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- Yo what's up guys?
Welcome back, today we're talking about sleight of hand.
I'm going to share with you
the magicians' perspective of sleight of hands.
The reason I do that is not for the purpose of exposure
'cause at no point will I be explaining how I do any of this
but I just wanna give you kind of a glimpse
into the view of a magician for you to gain
a bit of appreciation of the craft
because I think sleight of hand innately
is really interesting to a lot of people
because it's attainable, not because it's some superpower,
you can levitate and that type of thing,
but because it is attainable
and because it is a feat of skill
even though that feat of skill seems impossible,
people still know that there's some
slight of hand trickery going on,
we just don't see how it's done.
So I wanna give you a quick glimpse
into some of that sleight of hand today
and hopefully you'll be able
to take something away from this,
not necessarily learn how any of these things are done,
that might happen on your own
if you fall down the YouTube rabbit hole,
mostly just for you to gain appreciation
of sleight of hand as an art form.
But before I do that, we are launching a project today,
I'm really, really excited about this,
I've been hyping it up on my Instagram,
this is a project by Calen Morelli and Franco Pascali.
So Calen Morelli came up with this move
which is called the DRIP DOUBLE
and Franco Pascali teaches you
in 35 minutes of instructionals all the subtleties,
all the routining and all of the different things
that you can do with this sleight,
the link is below if you want to support me,
this channel and/or the creators
Calen Morelli and Franco Pascali
who are both insanely good at what they do,
please go ahead and purchase this, it's $10.
I know a lot of you in the comments
are gonna be like I know how this is done
but I can assure you,
sleight of hand is not learnt through a performance video,
it is learned through instructional
so there's a difference between knowing
how something is done and knowing how to do it.
And that's why there is an instructional,
so it's $10, it supports this channel,
supports these guys and I'm really, really proud of it.
If you like, I know you guys support me a lot
on the Playing Cards and everything else
so I'm not gonna beg you to to pick this up
but if you're practicing sleight of hand,
this is an incredibly useful effect.
So without further ado, let's roll the trailer.
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There it was, that was the DRIP DOUBLE by Calen Morelli
with teachings by Franco Pascali.
The trailer came out really, really nice, really dope,
these guys are literally on a whole other level
of sleight of hands, not just one of those moves
from move monkeys that you're never gonna perform
in real life this is actually practical
that you can use every day while performing.
So thank you again, link below, check it out.
In the beginning of this video,
I rolled some footage of me performing
some sleight of hands,
some moves of which are original to me which I created.
I'm infatuated and passionate about sleight of hand
for multiple reasons.
One, I'm really attracted to methods,
there's just something innately within me
that needs to know how something is done.
Hence my love for puzzles and logic-based games
and that type of thing, I just love strategy,
I love methods, I love knowing how things are done
so in the heart of me, I'm a little bit of an engineer
but I also love the craft of magic,
I love performing and I love getting reactions
and then literally changing people's day with a trick
but for the purpose of this video,
we're going to not be looking at the performance side,
I'm gonna give you a bit of a glimpse
of what sleight of hand looks like for me
and other magicians.
I'm gonna roll a couple clips,
the first clip will be an exposed angle
and the second clip will be what that angle
looks like for the spectator.
So a bit backwards,
we're not looking at the performance first,
we're gonna look at the exposure first
and then the performance.
And just to give you guys a little bit of a look
and a taste of all the hard work that goes
into the sleight of hand and the reward that comes from it.
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Alright, I hope you enjoyed that.
I want to send off this video
just by saying that appreciating sleight of hand
in the methods as well as in magic
isn't the same as performing, obviously,
it's very, very different
but I want to tell you a bit of a story.
I was at MagicCon in I think 2012
and there was a magician by the name of Bebel
who is from Paris and this guy,
Bebel performs in the subways of Paris
between 11 p.m. and two a.m.,
I don't know if you understand
like the grueling conditions that that is
so he's basically a busker,
he sets up his table outside of the train
and people come out and there are people
ranging from children to adults of all walks of life.
If you have any idea, if you've ever busked in your life,
it is really, really hard to get people
especially coming off a train who have somewhere to go
to stop and watch your magic
so those are the hardest, most grueling scenarios
that you can possibly imagine to perform in
and that's where he thrives in
and that's why he's one of the best
sleight of hand artists in the world.
I had a chance to sit down with Bebel
and one thing that I noticed when I was at this convention,
he would start performing for people
so there was him, his table
and there was a whole bunch of people in front of him
and he was doing all this really crazy sleight of hand.
And behind him was a row of magicians,
so they're all standing up, a row of magicians watching him,
and there was this delayed reaction between him performing
and the reactions he was getting.
So for example, he would do something
and everybody in the back would react
but he hasn't done anything yet
according to the spectators in the front
so he's doing all this secret stuff
and you would hear all the magicians go oh,
and they would start clapping,
five seconds later then the audience
would be like oh wow because they would see the actual
but everything that goes on behind the scenes,
there's a whole row of magicians just appreciating that.
So there is some merit to how sleight of hand is done,
I think sleight of hand practitioners understand that,
it's definitely not on the same plane
as giving someone a magical moment,
but it's definitely an art form
and it's something that I really, really like to do
and especially sit around with my magician friends
and talk sleight of hand,
I don't think there's anything wrong with that,
you know there's two types of people in this world,
there are people who build clocks and cuckoo clocks
and make them run and there are people who buy them
and collect them and appreciate them
and you can't have one without the other, right.
So it's kind of how sleight of hand works as well
so I think there's some merit to appreciating
sleight of hand and knowing that it's sleight of hand
and it's not some magical power.
Anyways I could rant on this subject for days, guys,
I hope you enjoyed this video.
Again if you want to support me, this channel,
and these creators, check out the link below
if you're interested in stepping up
your sleight of hand game.
And to be honest, this download is accessible to anyone
if you're just beginning in magic
or if you're intermediate or advanced,
this is perfect for anyone,
this is not something super knuckle-busting
that'll take you years to master,
it's something that you can, with their teachings,
end up doing within a matter of days or weeks.
So guys, thank you for watching,
hope you enjoyed this video,
I will see you on the next one, peace.