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- Yo, what's goin' on guys?
Chris Ramsay here, welcome back.
Woo, feelin' good today, back at it again.
Today we're going to look at the most iconic
power move in magic and card industry, the card spring.
We're not only gonna look at the card spring,
we're gonna look at three different ways
you can spring cards, something for beginners,
something for intermediate, and something
for the advanced magician and cardists there
if you guys wanna learn some new funky ways to spring cards.
I've been thinking about doing this tutorial
for a while now but I just wanted to wrap
my head around how I wanted to format it.
There's a lot of tutorials out there on the spring,
and it's just one of those things,
where if you don't practice
you don't understand the mechanics.
So I can show you, I can tell you,
and I can demonstrate everything for you.
I can do everything except take your hands
and make you do the spring, that's gonna be up to you
and that does take some practice.
So after this video's done,
you should have cards all over the floor.
You know what, tweet at me, the card mess
that you have on your floor and I'll re-tweet it.
The reason the spring is so iconic,
this is something you see in movies and TV everywhere.
Guaranteed if there's like magic movie or like a
cardistry thing, you're going to see a spring sometime.
And the reason it's so iconic is because
it's one of those power moves.
It's like a massive big thing that attracts the eye.
It's loud, it gives off sort of like this feel like,
Oh, wow this guy actually has a lot of talent and skill
in his manipulation and it's really interesting to watch.
It's really really cool, it's kind of magical
when you can spring cards upside down
and defy gravity in that way.
So we're gonna get into that in a second.
Spring is also like a peacock move for magicians.
If you have like a dozen magicians at a bar,
that's all you're going to here, is like,
(flaps tongue)
It's like the male peacock, you know when
he spreads out his colorful tail to attract the women,
it's the equivalent for magicians.
Cardists know better, they're just like
(imitating card shuffling)
The cardist peacock move is
like behind the back flicker shock (imitates card trick)
So anyways, without further ado, let's get into
the tutorials right now and learn how to spring some cards.
Rop!
So to start off this tutorial, we are going to be using
the very first deck that I every designed
and I meant em more as playing cards.
I'll leave a link below where you can check these out.
So the first sort of spring move
that I'm going to show you is the most popular one,
and this is the one that I use personally.
We'll get into the other ones afterwards.
So this is like the intermediate one,
but once you learn how to do it,
it's going to become like the easiest thing ever.
There are multiple ways to grip the cards, right?
So first of all you wanna get yourself a deck of cards.
Preferably, paper cards, not plastic cards
because they're gonna just hurt your hands a lot more.
If you have a thin stock deck,
something that's been crushed,
it's going to be a lot easier for you to spring at first.
As you get more developed, it won't really matter
and thicker cards can make for a massive spring.
Whereas thinner ones, they'll flutter out
before you get there.
You wanna grab your deck, you wanna hold it in this grip.
Now, there's two different ways you can hold this.
Personally, for more control and just the way my muscles
have built up in my hands from practice,
I put the index finger here
and the thumb on the bottom corner, okay?
So if you're looking at it this way,
you got the index over here and the thumb over here, okay?
And you're going to apply pressure.
Now the deck is going to bend inwards, just like this.
And here's the difference between the next spring
I'm going to show you and this spring.
The cards spring from your thumb.
Now what does that mean?
It means that I'm here and it means
that they're going to release from my thumb
before they release from my finger.
So if I put some pressure here,
you're just going to see this.
They're going to release just like that from my thumb, okay?
Not from my index finger.
So (cards flicking softly)
What my hand is doing right now is this.
Alright?
So there's a lot of muscle right here
and right here that I feel.
Like, I feel that muscle.
Even here. Okay?
That's where you're gonna feel that sort of pain.
And if you feel that, that means it's working.
No pain, no gain, arghh! I can't rip these.
Here once again, you're going to apply pressure.
I actually have used the middle finger
to help push down the index.
So instead of doing this,
I use the middle finger to help push down, okay?
So I'm kinda like this.
