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- Yo, what's goin' on, guys?
Welcome back.
Little bit of a change.
Renovated my kitchen, so this is what it's like now,
I just have no kitchen.
Hopefully it doesn't get old.
No, seriously, I'm in the YouTube pop-up space in Montreal,
so Montreal doesn't actually have a YouTube space,
but as you know from the last vlog, this is it,
welcome to the tutorial.
Today I'm going to teaching you three single-card
fidget moves, and of course, I had all permission
from both Dave Buck and Oliver Sogard as well,
so I'm gonna run through one, two and three,
we're gonna learn three individually,
so you guys can follow along.
Hopefully, there's one of these three that you guys
don't know or don't do or don't do properly
that you guys can pick up.
They're really fun to do, they're some of
my favorite single-card flourishes.
I think single-card flourishes are the only ones that can
be called flourishes, I think everything else is a cut.
So, again, thank you for watching, like this video,
subscribe, let's get into the tutorial.
So!
First of all, fam, we're looking at Ferris.
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That's right, Ferris by Dave Buck.
There's a cool way of flipping a card around,
kinda looks like this, I'm gonna get into detail.
Dave was kind enough to let me teach this.
Obviously, if you don't know Dave--
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If you don't know Dan and Dave Buck, go ahead and visit
their site, artofplay or artofmagic.com,
I'll leave the links below.
They got plenty of playing cards.
Not these, though, these are sold out.
Enough about that, let's get into the explanation.
Ferris was originally, as I mentioned, created by Dave Buck,
and there's a few applications for Ferris, but I'm just
gonna run into the flourish and how it looks like,
and then you guys can go ahead and practice it,
it's not too difficult.
So, this is what it looks like.
It's basically a fun fidget move that is used by both
magicians and cardists who turn a card over.
Looks like of flourishy and fancy and there's not
a whole lot going on, but there is a little bit
of physics involved.
So, what you wanna do is, you hold it in your dealer's hand,
and with your other hand, you wanna grab it
in the top corner here, okay?
And just a light grip between the thumb and the index,
as the middle finger is going to contact this part
to sort of turn it around, okay?
So, here, turns it around.
Now, originally, Dave Buck, when he teaches this,
he grabs it at the top corner and does that turn.
I, however, grab it a little bit lower, and it actually
makes the card sort of start to rotate and fall into this
pocket between your index and middle finger, just like that.
So what that does, it sort of straightens it out.
Now, you can see it start to rotate here, as soon as I,
you see that?
It rotates sideways and then my fingers keep turning.
I drop the card here where my middle finger is
and I just turn it over.
So, if your card is face up, it's way to turn it face down,
you want to grab the corner here, same thing,
just like that, or you can grab it here.
Again, middle finger contacts, a light touch, it rotates,
your hand, your whole wrist rotates, and your fingers
kind of do this action, that's all they're doing, really,
they're not doing that much.
Shouldn't break a sweat, here, then it goes on top.
Now, at first, it's probably, here, I'll try it
with my left hand, this is probably what you guys
are doing right now, yeah.
At first it's gonna look like that.
That's what you guys are doing at home right now,
I see you.
It's like martial arts, you know, where you start, like,
super heavy, super strong, and end with softness, right?
So that's something that comes with time.
You're gonna be able to do this pretty much without
thinking about it, and it kind of just looks really cool.
So yeah, practice that, I'm not gonna go over it again.
If you do want to see what it looks like in more detail,
a little bit more detail, Dave also has a tutorial up
on Art of Magic you guys can check out.
So let's get into Flirt.
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Flirt, such an awesome name.
Also Dave Buck, I'm just stealing all of Dave's shit today.
This is an amazing single card, woop, little quick,
mmm, mmm, feels so good, looks so good.
It's great for the camera, great to like, sort of,
y'know, everyone else is used to doing this, walking around,
springing cards, but that's getting old fast, okay?
So this is the new card spring, it's just Flirt,
that's all you need to do.
They call it Flirt because you can pick up women.
You can just lure them in like this.
Here, come over here.
Doesn't actually work.
Maybe it does, try it out.
Let's get into the explanation.
Right now.
Alright, guys, so this is Flirt.
Flirt, also created by Dave Buck, what a coincidence.
Dave's a very creative guy, so, doesn't surprise me at all.
Flirt is a really cool fidget move.
This is, like, probably one of my favorite fidget moves
to do with a deck of cards, and it just looks like this.
Doesn't look like, it looks like, actually, more is going on
then there actually is, and it's kind of like this
instant flash sort of flourish that looks just,
just looks like a lot of fun to do, and the card, like,
automatically comes back to where it began.
And how this works, again, very simple, but it's...
It's not so much a question of mechanics,
it's more of a question of getting used to the grip
and sort of getting fluid with it by doing it over and over,
and this is how it works, so.
You're going to hold it, basically, in an elevated
dealer's grip, like so, with your index curled underneath.
The right hand is going to come over.
