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- They say the hand is quicker than the eye,
which is a fact, hand is quicker than the eye
as you can see from the intro.
Most of that stuff is imperceptible to the human eye.
You can't perceive, you can't know how anything is done
by looking with your eyeballs.
And a lot of magic, not all magic, but a lot of magic
requires quick sleight of hand, requires smooth,
imperceptible magical sleight of hand.
That being said, in today's day and age,
we live in 20018.
Because we live in the future, we have technology
that can pick up things that the naked eye could not.
And in fact, this technology
is readily available on YouTube.
They have this to .25 slowdown button,
which has been pointed out to me multiple times on video.
Thank you for that by the way
because I wasn't aware.
I thought I'd beat the commenters to the punch,
because a lotta times I perform sleight of hand
and I get those comments like, hey,
slow it down, you see exactly how it's done, you're welcome,
time stamp, bam.
And they're not wrong.
This is a platform that is public and you guys
are entitled to slow anything down all you want.
So and I talk about this a lot.
I talk about how magic isn't about the sleights.
It's about everything in the presentation.
But when you're performing strictly for camera
as I did in the intro, there's nothing left to do
but to try and figure it out.
I'm four steps ahead of you because today,
I've taken my own sleight of hand
which you've just witnessed and we're gonna slow it down
to 120 frames a second.
That's right, that's five times slower,
five times slower,
than your eye views it roughly, I don't know math.
And we're gonna see frame by frame if this
sleight of hand can withstand the criticism of technology.
This is probably a bad idea.
No this is definitely a bad idea, this is a terrible idea.
It's the internet, let 'em have it.
So let's start by taking a look at a few clips
that I just showed you in super slo mo
and see if they pass the test, if my sleight of hand
is godlike enough to not even be picked up by a camera.
I mean I'm pretty confident.
I'm pretty sure I nailed those tricks.
I took a few takes on a few of them just to get it right,
so yeah this is not gonna go well.
Don't forget to subscribe and like.
All right let's get into it.
All right, so here we go.
We're gonna start off with the snap change.
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Which I'm already flashing.
Okay, this is definitely a bad idea, that,
yeah it's probably not a good idea.
I should probably not do this video.
All right moving on, second one, let's go.
Oh this is the split change.
This is where I take the seven,
split it into a three and four, flawlessly might I add,
seamlessly, let's have a look.
Well you guys wanted tutorials.
I mean, there you have it.
I'm not, here's the thing, I'm not intentionally flashing.
It's just that slowed down, like look at the comparison,
look at side by side, it's insane.
When it's done correctly, to the naked eye,
imperceptible, imperceivable, impermeable.
Slowed down, it literally looks like,
well it looks like exactly what you see.
So moving on, oh here we go,
I think this is the Bergstrom change.
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So far, so far that double was pretty good,
not gonna lie, come on guys, hit a like.
Smash like if you thought, let's see.
Ooh that wasn't bad at all.
(beeping) Oh there it is, right there.
And right here.
Little problem lining those up.
But see that's like a fraction of a second,
and the eye doesn't pick that up.
Man it's crazy, my sleight of hand is terrible.
Next one here, oh this is the card control.
I'm not, this one I'm pretty confident about.
I think I nailed it, all right let's go.
Shows card.
Crazy amount of finger moment going on back there.
Here we go, here we go.
Oh that wasn't that bad.
That wasn't that bad, all right.
Yeah, that wasn't that bad at all.
I'm gonna take a win on that one.
Yeah we know it's on top, right.
Here we go, little bit of a change action happening.
By the way this is what it looks like before.
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So dope, and here we go.
Yeah all right skipping onto the next one,
let's do the next one, how bout that. (laughing)
For those of you thinking I'm revealing methods here,
this .25 is available to everyone on YouTube.
So if you're performing sleight of hand on YouTube,
this is exactly what you see when you slow it down to .25.
