- What's up, guys?
Welcome back.
We're gonna take a look at some cardistry.
Friends of mine, Noel Heath, and Aviv,
two of the most insane and creative and talented
cardists in the world have released a new video
and I have not watched it yet, and I thought
I'd capture my reaction to watching this video.
We're also gonna take a look at a deck of playing cards
that was released recently at Cardistry Con in Hong Kong,
and I also might teach you guys something
at the end of this video, so stay tuned.
A little bit of a disclaimer before we get into the video,
I'm not going to use the song that they used in the video.
I'm sorry, Noel, I'm sorry, Aviv, but,
I don't want this video getting flagged.
Apologize for that.
If you guys wanna check out the original video,
I've linked it below, go and sub to them,
and check out each of these guys' Instagram.
I've linked those below as well.
Enough of that, let's get into the video.
Alright guys, I am actually hyped up about this.
Are you guys ready? You ready? Are you ready?
Alright, let's go!
(electronic music)
Okay.
Alright.
(chuckle)
These dudes are so awesome.
Aviv I've met, and I met both these guys,
and they're just really nice people, and that is, what is...
Whoa...
So creative.
What?
Is that actual magic?
That's one thing, I'm gonna pause right here,
one thing I wanna say is that one of the reasons
these two are my favorite cardists, and I'm so happy
that they're working together on this video,
is that they both integrate--
I hate to say the "m" word,
you can't say the "m" word at CardistryCon, which is magic,
but they both integrate magic within cardistry to--
it makes it magical is what I'm saying.
They do stuff with cards that magicians can't do.
I'm just gonna stop while I'm ahead, and just keep watching.
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Wow!
Look at that.
What?
Hold on. Where my cards at?
Let's go.
I need to try this one.
Nailed it.
Wow...what is--
I feel like he grew a finger.
Oh, what?
See, that's what I mean, that's what I'm saying,
there's like this magical quality to the cardistry they do.
It just makes it so mesmerizing and impossible.
Wait, what?
That looks satisfying.
Can I try this?
I'm gonna nail it here.
Here we go.
Yep.
One more time, one more time.
(phone alert dings)
Got it, alright.
See, we're learning things today.
We're learning things, and we're improving.
And I'm improving my cardistry.
Mine's just about as smooth...almost there.
And just when you thought you couldn't make
a triangle look cool,
what the hell.
Wow!
A little double flicker action, wait, what, what?
Creativity at its finest.
I love that because it's like casual cardistry.
It's like, yeah, I'm sitting down to do cardistry sometimes.
So, I'm gonna incorporate my leg, why not?
(electronic music)
I feel like I could do that one, as well.
Ready?
He twists it.
Whoa!
Did you see?
It stalled.
Yes, yes! I will be the greatest cardist of them all!
Of "the mall".
(chuckles)
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Alright, oh that's a cool little,
oh see how it goes, like, flat, it started vertical,
what the?
What the actual "f" was that?
I was expecting, like I thought he just tossed up a card
in a cool way, but I was already impressed with that,
cause he like starts off vertically,
but then my head exploded.
See how it starts off, and then all of a sudden--
and you know that that wasn't a fluke,
because he's getting ready to catch it.
Insane.
Now, what's going on here?
Oh cool a little shuffle.
What?
I'm not sure I fully understand what just happened.
Let's watch again.
Flips it and then.
Where is that card coming from?
Anyone?
Can we watch it again in slow motion?
There's a card appearing,
I'm not sure if he shot it with the
left hand or what happening.
Am I still missing something?
I still feel like I don't understand
what's happening.
There's a card that appears out of nowhere.
Right.
Okay.
And then what?
Moving on.
Some witchcraft level 28 right there.
That's a neat display.
Whoa, what? No.
Cardists are better at ace productions than
magicians, but it's like they don't care.
I think that's what makes them cool.
Man.
I often wonder how they keep track of all those
fingers and cards going around.
