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- Yo, what it is?
Welcome back to the channel, Chris Ramsey here
and today, today, today, today,
we are going to be learning some incredible,
100% pure sleight of hand.
This is the stuff that I love.
This is what really gets me, gets my gears going.
You know, we all stumble upon a magic routine
or some card thing and that's what gets us like,
(grunting)
That's what I wanna learn.
Well this is is.
This is some of the funnest and most self-fulfilling
slight of hand you're going to learn.
I was really excited when I first learned this.
This is a move by a friend of mine, Alan Rorrison.
This move is called 3P.
It stands for peek, palm, and placement.
Alan taught this a while ago, several years ago
and I have his permission to teach it
here today on my channel.
I've been playing with this for a few years
and come up with my own sort of feeling behind it
including a color change.
Now, I'm not a big fan of the peek part,
we'll get into that in a second,
but the palming and the placement are really, really great
as you seen on the little trailer I put together.
Before we get into that, you guys
should go visit Alan's YouTube page.
Alan Rorrison is a creator and inventor.
He's invented countless of magic effects,
which have been sold worldwide.
He's a really, really good thinker.
He was on Penn & Teller Fool Us.
More like a tinkerer, he's a little engineer tinkerer.
He likes electronics and that type of thing,
so he started a channel where he's doing prop building,
which is really cool.
He's built all sorts of props including the mask
from Jim Carrey, Iron Man's sort of pulsating heart thing,
and all sorts of things.
He loves building stuff and what he gonna be doing
on his channel is basically taking suggestions
for what to build next as a challenge,
and he'll do a few of these every month,
so you guys comment what he should build
and he's gonna actually build it,
which is so awesome.
Go ahead and visit his page, I'll leave the link below.
Give him a follow, I know he'll appreciate it
and it's kind of like a thank you
for allowing me to teach this to you today.
All right, so this move is not for the faint of heart.
It's not something that's going to be practical
straight out of the gate.
You're going to need to put time in,
but what's fun about this is it's actually
a lot of fun to perform.
It's a lot of fun to perform, it's a lot of fun to practice
when you're just fiddling with cards
because it becomes like this automatic thing
that you'll end up doing.
So enough talking, let's get into the tutorial right now.
All right, before we begin, today I will be using
the Monarchs, the green Monarchs by Theory 11.
I'll leave the link below where you guys
can check out this deck.
Pretty cool deck.
Okay, some prerequisites for 3P is:
you have to be able to know how to do a one-handed fan.
I'll run over it quickly, but it's basically
knowing how to do this, all right?
So you wanna get that down before anything else.
It's pretty simple.
You're going to, with your index and pinky,
grab a portion of the deck, okay?
Whatever it is, it can be half, I suggest going
at least a third for this trick to work,
so at least a third of the deck,
just above your first knuckle, you're gonna grab it.
You wanna get that finger strength down
where you can hold it just like that.
Your thumb here is going to reach in
and basically almost contact your pinkie here
where your pinkie is touching the card.
You're going to apply pressure with
the back of your fingers here just like this.
Your index is going to move out of the way
and then you're going to spread your thumb like that.
So, without the cards, all right, it kind of looks like this
right here, and then you're doing this.
Kind of like give me the money, give me the money
give me that money, so just here like that, okay?
So once you've done that, you grab this, boom.
Reach in there, spread them, all right?
Spread them as far as possible,
you get this nice looking fan.
And that's the one handed fan.
So once you've locked that down,
now we're going to go into the card placement first,
and what's happening here, here's where the magic happens.
You're going to push off one card here
and use the fan to sort of just turn it over, okay?
Turn it over, show it to them, turn it over again.
Now, you're gonna use your thumb and kind of
pivot the card sideways, okay?
Use your thumb and kind of like pivot it sideways
with your other fingers, you'll get the hang of that.
Once you're here, you're going to want
to insert the card into the backside here.
Not here, really at the beginning
because you want the card to end up in the middle like that.
So you take the card, you show it,
you come back here and in one clean motion,
you kind of like, boom, I'm gonna leave it there.
Now, you can have the spectator push that in
or you can push in yourself
Now if the spectator wants to push it in,
it's even better.
I mean, look at that.
And here's where all the secrets are revealed.
Check out what happens here.
You see that?
In Alan's original release, he taught this
and said you can use that as a peek.
If they push it in, you kind of fan it this way
and you get a peek.
I think there are better ways to grab a peek,
but it's an interesting idea.
I just wouldn't use it if I was going to use a peek.
However, the placement is phenomenal.
So, again, they can say stop whenever they want.
They stop there.
You're going to grab this, fan it out,
flip that one card over, that's their selection.
You're gonna come back here, you can actually
run it through, right?
Boom, and get it there.
That only the corner is being held at this point,
which is pretty cool.
Now they're going to push it in.
It doesn't really matter.
They can push it in as far as they want.
Here's where everything happens.
As you go to close up, which you would just
close up normally, your thumb is gonna contact
this card here.
So this card gets squared up with the pack,
so right here, your thumb is already there,
and you're going to let it ride.
You see how I let that card ride?
And it sort of rides out to the top?
So if you were doing it just with the bottom card here,
you can just leave your thumb there,
let the fan close and look what happens.
The card already comes up at the top,
and that's something I already do when
I'm just fiddling around with cards.
I just kind of let that card pop up to the top,
which is fun to do, but now we actually have a use for it.
So, here, they see the card.
You put the card in the beginning,
push it out to the middle.
Have them or you can tap it in.
Now here's what's gonna happen.