And then as soon as I feel the cards are about to give,
you want this to pop off first.
So watch. Whoa, there it goes. It's startin to go.
Now, at first when you start springing,
this is what your spring's gonna look like.
(cards flicking unequally)
Something like that.
It's going to do that because your muscles
aren't strong enough right now to be able to support
a constant equal pressure, okay?
That's something that's gonna come over time.
But for now, it's just gonna be like,
it's either gonna be like
(cards flicking quickly) one spurt,
or it's gonna be like,
(cards flicking unequally) something like that.
Now, the other way you can do this
and I spring like this as well,
instead of having the index here on that outer corner,
so that corner where the pips are, you see the pips,
that's where, if you're right handed,
that's where it's gonna be.
You're going to use your ring finger and your other fingers
are going to cover the deck like this, okay?
Giving it a little bit more stability,
(cards flicking softly)
so that spring stays a lot straighter.
If I do this, (cards flicking softly)
a little bit more sporadic, and this here will,
(cards flicking softly) it controls it a lot more.
But now your whole hand is going to be doing that flex.
So, ring finger here, and now the ring finger,
look where I put it.
That first joint,
that is where that gets put right there, okay?
So the end of the cards, right at that first joint,
right where that corner is, okay?
And the thumb, I'm gonna start pushing on the top
and then my thumb's gonna curl around here, okay?
So I start pushing and my thumb, boom.
Now I got this pressure build up.
Cause if I just go like this, it's not so much pressure.
I wanna put pressure, put pressure, wrap around,
and now they're like ready,
cocked and loaded, ready to spring.
Again, (softly springing cards)
it's going to end up springing
from your thumb once again.
That's where you get that light, nice sound.
(cards flicking softly)
That's cause it's from your thumb.
If your cards are a little bit thicker,
it's gonna probably sound more like
(cards flicking loudly)
something like that.
Thumb here, pushes from the thumb and the hand like this.
Don't get discouraged if this is what you're experiencing.
(cards flicking unequally)
That's a good sign. When practicing, don't start here, okay?
Start here. That's a good training place.
You're here, you wanna start here.
Just practice that, practice that muscle,
get that muscle build-up.
You'll be able to work on the control afterwards
and the accuracy and all of that.
For now, you just have to develop those muscles.
So sit there, watch TV, and just do this.
It's a great way to train without
springing your cards everywhere.
If you are going to train and sit down
and practice and do this,
you might wanna have a carpet on the ground,
cause if you have a carpet, they're easy to scoop up,
they will not damage your cards.
If you leave it on a dirty floor, you'll get sand
and then the cards won't act as well.
The other thing is to do it over a bed or over your couch.
So sitting on your couch and just kinda like watching TV
and doing that over the cushion, they fall,
you pick em up and start over.
How do you make your spring big?
How do you go (cards flicking loudly) big with your spring?
Well that comes with time.
So you're going to wanna first learn how to spring.
These are the only tips that I can give you.
Let me know if these make sense to you.
I go soft, alright, before I go hard. (laughs softly)
There's a pun there somewhere.
The idea is I start slow and then I go big.
So, (cards flicking loudly) that's what I do.
And what that does, it shoots less amounts of cards out
and then at the end, (cards flicking loudly)
that's when I really turn on the gas.
Your catching hand's gonna stay here and your other hand
is gonna be the one moving until your catching hand
catches up and it's gonna come back.
Kinda like a slinky, whop, whop. Whop, whop.
Catching it is another thing.
So let's look at how we can catch the cards right now.
So if you can imagine that this was like a little stand
for your cards to stand on to show people
how beautiful your cards are,
that's what that stand would look like.
You would have a peg here,
you would have a stopper here and a stopper here,
and that's what it would look like,
cause it's not going anywhere and it's squared up.
You're gonna go like this.
Your pinky is going to act as that peg, that table.
That's what's going to hold your cards
from falling to the ground.
Now your hands gonna want to be angled,
cause if you're like this obviously,
they'll tumble this way.
