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- Yo, what is going on guys?
Chris Ramsay here and welcome back.
Today on this very Saturday, on this lovely weekend
I'm going to teach you an actual routine, a sandwich trick,
a visual, cool, stunning sandwich trick
that actually isn't that hard to do.
And you're also going to learn a really cool way
of controlling a card, or switching the card or whatever.
It looks really cool, it's completely undetectable,
and you'll be able to get the hang of it in no time.
Now the one thing I love about sandwich tricks is that
it's a visual magic trick, for the most part.
And I love those visual pop-out sandwich tricks.
So this is a trick that you're gonna love doing
that's completely visual, it's like eye candy
for the spectator and it's fun to do for yourself.
Before we get into that though,
I want to give you some news on my channel so,
first of all to those of you watching,
if you want more tutorials, if you want to keep up to date
make sure to subscribe and hit the notification button.
I will be launching my gaming channel very very shortly.
I'm getting all the hookup right now this weekend.
I'll vlog that and all so you guys can see that.
And if you want to follow my gaming channel,
it'll be chrisramsaytv, I'll leave the link below.
It's gonna be a whole new venture for me,
so it's not something that I'm gonna be doing everyday
but it's something like basically on the evenings
or maybe on the weekends.
I'm just gonna livestream while I play some PS4 games
like Overwatch or Battlefield or whatever game
just came out on the console.
It's gonna be a place for us to hang, for us to chat
and just to have a good time and goof around, honestly.
There's no holds barred, I might drop some magic knowledge
on there or we might just sit around and talk shit.
And another thing, if you guys are looking to attend
another Q&A session, tomorrow at 3 p.m.,
so Sunday at 3 p.m., I'll be hosting another Q&A
on my channel as a livestream.
I also will probably be teaching a magic trick
so you might want to tune in to the livestream
because after the live is up,
I might just delete that video.
So if you want to get in, you have to watch the livestream.
Fun starts at 3 p.m.
Alright enough rambling, I've also left a couple links below
for some beginner, intermediate
and advanced card magic books.
If you guys are interested, check those out.
I recommend them highly and I might do a review
on those in the future.
For now, let's get into the tutorial
and learn into this thing, woo!
Alright so for this tutorial we will be using
the Knights playing cards developed by myself,
Daniel Madison and ellusionist.com
I'll leave a link below where you can check that out.
Alright so get your favorite deck ready,
it doesn't have to be a new deck, it can be a worn deck,
or it can be a new deck, that's completely up to you.
But get a good deck of cards ready.
First what you're going to do is
you're going to take out two identical cards or two copies.
So it could be two kings, two queens, two aces,
whatever you like.
I like using kings just because my face is on this one.
So you want to leave those to the side
and now you want to spread the cards.
And when spreading cards, never spread them like this.
Here's a nice hint on how to spread cards.
See how I got that pinky down here
and I'm kinda holding it like this?
So I'm kinda like holding it in this grip.
This hand is gonna like swoop over
and this part of the deck is gonna contact
that fleshy part here.
As soon as I spread I'm here, and so my thumb gets
as far in as possible and then I'm spreading,
with this thumb here I'm just pushing forward,
as my other hand's, all my fingers are grabbing
all the rest of the cards.
So from the back it kinda,
one, two, three, see how I can make a really large spread?
That's kinda what you wanna,
that's kinda where you wanna be.
So boom. (clicks tongue)
Here's the thing, here's the trick, here's the main thing.
Stop at a card, whatever card they point at.
Let's say it's this one here.
You're gonna use this card to flip it over.
And now that card is held by my middle finger
and ring finger right here.
I'm kinda just holding that one singular card,
and my index is holding the rest of the cards.
You guys see that?
So again, you're spreading
and then they point to a card.
Whatever card they point to, you're gonna hold
the one before it like this and you're gonna use that
to overturn this card.
Now once they see it, here's the action, here's the move.
You're gonna use this card here to flip it once again
except you're going to throw it on top.
Boom.
Now when done at a normal speed, so when done normally,
it's virtually undetectable.
That just flies, you just have to kinda get practicing
on the rhythm of it.
So I'm here, okay I've got the jack of clubs.
I'm gonna take the jack put it here,
boom, it's over here.
Look at that, what the hell are you doing over here jack?
Who are you eight of clubs?
So maybe from more of a frontal view
you're like here.
I'm gonna use this card here
to flip this one.
Just like that.
And as I go to flip it again
I'm here and as it's flipping,
I'm literally gonna use my middle finger
and just gently toss it over.
Gently, it has to look flawless
Boom, boom.
You're kinda like replacing that visual retention.
It's just so good.
That visual retention is so good
your eye doesn't skip a beat, which is great.
A lot of times with a lot of slight of hand
something fishy is gonna happen, your eye skips a beat.
