- I heard that these card handle well
under pressure.
(humming)
♪ Under pressure ♪
Alright, intro.
("Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie)
What's going on, Ram Fam?
Oh, this?
Yeah, well that's embroidered.
Look at that.
Whoosh.
Merch is about to launch.
We're set to launch sometime next week
so be sure to get ready.
(electronic buzzing)
Alright, so today we're going to look
at one of the most beautiful displays
and flourishes in cardistry.
It feels like you're spreading some butter
on some melted butter on a hot bagel.
(electronic buzzing)
Terrible analogy.
Feels like driving a convertible
with your hair in the wind.
Kinda feels like putting sun lotion
on a cooked chicken.
Not sure where I'm going with this.
Oh, by the way,
the contest we did for the drawer,
the magic drawer,
I left the winner in the description
so check that out to see if you won.
Thanks to everybody for participating.
We'll do another contest soon
'cause as you know,
Ram Fam is approaching the one million
(singing) a million a million mark.
(electronic buzzing)
Also, I'll be in New York for a couple days.
Got a couple meetings down there.
Probably shoot some vlogs and stuff like that.
Should be a lot of fun.
But today, ladies and gentlemen,
we're going to learn Under Pressure.
Under Pressure was actually taught by Dan and Dave.
Actually created by a guy name Michael Vial
by accident by playing around with the pressure fan.
The pressure fan being this.
And, then by accident,
he just kinda...
Ooh, what's going on here?
And, he came up with Under Pressure.
It looks really good if you have a design that fits it,
which I just so happen to have.
This light bulb is burning my back.
These are searing hot light bulbs.
(yells) Ow!
I don't know why I did that.
Alright, enough rambling.
Let's get it.
Alright, so to teach this flourish,
I'm gonna actually use these cards here.
These nice and green little beasties.
These are the brand-new...
Almost brand-new.
Everything was going fine today.
Green wheels - hello -
by DKNG and Dan and Dave.
These just launched actually Friday,
so get 'em while they're hot
before they sell out on the site.
I'll leave the link below
where you guys can check out this deck
and a whole bunch of others.
First and foremost,
what you need to learn is the pressure fan.
And, much like the thumb fan,
which is like this,
or if you want to use your thumb.
Except your grip's gonna be a little bit different.
So, you're gonna grip the top of the deck
with your index and middle finger.
So, your middle finger towards
this side of the deck here.
And, your thumb just about where
your index is opposite that, okay.
You want to bend the deck inwards a little bit.
This is a brand new deck,
or a thicker deck.
It will be a little bit harder,
but you can wear it in.
And, it won't permanently damage your deck
because you'll just do this afterwards,
and it'll kind of even out.
So, you want to put it into this deep hand grip.
Alright?
It's like the same thing
as if you're doing one of these fans, okay.
Deep hand grip,
and you're kind of springing the cards.
But, as you're springing them,
your hand is rotating as well.
So, you're pressure's here.
You're here,
and then you just turn your hand
and kind of
little by little
open up the fan just like that.
Again, pressure here and here,
and you're just going to... whoa.
And, what's cool about the pressure fan
is that it kind of appears.
It kinda looks like it appears out of nowhere
versus if you do this.
It's cool but a pressure fan just looks so much cooler.
It looks like your kind of producing that fan
out of your hand.
And, then to close it up,
so you're here,
to close it up,
your ring finger just kinda scoops everything up
and squares it up.
And, the same goes for Under Pressure.
So, once you get used to this,
just really practice this fan.
Pressure here.
You're really bending that deck.
Kind of like appear, boom.
I don't know.
There's just something really spicy about that.
If you start here,
the pressure fan will only be half.
But, instead of starting here,
start here.
The lower you start,
the wider your fan's gonna be, okay.
So, if I start it up here,
my fan's only gonna be half.
But if I bring it down here,
now I've got like a full-fledged fan.
This is a bit tricky
because this is really gonna depend on
the strength of your muscle controlling
the spring of the cards.
