- Alright, so today I'm gonna share
with you a little bit of a secret
on how a magician is able to steal a single playing card
from within a box of cards.
So first, you put the card in the box,
remember the card, seven of spades,
as it goes into the box.
Now, here's the thing, you can still hear that
within the box, and a lot of magicians,
this is how they'll steal it out.
They'll actually peel the back of the box.
I can show you this.
And they'll steal the card out from the back,
but that's not what we're gonna do.
So we'll leave it in there, we'll push it back in.
Close up the box.
All I need to do is
(snaps)
just like that.
If you open up the box here,
you'll see that the card has completely vanished
from within the box.
And it is now no longer in the box,
but in my back pocket.
Let's get into it.
Yo, what is up guys?
And welcome back.
Glad to be back.
I took the weekend off,
so sorry for no posting in the last three days,
but it did me so good to just get away from social media,
internet connection, electricity,
and running water and everything else.
I spent the weekend, like, completely secluded.
This is what it looked like.
(chill music)
Pretty majestic.
So anyways, we're back today because it is Monday,
and I am ready to teach you guys something.
And I know a lot of you, on my last video,
I asked you if you wanted
to learn the which hand coin thing,
which I do want to teach,
however, because I just got back,
I didn't have time.
This is something that I want to go out
and film performances because I don't just want to tell you,
"Oh, this works all the time. Go out and try it."
And then, you know, you're not seeing the same results
or anything, so I wanna show you in performance
what this looks like every time.
So probably this week, I'm gonna take the camera out
and go shoot that a whole bunch
and get a bunch of different performances
to string together so I can show you guys
that it does hit and I can show you
what to look for in the person
because you're going to be reading body language
and all that stuff.
So I'm gonna show you on camera, in-depth,
play by play, what to look for.
But today, we're gonna be looking
at something just as cool
because today, I'm gonna teach you
how to vanish a playing card from a box of cards
and make it appear in your pocket.
Now this originally was a method to control the card,
which I still use, within the deck of cards.
Then Peter McKinnon, who's a good friend of mine,
you guys should really check out his channel by the way.
He's, like, blown up on YouTube.
Smashing you with the vlogs
and video- and photo-editing tutorials.
Pretty much where I learned most
of my video and photo skills, are from Pete,
so he's a really good dude.
If you're not subscribed to him,
I'll leave him at the end in the little annotations things.
You guys can check out his channel as well.
So Pete came up with this method using
a box which was like the method for controlling a card,
which I thought was great and could be done anytime,
so I'm gonna teach you that,
but, by the way, I got his permission for this,
but also, you're gonna learn something
that I added again, so this is kinda like a sandwich effect,
where at the end, you can actually show them the card,
and that's really deceiving
because when you show them the card going into the box,
you're also giving them a sort of,
a little bit of an inside secret,
like this is how magicians steal cards.
Even if we both know this is not how you steal cards.
But they enjoy that.
And then boom, it ends up in your pocket.
So there are basically two things that are going to,
that I'm going to teach.
One is how to do it impromptu,
with any borrowed box, any borrowed card.
And the second is the addition that I added to this,
which is a bit of a gimmick,
which you can make at home.
You can have this prepared in your deck
and just ready to go.
Keep it in your tuck case, not a problem.
So I'm gonna teach you both of those today,
and hopefully you use them wisely.
So let's get into it.
Alright, so the first part of this,
all you're going to need is a single playing card
and an empty tuck case.
So this is something that I used to do
to just control the card,
which actually, I still do.
Ah, let's focus here.
So to control a card, you have this card here,
the, what is that?
The nine of hearts,
goes right into the deck and is on top.
One more time.
You're here, you show that, and now you're here,
and it's on top, okay.
So that is a card control based
on Bow to Stern by Ernest Earick.
But I'm gonna teach you how to do it with a box instead.
You wanna grab a box, you can show it empty,
not a problem at all.
You're gonna take this and actually put it into the box.
Now you see that it's in the box.
I can show you the bottom.
I can show you that it's in there.
And I'm actually going to show you one last time,
before I push it into the box,
and you can hear it, sort of rattle around.
Only, it's in my pocket and no longer in the box.
What?
Here's the work on this.
Take your box, flap down,
so the opening of the flap down here.
You wanna take the playing card and insert it into there,
not halfway out, say about 1/4, 1/3 of the way.
You can see the card, give it a little fake tap,
just like that, you're not actually just holding onto it.
And you can show the back.
I like to show it quickly, be like,
"Alright, remember this card."
You know, just like this.
"Remember this card."
That gives you a reason to show it again.
And say one last time, "remember it,"
and as I push it into the deck,
it's right here.
Ba-da!
So here's what you're going to do in a nutshell.
As you raise this up to show them one last time,
you're going to hold the box like this, okay?
Thumb at the bottom, index, middle finger here.
And now, as they see this,
you're going to slide this box out
and keep it perpendicular
so all they see is this here.
