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- Yo, what's up guys?
Welcome back today.
I know the tutorials have been slacking,
but that's why I'm here 'cause I'm joined by
better people than myself,
such as Alex Bendraya. - Where are they?
- Alex, if you guys don't know Alex,
he also taught something on my channel which is like
a spring control, you can go check that out.
But do yourself a favor, go check out his channel
his channel link below, lot of cool thoughts on
magic, some tutorials and stuff like that.
He's uploading pretty frequently,
so you might want to catch him while he's doing that.
Today, Alex is gonna teach us something,
not a slight, not a move, this is an
actual routine that you can do,
you know what, Alex just tell them a little bit about it.
- Awesome yeah, so before I taught the spring control,
which is very move monkeyish, and a lot
of people liked it too, but there's things
that you can't really do with all
these moves, is put them into a routine.
Actually most comments that I get,
how do you use this in routine?
Et cetera, et cetera, so teaching a routine here
at its basic form, but with maximum impact,
that's very important to me because
you don't want to do the hardest stuff possible
and hope, like mess it up, right?
This is a self working trick that I'm gonna teach you,
And I used to do it since I was eleven or twelve years old.
- Wow.
- But it looks like a legit professional trick
that you do, and it's all using a simple
little principle that goes way back.
So the fact is somebody selects a card,
no palming, no anything, it's gonna disappear from the deck,
and the appear in your pocket, in their pocket,
wherever you want basically, so it's a very strong effect,
and it's super simple. - And it's something you
performed it when you were twelve years old,
pretty much guarantee that anybody watches this video,
if you're looking to learn your first magic trick ever,
this could potentially be it.
- Yeah the ways to do this with gimmicks or
things that you buy or things that you need on you,
this you could make on the fly,
and all you need is a sharpie and a deck of cards.
- Let's get into it.
- Ian, my buddy Ian here is gonna select a card.
- Okay.
- Anywhere you want, this is super
random, watch, ready say stop.
- Stop. - At the break?
- Yes. - I'm just kidding.
All right, so they say stop somewhere,
and you look at the card, remember what it is, got it?
You remember what it is? - Got it, got it.
- Push it in.
(snaps)
You know what that does?
Makes your card disappear from the deck.
I know you don't believe me, but watch.
I'll go through every single card,
your card has now completely vanished.
What was your card?
- Queen of spades - Queen of spades.
Well there's a diamond, this is clubs,
cards is there, no queen of spades.
You know where it went?
Hand empty, reach into my pocket,
pull out one card, one card only.
Your card, queen of spades.
- Whoa.
- [Cameraman] That's pretty wild (laughs)
- Awesome guys, so heres the explanation of this,
it's super easy, and it's something that's like,
oh why didn't I think of that?
Before I used to do this with a duplicate.
You would need a duplicate, need a different deck,
and I would put one in my pocket and force a card.
That's fine, but what happens when you don't
have a duplicate, and this is where this comes in.
And it's even better because you can make the card vanish
and without palming out the duplicate or doing anything.
So what's the method?
Basically we're gonna do a makeshift gimmicked card,
where the queen of clubs is actually gonna
turn into the queen of spades for the selection process
using a sharpie marker and your artistic skills.
So basically look, I'll do it on,
like you could obviously use kings,
jacks, or queens, the black ones.
And what you do is on the club, you go ahead, and I like
to start with, just sort of, I'm doing this quick,
but you would get the example.
You start with the outline here.
- [Host] And this is something you can do while your sitting
at a table or you're in the bathroom getting ready
for your next set, and you're looking for another trick
to do, something you can do on the fly.
Look it took him, literally, seven seconds to fill that in.
One of the great things too is that the spectator
is only gonna see that for a brief amount of time,
and they're not really gonna have time to examine that card
to make sure it's not the actual kind of spades or whatever.
- Yeah the way the routine is set up it's quick,
it's easy, they got the card in mind,
and what's great about spectators and laymen in general,
is they don't know the shape of the faces of the kings,
how they're supposed to be, they don't know the shape,
'cause obviously this looks different than this,
but they're seeing it at two different places, and honestly,
I've done it so many times, and nobody's ever caught on.