If the muscles aren't developed,
it's gonna kinda be like when you first learned the Spring
and it kinda happens in bursts
rather than one smooth action.
And, that's just gonna come with time.
Same thing for the Spring.
It's just one of those things
that you're gonna have to take time into perfecting.
Same thing goes here.
Now, instead of coming all the way down,
you're gonna move forward with this hand, okay.
And, it seems weird,
but if you move forward,
if I move forward and down,
the cards automatically start shooting that way.
Because of the pressure in this corner,
the cards automatically start shooting that way, okay.
Get a shot from over here.
As I push down,
so I'm pushing forward with this hand.
The more I push forward,
the faster the cards are going to push that way.
Really hurting my hands right now
doing it like over and over and over.
I gotta take a break from this sometime.
But, once you get that down,
that's when you're gonna feeling the cards push back.
Now, at first, it's gonna...
Okay, for demonstration purposes only.
It's gonna do this, okay.
The things I do for YouTube.
So, as I said,
at first you're gonna get that foosh.
And, then you're gonna get something
that doesn't even do anything
'cause you're forcing too hard.
So, it's like not enough, too hard,
and you gotta find that middle ground.
And, even like the Le Paul Spread.
The Le Paul Spread is one of those things, too,
where just your muscle will develop
to the point where you can control micro-pressures.
So, not a big pressure or small pressure.
You're gonna be able to control
everything in between.
Make it slow,
make it fast.
You'll be able to get there.
And Under Pressure's one of those things
that you can show from any angle,
and it looks great.
So, if you're filming a video,
you want to get up tight.
You can still get the top of it like this
which looks really cool.
Or, you can get that back angle from over here.
You can get that front angle
where you can see like the back design
sort of turning and whirling around.
No matter from what angle you shoot it from,
it's always...
My hand is hurting so much right now.
It's always gonna look cool
if you can nail it.
It's one of those things that,
"Let me show you a little card trick here, okay."
And, kinda like the Spring,
it's a demonstration of skill.
One thing you can use it for as well,
if you're doing a magic effect,
and you have a card selected,
and the card turns face up in the deck
without them seeing,
you lose their card in the deck.
And, you say,
"Watch, one card will turn face up
"into the deck right before your eyes."
I kinda missed it there.
Right there.
And, it's kind of a cool way to display it
instead of just fanning it out and being like,
"Oh, there's your card."
You can make this like a magical gesture
where they see their card turn face up.
And, this is hard to do slow.
It's easier to do fast.
So, when I'm teaching,
I'm trying to get it slowed down for you.
But it's one of those things
it's just easier with the inertia
to do faster.
Again, with practice,
maybe start with a half-deck if you want.
Maybe that makes it a little bit easier for your hands.
And, then eventually graduate to a full deck.
I like using a full deck to practice
because then my hands are so strong.
(growls)
I can crush a deck of cards with my hands,
and that's kind of what you need to be doing.
A lot of people are gonna be saying,
"Ah, I ruined my deck!
"It's now crimped!"
No, it's not.
Look, I've just done Under Pressure about a hundred times.
It's completely fine.
There's no crimp or anything,
so don't worry about bending your decks.
Go ahead.
Use your cards.
That's what they're there for.
And, that is Under Pressure.
Alright, guys, thanks so much for sticking around
and trying to learn this flourish with me.
Again, be careful with your cards.
They're gonna go shooting all over the place.
You will get hand cramps at the beginning.
You know, if your deck's not worn in
or soft or whatever,
I mean, it's gonna take a lot of muscle
to power through that.
You're gonna have to sort of start.
At first you're gonna, you know.
It's just gonna pff.
And then you're gonna wow.
But given the time,
given the practice,
your muscle will develop eventually,
and you'll be able to do it through practice.
If you don't practice,
I don't want to see,
"My hands are too small."
"I'm a lefty.
"I can't do it."
"I only can use plastic cards in my country."
All of this stuff.
Just get a deck of cards,
practice it,
and, eventually, you will get it.
Anyways, guys, thanks for watching.
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We'll see you in New York.
Okay, peace, bye.
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