- All right, for this trick,
I'm gonna need three selections.
I'm gonna have my three best friends go ahead and
choose a card each.
All right, they've chosen these three.
We got the three of hearts, the nine of hearts and
the seven of hearts,
and I'm gonna lose them somewhere within the deck.
One, two, three.
Just to make sure those are definitely placed individually
at different parts of the deck,
and for this trick, we're gonna need a rubber band,
so I'm gonna use this rubber band,
and I'm going to wrap it around the deck, twist it up,
and I'm gonna ask you to say "stop" whenever you like.
Stop right there.
I'm gonna place this rubber band right exactly
where you said "stop,"
and I'm gonna cut the deck right there, okay.
Now if this all works well,
I should be able to find your three cards
on the count of three.
One, two, three.
(cards pop)
Just like that, three cards jump out of the deck,
your three selections.
But how?
Now if that's something you want to learn, stick around
cuz we're getting into it right now.
Yo, what is up?
Today, ladies and gentlemen,
we're gonna be learning something really cool,
something I like doing quite often,
so I'm gonna show you a way to, first of all,
control multiple selections to the bottom
of the deck really smoothly and practically invisibly.
This is one of my favorite controls to do.
I've done it in a lot of videos before.
You guys have been asking, "How did... how did you do...
How did you do it?"
Well, today I'm gonna show you for the first time,
but not only that, were gonna get into what to do
once the cards are on the bottom.
Multiple selection tricks are really cool.
I don't do very many of them because it gets confusing,
but if you're ever in a situation
where you have three spectators and you want to perform
one quick trick to all three spectators,
this is a great one to do, and all you need is a deck
of cards and a rubber band and some willing victims.
Spectators, not victims.
Whatever.
So before I get into this, some crediting.
Multiple selection is based off an idea from Ken Krenzel,
Ken Krenzel's Card Classics.
It is the middle card control, I believe,
and is also taught in The Real Work
by Jason England and R. Paul Wilson,
so check out those references.
Check out Card Classics by Ken Krenzel and The Real Work.
You'll find some great stuff in there.
I also have a book by Ken Krenzel.
This is another book I like.
This is Relaxed Impossibilities by Ken Krenzel.
Ken is an amazing sleight of hand guy.
He's got some really cool ideas.
A lot of stuff you wouldn't ever do, honestly,
but just fun to practice, some interesting ideas.
This move, however, is something that I do use,
and I do use it to control one card
to either the bottom or the top or multiple selections
like in this case.
So I'm gonna briefly run over the multiple selection
and how to get that to the bottom,
but to really practice it and to really get
to it will take you lots of practice
to get it invisibly with no sound and minimal movement,
so I do suggest you pick up those things.
Check out Card Classics by Ken.
Check out Real Work.
It'll help you out,
and plus, you'll learn a whole bunch more from them,
but what we're gonna focus on mainly is how to get
those cards to jump out of the deck
and for you to catch them in midair,
which is not only a magical feat but a feat
of incredible skill, as the cards are whirling in the air,
where they can see it's this amazing aerial moment,
and you catch them as one and then, psht, three card or
four or five or whatever you'd like,
so without further ado, let's get into the tutorial.
All right, so let's get started.
Before I begin, I am using the Monarchs, the blue Monarchs,
by Theory11.
I love these cards.
Link below if you like them,
and I'm using rubber bands by Joe Rindfleisch.
Joe Rindfleisch has the best rubber bands in the business,
whether you're doing rubber band magic or,
like were doing here, incorporating them
with cards or rings or whatever.
These, I highly suggest to get.
I'll leave the link below.
All the top professional magicians use
Joe Rindfleisch's rubber bands.
Check these out, and if you're interested,
something I'm starting right now is the secret link.
I have a secret link.
The link is below.
I'm not gonna tell you what it is because
it's a secret link.
Check it out.
First of all, what you're going to need to do is
is a four-card or a three-card or a single-card control
to the bottom.
Now you can use whatever control you want.
I like using the middle card control by Ken Krenzel,
which I mentioned,
and this normally would look like this,
so if you have a selection of the 10 of clubs,
goes into the middle, and it's already on the bottom
just like that,
so it happens fairly quickly,
no noise if you do it correctly and minimal hand movement.
