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- Yo, what's up guys, and welcome back.
First of all, thank you so much,
as this channel has officially reached half a million subs.
But today, as you could tell by the intro
and the caption and the thumbnail of this video,
you're going to be learning something really cool
the DPS, the diagonal palm shift,
now there are a few tutorials on YouTube about this
particular move first taught I believe
in the expert at the card table.
This move is a bit of a knack and it's something
that a lot of magicians try to perfect
much like the classic pass, palming is essential
in card magic even if you have small hands,
it doesn't matter, there are still ways
you can palm a card, I know magicians that
have very tiny hands, they can actually palm really well.
So don't let that discourage you,
just probably takes a little bit more practice.
That being said, the DPS, the diagonal palm shift
is something that I use on a regular basis
whether you're doing a card to pocket routine,
or whether you want to do a card to box,
or under glass or whatever it may be,
it's an essential move if you're going
to learn some card magic it's a bit difficult,
but if you put the time in,
you should be able to get it smoothly
without any awkward weird finger movement and sounds.
And by the way, welcome to all the newcomers,
I know I had like 50,000 subscribers this week,
subscribe to this channel, so welcome.
If you're here for puzzles, stay tuned,
there will be more puzzles on the channel,
however today, we're going to be learning some card magic.
So if you have a deck of cards laying around
your house, go ahead and grab it and follow along.
And don't forget to like this video
if you do like this content, subscribe if you're new here,
and let's learn the DPS.
Alright guys, so this tutorial we'll be using
the green NOCs by Alex Pandrea,
version one, no longer available,
but I know he's put out a few NOCs since then,
so definitely check that out.
So first and foremost, this is what it looks like.
The card is palmed into the dealer's hand.
So, what's going on here is a few things,
now I'm going to run over the basics,
and then I'm going to run over how to square it up,
what to do with the card, or if you want
to do a multiple shift.
Once you get the main idea, then you'll be all set.
In the dealer's hand here, you're going to riffle down,
to wherever you'd like you can have them say stop,
or you could just place it anywhere.
Important to note that with the DPS,
the more comfortable you are with it,
the further you can push that card in
without it actually going into the middle,
so right there is about where I'm very comfortable
palming it out.
At first you're probably going to you know,
probably going to look something like that.
So what you're going to have to work on,
is the smoothness and also the feel
of this thumb, that's something that I've learned,
by doing this move is that it's all about this thumb here.
I'll give you basically an overlook,
what's happening is the card is being pushed in
diagonally hence the name,
and you're in a position like this,
your pinky then catches this card,
pivots it off your thumb here,
into palm, okay.
One big mistake I see a lot of times
in this move being performed is that
people start pushing it here, and then go to here,
and that flash on this corner over here,
is really bad, you can't have that show.
That's the main thing, so this thumb is going
to act as a sort of mask, and it's going to cover
that little corner, so when it goes in here,
I can show you the side of the deck,
and it's not protruding at all when in fact,
it is, but very little, you can barely even see that,
let's see if we can...
Okay, I'll push it out a bit so you can see,
but like barely, and your thumb's going to feel that,
and with the help of your pinky over here,
you're sort of going to guide it downwards.
And once that's there your pinky's going
to do this move, now I'll run over this move
over the shoulder but I just want to go over it.
So here, and then it's palmed out, okay?
Let's go over the shoulder and give you a better view.
You've got the card, riffles in,
now what I like to do is my pinky here,
is going to slightly push the card this way.
As these fingers here push the card downwards.
So kind of like, like that.
And what you're left with over here is the card protruding,
go ahead and just try that out yourself,
put the card in and sort of push it diagonally down, okay.
Push down, remember again, the thumb is going
to act as a cover to that little corner right here.
Your thumb with the help of your left pinky
is going to guide that card down.
Once you're in this position here,
which is this is like the position getting ready
to palm the card, so, maybe from underneath
would be a better angle, let's try that.
So you're pushing here and once your thumb
has pushed that card down with the help of your pinky,
your pinky is going to sort of shift this way,
and you'll notice that the card is going
to pivot around your thumb.
Here, goes in sideways,
hand squares up, thumb over here covers that corner,
and in one motion,
this pinky is going to pull it out, okay.
And once it pulls out you're going
to replace your pinky on the top corner
of that card because that is a palm.