If done correctly, this looks completely imperceptible.
Once you're here, they point to a card,
okay the jack of clubs, it's okay if I see it.
I'm gonna leave the jack of clubs here,
I've done the move.
I'm gonna use my thumb
and I'm just gonna push it off
and I'm gonna put it into the fan over here.
Okay, I'm just gonna hold it there for a second.
Because now I know that their selection
is on top of this deck, it's right here.
They think it's over here.
So I wanna keep this on top, so what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna adjust my grip on my left hand.
So as I'm here, my thumb can't quite reach around,
so I'm going to just adjust it, leave it lower in my hand,
kinda like this.
Use my thumb to just open it up.
It might take a little bit of practice
but once you get the hang of it,
you're here, you can use your fingers to
just kinda like bring the deck down,
use your thumb to open it up.
Now once the thumb's opened up
they think everything's going into the middle.
You're like I'm gonna put it in the middle of the middle.
And bring it down to just about there.
Alright, you don't need it further than that.
Once you're here, we know that the card's on top,
we're gonna get a get ready.
The best way to do this, the best way
is just to use a pinky count.
So use your pinky, boom, and you count down one.
So you get a break under that one card.
Now if you do this and push it off,
I don't recommend that at all.
It doesn't look great but if you're doing it
on a misdirection, like okay we're gonna grab these cards
and make sure not to tilt your hand by the way
'cause that'll flash.
But we're gonna use these cards
and as my hand's coming over here
this hand might do this.
But they might be burning your hand
if they're really looking for how the trick's done.
So, so use a pinky, use a pinky count.
Just use your pinky
and you push down until one of them just pops out.
So once you got that break
you want to go here, and again don't tilt your hand,
this is just me miming things out.
So once you get that break
you come over here, you grab these cards
which are the sandwich cards.
Now here's the cool part.
Normally for a sandwich load you gotta put everything on top
and then you gotta do this weird thing
and then you're left in this position,
which I don't particularly like.
So this solves a little bit of a problem.
I've got my break here.
I'm gonna show the front and back of these cards.
I'm gonna leave one on top.
Make sure it's squared up with that one.
So now I've got a break under their selection and that king.
And then I'm gonna show this one.
I'm going to use the corner here
and just put it under the corner here
and take my thumb and hold it there.
Now in this position I obviously can't show the back
but this is the position I'm in.
All I have to do now is retract my thumb.
Now if I do that fast enough,
it looks like the card shot out for a split second.
Won't look like that 'cause you're just pulling it back
but with the illusion of (clicks tongue) that,
that's exactly the illusion it gives.
Now they don't remember this card being up there,
all they see is a card protruding
and be like, wow that just popped out of nowhere.
And that indeed is their selection.
Alright, let's go over that one more time.
You want to get your kings or whatever you have
and leave those aside for now.
We'll get back to those in a second.
Spread the cards.
They choose the eight of hearts.
Boom, I do the move.
I put this in here.
I adjust my grip.
Thumb comes over, grabs it.
Everything goes in the middle.
Square everything up except for that one card.
As I go over here to reach,
I'm gonna use my pinky to get my pinky count
and get my break under one card.
I'm gonna take the cards, show them back and front.
Drop one on top, squaring it up with that one.
Showing this one.
Pit corner goes under here.
Pinch it with my thumb.
Here, all I want to do is a simultaneous action.
Bigger motion covers a smaller motion.
If I just did this, you would see my index protruding here.
So I kinda wanna just wave it a bit
and (clicks tongue) just like that.
Now it kinda looks like it just jumped over
and that's the illusion you want to create.
Boom.
Their card as I flip it over.
One last time.
You can show these as singular cards.
And you are done my friend.
I thank you so much for tuning in
and I hope you enjoy that tutorial.
It's a fun routine that you actually
throw into your card routines and stuff.
It's impromptu, you just need a deck of cards
and you can create this nice visual masterpiece.
Now as I mentioned that control can be used
for many many different things, it's up to you.
I really like using it in this type of context
because you can really keep that visual retention
of the out jogged card.
But whatever.
You do with it what you want, it's your baby now.
Go forth and prosper.
So guys again a quick reminder,
tomorrow at 3 p.m. I will be hosting a livestream.
Make sure to tune in.
Hit the notification button and subscribe,
if you aren't already.
Go ahead and leave a like and in the comments below,
let me know what games I should be streaming
on my new channel, if you're interested.
You can drop some PS4 games below
and I will check those out.
Maybe I have them already and I'd be happy
to check them out.
Guys as always, thank you, it's been a pleasure.
I hope enjoyed this.
And remember, practice first.
I don't want to see that shit on Instagram
if it isn't perfect, or near perfect.
So enjoy, have fun with your card magic guys
and we'll see you on the next video, puh-wha!
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