Okay so this is a little bit of a transpo
where I take the card back here
and it appears at my fingertips, let's go and back again.
Seamlessly, seamlessly disappears from my hand,
here we go, one.
That got ready, oh know, oh god. (laughing)
Oh you fooled 'em Chris, you fooled 'em.
Maybe the production's a bit better.
Nope, just as bad, okay moving on.
Little of a shape shifter action happening.
Check out the first clip.
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Boom there it is.
And here we go.
This is the follow-up.
I think this is way too fast for the camera to pick up.
Oh that wasn't bad.
That was not bad.
I'm taking that as a win.
I mean you see it twirl a little bit.
All right let's how bout this one?
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Yeah, as you can see by side by side comparison,
pretty much the same thing.
All right what do we have here?
Oh this is my DPS.
This is a palming technique where you seamlessly,
seemingly, put the card to the middle of the deck,
and this is what it looks like.
And this is me doing it.
I actually think I got away with that.
I think that was completely seamless.
Let's go back.
That was actually really good DPS.
See it go in?
Yeah.
Yeah, oh let's go.
Let's go, mm, I win that one.
Okay, this is one of my favorite sequences to do
with a playing card.
I've taught this as well in the videos somewhere
where you just like have these cards multiply
and disappear and you keep fetching 'em out.
One of my favorite things to do.
Eye candy looks great on camera, looks insane on camera.
But does it?
I have to sit here and watch this too.
Oh god, the hand coming in, oh.
This is torture.
All right produce, boom.
It's the hand coming in.
The angle, I gotta work on that.
See, the angle right there, bad angle, and,
flashing a little bit on the right hand.
Do we honestly have to watch
another one of those productions?
That's good enough, right?
That's good enough, okay.
Moving on, what do we have next?
Yes yes yes, we know you're clever
and you produce cards.
This is my clip shift.
All right I'm pretty proud of my clip shift.
Nailed it by the way, check this out,
check out this clip shift.
Ohh, right?
Let's watch.
Come on, time to examine the clip shift, here we go,
oh wait, let me get this little gray bar out of the way.
Incoming clip shift.
Lotta claw action there, lotta,
lotta this going on.
So far no flash.
Whoa, yo you have to realize that this is five times slower
than what you normally see,
and I'm sorry, there was like one frame in there.
Let's go back in slow.
There was like one, two, like one frame,
that's not a frame, I don't count that.
That is the one frame and then it's there already.
That's like one frame
from being magical, look at that. (beeping)
All right, I think that's enough.
I think we've, I think we've concluded
our sleight of hand studying for today.
This was a really bad idea.
On the bright side, I think it's great to look at yourself
critically and I think it's great
that the internet has this ability to slow
sleight of hand down.
I tried saying that with a straight face.
No but really, I really don't care.
I think, I think it's good.
I think as I mentioned before,
the art of magic depends on spectators
being more knowledgeable about the craft,
and if that means letting them in on a few things
like sleight of hand, so be it.
Because their interest there just grows, I think.
I think people get more interested when they start
understanding something and stop getting frustrated.
You know what I mean?
So I think it's for the greater good.
Let me know what you think below if this was a bad idea.
Actually don't, just if you think it's a bad idea,
just don't, just smash like.
And ah, all right guys, well thanks for watching.
I've come to the conclusion that sleight of hand
is not meant for slow motion.
Well mine isn't, we can all improve
is the message that I'm sending out today.
You think your sleight of hand's good?
Slow it down times five and see how it fares.
Mine didn't fare so well at all.
I think it's great, it's a great way to learn,
it's a great way for me to figure out what I have
to work on so we learned something today.
I learned that my sleight of hand is trash,
and you guys as well. (laughing)
Thanks for watching the video guys.
If you liked this video, this kinda content,
let me know in the comments below, like this video,
subscribe, notification bells, all that.
We'll see you in the next one, peace, ah.
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