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- What's up guys, and welcome back.
First video of 2018. Here it is.
I was supposed to post this video yesterday on Monday,
because that's usually when we drop the tutorials
on this channel, but I thought I'd switch it up.
Maybe we'll keep Tutorial Tuesday. Who knows.
Let me know below if that makes more sense to you.
Happy New Year everybody.
Hope everybody enjoyed the festivities during the holidays.
Let's get right down to business.
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Thank you for watching.
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This video is definitely for you.
Today I'm gonna share with you my handling
on one of my favorite card controls.
Actually, my favorite card control.
This is a control loosely based off of
Bow-to-Stern by Ernest Earick.
There are a lot of similar handling to this particular move.
Chris Mayhew had one using the plunger principle.
Also I know that Bizau Cristian had something similar
where we would control it either to the top or the bottom.
But what I'm gonna teach you today
is a way to do that control seamlessly,
where you place a card in the middle of the deck,
show them the card, and the card is in the middle,
you push it in, and it's on top.
It's that clean.
As you've seen in the trailer,
it's a really, really clean move.
Very knacky, very sleight of hand intensive.
But if you're up to it, up to learning it,
and putting the time in, definitely gonna be worth it.
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And let's get into it.
So the mechanics for this move are a little bit intensive.
It kind of looks like mechanics,
actual like gears and stuff shifting around in your hands.
This is something I use in performances quite a bit.
But it is a little bit angle sensitive,
so mind those angles.
I'm gonna run through it this way.
And then I'm gonna turn around
and give you kind of an over the shoulder look at it.
Here's what the control looks like.
A card is placed into the middle,
shown one last time, and pushed in.
But yay, the card is on top.
There are a few things going on.
A lot of you know that there's something going on back here
because you kind of see my hands go back here
and so some type of small amount of movement.
But to be fair, still kind of inexplicable.
You are placing the card in the middle.
You're going to grab the deck like this
because essentially what you're going to do
is bring this portion of the deck down.
You're going to, with your index,
use that card to go under the top card.
And then with your thumb here
you're going to push as you pull.
And that should protrude multiple cards,
but from the top down it looks like just one.
I know this looks really complicated,
and believe me it is, but if you practice,
you'll probably end up getting it.
So from the back, here's what's going on.
A card is selected.
You riffle down with your thumb to place it there.
And you leave it just about halfway, maybe a little more.
Yeah, just about half.
You're going to show them the card.
But in the action of showing them this card one last time,
you're going to tilt upwards.
Your index finger is going to contact this card,
on your dealer's hand.
That's the first thing here.
You want some pressure there. You'll see why in a second.
You're going to tilt up.
This hand is going to come in.
This is a weird grip.
You grip thumb down here, middle finger here,
index in the middle.
Kind of like this.
Now what you're gonna do
is kind of like a little bit of a flourish.
This pack is going to go straight down like this
in this sort of fashion.
Because obviously from the front if I go here and go down,
you're gonna see that.
So you want to tilt it up so that they don't see that.
That's the first thing here.
Card is here. This little claw grip.
And you got your index on the other side.
So your middle finger and your index
are gonna create this sort of pressure.
Kind of like this.
You're gonna grab this, and you're going to slide down,
but your middle finger is going to stay there.
So just your thumb and index.
If you guys have learned the 50K flourish,
where I do this, it's kind of like that motion.
Card goes in. Claw grip.
Your thumb is going to lift up that portion.
Your middle finger is going to stay there.
And your index is going to help this pack slide down
just until it gets behind there.
Now once it's behind that card,
your index here is going to slip a card underneath,
like so.
Because that's what's gonna allow you to do the whole move.
Card goes in. One more time.
Claw grip. You show it.
So you come up.
As you come up your thumb lifts up, your index goes down,
your middle finger stays here.
So this is sort of happening.
And there's sort of pressure from your index.
Your thumb is pulling this way.
Your index is pushing down, and sort of
applying pressure to the deck that's in your hand.
See how those cards bend?
It's sort of applying pressure there at this point.