As you close up, so as I close up,
my hand here, my right hand, is going to swoop over,
and I'm just gently gonna contact this card just enough
for it to clear and then I'm gonna drop it, okay?
But that happens with my hand closed obviously.
Not my fingers opened.
So, the card here gets put into the deck,
I push it in, as I'm here, I go like this
and I just let everything drop, okay?
Now you don't wanna do this where the card is here
and then you go, you know?
That's bad, that's really bad.
You kind of want it to look like you're not doing anything.
That's the point of slight of hand, right?
To get to the point where it basically looks like
you're doing absolutely nothing.
So, I'm pushing it in, boom,
and now it's controlled to the top, okay?
So again, you're not palming it out.
You are not palming it out.
Do not curl your hand up.
Once it's in there,
once it's here, you're just going to close this fan up.
This hand's gonna come up, obviously that's
gonna be covered, and then you're just going to
gently tap that corner onto your hand
so that it clears the pack.
So if I do it exposed, kind of looks like that.
From here, push it in, and that's it.
Try mind your angles here because if I'm here
and I do this, it's gonna be quite obvious.
You wanna kind of get that covered, okay?
You wanna get that covered, and how to do that is
as soon as you let go is bring your hand up, all right?
So now I've got it palmed and you can just drop it,
but you don't have to palm it again.
You leave the card in, push it in, drops it on top.
Look at that, how good does that look?
You've successfully controlled their selection to the top
in a normal way.
So if you weren't doing anything, this is what
it would look like, all right?
And if you were doing something,
this is what it would look like,
so it should look the same.
Now we're going to look at the color change
so basically the exact same thing
except you're going to flip a card
face up at the top, have them choose a selection,
flip it up, do the exact same thing you did before,
push it in, except now, you're doing a color change
and that was pretty terrible, so I'll try it again.
You got a card here on top.
A selection.
This goes into the middle somewhere
and as I'm here, the color change happens, all right?
So you might wanna work on that
and make sure you get the fluidity.
You can also palm it out and we'll get into palming
in a second, but if you palm it out,
you have that extra second where you can
have that change happen, so if you're here
and if you end up palming it out,
you can just kind of like boom,
and have that change happen there,
which is also kind of cool.
I think either one works.
So that's for the placement.
Now, let's look at the palm.
All right, for the palm, this is a little bit tricky
because you're relying on not only gravity,
you're relying on not having any windows
and timing is everything.
So, the way that the palm works is the exact same thing.
You're going to take a card.
You're going to leave it in there, push it in,
but now you're hand's gonna swipe over, all right?
And you're going to push with your thumb
that card directly into palm, okay?
So once you're in palm,
you wanna make sure you have no windows.
You don't want this happening, all right?
You want it here and kind of natural,
so that way you can go to your pocket
and you can pull out the selection.
So again, here, boom, this card gets left in.
Same thing, your thumb is going to go here
and as your thumb's there, you're going to rely
heavily on timing as the last card just goes over,
your hand covers that, your thumb pushes
it into palm and now I can go to my pocket
and be like, oh, your card's over here.
So that's the palming side.
I don't recommend you start with the palming.
I don't recommend you do any palming at all
unless you're very, very comfortable with palming.
You need to practice this.
Palming is one of the essential basics
of card magic and if your palm is shit,
you're not going to get away with anything.
People are going to burn you, you know?
No matter when you're palming something,
you always have to remember to leave your hands
in a relaxed position, and I know a lot of you
are going to say my hands are too small to palm,
but honestly, Alan Rorrison, the guy who came up
with this trick, doesn't have the biggest hands
in the world, and he gets away with palming as well,
so if he can do it, you can do it.
I get a lot of messages and people are like
I have small hands and I know it's easy
for me to say because I got bigger hands,
but I've seen people like Tony Chang,
one of the best slight of hand guys around,
can palm cards and you can palm them so imperceptibly,
so I'm not gonna get into that,
but practice your palming first
and then come around to this.
But, I mean, if you wanna just have fun
and practice at home and see if you can palm.
See, look at that, look at that big flash.
See, that's terrible.
This is the best palm ever.
Got a card right here in my jacket.
(laughing)
Practice your palming, but do practice a placement
because I think the placement is really where it's at.
Queen of diamonds goes in here, push it in,
somewhere in the deck.
(snapping)
Snap your fingers.
Queen of diamonds jumps to the top.
What?
So, that's basically it.
Guys, I hope you enjoyed this.
Practice makes perfect, but remember
to practice consciously.
Sit yourself in front of a camera.
For me, one of the best ways to practice
is when I sit in front of a camera like right now,
because I get to revisit everything that I'm doing.
I get to look at it in frame by frame
and do it over and over and over again.
Maybe 100 times until I get it perfect.
Cameras, I know a lot of magicians are gonna say
well, that's camera magic.
Well you know what?
Camera, they don't lie.
Camera's don't lie.
You can't misdirect a lens so practice
in front of your camera, in front of your mirror.
I suggest the camera because you can go and look back at it.
The mirror, you might miss some things,
so set up a little camera, your phone, or whatever,
film yourself for like 10 minutes doing it
and then flip the phone around, look at it,
and just watch it and see okay, what can I improve?
And do it again and again and again.
And that's how you get better.
A little PSA for you there.
Well all right guys, that was it.
That was the tutorial for 3P.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
This, again, is a really really fun move
to toy around with and once you get that flow going,
that sort of that pacing and that slight of hand
and all that, it's going to be a real fun move
to add to your utility arsenal
So thanks again for watching.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video
and stay tuned for tomorrow for another videos.
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All right, peace.
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