(rhythmic electronic music)
(light switch clicking)
- Ah, that's way too bright.
Alright that seems much better.
Punch in.
Way too close.
Do I like the wide?
Do I like the wide shot of like, "Yo, what's up?
"I've go super long arms."
Or do I like the half-wide, close-up a little bit?
And I think that's probably best.
I'm trying to look at my monitor right now, I can see ...
(phone dings)
Yo, what's going on guys?
Welcome back!
Chris Ramsay here.
And today we're going to learn something really cool.
What we're going to learn is an original slight,
that's right it's a slight,
so this is bit of a knuckle-buster for you guys out there.
It is a silent, stealthy, sleek, sexy card move,
that you will be using ...
Sorry, I have food in my teeth.
This move will allow you not only to steal one card
silently, right under the spectator's noise,
but actually two cards.
So two selections can be stolen, produced from your pockets,
or hidden, or you can just steal them and run away.
Just run away from the spectator, laughing hysterically
while holding their selections.
So, do that.
I used to download, a few years ago with Murphy's,
and it included this steal within the bigger project,
but I since then have taken the idea and adapted it
and made it more streamlined and better for you guys.
So if you don't already have that,
don't worry it's right here today.
Today I'm going to teach it to you.
Literally a go-to effect for me, or a go-to slight
that I use with a lot of effect if I'm just caught
in the spot and I need to do something,
I'll just like boop.
Also a quick word, I just want to thank you guys
for supporting 1st Playing Cards.
Needles to say these cards are funded,
by right now what you can do is you can still order them
You'll still have less than a week to order them,
because after that they are not going to be reprinted.
And if you do find them online in the next few months,
when they do it make it to people homes,
you'll literally going to find them for two, three,
maybe even ten times the price.
So now is the time that if you want them.
Thank you for everyone being patient.
The fact that this deck is going to take six to eight weeks
to produce, and before it's shipped out to you guys,
and you guys are willing to wait that long,
means a lot to me.
And again, thank you for your patience.
You will not regret it!
This is a good investment.
But anyway, we're not here to talk about the cards,
we're here to talk about slights.
So let's go into the tutorial.
(whistles)
You're still here.
(whistles)
This is awkward.
(whistles)
It's not working.
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Alright, let's get to the tutorial.
(whistles)
Alright guys.
Here we go.
I'm using the private reserve Dan & Dave Cards.
Not available but I'll leave a link below
where you can shop some other cards if you like,
or you can just wait 1st Playing Card!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alright, enough of that.
Here's what it looks like.
(slow mood music)
Yeah, you didn't see that, did ya?
That's right.
That's why I love this move.
It's stealthy, it's invisible, it's silent.
Boom!
How did I get the top card, this card here,
in to this hand really quickly?
What's happening here basically, is you're going to ...
First of all start by gripping the deck like this.
Now this is a weird grip to hold the deck in,
but this is what you're going to need.
So your index finger ...
Let me turn around so you guys can see this better.
Your index finger is going to be here
and your thumb is going to be here.
Okay?
So gripping the edge of the deck.
Because it's your ring finger that's going to be doing
all of the work.
This ring finger here, and your middle finger
is going to hold that as well, okay?
So you're holding here.
And this part, this little padding part,
is what's going to contact that top card
and that's what's going to allow it to ...
Let me, there we go.
That's what's going to allow it to (clicks tongue)
kick out, like that.
For this to work, you're going to have to build up
this muscle.
At first you're gonna go like this,
it's going to be like four cards going out,
it's going to be weird, it's going to make noise.
It's kind of like your first time, man.
It's gonna be weird and awkward, alright?
Just saying, it's not going to be perfect.
But if you work on it, you'll get better at it.
And yeah, alright.
You're here, you're holding it here.
Now you can hold the deck like this, and when you're about
to make the move that's when you bring your finger in.
This move requires your hand to be down here.
So if you're a person watching me right now,
I want to be in this position.
I want to be here.
So I'm talking, I've got the cards here,
and when I'm ready to do the move, that's when I come in
and boom steal it out, okay?
So not here.
Not here.
A lot of people do this,
but then you see everything everything happening.
But if you're here, it's unnatural,
but it's sort of like a relaxed position.
So if I'm talking, I can talk and gesture,
showing this hand empty.
So I'm gesturing as I come back.
Now obviously at this angle this is not the greatest,
so if you want to do ...
No matter what, this requires a Gambler's Cop, right?
So what you're doing is copping the card.
And what a cop is, is when you have your card
in your hand like this.
Now that's a sort of palm, okay?
It's not a normal palm because this palm
isn't angle-proof.
This palm is meant to be shown like this,
from this angle.
So basically what you're going to have to remember
when palming or when doing the cop especially,
is this card has sort of lasers pointing off of it.
Like this (mimics laser sounds).
See those lasers?
That's kind of what you have to remember in your mind.
These lasers need to point directly to their eye.
This is not good if you're surrounded,
unless you have some really good misdirection.
But if they're in front of you, bam.
Right here is where the lasers are pointing to your eyes
and you can't see it.
If I'm here, now the lasers are pointing to your chest.
Now the lasers are pointing to the sky.
Practice that in a mirror.
It should give you about the same results.
Once you've stolen this out,
there's a lot of things you can do.
We'll get into that in a second, but first I'm going
to show you the exact mechanics of this.
This ring finger is going to do all of the work.
Okay?
Much like a top palm where the pinky does the work
and you can steal a card like that,
you're going to use this part, the sort of fleshy part
between the knuckle and here.