There's a little bit of hand movement but not much.
So the mechanics of that, I'll briefly overlook,
but do check out those references that I talked about
in the intro if you want to learn more about them.
So I use it for a multiple card selection,
so here we have the king of hearts, the ace of diamonds,
and the four of spades all going into individual spots
within the deck.
As I push them in here, this happens in four steps,
One, two, three, four, and they're all on the bottom, right.
So here's how this works.
I'm gonna turn the camera around,
or actually, I'll turn myself around
so you guys can see the exposed angle of this.
So start off by doing it with one card.
You're going to leave it into the middle of the deck,
and you're going to use your three fingers here
to push them in,
and what you're doing is kind of like the DPS.
You're actually letting it be outjogged
from the side of the deck like this,
so you're gonna push it in diagonally, all right, like this
so that it comes out here, okay.
So you're here.
Looks like you're pushing it straight in,
but you're actually leaving the corner here protrude
so that your thumb can bring it
down and out back here, okay.
From this angle, you won't see anything, right,
but the card is actually here,
almost ready to be DPS'd, all right,
but were not going to DPS it.
We're going to straddle pass it.
Basically, this move is a straddle pass.
Once you leave it in the middle...
Again, we're just gonna start with one card here.
You're going to push it this way
so that the card gets protruded here, all right.
I like to use my ring finger and help pop it out,
so the other side of the card is contacting my thumb,
and with the help of the ring finger,
you can sort of pop it out like that, right.
So from the front, again, you're here.
I use my thumb just a little bit to help push it down
just so I can get it over this part of the thumb here.
This ring finger will help pop it out.
As soon as it's popped out, my pinky goes underneath,
and by index goes over top.
That's where you get the straddle, all right,
and then I go down with the pinky until I clear it,
and then I'm back up, okay.
So from an exposed angle, this is what it's gonna look like.
Here,
Here, use this.
Use the ring finger, pinky down here, index up here.
Pull it out and bring it to the bottom.
So from the top, you should have very little movement
and shouldn't make too much noise as you're here,
just like that.
So when it happens quickly, you have the card here,
and we're ready to go with the card on the bottom, again.
Okay, so all you have to do now,
and again, if you want more work on this,
check out those references.
I'm briefly going over this,
but it's gonna take a lot of practice.
If you're familiar with the DPS, the diagonal palm shift,
you should be already familiar with this,
and you know, it uses some finger muscles here
between the pinky and index because of the straddle,
so here again, boom, straddling, all right.
My pinky's gonna come this way so it clears the card,
and as soon as it clears, it comes right back.
So the same thing happens with multiple selections.
I like to do this, by the way.
So once I have all three selections,
you fan them out this way,
not this way,
this way because as you riffle down the side of the deck
you can leave them there at individual spots,
which is kind of fancy, so you go one, two, three,
and now all three are in the center of the deck.
You can display that.
You can show that to them.
Close it up.
Now you're gonna do the same exact move,
except this time, you're gonna do it with three cards,
so again, boom,
and now, I keep a break,
so I'm keeping a big, gaping break
with my pinky right here, okay.
One more time.
We've got three selections here.
Remember your selections.
One, two, three.
I'm gonna show them to you,
and now I'm gonna square it up, and as I do,
boom, ring finger here is
so the cards are contacting my thumb,
and the ring finger allows me to pull them out a little bit,
just enough for my index to get over there and my pinky.
I'm going to basically apply pressure
to allow those cards to bend, basically,
because the bending of the cards is gonna allow them
to clear this deck cuz if you didn't bend them,
you know, if you don't bend the cards,
you're gonna flash more, so by bending,
you're sort of constricting that flash window, all right.
So one, two, three.
You're here.
As they go in, boom, contact.
Bend until they get out and just clear,
and then you square everything up,
so in real time, all three cards go in.
You're here, and now we're controlled to the bottom,
and you want to keep your break.
Now once you have that break, you want to start
with the rubber band on your dealer's side,
or you can hand it out for inspection
cuz the one thing you do not want to do in this trick,
once you've controlled these three cards,
the one thing you do not want to do is flash
this card, right, cuz that's gonna be their selection,
so your hand always has to be tilted down
with your break over these three cards.
