- Yo! What's goin' on, guys? Welcome back.
Today, we're gonna learn a little bit about ring magic.
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Got two tutorials that we're gonna
teach you today, which is kinda cool.
Guy by the name of Nevin Sanchez
submitted this ring effect to me
and I thought it was really cool.
Now, it's a little bit knacky,
but it's actually really insanely visual.
Basically looks like you throw the ring
through your finger, and bam, it lands on your finger.
And we'll get into that explanation from Nevin in a second.
I also wanna teach you something
that I came up with using a ring,
which I think is really, really powerful.
It actually uses a deck of cards with the ring,
so two things that I carry with me all the time,
and it's not something that...
I'll be frank, I was pretty reluctant to teach this,
but I felt like, you know what?
You guys could probably get some good mileage out of it.
I have. It's kind of an add-on to an old principle.
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Let's get into the tutorial.
Here's the actual first video that he sent me
via Facebook, he just sent me a link
and this is what I watched, and this is what I...
This is what fooled me.
So this is what made me want to bring
this on the channel and share it with you guys.
The second I saw it, I was like Whoa!
That freaked me out just a little bit,
I thought it was a special ring or something like that.
Turns out it's just an average
finger ring, and, you know what?
I'll let Nevin get into the explanation for this.
So, have a look at his performance as well as the tutorial.
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- So let's start off with the ring.
You want a ring that's completely round
and with no edges on it, so it'll look
the same whether you rotate it or not.
Also, you want a ring that's gonna be a little heavier.
When you throw it, it has momentum to go down your finger.
So if you have a lightweight ring,
it'll just get stuck right here
because there's no momentum behind your toss.
You want it to be around the weight
where you wouldn't wanna use an, like, IT with it,
because that's a good weight that I've found.
Now, when you're actually tossing this, you want...
Oh, and another good point to make
is you want your hands to be completely dry.
You don't wanna use lotions or wash your hands
before doing this, because the moisture will catch
the ring up here, and that doesn't look good at all.
So when you're actually tossing this
you want your hand to be at a natural 75 degree angle.
I've tried 45, and I've tried 90, those are two extremes.
Ring finger to be slightly bent.
You don't want it to be like this, 'cause this is obvious,
but you want it to be right around here.
And right before you toss it you can
adjust it slightly, and when you finish, obviously,
you pull back and make it look as though it's straight.
So when you toss it, you're taking the ring
and lining it up with you knuckle.
So, when you come back up, you're gonna rotate
the ring so it's horizontal and parallel
with the finger so it'll just slide on like that.
So you come up, rotate, toss.
And it should land right there.
Now, your hand shouldn't move all that much,
so you don't wanna be throwing it on
like this 'cause that's obvious too.
So you really want to shift your hand,
if anything, slightly to the right
of wherever you're tossing it,
whether you're left handed or right handed.
If you're left handed you wanna be shifting it to your left.
And what I do, is I look through the hole
to see if it's lined up with my ring finger.
So I know if the toss will be good or not.
When I'm not sure if I'm gonna have a good toss,
I'll take it, rotate it, and I'll pause right here
for just a quick second, and then toss it.
So now some good practice tips for this
is just literally taking the ring like this
and dropping it onto your finger.
You know, find that good tossing point,
and then you start adding the tossing motion,
and that's when it really starts to look how it should.
And then you get farther away, the more confidence you get,
and then you line it up, do the toss.
Another good tip is to have your hand come in diagonally,
so if you do shift it out a little bit,
you want your hand to be coming back in like this,
so it lines back up with where the ring is gonna end up.
So you take it, you toss it, and as I'm tossing it,
my hand is coming over to line up
as if I just went like that.
So at speed, it should look like that.
- So that was that, pretty cool, right?
So, here's one thing though, after I've learned this
and I went back and watched the videos
I thought to myself, "This is so obvious.
"This is way too obvious, it looks like
"he's just literally throwing it on his finger."
Which he does, however the first time
I watched this, I was completely fooled.
I was floored and I was like (incredulous sounds).
Is this like a ring that opens up and wraps around?
I have to remember that initial feeling
when performing it because sometimes
we feel guilty about performing things
because we think that the method is too obvious.
But if done correctly, this can be super striking
and is a nice little add-on to that Justin Miller move,
in Divorce, where he plucks the ring off,
or to Patrick Kun's Reflex, I think it was,
where he plucks the ring off, you can add on to that.
So it's kind of cool, kind of a freebee, I like it.
