it found your card but which one of these
two is your card?
I don't know.
Is it the nine or the seven?
The nine diamonds, seven of spades? No?
Really? What?
Your card is not the nine or the seven?
Well.
(bleep)
Really?
(sighs)
You know what?
Oh, hold on, hold on.
So, this is really rare but it sometimes happens.
Sometimes the ace of diamonds doesn't find your card
but in really really rare cases the ace of diamonds
sometimes becomes your card.
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(martial arts breathing)
Yeah!
What's going on?
Aye.
Chris Ramsay here,
welcome back.
Today.
(crickets)
I got a pretty cool effect for you guys.
This effect uses something called a double faced card.
It's a bit of a gimmick.
You can make one.
You can buy one.
You can them free within certain decks of cards.
I decided to create a little routine and to show you
what you could use this for which is actually pretty cool.
This routine is pretty nice.
A little bit slight intensive but I'm also going to show
you a bonus thing that you can use this double face card for
that doesn't require any slight of hand so you're gonna get
the slight of hand heavy version,
which you should practice,
and the non slight of hand version which you can do
straight up straight away.
But the non slight of hand version isn't really a routine,
it's more like a little move you can do,
which is a lot of fun.
Do with it what you wish.
If you do not have a double face card.
Very very simple.
All you have to do is take two cards,
take some double stick tape,
stick them back to back and you can practice that way until
you get yourself a real double face card.
I like grabbing a random gaff card
out of a pack of 52 gaff cards.
What gaff cards are,
they're basically cards that do other things,
or that have magic tricks attached to them.
They're all self-contained within cardboard.
No flaps or weird things on them.
There's lots of routines that you can some up with.
Using these,
there's a lot out there but you can create your own.
I think there's a lot of fun in that.
I'll leave a link to a gaff deck below,
if you guys want to check that out and have fun it.
I'm sure you guys will get creative with it.
By the way,
contest winners were chosen.
Thank you to everybody who participated
to get the card guards.
Five winners were chosen.
They have been emailed so check your emails.
If you haven't been emailed,
you haven't been chosen.
Look forward to the next contest.
We'll definitely be using this thing again.
Regardless,
today you win anyway because you're getting a free trick.
So let's go!
Whew!
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Let's get it.
Go ahead and grab your favorite deck of cards
and double facer.
The double facer has to have the same face as the deck
of cards you're using,
that goes without saying.
The ace of diamonds and seven of hearts.
That's what a double face card looks like.
To make sure that this trick is going to work,
you need to remove the ace of diamonds and seven of hearts
from the deck completely.
Make sure there is none in there because you don't want
to look silly having a duplicate.
Whatever the card is,
whatever the card you want to use,
you want to stick face up into the face up deck.
I want to use the ace of diamonds for this.
I will leave it in the middle,
face up,
and this is how I'm going to start my routine.
Play around with your own sort of handling,
not handling but presentation.
My presentation is kind of self deprecating humor where I'm
kind of like,
I know I'm a grown man,
and I believe that I have a magical card okay?
I know how silly that sounds.
Alright.
And I believe that it's the ace of diamonds.
What I'm doing here is I'm going through the deck,
looking for my favorite card and it kind of makes it look
like you know,
this was a normal deck of cards and that's a normal card
that I chose for a reason.
You take this card,
obviously don't flash the back and you want to leave it
aside for now.
Now is where you're going to have them select a card.
No matter what card they take,
here is what you're going to do.
You're going to perform,
this is what I do.
Use whatever works for you.
I'm gonna run through what I do.
What I do is I use a straddle pass,
a single card straddle pass.
I basically use a half pass after that
to turn the card over.
Okay?
First of all,
I'm gonna show you the straddle pass.
So this is what it looks like from your angle.
It's controlled at the bottom.
This is what it looks like exposed.
Okay?
Exposed, there's a lot going on.
But when you hide it,
when you this,
there's really not much to look at.
There's a few things going on.
Once you push this in,
you want to start pushing it in on an angle so that the
bottom portion peeks out like this.
Because that bottom portion
is going to connect to your pinky.
I'm pushing it in but a little bit more on this side.
So that (clicks tongue) I feel it on my pinky right there.
Once it's on my pinky,
I'm using my thumb to actually push this card down.
So right now,
I'm kind of holding the card between the pinky and the thumb
and I'm kind of rocking it down.
Okay?
Once I'm here,
which is about halfway so the corner of the card is there,
the rest of the card is here.
My pinky still contacts this.
I'm going to use my ring finger,
and with the ring finger,
I'm going to sort of have it pivot on my right thumb.
Pinky's still here.
I do this as soon as I do that.
I tend to bend this a little bit,
just for less discrepancy out here it's a little bit
more obvious so I try to bend it.
Index comes here,
and pinky's there.
Now the only thing holding this card is the index
and the pinky,
hence the straddle motion.
Alright.
I'm going to take my pinky and move it down while bending
the card with my index.
Until it's released.
