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- I'm gonna take Lee's grandpa for a ride in the Tesla.
I've been telling him for weeks that I'll take a ride,
he's super excited.
So he's turning 79, I've been hyping up the Tesla
for a long time, telling him, you know,
that there's no transmission, and no gas,
and he's never seen anything like it,
so I'm gonna take him for a little bit of a joyride
right quick before we get into this video.
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- (speaking in a foreign language)
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- Yo, what's up guys!
Welcome back.
What are you doing?
- I thought I was doing the intro.
- That's weird.
- Oh yeah, true.
- Don't do that.
(laughing)
I am super stoked today because, as you can see,
I just bought a brand new car,
and I was actually dreaming about this car for
the past couple years.
I could rant about being progressive
and actually the fact that Tesla's
doing really cool things for the environment
and everything else, but I won't
talk too much about the car because
that's not what this video is about.
Today, I'm going to teach this guy,
this is my camera man Lee by the way,
and Lee doesn't know- he's been filming
my magic for probably close to eight years,
a long time, so he's gotten to see
a lot of behind the scenes magic.
He doesn't know how any of it works,
but he has to get those angles and stuff,
but today I thought, "You know what?
"If you're going to constantly be filming
"magic, you ought to know some basic magic yourself."
So I'm going to teach you a few things.
- I can't even shuffle a deck of cards. (laughs)
- We'll see about that.
Maybe I'll teach you a cut, some cardistry.
- All right, nothing too hard.
- Here, you get these ones.
- I don't like this one.
- I'm using these over here.
These are- my buddy Troy, he put out
these cards, the marble-backs.
Very, very sick.
He'll be using the first cards - I'm using these
okay cards, design is okay.
- Stay tuned for Lee's channel where
he's gonna do card reviews.
"They're okay."
- That's my extent of- - He's like
"They're cool."
Let me just, the seals on these ones are a little-
You got your cards all ready, huh?
- Dude I'm a pro.
It's like the first time you're doing this.
- I'm a seasoned vet.
Got ya!
First thing I'm going to teach you
is something called "the kickflip."
So it goes like this.
- What?
- I'm just kidding. (laughs)
We'll start with a basic cut.
So what you want to do is hold it
in a straddle grip.
Hold your hand up to the camera like that.
Notice where my pinky is.
Yeah, and it's kind of straddling
the deck between these two fingers.
- Oh geez.
- Yeah, okay?
You're going to want to do here,
you can hold with your middle and-
- I was just testing it out, but see?
I don't have these muscles yet.
Look at this shake!
- I know, they'll develop.
So first things first, you're going to
let half the pack drop from your thumb
to the palm of your hand.
Just your thumb, let's go of- no, no.
Keep your thumb there and you're going
to move your thumb.
You're going to do this - Oh, okay, okay, yeah.
Right, exactly. - Perfect.
- So you're there, it kind of drops
into that little cradle.
Now your index finger is going to
contact underneath the bottom packet.
- Like the corner?
- No, no, underneath completely.
- Okay, underneath.
- And you're going to push- yeah!
- This way?
- No you're going to push so it comes this way.
So it's gonna do that. - (laughs)
- Try again, its all right, I'll spot you.
Start over, start over.
Start from the beginning.
- All right, all right, all right.
How do you drop so smoothly? - So you're here-
- So you just push this one? - Watch my thumb,
watch my thumb.
It just kind of lets go of half.
- Okay so you're just pushing the upper part.
- Exactly, pushing the upper part.
Yup!
- Yeah, okay.
- All right, perfect! - (laughs)
- Now, you're index is going to-
- Go under the bottom pack?
- Yup.
Now you're a little bit low on
your middle finger, as you can see.
- Yeah.
- Do you see how high I am?
Because if I was low, I wouldn't
be able to get my index under and have it flip.
So you want to be here and you want
these two are the ones contacting the top pack.
This- don't move, don't move, has got
to be kind of there, all right?
Now your index finger is going to push this.
Yeah, yeah, no you got it.
Now this one, this bottom packet, yup,
has to drop down here
so that your index - Ah, okay.
- Pushes it, push with your index
all the way, all the way!
Yup!
All the way, all the way!
Now move your index out of the way, curl it!
Yup, and let that drop.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
- All right, so you're here, watch my index,
it goes in, it curls out of the way.
- Shit, you make it look so easy! (laughs)
- Hold it high up in your hands.
Yup, straddle.
- Push- - Your pinky needs to
be up a little bit more because
your pinky is kind of up here, right?
Again, you're holding it a little bit low
on these because it's going to hard to move your index.
- So I kind of gotta go straddle.
- You gotta kind of fingertip it.
Exactly.
Boom, yup!
Index comes in.
Oh, so close!
- Ah no! - So close!
We're here, yup.
Index...
Yes, yes, yes! - Then push, push...
- Almost, oh, oh, hey! - Hey! (laughs)
- Not bad.
