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- Yo, what's going on guys.
And welcome back.
Today, we got a really cool special video for you,
for this magic Monday.
Yes I say magic Monday
because you're going to be learning a color change.
This is a super visual fun snappy little color change
created by Patrick Varnavas, who I've featured
on the channel before.
He was the one who did Splash, the tutorial.
This was way back, a few years back he showed me this.
I've played with it ever since
and delved into multiple ideas and handlings
and that type of thing, so
we're gonna break it all down for you today.
But first, if you wanna go show Patrick some love
for letting me share this on the channel,
I'll leave his Instagram below, just go give him a follow.
He's a sick cardist.
The thing I like about this color change is,
is it a performance thing, I wouldn't say so.
It's not something I would do in performance,
but that doesn't mean it's not fun to do for the
camera or for your friends or whatever.
You end clean.
So you kind of start clean, and you end clean.
It's a very fair color change
that's super visual.
And unlike the snap change,
where you gotta like lift two cards up
and then snap one away,
you're only lifting one up.
And then, bam, the change happens.
So it's kind of really a clean snap change
that happens in the deck hand.
Let's get into the tutorial.
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But without further ado,
let's get into this tutorial.
Let's go.
Alright, so for this tutorial
we're going to be using the James Coffee playing cards.
These are really cool cards, very nice.
And they also have a really good coffee.
Alright, so let's get into the handling.
Fairly simple.
What you're going to have to do for in-hands version,
not the table version,
is, first of all prerequisite, is a double lift.
So you're going to have to learn how to do a double lift.
If you don't know by now, you should probably start here.
So you can either do the pinky count variation,
or do whatever double lift you want to do.
Once you're here, you're in this position.
So my whole wrist is gonna keel this way
as my thumb pushes off just the top card.
And I don't want expose that, right?
So I'm gonna keel my wrist back,
and then use my thumb
to just sort of
make this card appear.
Which is kind of a cool appearance on its own.
All you're doing is you're using your thumb on the pip,
you're pushing it off a little bit,
and then coming back and applying pressure downwards.
Til it just pops up on the side
but from this angle the card appears sort of out of nowhere.
Angles are important, obviously,
as with most sleight of hand.
Your angles for this whole thing,
your right side the body is going to block everything.
So front, all the way here, so basically
you want your right side facing them, okay.
Or the front.
Front to the right is all good.
This is no good because as I'm here,
and I'm gonna do this change,
you're gonna get a nice little visual, okay?
We'll get into that in a second.
So first of all, all I want you to do for now
is pop that card up, and once you do
I want you grab it with your middle and index finger
of your right hand.
So again, pop it up.
Middle and index finger of the right hand
are going to hold it on the corner
that does not have the pip, okay?
So from the back here.
And you're going to grab it on the corner facing you, okay?
Once you're popped out here, you grab this.
All that's going to happen
is you're going to do the exact same move with this,
except you don't want to reveal that card.
So if I'm here,
I want to keep my wrist keeled so I don't flash that.
And then as well, this is gonna give me cover
because my thumb is gonna do the same action here.
So that little get-ready,
I'm covering that with this card, alright?
Soon as I'm here, bam, cover that,
and now I'm ready to go.
I'm going to take my hands and at the same time
what's gonna happen is almost like a snap change.
You're just going to take this card back here, okay?
That's all you're doing is you're
taking this card back here.
But from here that's a vanish.
So you're here, and it's a quick vanish.
It's not a Tenkai palm.
You're just holding it there with the middle finger.
On that corner, boom.
And your palm's gonna hide everything.
And so with that vanish, you're going to make this appear
at the same time.
At the exact same time as my hands come together,
that's gonna happen.
And basically you're gonna jump it up into
the grip that you had it when you grabbed it at first.
So I grabbed it here.
Same grip, I grab it here instead with one finger
instead of two.
And now you're left in this position
where the middle finger is holding down that card still.
My angles are still, like I said
they're all here, they're all good...
Bad.
You're in front, you want to keep
your hands tilted down more, don't tilt them up.
Down is fine.
With the good angles it looks like this here.
And then bam, okay?
You switched them out and now you're here.
Now the one thing I don't wanna see people doing,
and a lot of people do this, is
when they do like a snap change,
they want to clean up right away.
Kind of, like, gives it away.
Telegraphs that you're doing something,
that you're either getting rid of something.
Just telegraphs something's wrong.
And so instead,
what you wanna do is once you've done that change,
bam.
You wanna let it linger here for a second.
Bring this hand away, and then come back
as you're going to pick up this card,
clean up,
so what you're gonna do is you're just gonna
bring it in there and you're gonna flop it over, okay?