And then I come right back under the deck.
Okay?
Take the card.
I push it on one side a bit more.
So that it contacts my pinky.
My thumb is gonna bring it down along with my pinky.
My ring finger is going to apply pressure to give it that
pivot on that thumb.
Index and pinky grab it here.
And index and pinky moves the other way,
the opposite way so I can clear it and it bends it and it
comes back under.
Basically what it looks like,
is like this.
Your top hand should not be moving.
Your top hand should look like this.
And the bottom should be doing all the work.
So basically,
it almost looks like you're doing absolutely nothing.
So if I have the three of spades here,
and I go in,
it should look like I've done nothing
and the three of spades is on the bottom.
So just watch that over and over again.
I'm not gonna get into more detail.
I think that's enough to go on for now.
Regardless of how you want to do it,
you can control if you want to use a DPS or any other way,
as long as you can control their selection seamlessly to
the bottom of the deck,
you're golden.
Once that is controlled to the bottom,
let's say the seven of spades is their selection,
I like to stall here.
I like to hold a second.
I don't like to do the second move,
which is the half pass,
because there's a lot of heat.
You know what I mean?
If we had that card here,
and I do this and boom I'm controlled,
I don't want to keep motioning here.
I want to take a break and I want their mind to be at ease
with what just happened.
Which is basically nothing.
I'm going to take the double face card
and explain to them that this card is gonna find their card.
I'm gonna give them the ace of diamonds.
As they take the ace of diamonds,
I'll just leave it here for now,
but as they take it,
now I want to grab a break underneath that card.
Underneath their selection.
Okay?
So I have a break,
massive pinky break,
and the index is curled up here
and all I'm doing is a half pass.
Literally turning the card around under the deck.
The thing is,
if I do it here,
that flashes.
So you want to tilt down when you do this.
Then the half pass is done.
So normally a half pass is done with a whole portion of
the deck but you're doing that with one card and you're
just literally turning it around and squaring it up.
Make sure it's squared because if it's like this
you'll get a flash.
They have the card.
I say,
you're gonna take the card and you're gonna throw it into
the deck somewhere.
As I do that,
I kind of rotate the deck and I gesture.
You're gonna take the card and you're gonna throw it into
the deck somehow.
And now it's already done.
Now your card is on the bottom,
their card rather is on the bottom face up.
Perfect.
All you need to do is cut it into the middle.
But before we do that,
we're gonna have them throw this in.
They can either throw it in if you want.
Or they can just push it in.
Pushing it in is fine too.
Now as you're talking,
you explain to them again,
ideally your card should have found,
my card should have found your card.
As I do that,
I'm just cutting the deck casually.
You don't have to hide or the pass
because that's another weird move.
Just casually cut the deck,
it doesn't really matter because you're gonna show them
all the cards.
What that does is that places their selection in the middle,
face up.
So what we're gonna do is,
we're gonna turn this around,
and if you have a table you can spread it on the table.
If not, that's fine.
Just go ahead and spread it here.
Now at this point,
I usually say,
well which one of these two is your card?
I act confident,
like I know one of these for a fact is your card
and at the same time
I'm showing them that the whole deck is clean.
And they go no it isn't.
Then I say,
sometimes it doesn't find your card,
as you can see it's not there any more,
sometimes it becomes your card.
And now boom, done.
If they're wondering where the ace of diamonds is,
you don't show them.
Pure and simple.
You try to get that card back to the bottom and
crop it out or something throw it to your pocket,
whatever you wanna do to get rid of it.
But that's a nice little one off routine that you can do.
I also promised you that I would show you a version that
you do not need slight of hand for.
I kind of do because I'm holding a camera with one hand.
That's why it's shaky so forgive me.
A kind of tabled ambitious card routine.
You're going to take the ace out of the deck.
Just like what we did before.
You can force it or you can do whatever you like.
I'm going to spread the cards here and I'm gonna show you
that the ace can travel through the deck up to the top.
Just like this, watch.
I take it here,
watch it go,
it disappears and jumps
(tongue click)
right up to the top of the deck.
You want to grab that duplicate card leave it on top.
Spread the cards.
You're gonna take this.
Right.
So whatever duplicate card you have on top,
you take that one and you're gonna come with your right
hand over so it's kind of like spreading butter,
that trick I taught on Assad's table a while ago.
You're gonna take your right hand and go over and you're
just gonna do this and it disappears.
My middle finger catches it here and pulls it out.
It's kind of magical how it travels from there to there.
That's the little bonus thing so have fun with that.
Woo hoo!
Aye, thanks so much for watching this tutorial.
I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you make the most of it.
Guys, you've got like,
I've taught two moves here okay?
That you can actually practice without the double face card
and that you can use in a plethora of routines.
Yeah, plethora.
Words.
Do with it what you will.
It's a really fun thing to do and if you ever have a
double face card on you,
or around you and you want to use it,
now you have something you can actually use it for.
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we'll see you,
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on the next one.
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Peace right.