So you wanna keep that hand angled,
and now everything, as soon as I throw cards in here,
that's how it's gonna look, that's how it's gonna catch.
And when you catch them, (cards flicking softly)
look at that.
Everything just falls into that hand.
Now at the end of that big spring,
my other hand (claps) is gonna clap them together,
so I can go really big (cards flicking loudly)
and clap all of these together
and kind of like save it like that, right?
That's what gets that sound too,
if you smack that together real hard.
(cards flicking and slapping loudly)
Alright, next spring, let's go.
Now this is my least favorite way of springing cards.
(cards flicking loudly)
And the reason for that is,
because first of all you can't go big,
it makes this weird sound,
(cards flicking loudly)
and it doesn't look cool.
Like, I mean it looked cool when people started doing it.
(cards flicking loudly)
But the thing is, with a spring like this,
look what you can do.
You can go sideways.
I can spring cards upside down, look at this.
(cards flicking softly)
You can't do that with this spring, right?
You gotta keep it tight.
But I'm gonna teach you how to do that.
And if you're looking to spring, by the way, upside down,
it's just a timing thing. (cards flicking softly)
You can't hold it there for too long obviously
cause gravity will take over, so you just kinda.
(cards flicking softly)
Same thing, but upside down.
Your thumb's gonna go on the back.
It could be in the middle, it could be on the side,
that doesn't really matter.
And you're gonna have all your fingers, basically,
mainly your index, middle and ring finger on the top.
You're gonna bend.
Kinda like you'll be doing a cascade, right.
You're gonna bend here, and now your thumb is
going to be the one pushing in
because you want the cards to shoot off with these fingers.
Your thumb is pushing in. (cards flicking loudly)
The sound though. (cards flicking loudly)
And then you have to be in this position,
which makes it really awkward,
like, hey look at this.
It's not the nicest spring, but if you wanna learn that,
it might be easier for you just because
the muscles in these fingers are going to be
more developed than if you're doing
something like that from the thumb.
For this one, the idea behind it is that I had this idea
where I wanted to do this 360 spring,
where if I sprung the cards,
and as they were springing they would rotate.
How cool would that look?
It would look like a tornado in my hand.
Now, I couldn't get that down, it was really,
I really worked at it for a long time,
but what I did come up with is, if you use this method,
so from the ring finger method,
where the cards spring from the thumb,
where you hold it there from the ring finger
like I taught in the beginning.
If your pinky comes here and acts as that peg,
kind of like this hand does when it catches it,
if that pinky's there and the pinky contacts this card
as it gets shot out, the cards go from here to here.
They kinda like get tripped.
Like this. (cards flicking softly)
And the cards end up going sideways, kind of soaring.
And with time, you can really open that up,
and it looks really cool, right?
(cards flicking softly)
So yeah, the idea at first was to create this
(cards flicking softly) tornado thing.
It never really worked out, but this came out of it,
and then I saw Dan and Dave were doing it too.
All you're doing here, same thing,
you're applying pressure with your ring finger,
and your thumbs gonna be the one to push harder,
because it's gonna come off your thumb,
but now instead your pinky is going to go here.
So instead of here, your pinky is down here, okay?
And watch.
As soon as I contact that card with this pinky,
card's are going to automatically go sideways.
And with a little bit of practice,
you can start to move your hands apart.
(cards flicking softly)
Maybe a little more, let's be ambitious.
(cards flicking softly)
Whoa, there we go.
Maybe one more, a little more ambitious.
This is gonna fly everywhere.
(cards flicking softly)
Hey, not so bad. Alright.
So those were three ways that you could spring some cards.
Hope you liked it.
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I had a lot of people comment on my videos
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But the one time you can sort of interact with me
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If you're watching this right now,
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about an hour, that window,
that's where you're gonna reach me,
that's where I'm usually hanging out afterwards, so.
Food for thought.
Thanks guys, we'll see you on the next video. Peace.
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