- Yo, what's going on guys welcome back
hope you guys had a great weekend,
weather is absolutely beautiful outside
hope you guys are enjoying it,
but if you're sitting here with me chances are
you're not outside, so thank you for joining me
and giving me your time.
Today I'm really excited.
Today we're gonna be looking at
some of the best cardists in the world as they
go head to head in a cardistry championship.
This is a world cardistry championship basically
where cardistry con, which is a convention
based around cardistry, hosts a contest every year
and proclaims one winner after multiple
rounds of cardistry.
We're in round two, currently, you guys
can definitely check it out.
I'm following this religiously, I think it's great.
If you wanna follow-
If you wanna follow along with this contest
I highly suggest you do, super entertaining,
super fun, especially if you're not even a cardist
you just wanna appreciate some really good
cardistry or if you're getting into it,
I left the links below to "Best Cardist Alive"
as well as the Cardistry con championships
and then I also encourage you to follow
all these individual artists that I'm going
to feature today, they all have their Instagrams
linked here, so you definitely
can check them out as well.
Alright, no more talking, that's enough for me.
Let's get into, uh, *snorts*
let's get into, uh fu-
Let's watch some cardistry.
Let's learn some cardistry today from the
master cardists.
I've got my deck handy in case I wanna learn
something, I've got my coffee, so let's check this out.
This is like the mecca of cardistry
so if you're ever wondering how to get into cardistry,
definitely follow Cardistry con and
Best cardists alive, these guys are basically
the curators of all the great cardistry in the world.
And this will really showcase the different
brackets and everything else, so if you see here,
this is round two, currently this is sorta like
the quarterfinal round, we have all these matchups.
We're gonna check out a few of them,
not all of them, so let's start with this guy over here.
(ominous electronic music)
Here we go.
Whoa.
Yo, (laughs) Yang Chan, what?
What is even happening?
Oh my God, what?
This is insane.
I couldn't even do this with three hands.
(makes noises in disbelief)
This is all one-handed stuff, oh my God
what was that?
Yo this kid's insane, he reminds me of Dee,
there's another guy that does a lot of
one handed stuff and card twirls and
he's super dextrous.
Dexterity level 100.
Whoa.
Get out of here, look at that!
That's a whole new level of cardistry.
He's using the table.
(laughs)
Oh, this guy is insane!
Yang Chan, I'm a new fan.
That is insane, holy cow, damn!
Alright, let's check out this guy, Dabi dabi h-a
(electronic music)
Let's see some of his moves here.
Oh he's got the anyone playing cards,
anyone worldwide, those are really dope.
Ooh.
I love how cardistry's also a mix of
I'm sorry, I'm getting hypnotized at this
very instant (chuckles).
Cardistry's also a mix of visual videography,
it's like the camera moves with the cut,
so it's like a, it's a-
it's a video based artform as well,
I'm getting really sucked into this right now.
Oh my God, look at this!
It makes it so cool with the simplicity
of the deck and that one red dot just moving around
Gosh!
Oh, tapping into some Noel Heath over here,
that's pretty dope.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
Yo, see how like his fingers interlock?
Like that's the type of stuff I wanna learn,
look at that, like there's just fingers
appearing out of nowhere in his hand.
Geez.
Wouldn't wanna play poker with him, am I right?
Am I right?
Okay, next up, Carter MacDiarmid.
Okay, so this kid, years ago I believe I met
this kid at the first magic con
or the first Cardistry con hosted at magic con
in San Diego, it was like 2014.
This kid, I don't know how old he was,
he was like 9 or 10 or something.
This is like 8 years later and he was already
blowing my mind back then, by the way.
Strap yourselves in.
Carter MacDiarmid, let's see it, round 2, Carter.
Let's go.
(electronic music)
Whoa, what?
How?
What?
Whoa.
Oh, that's cool.
Ooh!
Look at these openings, what?
What the heck was that?
(laughs)
Yo.
Ooh, I love these, like, lateral and vertical
packet cuts that sort of flip and
flop onto each other.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, okay.
Calm down.
Okay.
To do in here, what?
Aw, that's sick.
I wanna learn that.
Carter MacDiarmid, pretty darn sweet.
We're also gonna check out one of my favorite
cardists in the world, this is Birger Karlsson.
This guy is insane.
He's the one who, he's come up with a lot of
really cool flourishes, including uh,
have you ever seen the one where he takes like,
two decks and just like (makes mouth noises)
and it's like, two fans?
Doesn't look anything like that.
He's insane, I met him as well at cardistry con
in New York, where he did like,
he like threw a card, did a backflip,
and caught it, it was insane.
(chill electronic music)
Whoa.