Alright a little jump.
Whoa, what, was that on purpose.
That was insane.
What is happening?!
What did I just see?
(laughs)
What did I just see?
What was that?
Huh? Anyone?
Play it back please.
That is one of the most satisfying cuts
I have ever seen in my life.
Look at that closer.
What.
Was it Yang Chen, was in that other
cardistry video we watched and he was doing
some table stuff.
This is like, it's so symmetrical
like everything just started like flips
and like very flippy floppy.
You like my technical analysis of this?
Very flippy floppy.
Oh now--
wait what?
Hold on.
How did that?
Look at this, look at how this starts.
Look at this.
What is even happening.
No you didn't.
Having a mild seizure I think.
Damn.
Guys.
Get on this level.
Wait.
This is gravity, this is gravity defying.
Is that off the table?
Oh look at that.
What.
And then he uses like the cards to stop it.
Look at that.
What even is this.
Wow, look at that.
It's like the cards are an extension
of their being.
It's like so effortless.
The dedication that these guys have.
This is insane.
Go check these guys out I left all the links below.
You can check all that out.
Right now though, let's get into
reviewing the deck of cards and
teaching you guys a little something.
Let's go.
So these cards are Michael Stearns Mix Tape Volume Two
the Hype Cards.
They are printed by the U.S. P.C.C.
And come in a beautiful gold rose tuck case
as opposed to the gold tuck case that he had for
the first edition.
On the back you will find an amalgam of the
latest Hype Cards including two of the
Anyone Worldwide Cards.
Which, being the checks, the checkers,
and the dots.
And you also have the latest bordered Cardistry Con
playing cards by Entry.
And finally you the Brush Cards by Oliver Sogard.
And Dealers Grip.
It even has those little colors in the corner
from the Brush Cards, which is really cool.
Face cards are standard.
You have a guarantee card as well.
The Jokers look like this.
And you also have one of these ad cards
which I find to be extremely entertaining.
And finally the Ace of Spades
with that sorta thrasher vibe.
Let's get into teaching you guys a little something.
Alright, so what I'm going to show you guys
is a very very simple thing.
It's how to stick a card to your finger, like so.
Now a lot of people,
Noel being one of them.
Has gecko hands.
This guys can touch a card and it sticks
to him.
But one tip that I got.
I don't know where this originally comes from
I'm guessing either Kevin Ho
or Andre Jeac.
The one trick that I have to make a card stick
because a lot of people are like, "I don't have sticky hands."
"My hands are dry," and it works with
suction on the back of the cards.
And it's very very simple.
So you pick the card up with your thumb
in the middle of the card and
you apply pressure with your fingernail.
Just a little bit.
And there you go.
Now what that does is that these little.
There are tiny little indentations on
the back of a playing card.
And if you press that thing with your nail
it kinda creates like a little plunger effect.
With those tiny indentations.
Now if you just press it with your finger
it could work as well.
But a really good trick if you have
dry hands is just use a bit of the fingernail
to push it in at first.
So this is a little
flourish I've been working on for a little while.
I don't really have a closer to it
just kind of one of those fidget moves.
But if you guys wanna learn it,
it goes something like this.
Show you guys that quick if that's
something you want to learn.
I didn't really intend on teaching this
just cause it's not finished but
it's a cool idea to play with.
So here.
Thumb.
Rotate.
This rotates as that rotates.
That rotates.
And over one more time.
Here.
Okay.
Boom.
One rotation.
(phone chime)
This one rotates this way as this one
rotates that way fully.
And then that one rotates.
Okay, so fast it kinda looks like this.
And it kinda looks cool.
I don't like the closure that much but if you
guys feel free to mess around with that.
If you want, and that's it.
Alright guys, that was it for today's video.
Hope you enjoyed that.
I hope guys the little move I taught.
If you want to do something with it
feel free to - It's your call.
But thanks for tuning in.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
We'll see you on the next video,
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