So anyways, thank you to Nevin for sending this in,
that's super generous of you,
and if you wanna go and support him,
give him a follow, sort of as a thank you
for sharing this with everybody,
I left his Instagram link below,
so make sure to check that out.
Let's get into what I wanna teach,
and this is a really, really cool way
to force a card using a ring.
Alright, so for this demonstration
you're going to need a couple things,
you're gonna need a deck of cards,
you're going to need a ring,
and you're going to need a light source.
Now, in this case, I'm going to amplify the light source
that I have now with an iPhone flashlight,
which, normally you can use anything,
so, normally top-down lighting, so at a bar,
or anything else will suffice.
But for this, we're going to amplify it using the iPhone.
So, basically what I'm gonna teach you
is how to be able to force a card.
Now, there's something known as the Time Force.
So, what the Time Force is, is lets say
I wanted to force the 10 of hearts.
I would take the spectator's hand, or my hand,
and go this way, and they would
say stop whenever they wanted.
And I would start here, and they say "Stop." Boom.
Right? They say "Stop," I stop here and I go down, boom.
And you always have to kinda speed up or slow down.
They say it really slowly, I start here
and then they say "Stop," I'll just go
right off the edge and I'll be like,
"Oh, just try to say it while I'm in here,
not while I'm over here," and I'll start over.
Then they go "Stop," boom.
Sorry, I'm looking at the monitor.
Then they go "Stop," boom, and I stop on the force card.
Now, that's the Time Force, it's used...
It can also be used in fans.
So if you're like this, you can go like this,
so you stop whenever, boom, right there. This card.
And you can force a certain card using time as a force.
Now, a lotta people think it's risky,
some people don't like it because
if it's not within the vicinity
of where the card is, then it starts to look fishy.
And I kind of agree with that.
So if you're here, for instance,
and they go "Stop," and you kinda, you know, it feels...
It doesn't feel as fair.
You can also ask them which side
you wanna start from, you wanna start
from over here or over here, make it
as fair as possible, whatever you like.
But what I found, is that if you have
good lighting, you can use your ring.
You see that circle that I'm creating right now?
So I'm gonna go like this, and I want you
to say stop wherever you like,
and we're gonna choose that card.
So, if you're here, and they go "Stop."
Now as you come down, you can very clearly
land on that, and it sort of encircles the pip,
which is a really nice, magical property.
But what I've found is that because
the ring is so big, stop.
It allows you to adjust as you come down onto the card.
So again, let's say the four of diamonds is the force card.
They say, "Stop," right there, perfect.
It feels like that's the card I wanted to select,
unequivocally, and what's really nice
about that is this framing of that one pip,
like it couldn't have been that one,
it couldn't have been this one, it had to be this one.
But while you're up here, which is very nice,
you get a bigger circle, and then as you come down
that's when the circle gets more pronounced.
That's my take on the Time Force.
Not a massive tutorial, but for me,
these little golden nuggets are really cherished.
I love these extra little things on classics
that are proven to work, that have been
used for years, but now we've adapted it.
You can use an iPhone if you like,
you can have them hold the iPhone,
or you could use the lighting that's
at the bar or at the venue, or whatever.
And just the ordinary ring, you could borrow
a ring for this, and it's just a classy, sort of...
You're using that magical shadow property
and, you know, whatever.
I just really like this a lot, I'm in love with this idea.
Something I came up with in Vegas this year.
I was sitting with Franco Pascalli,
we were just jamming stuff out with rings
and shadows, and I came up with this.
And I thought it was really, really cool
and a nice contribution to the Time Force.
So feel free to go ahead and use that,
and let me know your thoughts on this below.
But that's it for this tutorial, nothing...
I didn't get a chance to go out and perform this
or anything, but it's pretty self explanatory I think.
You guys take from it what you will; use it if you like it.
Take it or leave it, and that's it.
So that's my addition on the Time Force
using a ring and a shadow.
So that was my Time Force using a ring.
The reason I like this so much is because it's organic,
and I love the use of shadows.
I think shadows, in itself, is innately
a very magical thing.
Like, doing the haunted deck using
your shadow instead and that type of thing.
I think shadows are just magical.
You know, they elude to Peter Pan
and his shadow having this dual between the two,
I just think there's something magical about it.
And on top of that, the Time Force always seemed to me
a little bit fishy, and with this method
it allows you to make it less fishy.
Just a little bit less, because you're reaching
for a couple extra cards there.
So it feels more magical and it feels more fair.
So I hope you enjoyed that.
Right guys, that is it for today.
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