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- Yo, what's going on guys?
And welcome back. (laughs)
Mere mortals.
Mere, petty mortals, today we're gonna
witness my perfect sleight of hand.
The perfection of the craft bestowed upon you today.
You will falter under the perfection
that I lay before your very eyes.
I can guarantee it.
There's no way.
There's no way I'm flashin'.
This stuff is bulletproof.
I really hope this goes well. (chuckles)
Guys, today we're taking a look
at my sleight of hand in slow motion once again.
How, you know,
don't know why I'm doing this again.
I feel like I should've (exhales).
Whatever.
We're here.
It's now.
This is the time.
Quick update on 1st Playing Cards V2.
Got an email from USPCC.
They will probably be done up and around December.
So probably not in time for Christmas,
but rest assured I'll let you know.
All right, guys.
Without any further ado, let's take a look
at some perfect sleight of hand in slow motion.
(laughs) Oh, why do I do this to myself? (sobs)
Oh, whatever.
Let's get it over with.
Let's go.
All right, here we go. (sighs)
Not as confident (trills lips).
I'm not as confident as I was the last time around,
because I felt the wrath of my own handiwork.
And turns out, this is a great way
to know how crappy your sleight of hand is, by the way.
Let's go!
So here's a clip of this change.
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Not bad.
Let's have a look at it in slow mo.
Gonna be fine.
It's gonna be fine.
So far, so good.
All right.
Really good.
A little fidgety.
Watch the instant change.
Instantly changes.
Okay, moving on.
Moving on. (laughs)
Why do I do this to myself?
These are bad ideas.
All right, this one here.
Watch me execute it flawlessly.
All right, now for slow mo.
Boom.
There's no way the camera's picking this up.
This is too fast.
It's gonna be like (snaps fingers), instant.
Instant, okay. (laughs)
Maybe not.
Ooh, all right.
Let's go.
Little bit of a paintbrush change.
Check out the paintbrush change.
Not bad.
I mean, I do feel like I could've
done a better job filming it.
I probably rushed that one a little bit.
Let's have a look at it in slow mo.
I'm already flashing.
Sick, okay.
Gotta work on that.
Literally looks exactly like I was doing.
This one, though, is the, what was that?
The Coffin Change, or the Cardini Change?
You can't mess this change up.
There's no way, because the hand hides what's going on.
Nice little double, all right.
Oh, pfft.
Maybe not.
Okay.
It looked so good in normal time.
How is the contrast from being so good,
to, like, the worst thing I've ever seen with cards.
Moving on.
Oh, it's a control.
Watch this control as I control the Queen
to the bottom of the deck flawlessly.
And I'm pretty sure, I'm actually pretty sure
I'm not gonna be able to pick this up on camera,
'cause it's a control.
It's not a color change.
So far, so good.
Oh, yeah.
That's it.
It's done.
The deed is done.
Queen's at the bottom.
Boosh, nothing wrong there, folks.
I score one victory in this video.
That's all I was hoping for.
Let's do it face up to the top of the deck.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna flash here.
Yeah, there it is right there.
This little pocket right here is very, better work on that.
Yeah, okay. (laughs)
Multiple cards, here we go.
Multiple cards.
This looked pretty good, by the way.
The multiple cards looked pretty good.
Okay, that little pocket again.
Same thing.
Yeah, there's no way, okay.
The Rub-A-Dub.
The Rub-A-Dub Vanish is a very, very cool vanish.
One of my favorite vanishes,
and it's like your eye just follows.
There's a good vision retention on the vanish.
And if you see it in real time...
It looks great.
Your eye follows where the card is.
Now, what I'm afraid of is that in slow motion,
your eye is not going to follow where I want it to.
Let's have a look.
(snorts and laughs)
Kill me.
No fear, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm gonna nail the next one.
Here we go.
I like I how I just rub it off,
as if I just got away with it.
Oh god.
So this is pure torture watching myself like this,
putting it online, hundreds of thousands of views.
Look at this.
No one's gonna hire me ever again.
Oh my god. (laughs)
Yeah, just.
Pfft, baller.
What are we doin' here?
Oh, this is a pass.
Ooh, I'm excited for this.
I'm excited for this.
The pass is one of the most difficult things
in card magic to perfect.
Cards in the middle.
I do it a couple times.
I really wanted to analyze my pass.
This is a great way to do that.
So here we go.
Getting break, mm, oof.
A little bit sloppy on getting that break.
And there it is.
There's the pass.
There's a tutorial for you on the pass.
Now we know it's on top.
Obviously, we saw the whole thing.
Face up, the big, I gotta work on that break.
All right, bit of a dribble pass.
Let's have a look at the dribble pass.
And here we go.
Dribble pass, same thing.
You kinda just dribble the cards afterwards.
Helps with the illusion, apparently.
We'll see about that.
All right.
I gotta work on that break so bad.
Yeah, okay.
That was terrible, but these next ones,
these next ones are good, all right?
Face up pass, here we go.
Better angle.
Not flawless, but for my standards,
I'm pretty happy with my pass.
It's getting there.
I've been practicing it a lot.
Let's have a look at it in slow mo, see what I can work on.
It's a better angle.
That's not bad.
That's a frame or two, max.
We'll go again.
We'll go again, Ramsay.
Card gets lost in the deck.
And here we go.
It's not that bad.
I mean, yeah, we know what's going on (laughs)
'cause it's slow motion, but I mean, it could be worse.
I'm still proud of my pass in realtime.
I don't think I'm proud of anything slow mo,
except maybe card controls.
One more time.
(exhales) Okay, not bad, guys.
Not bad.
I'll take it.
Eh, whatever.
All right, this is a neat little change.
It's Jay Sankey's change.
Let's see here.
Yeah, okay. (laughs)
Okay.
That was a duck change.
Can't mess that up.
All right.
Okay, now that I've exposed every sleight
of hand trick in the world today, ugh.
That's one of the things though.
I don't consider this exposure.
You have access to this online.
So if you're just performing these tricks,
rest assured, people are slowing them down anyway, you know?
That being said, I got some work to do.
I got some work to do, folks.
If you wanna try this at home as a bit
of an experiment, you can take your iPhone.
They got a slow motion camera on there.
It's hard to look at, man.
It's not easy to watch yourself fail so hard
at something you've been putting so much time into.
But that's the way it is.
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
That's why we're here.
Things I do for views.
All right, guys.
That about wraps it up for this edition
of Sleight of Hand in Slow Motion.
If you guys enjoyed this video, wanna see some more of this,
maybe doing some coin stuff next time,
or some other sleight of hand.
Maybe even gimmicks or stuff, I don't know.
This is really fun for me to look at.
Honestly, it's a good exercise,
and it's great to know where I have to improve,
and it gives you guys, as well,
I guess some encouragement to know that yeah,
things look good, but they could always be worked on.
That's what I'm gonna tell myself.
That's how I'm getting sleepy tonight.
I'm just gonna say that over and over again.
It's fine.
It's fine, everything's fine.
Everything's fine.
All right, guys.
If you enjoyed this video, make sure
to smash that button. (chuckles)
And thanks for watching, subscribe, all that stuff.
I'll be in New York this week,
hanging out with some friends,
filming some awesome videos.
Rolling back in the content world,
because I've taken a little break
with all the construction going on at my house.
But it's pretty much done now,
so we're on to bigger and better things.
I can't wait to share them with you.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you on the next video.
Peace! (groans)
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