So you're here, and they see the card, bam.
Now you bring it this way.
And you can bring that hand away if you want
to get ready down here, that's fine.
If you show them one card, you can spin it
and make sure they know it's one card.
Or whatever you wanna do.
And as this hand comes back immediately, boom,
that's when the change happens.
And now I'm going to leave it in that sort of
weird palm over here before I come and retract it
and put it back.
What I like about this is that you end up clean.
So you're here, and you have this one card.
Which is cool,
you can show the singular action of this one card.
Boom, come in.
And now I've switched it and now I'm clean.
Boom.
The deck is all face down and everything's good.
So that is the candle change.
That is the basic candle change.
You can also do a double change,
which I've played around with
as you saw in the intro.
I wouldn't recommend this for starters.
And I would probably not even recommend this at all,
it's just fun to do.
So if you guys wanna goof around with it,
feel free to do that here.
So what you wanna do for this
is you wanna get a triple lift.
So it's just one more than a double.
That's a quadruple.
And so, bam, same thing.
You wanna grab it here.
As I come in, boom, these switch.
I grab it.
Now here's the thing,
watch your angles.
Because what you're gonna have do here
is your ring finger is going to replace the middle finger
so the middle finger can come back here
and do it again.
You can actually start over here,
just so you produce it over here,
and as you come by bring your hand down,
now you're in position to switch that one out.
And here's the tricky part,
your ring finger, again replaces
the middle finger of this one comes up
and you do the exact same thing,
and then as you're here
you wanna grab everything and clean up.
Alright let's get into the table stuff.
Alright as for the table version,
basically what your going to do
is your going to lap the card at the same time.
This is something Patrick was playing around with
and showed me, which I thought was really cool
and worth mentioning, and possibly for you to learn.
So this can be done either face up or face down.
So if you wanna do it as a color change,
it's going to start off again,
as did the first one,
with a double lift.
Once you have the double lift, the idea is
you can take this card off
as long as you keel your wrist,
cause you don't wanna show that one, alright?
Now I'm gonna throw it face up
and as I do that what I'm doing is I'm actually
dropping it down here.
This motion.
You can go ahead and just practice that if you want.
If you just hold it here.
And I'm gonna use this one, at the same time
is going to be just thrown out with the thumb.
Kinda just like that.
So that's doing it face up
where the card kinda changes in mid air.
Which is kinda cool.
It kind of has like a magical quality to it
as it changes mid air. (laughing)
I went from a nine of diamonds to a nine of hearts.
Best color change ever.
But if you wanna do it face down,
this can be used as a switch
which I really like.
So the idea here is you don't even have to do a double lift.
This is really cool.
You can just show this card as a singular playing card.
And you wanna do the same thing this time
you wanna throw it face down, not face up.
So as you're here, and I go to throw,
the visual retention of your hand doing this
and the card getting shot out
is such that your eye's gonna follow it.
Because from their point of view,
as you saw in the intro,
you're not really gonna see that card being lapped.
And the idea is to make this look as natural as possible.
This hand, because you don't wanna make it all look weird.
So practice it to the point where you're here,
and it just kind of looks like
you're just literally throwing a card.
So the idea when throwing it face down
is that this hand doesn't move so much.
Because if you do this, it kind of looks weird.
So if I'm just here and do that instead.
Ooh, look how good that looks.
Are you kidding me?
Looks like I just threw the card.
Here.
Boom.
You just gotta take my word for it
that they're actually switching.
One more time face up.
Just kind of looks like it changes in mid air
which is kinda cool.
Face down is still my favorite thing
because it makes more sense to be like,
oh here's a card, okay here you hang on to that one.
And bam, it changed.
So anyways, I'm literally watching me do this
on camera and it's fooling me.
It just feels so good.
So guys, have fun with that, enjoy.
Thanks for watching, and let's roll the outro.
Alright guys, that about wraps it up
for this magic Monday.
Hope you guys enjoyed that video,
and that move and those moves.
Those little sleights with the table,
whether you're doing stand up stuff,
whether you wanna do that double change,
you wanna dare to do the double change, go for it.
As always, guys, appreciate you guys watching.
Liking this video, sharing it with your friends.
Commenting, all that stuff.
We'll see you on the next video.
Right now, by the way, it's super bright outside.
I'm actually enjoying the snow.
I'm not a winter guy,
but I'm enjoying the snow because I've got this
reflector all in my back yard
as it's reflecting the light right here.
So I've got a light set up over here,
but the most light is emanating from my window.
Which I love.
Anyways, I'm done ranting.
You guys don't care, whatever.
Subscribe, and we'll see you on the next video.
Peace.
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