- Well we're getting there, we're getting there.
- That is called a Charlier cut.
I want you to practice that.
- Yeah, I think I need it.
- You're gonna practice that, we're
going to come back and see how you do
in another video, but that is the basic Charlier.
- This is my homework for the week.
- Now I'm going to teach you a
little bit of a magic trick.
I'm going to show you how to get a double lift.
A double lift is when you get two cards
and it looks like one.
- That I knew.
- All right, but I'm going to show you
how to get it from the center.
It's called a center double, I'll show
them at the same time if you guys don't know this.
So they're going to say stop whenever,
I'm going to pull that card out,
show them their selection, extract it,
put it on top, and now, obviously, that was two cards.
All you have to do here is, you hold
it in dealer's grip.
Dealer's grip is, let it fall down in your hand.
Exactly, be very comfortable with it.
Your thumb is going to riffle down
so just practice riffling down.
You definitely want the cards more leaning
this way when you're riffling through
because if they're like this
it's going to be hard to riffle through, right?
So you want them to kind of fall into the-
Look let it kind of, look at this.
Look where my index is.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
- Yup, kind of falling there.
A lot easier, right?
- Yeah, yeah, that leans way better.
- So you're here and they're going to say
stop somewhere around the middle.
Once you're there, your index is going to
contact the top part here, just the top.
You're going to riffle off two cards
onto the corner of your middle finger here.
One, two.
Okay?
Your middle finger, not your index.
- Middle finger, oh I think I had three, no.
- Your index holds the top packet.
- Yeah and then the middle finger comes down.
Okay I see.
- Middle finger stops those two.
- So riffle...
- Index goes to top, one two...
All right, - I got it.
- Now you're going to pull it sideways
and keep the packet tight enough
for it to stay like that.
Keep the packet tight, there you go.
Now turn it around. - (laughs)
- You're gonna grab that.
Just grab it, turn the pack around,
and drop it back on top.
Not bad.
- That's awesome.
- They say stop, now look how low it is
on your thumb compared to me.
Bring it up here.
So look how high it is on my thumb,
you want to bring it up there a bit
so it's easier to riffle.
All right so you're here. - Stop in the middle, index...
- Index, one two.
- One two.
- Sideways.
- I'm going to go like this. - Yup!
Keep the pack tight, turn it around, grab that card,
Turn the pack around, drop it on top.
- Bam! (laughs)
- This is actually great.
It's fun seeing you because you've been filming
my magic and tutorials for a long time
and you only now start realizing
how intense practice is even for this.
Even just holding a deck.
- I think what I'm realizing the most
is you're muscles, your flexibility
in your hand and your muscles.
- Well it's just muscle memory,
being able to hold a deck.
- I'm shaking doing all these motions.
Even if I do this, you see my hand's kind of...
And you guys are just very smooth.
- Well it's developing those muscles
to a point where you can do those
movements slowly and you're not shaking, you're not forcing.
It's these tiny, micro muscles you have
in your hand and in your fingers
that you never use for anything.
Now all of the sudden you're forced to-
like this one here, it's just a pinky count.
That's when you count cards with your pinky, right?
- Yeah.
- So if you want two cards, you go one two
and then I can grab a double, right?
So just try doing a pinky count.
It looks so easy.
- Pinky is here on this corner?
- Yup!
And you're just riffling two cards.
- Oh yeah, okay.
- That's the strength of the pinky.
- Look how smooth you are.
Look how you're hardly moving.
- I have full control over my pinky,
where it's going exactly. - And look at this shake.
Look at this shake when I do it.
Look at that!
And again, - (laughs)
you want the packet to lean,
when you're doing a pinky count,
you want it to lean inwards, right?
So that it's a lot easier to...
- Inwards, towards your palm.
- Yup.
So you're not forcing as much for that pinky count.
- Look at this shake, it's insane.
- You're gonna go one two, one two.
You grab that break and from here-
you can do it one hand too, this is a Vernon move,
you kind of bend the cards like that
and you let it slide out and that's two cards.
- I gotta focus on my two for now.
That's amazing. - You got your work
cut out for you.
We're gonna do an update in a few videos
so when we're not filming, I want
to see you with a deck of cards.
- Thank you sir. (laughs)
- Thank me now, thank me later.
All right guys, that's it for the video.
I just wanted to introduce Lee,
show him some magic here and hopefully he can practice.
Probably not, he's probably going to give up. (laughs)
Stick to videography.
- Nah, I got this, I got this.
Check this out.
- That's not bad. (laughs) - (laughs)
- Thanks Lee.
- Thank you buddy.
- Anyways guys, quick video for today,
stay tuned for tomorrow, we've got a
puzzle video dropping, gonna be real sick.
Thanks for watching, smash the like,
notifications, all that stuff.
We'll see you in the next one, peace.
- Peace.
Ah! (laughs)
- Hey, good enough.
Ah!