And as you come back down,
you put it underneath the box, like this.
So now it looks exactly like it did before
except, it's not in the box,
but it looks like it's in the box.
You're middle finger is going to square that up,
nice and evenly, okay.
And you're going to rock back with the entire deck,
with the entire box you're going to rock back,
grip that card in Gambler's Cop.
This is what we call a Gambler's Cop.
And rock forward with just the box,
leaving the card back here in Gambler's Cop.
This is Gambler's Palm or Gambler's Cop,
so when it's here, as long as this stays to their eyes,
as long as this card stays to their eyes,
which now is the camera lens,
you will not be able to see that card.
But if I go like this, you're gonna see the bottom,
or if I go like this, you can see the top,
but here, completely invisible.
It gives you some room.
You can talk, go straight to your pocket, and pull it out.
This goes in here.
You wanna show it to them one last time,
so what you're gonna do is you're gonna rock
with this hand forward, right?
As this hand tilts the deck this way.
Now they're seeing this, right,
and as you come back, you're just doing that.
So here.
Then you're gonna come back and do this.
Then we're gonna leave that in there,
you push it in, take the whole box,
push it back, and bring it forward.
And that happens really fast.
So when you're here, give the fake tap,
show it one last time, push it,
and now I'm into Gambler's Cop,
which now I can go straight to my pocket.
Be like, "you hear it."
This is a nice little tip that Pete added,
which is, like you kind of hear something.
All you're doing here is tapping the back of the box gently.
So that, my friends, is how you get a card
from a box to vanish.
Now, little bit of a tip.
This might make noise at first.
If you do this, ssh-clock, what a horrible noise.
So the way to get around that is to really slide it out
and then tilt your hand up.
So if I slide it up, let me stop talking.
So that is the first part.
Now let's get into the gimmick
that little convincer that I came up with,
which you can use or you can choose not to,
it is completely up to you.
So for this version, you'll need a duplicate card.
A duplicate is the same exact card as the other card.
And you're going to do the exact same thing,
except this time, after you've stolen it,
after this has gone into your pocket,
you can do the shake, blah, blah, blah,
but here's the little bit of a convincer.
So you're gonna say like,
"Magicians, here's what we like to do.
"We like to open the back, right here,
"and pull out the card.
"See that?
"I'm gonna leave it in there though
"'cause I'm not gonna do that.
"I'm gonna leave it in there.
"And I'm just gonna leave that in your hand,
"snap my fingers, and now it's gone forever."
So all I've done here, check this out,
this is clever.
I've taken a piece of the exact same playing card,
so a duplicate, now it's unstuck
because I've been playing with it so long,
and I glued it, so you wanna use some glue here.
You cut out this exact piece.
Measure the, basically the length of this little flap,
so you wanna undo your flap here,
alright, on the bottom, it's gonna tear open.
You're going to take the exact same playing card,
place it inside so you know exactly where to cut,
use a glue stick or some crazy glue,
and glue that down there.
You want that to be glued down there 100%.
On this side here, I just have some double-sided tape.
So this is very lightly stuck,
which allows me to close it,
and if I press hard enough,
it'll stay closed for a little while.
So I use my pinky to hold it down there,
and you can even place that in their hands
if you've tightened it enough
and it'll stay there like that.
This is basically your reasoning
for how magicians steal things.
So what you can do,
and this is a nice little tip, so you say,
"Magicians actually open up the back of the pack like this."
Now I pretend to go in there and pull out,
and as I do that, I tilt up,
so it kind of really gives the illusion
that I just pulled that card out.
See that?
But I'm actually not doing anything.
I'm just doing this.
So I'm just pretending I'm going in there,
and as I come back up, it looks like I pulled it out, right?
So you're here, "Oh, let me grab that card."
So they can see this card here.
I'm actually gonna leave it back in there.
Do the same thing, but I'm not doing anything.
I'm just kinda, like, gliding my fingers over it,
but tilting up at the same time,
so it creates that illusion.
So it'll be like boom.
I got the card, I'm gonna leave it in there.
At this point, I'm just gonna take my thumb
re-stick it on there so it's stuck.
And this tape has been used quite a bit.
But you can re-stick it on there so it doesn't move.
You can even hold it with your pinky
or your finger and your fleshy part of your thumb
so it doesn't move here.
Give it a rattle, show them the inside,
that it's completely gone.
And now it's in your back pocket.
So play with that.
This is a cool little thing that you can do.
It fools a lot of people
because it's just a little clever way of one last time,
showing the card before it vanishes.
So if you like that, play around with it.
If you wanna keep the original version,
which is completely impromptu,
you know, that's, for me, just as good, if not better,
because you're not adding anything onto it.
But I thought I'd teach you guys the little addition
that I added here,
which adds a little bit of an extra layer of deception.
Fun to perform.
So I hope you enjoyed that.
It's a hot one.
Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed that.
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