So they think the cards are lost somewhere in the deck.
They are not.
They're right here.
You're gonna take this rubber band, keeping your hand,
you know, tilted towards them, not tilted up, tilted here.
With the rubber band, you're going to place it
within that break, okay,
so right in that break where those three cards are,
but from the back, it looks like I'm just placing it
around the deck, okay.
You're going to twist the rubber band
so now you've got one turn on it.
At this point, you don't need to hold the break anymore
because your rubber band is creating that break for you,
so you can completely let go and hold the deck.
You're going to use your thumb, and you're going to riffle
down the side, and they can say "stop" wherever they want.
It really doesn't matter, so stop.
You're gonna insert this loop into there.
(snap) Give it a little bit of a snap,
and now you can let everything go, okay.
So at this point, they've selected a place
within the middle of the deck.
Now with this hand...
Again, don't flash this.
With this hand, you're going to pick everything up,
and you're going to do basically a swing cut, all right.
So you're gonna pick up with your index exactly
where they stopped you without flashing again.
So they stopped you here.
Say, "Okay, were gonna take exactly where you stopped."
You're gonna take the top pack,
and you're gonna extend it onto the bottom.
Now, you need to keep the pressure here with your right hand
cuz, if you don't,
those cards will start shooting out prematurely like this,
and that's no good, okay.
So you're here.
You want to pick up at that break.
You want to grab that whole packet, bring it to the bottom
and hold tightly, okay.
Now that you're in this position, turn the cards like this
and readjust your grip like this
because the cards are going to want to, you guessed it,
shoot out of here.
If I let go pressure, they're just going to shoot right out.
So what you want to do is just let go
of your thumb and these fingers here,
and the cards will jump out.
Now normally, they won't jump out separately.
They'll jump out the same,
but because I released them before, that's what happened.
So let's go over that one more time.
We have the rubber band placed on my left hand.
Were gonna put three selections into the middle,
One, two, and three.
We can show the spectator those three selections.
I'm going to bring them to the bottom, keep my break,
use this rubber band, place it behind,
twist it, run my finger down.
They say "stop."
Place that in there.
(snap)
I'm done.
Grab at that break, holding everything here.
These are your three selections freely on the bottom.
Holding everything, going around.
Now the elastic's here.
The rubber band's here, so they're gonna shoot out this way,
so I want to turn it here so that when I let go
I get all three selections, and I can catch them there.
Now, catching them is just, you'll see, it pretty easy.
The cards sticks together, and now you're left
with a rubber band around this deck.
Half the cards are face up and face down,
so all you need to do is simply fix that,
and you're good to go,
and you're good to continue performing.
All right, were gonna run through that one last time,
and then were gonna call it a day.
So one, two, three selections get lost somewhere
in the middle.
You push them in.
You control them to the bottom.
Keep your break.
This rubber band goes around back.
Twist it.
Don't flash.
Run your finger down somewhere there.
Grab that break, transfer it
around the deck so it's face up, face down.
Turn the deck around and
(card pops)
one, two, three.
That's the trick.
Thanks so much for checking us out.
I'm glad you guys watched it through to the end,
or else you wouldn't be here with me right now.
(tongue clicks)
This is a fun move.
I love performing this.
I think it's really cool.
Any time you can incorporate aerial moves into card magic,
I think lay people and spectators really enjoy that
because it becomes this really skillful trick,
which not solely relies on a gimmick or sleight of hand.
It becomes this amazing, sort of bigger playing effect,
so for parlor or even for like street or friends
or whatever, it's fun to see the cards jump around
in the air and you catching them as one and
have them being multiple cards.
That's a really cool thing.
People don't know, even I don't know, the physics
behind that.
I don't know how it works, why multiple cards stick together
as they're spinning like crazy in the air,
but it does, and it's a really cool thing.
So you can do it with like four aces, four kings,
four of a kind, or like I like to present it
as a multiple selection routine finding their card,
so it's a great way to end off a nice little routine or
just to do a one-time performance for multiple people.
Whatever.
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