Basically, grip it with the middle finger and ring finger
and a thumb at the edge of the deck.
Your index finger is what's going to be...
Sort of pushing this card forward, and as the index
comes back, it's gonna contact the thumb.
So again, goes out, and one of the really nice parts
about this is not just when it goes out and comes back,
but when it actually goes down a bit, 'cause then
it gives it more of, like, more of a dynamic look to it,
like it's fluttering at the same time.
So, not just over, but also down a bit and then back.
With some practice, you'll be able to do that,
and obviously, that as well.
So here you go, one more time.
Index contacts the top-right, so if you're looking
from over here, top-right.
You're going to very simply take your index
and pivot it off of the middle finger, so your middle finger
is, like, your fulcrum point.
It goes here.
Thumb comes back down, so again, you're clearing your thumb.
Thumb comes back, you pull it back with the index
into that corner.
So the mechanics are really interesting in this,
and it happens in such a fast succession that you have
no idea what's going on, all you see is a sort of card
flare up, and this is cool to just kind of,
if you're filming your own video, just kind of do that
towards the camera, going towards the camera
and then coming right back into nothing.
So, that is Flirt.
Other people use it as am ambitious card as well, so boom,
your card jumps to the top.
I don't really think I would use this in a magic
performance, but just to fidget with cards while
you're sitting on the couch, on a bus, or whatever,
it's a fun little move to do.
Fun little flourish.
So, let's get into the sequel to Flirt,
which is Prince Charming, let's go.
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Alright, that was Flirt, this is Prince Charming.
Obviously, Prince Charming is based off Flirt.
Flirt was the idea by Dave Buck.
Prince Charming is an idea by Oliver Sogod.
Or Sogood, Sogard?
Either way, he's all three of those.
He's amazing, he's an incredible cardist.
He gave me permission to teach this today.
But please please check out Dealer's Grip.
You guys gotta check this out, they do a whole bunch of
free tutorials on cardistry, and they're probably
some of the most amazing cardists in the world,
Oliver and Tobias, who own this company,
and a little birdie tells me that they're also releasing
a deck of cards, so you guys should go check that out,
dealersgrip.com, but I'll leave the link to their,
to Oliver's Instagram and his YouTube channel,
you guys can learn some cuts and stuff, so.
I mean, he let me teach this, so to thank him,
go ahead and subscribe to him.
And let's get into the tutorial.
Actually, before I do,
Obvious, this was based on Flirt, Prince Charming,
but it's done with one hand.
He taught this on Director's Cut.
I actually funded, fun fact, I funded that project,
I helped fund it on IndieGoGo, was their first project,
their first sort of release into the cardistry world,
these kids were young, this was, like, five years ago.
I still have the clapper set up in my office
from that project, because that was like, the highest fund,
I just love these guys so much.
Enough me sucking up to these incredible cardists,
and let's get into the tutorial.
Alright, gang, so if you made it this far, you've run
through my first set of ads, so I appreciate you.
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This next one is called Prince Charming,
and this is by Oliver Sogard.
Coincidentally, these are his cards as well.
Basically, what, uh...
It's like a one-handed Flirt, so you're doing Flirt,
but you're doing it with one hand.
And usually, again, done towards the camera
in sort of a flashy action.
You're going to push off, and by the way, this originated
with Oliver, and he sort of did it really slowly at first,
and you can use it as a sort of production.
I use it here to show a card and then back.
But he eventually developed it into what it is now,
which is this, like, flashy whip action,
which is really cool.
So, to learn this, again, thumb is going to contact
the top-left side, so you're holding it in dealer's grip.
You're going to push off one card, and then you're gonna
come back with that card, and without doing the wrist
motion, I'm just gonna show you right now, if I lift this
card just a little bit, its only point of contact is this
top corner, which means that if I let go of my grip
a little bit, that card's going to rotate out,
and then all I have to do is bring it back.
Now, Oliver's thumbs are super long and he could
bring it back all the way.
I like to use my index to close it up if that doesn't work.
So, just practice this motion for now.
Don't even worry about the whipping action,
get used to the physics of this.
Pushing it out, coming back to the corner,
and letting it sort of fly out.
Now, again, you can use this if you just,
if you want to turn a card over and come back.
But I suggest just keep practicing this, and eventually,
you'll get the wrist motion down.
So the wrist motion is really a whipping motion,
it's all that's going on.
You're doing the same thing, but you're whipping the card
back and forth.
But, same thing, you're using that, and as you come here
and extend, you're gonna push it back with your index.
And that is Prince Charming.
Alright, guys, that was it, that was the entirety
of the three sort of fidget moves, my favorite fidget moves.
Hope you guys enjoyed it, hope you guys get something
out of it, like, even if you know two of these,
maybe there's one that sort of fell under the radar
that you guys haven't learned yet, hopefully those
will help you out and help your cardister game.
If not, whatever.
Subscribe anyway, you won't do it, you're chicken.
Alright, we'll see you guys in the next video, alright?
Peace!
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