Applying pressure. Index slides up a little bit.
Once that's cleared, here's where everything happens.
You're going to, with your middle finger, as you come down,
you're going to pull back that card.
But at the same time your thumb
is gonna push inwards towards the deck,
applying pressure downwards on the deck
to make this block of cards sort of appear.
Card goes in here, in the middle.
I get that claw grip on the back.
So middle finger. Remember index is still here.
And as I come up, I don't want to do this move first,
because you're gonna see me shifting cards around.
So as soon as I get that cover from lifting up,
that's when I go here.
Now I'm stuck in this weird triangle type formation.
That index, remember, slides under that top card.
And as soon as that's done, I pull back as I apply pressure.
It's kind of magical.
It kind of looks like gears, you know what I mean?
So you're here. Slide down.
I don't want you guys to get too confused here.
I want you to see what's going on.
And the reason your middle finger here stays there
is because if your middle finger wasn't here,
and you do this, you might see the card
sort of pop out a little bit,
and that's just a weird thing.
You don't want to see that.
So this middle finger serves its purpose
for the card to stay in position
pushed up against that pack so it stays straight.
The index here slides that card underneath.
And as soon as it's slid underneath,
as soon as I'm in this position and I'm ready to make a move
my middle finger is going to retract
and my thumb is going to push in,
creating that illusion that the card is still there.
So here I go up. Show the card.
Slide under, and as I come back down,
boom, that's what happens.
If you like, you can use your index
to push in all these other cards,
then, you know, just do something fancy
before you push it in.
That's completely up to you.
But I just like kind of pushing it in.
So you're here. They get to see the card one last time.
Boom. And very slowly the card jumps back to the deck.
Now remember, this all happens in one smooth motion.
This should not be jerky, fidgety.
It shouldn't be like that.
I don't want to see this.
If you're on Instagram doing this and tagging me,
I will block and delete you.
Do not do this. That's no good.
One thing I like to do is have them choose a card.
So let's say they choose this card here.
And I say, all right, I want you to have a quick look at it.
You got it?
And they say no. Okay, fine, have a longer look at it.
And at this point I show it to them.
I say you got it, they say yes.
And then I come back.
And now it's on top.
You can do whatever you want from there.
But kind of like a justification for
showing it to them like this.
Because that's a weird motion to do.
It's not the best motion in the world.
Like ooh, look at your card.
How hard is it to just do this?
I kind of just go, "Have a quick look."
And they go okay...
All right, fine, have a longer look. You got it?
They go, "Yes." All right, perfect.
Boosh.
So again, one last time.
And then that's it. You guys are gonna have to rewatch this.
Boom.
Goes into the middle.
Claw grip.
Here this card slides under.
Sometimes it will get stuck, which is not fun.
You just gotta wiggle it underneath.
Middle finger slides down as the thumb pushes.
Remember, you're not pushing straight out with the thumb.
You're pushing down towards the deck
that's in your hand and out.
Because that pressure will allow that to happen.
Now, small subtlety.
If you leave it out too far,
what will happen is this card will shrink.
And that's because if you leave it out too far,
you're starting to apply pressure on the top of this,
which won't protrude much of the card.
So that's why I like doing it towards the middle,
because you get a nice retention
with the same length of the card.
But anyways, that's it.
So go ahead and practice that, guys.
Please do practice it before
you post anything around online.
Make sure you got it down.
And roll the outro.
All right guys, I want to thank you for watching this video.
I hope you enjoyed that.
I hope you put the time into this move.
This is a very indeed knacky move.
And as I've said, the angles aren't too bad for performance,
as I use it, but you should mind them as well.
So practice on a camera, or in a mirror, on your friends,
before you go out into the real world.
Go ahead and give it a go.
Let me know how it goes.
And happy 2018 to everybody,
and we'll see you on the next video.
Got some really cool content coming very, very soon.
I'm not gonna share that with you right now
because it's gonna be so lit.
I'm a little too excited. I've had three cups of coffee.
All right guys. See you in the next video.
Peace!