This is very important, because a lot of people
will palm like this, alright, just like the claw death grip.
You don't need that, there are two points to a palm,
and that is the pinky, and the palm
of your sort of thumb right there.
And those two points are the only points
that you'll really be touching,
so that way your fingers are free to move,
and it doesn't look super awkward,
you're not death gripping it,
so you just kind of hold it there like this, okay.
So remember again, those two points,
that's how you palm a card.
One, two, three, four, five.
And that is all done in one motion,
and that's what I see a lot of people do this,
this used to be my problem as well,
Xavior Spade actually helped me refine my DPS.
So I used to be doing this.
And this big left hand sort of movement
to grab that card when that was completely unnecessary,
so you're here, and I used to do this.
You get that click and everything.
When all you have to do is sort of let this hand fall,
this hand just kind of like rests,
you're not gripping the card,
it sort of falls into your palm, okay.
Basically, it should look like this.
You're putting the card back in the deck.
And if that's the movement you want to mimic,
then you know, maybe practice the movement
you want to mimic before you actually practice
the move to see what it would look like.
So that is the basic idea of the DPS,
you can also do this with multiple cards,
so let's say you want to do a multiple card routine
where all the cards, you know,
end up in different places, you have all three.
You can do four, whatever you're comfortable with,
or just two, same thing applies,
you're going to go ahead and do the exact same thing
but you're going to do it with multiple cards.
When I perform this whether it's with a single card
or multiple cards, I usually just for misdirection,
once I have these cards like palmed out,
I'll usually hand out this deck,
and be like here you go, and that misdirection is great,
so you say, here the cards are in there,
give them a good shuffle, at this point
you can go to your pocket, you can go drop the cards
in your back pocket, whatever you like to do.
But always this is just one thing that I think
a lot of people do and I do as well,
it's just a great way to sort of misdirect them
and be like here you go, take that,
and go ahead and give it a shuffle.
As they're shuffling you can go ahead
and put this under their drink,
you can leave it on the table,
you can put it in your back pocket,
you can do whatever you want with it,
you can load it somewhere.
Another way to sort of square up the deck,
and I think this is Ricky Smith,
is once you've palmed it out,
is to have it in palm here, rotate your hand,
hold the deck and give it a little bit of a riffle.
Kind of like a little convincer,
like, you know, you're using this hand for something
that's not just standing there idle,
so you kind of just hold it, you know,
give it a riffle, here, palm it out.
Give it a little bit of a riffle,
now you can hand that deck out,
you can do whatever you want,
you've palmed the card out successfully.
Another square up is just basically
literally putting it back, so you can turn the deck here,
and then I can turn the deck and now it's back
to the bottom, I don't like that one necessarily,
but it is something you can do.
I personally, when I do the DPS,
usually it's just to get right to the pocket,
and be like oh by the way, you forgot this,
want to go ahead and put that back into center.
And then go on to maybe a card a pocket
or an ambitious card or whatever you want to do.
Another thing you can do is have a video on
how to produce a card out of thin air,
you guys can check that video out
and you're in a perfect position here
once you've palmed it out to do so,
so you can be here, boom.
And have that card appear at your fingertips.
I think the angles as well for the DPS
are really, really good.
And some people would disagree,
but if you're here, that's a good angle,
front is good, side is a pretty good angle
because you can actually use this hand
to cover a lot of what's going on here, right.
This angle obviously, is a really good angle,
so if you're on this side, that's no problem at all.
You're going to get away with that,
so angles are not bad I would say just,
behind and underneath are probably the worst angles.
And I'll leave the link below
to the expert of the card table
if you guys want to check that out,
but that's basically it.
Well, alright guys that was today's video,
I hope that you got something out of it,
and if you did, definitely leave a like,
and comment below, we'll see you guys
on the next video, peace, bye.
Oh, and also, I have a lot of requests
for what book should I get to start
on my magic journey and do a video on books,
books you can get if you're a beginner
or intermediate or looking for some advanced card magic
and stuff like that, however,
this is also a really good book.
Self-Working Close-Up Card Magic,
so this is basically 56 fool proof tricks
that don't require any or very little slight of hand,
they're pretty much self working,
so you guys can check that out,
pretty cheap on Amazon, I left the link below.
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