Oh, so he's going for like, the
continuous no cut video.
This is all one continuous take so far.
Which is, as you know if you're in cardistry,
extremely difficult because most cardistry
has to be done repetitively on camera
to get it to-
Boom.
Okay, definitely not sure if that was a
transition but I'd believe it if it wasn't.
All these aerials are very risky, high risk
maneuver moves, and he's still nailing them
one after another, this is insane!
Okay, here we go.
Oh my God.
This is all still the same footage, look at this!
(exhales)
It's like they're just like, melting in his hands.
Oh! Oh, that was sick.
Why.
We've got time for one more?
Let's watch one more.
Let's see who Birger's going against.
Birger is against this guy here, Salvador Gonzalez.
I always really appreciate good videography in
cardistry videos.
Alright.
A blank deck, that's very cool,
makes everything look kinda really cool.
You're not quite sure of the orientation
of the cards though.
Whoa that move is sick!
Some Tobias levin stuff right there,
that's pretty sick too.
Oh, were his hands always colored, do you think?
Oh that's pretty cool.
I like that he went the extra mile to be like
'hey, I'm gonna create something visual,
paint my hands, use these painted pasteboards'.
I like that, what is this?
Oh, oh!
Ooh.
Who wins this round, Birger, or Salvadore?
What do you guys think so far?
I really like what Salvadore's doing,
I really like his fluidity and his motion,
and his cuts make sense.
But I do appreciate- oh, hold on.
(exhales)
Oh, get out of here, that is sick!
And you just close it up, oof, ah!
So satisfying.
I do appreciate this but I also appreciate
Birger's one take, that's a whole other level
of difficulty where he's like 'you know what,
screw the editing, I'm just gonna show you guys
some really consistent cardistry'.
But, can't knock this guy too man, it's so hard.
So hard to vote for one of these guys.
Look at this, whoa, that's really dope.
O.B.!
O.B., stop it!
My dog's barking.
So that was it, that was round 2,
that was a few that I picked out from round 2.
This cardistry championship is basically
just getting started.
If you guys are just getting started into
the cardistry world, and you wanna learn more,
definitely follow, you know BCA, follow
Cardistry con, um, believe tickets sold out
in like 30 seconds, for cardistry con 2018 Hong Kong,
but you can probably follow it all on their
social media, so I'll link to it below.
I am always consistently fascinated by
this type of stuff, just because there are
literally passionate human beings behind this
who are furthering and pushing the art
of cardistry forward faster than I've seen
anything else grow.
Including, you know, Kendama, including,
you know even magic.
Like these kids are so passionate about
learning new things, and new openers, new closers,
new handlings, even the guy with the table stuff,
like these are all just like brand new concepts
that they're applying to this and further
through this competition, are pushing
the artform forward.
I can't say that I like competitive-
I can't say that I like competition when
it comes to magic, because I think magic is so
varied and so different, and it's about
person sort of character, and there's some
fiction thrown in there, and it's like storytelling
so you can't really put that on a competition.
I don't like that at all.
However, cardistry is skill based.
Also if you start applying the videography to it,
the music choice, and colors, and all of
these things put together makes for a really
unique artform.
You know, although I think it resembles juggling
a little bit, I think juggling you're still
limited in throwing things in the air.
That's kinda what juggling is, is like you're
throwing things in the air, and catching them
repetitively in different ways, you're throwing
different objects.
Cardistry isn't like juggling, because
you can choose to throw something in the air,
but you can choose not to, and you can choose to-
it's kinda like skateboarding, where everyone
has their own style and skateboard videos
resemble cardistry videos and sometimes they're
more trashy, and sometimes they're more high quality.
But true skateboarders and true cardists can
appreciate other artists without feeling
there's a competitive nature.
Everybody just sort of lifts the artform
even further and I think cardistry is just
one of the most amazing things in the world to me.
So if you guys wanna follow them, I left all
the links below.
Pretty rad, pretty awesome.
I'm gonna keep following this contest,
maybe do another video like this if you guys
are interested, let me know below.
We can look at maybe the semifinals or
even the finals when they air the winner
of the cardistry con championship.
But regardless guys if you enjoyed this video,
you know, if this video gets 10 likes,
I will upload another video in the future.
Also don't forget to hit the notification bell
to be notified and guys, thank you so much
for watching, we'll see you on the next video.
I'm heading to Vegas this weekend, you'll
probably see another video or two of me
before I do that, but Vegas, we're gonna kill it
we're gonna smash it, we've gotta massive out.
You flash, you lose 2, coming at you
with some new magicians, so stay tuned for that,
thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time,
Peace, brah!
(electronic music)