So basically this is your setup, right?
And this is the gimmick that you need.
This goes on top of the deck, and this goes somewhere.
So I put this in my pocket, usually,
or if I can sneak it into spectators pocket,
that's also good, doing some pick pocketing.
And then it's even more amazing.
So what's gonna happen, and we'll do
with the queen, just a performance.
Queen of spades and club gimmick goes on top with the spades
towards the spectator 'cause that's what you're gonna force.
This goes on top and, again, this is in their pocket
or in your pocket or underneath
the glass or somewhere, in the box.
Here I'm going to do a riffle force,
okay you can do any, basically any force at this point,
but the idea is to get the card like this,
so you can do this flash, okay?
So the way that I do it is just cut,
maybe do a few other ones, so you just don't cut it once,
and hold the little pink break over there, just one tip.
Please don't shove your whole finger in there,
we don't want that because that creates breaks all around,
so you just want your little skin in there, just like that.
Hold it very elegantly.
They say stop anywhere they want.
You stop, I come here, I grab everything
that is above the break, and I push this card
forward like this, and now you're
in this position, as is out jogged, okay?
Same thing if you want to do a classic force,
they touch a card, if you nail it down,
you just out jog it just like this,
and you give them a little flash of that card, okay?
So whatever method that you want to come up with
to get it in this position, is good.
And now from here, I flash it up, I go you got the card?
And I always do the snap, so it's sort of like,
they do it fast in their mind, you got the card?
Yes, good and I bring it back down, that's all you gotta do.
One finger pushes it back in, and now you're gonna turn
the deck end for end to disappear the card.
So do whatever magic gestures that you want,
turn it over end for end, and now
you can spread the cards, and you have this nice spread,
and your hands are always here,
and you go, what card did you get?
And they say queen of spades,
you go I know that's the hearts, and I always go,
I know that's the clubs, and see you're obviously
hiding this part, you don't want to spread past this,
but you can spread all the way up to here.
That's the clubs, diamonds, yeah what.
- [Host] That's it.
- Boom and then you go, where could it be?
Wait a second, I just felt it, did you feel it?
And then you pull it out.
You do one of these things where you go,
like behind you, and you go, what the hell?
Turn around and you go, did you just touch my ass?
And she goes no, you go, do you want to?
No I'm just kidding. (laughs)
So you add that in as many corny stuff as you can
to your card tricks, you add it in.
Pull it out, take your bow,
- Done. - and that's it.
- That's such a simple and powerful trick.
- It's cool, like--
- I think my favorite part of this is
that you are not using a duplicate,
you are creating a gimmick card and it takes you
less than five seconds to do so, and by all means
this, you're saying people don't know what a spade
looks like, that looks like a spade man.
Like even for me, from my eye, I don't notice,
when seen quickly, I'm trying to register the information,
I'm not trying to examine the playing card.
And so I register the information
and it's gone, and then we're good.
- Yeah it's cool to do with a borrowed deck,
and then just steal that out,
and then at the end.
Yeah guys just, my final tip is
with things like this, just think of what's the minimal
amount that you can do, and then have the maximum impact.
So that's it.
- All right guys, I got, (laughs) do you?
- Go ahead. - You do.
- Go ahead - you, you
- Go ahead, go ahead.
- You we're gonna do the same thing I was gonna do.
- All right guys, thanks so much for watching.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
Again, go show Alex some love on his page,
I'll leave the link below, you guys can subscribe here.
And let me know what you guys thought of this effect.
Is this something that you would throw
into your working repertoire,
or if you're a new magician, is this something
that you would actually try and perform, and if you did,
or if you do, I would love to hear back from you.
- And then when you tell, it's even better when you tell,
not the laymen, the magician, the method,
they're like, oh this is so good, so.
- Yeah the method is probably just as good as the effect.
- It's good, it's fun, so hope you guys enjoyed that.
Catch you guys next time.
- Thanks Alex.
Peace, brap, oh,
like this video, subscribe, peace, brap.
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