This part, just over the knuckle,
to gentle slide that first one off, okay?
You want to pinch it.
Now it's pinched between the middle finger
and the ring finger, okay?
So all you need to do is just practice this.
I actually came up with this move
while practicing a flourish.
A flourish by Patrick Varnavas which was Splash
which looks like this.
Which I love doing.
It's super old, it's nothing super hard.
I'm not a cardist, right?
It's a fun move to do.
I got this muscle down, and I was like, "What else can I
"apply this to?", and I came up with a color change,
I came up with a steal, I came up with a control using this.
This is a steal.
The angles again, once you're here,
this hand is already going to be here to cop it,
so you don't have to reach out and go back, alright?
Your hands are here in this circular,
it sort of looks like an eye, little eye of Sauron here.
If I do it straight on,
you probably won't even see anything.
So this is straight on.
And I've already stolen it.
It's not here, it's here.
And as you come down both.
Now this is a weird cop that I've got
because I've got it in the ring finger, other than here.
I'm copping it here.
That's just for me.
I like doing it, it's like a knack thing,
but I can also leave my fingers open a little bit
while I'm here and then go to my pocket
and produce the card.
You need to control the card to the top of the deck,
that's the whole idea.
So whatever control you want to use, let's see
we got the five of clubs, five of clubs here.
Now what's funny is that five of clubs
is actually in my back pocket, there you go.
Don't telegraph this move, 'cause if I'm here and I do this,
there's a lot of noise happening visually.
So you want to keep it down.
So as I'm talking, it's casual.
The card is controlled, I can pass off the cards
hand to hand, show my hands blah, blah, blah,
and when I'm ready to do the move, boom.
I'm here, but this hand comes in.
I'm here, and now I can gesture over here
with this hand, as this hand goes to my pocket
and produces the card.
So again here, you show this hand empty,
I point and gesture, do something, now the misdirection
happens because I'm using this hand over here.
So they're seeing this hand empty, they're satisfied.
They're seeing this hand empty, they're satisfied.
Boom, the card is produced.
That's misdirection.
Bam, Bam, Bam, right?
So that's the first part of this.
The second part is actually really cool too,
because the second part allows me to cop it in to this hand.
So what you can do is control two cards to the top,
so let's say these two here.
I've got the four of diamonds and two of hearts, okay?
And we're going to leave those somewhere within the deck.
And now, if I actually look over here,
boom I give them that.
As I give them that I take the deck,
and boom I've got the next one here, okay?
As soon as this hand ...
This is like the top changer ...
As soon as it comes in it has to happen.
You can't come here and then go.
Right?
'Cause that's weird.
There's a beat there.
This beat has to be like, not like that, okay?
The beat has to be done in a way that bam!
Makes it completely, like you can't reconstruct
what just happened with these moves.
Show this hand, and you're like,
"You selected a card, right?
"And you selected a card.
"Now your card is actually in my back pocket,
"here hold on to the deck.
"And you're card is actually in this pocket over here."
Two things happening.
Show the hand.
As the hand comes in, remember, I don't go like this.
I've seen people do this, like they're caressing.
You don't need to caress anything.
Boom, here.
Boom.
The hands stay perpendicular to the eyes here.
Alright?
That's how this move is done.
It's not done like this.
Stop doing that.
Stop molesting the deck, okay?
Show the hand, boom this comes in.
I go to the pocket.
Now, as this hand is pulling this card out of the pocket,
out of the back pocket here where your left hand is,
I go to bring this forward.
I hand them this card, so I'm just going to drop it,
so I hand this to them, and then as this hand
comes to grab this deck, I'm doing the save move again.
Except this time, instead of pinching it, I'm going to keep
my fingers wrapped around it.
And then this hand is going to grab the deck from here.
So not here, not here.
You're gonna grab it here and sort of rotate it.
And now I can hand that deck out like that.
Boom, now I'm back here.
So again, first one's here.
Bam I give them the card.
Now I'm already in position, except this time,
let me give you guys a better view on this,
you're here and your hand wraps around, okay?
This hand here (clicks tongue) goes over here.
"Oh, here's you card by the way,"
and "Oh, you've got another card over here
"in the back pocket."
It's just a really fun way of doing card-to-pocket
with two selections.
If you're stuck with two spectators
and you want to have them choose one card each,
control both cards at the top.
"Would you believe me if I told you that your card
"is already in my back pocket?
"And here's the thing, your card is in this pocket here."
Bam!
Are you kidding me?
It's complete fire right there.
Practice that.
Remember, don't get discouraged because this move
at first will sound like this (card slaps),
that's what it's going to sound like.
And after awhile, it will sound like this (soft shuffle).
So it's one of my go-to things when people are like,
"Yo show me a trick."
I'll just control it to the top and I'll start
a card-to-pocket like this,
and I'll go into other phases after that.
So there it is.
I hope you guys enjoyed that.
And do practice.
Let me know in the comments if this is something
that you already do, or something that you would like
to do or practice.
I'm glad to be able to share it with you
and thanks for watching.
All right guys, that was it for me.
Hope you enjoyed this video, hope you enjoyed this tutorial,
this move this slight, this little knicka-knacka thing.
It's a lot of fun to do, a lot of fun to practice.
And when you start getting it down,
it stops making noise.
So just remember that.
It's not going to make that massive crazy (mimics explosion)
that you guys hear right now.
It's just gonna be fluid, nice and clean.
So if you're into those kind of things,
let me know in the comments below.
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Peace.
(mimics growl)
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