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- What's up, guys, Chris Ramsay here
and welcome back to my channel.
Today, I'm going to teach you an impromptu card rise.
This is a really really cool effect.
It fools magicians, it fools laypeople
because the great thing about this as you've seen
was your fingers can be in plain sight the entire time,
every single finger, one, two, three, four, five fingers.
That's what makes this so great
is that people are just gonna be,
they don't know how it works
and that's what's so fooling about this
but this tutorial does come with a price
and that price is, well,
I'm gonna talk about where this comes from.
In a recent video I did which was basically me ranting
for like 10, 15 minutes on YouTube and teaching magic
and this type of thing,
I sat back and I gathered my thoughts and I said,
well, how can we attack this problem in a positive way,
in a dignified way and in a way that supports the art?
And this is what I've come up with.
So I know you guys are here to learn things
which is really cool
and which is the reason why you clicked this video
and so I am going to teach you one or two things.
I'm also going to teach you where this thing came from
and how you can get it.
This effect is called the witchcraft card rise
by Jack McMillan.
This is taught in Expert Card Technique
by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue.
I hope I said that right.
The Expert Card Technique is literally like a Bible for me.
One of the greatest books on close-up table magic
that you will ever find in your entire life.
Yes, more so than Erdnase,
and the reason for that is
because Erdnase a lot of the stuff
is just gambling.
It's great, like the information in it is still
sound and relevant today,
but this takes it to another level.
You're going to learn so many things,
and so many things that you've seen
on YouTube or on TV that magicians perform.
You're looking at ambitious card.
If you're looking at cool sandwich tricks,
or just visual selection tricks,
you're looking at mentalism.
You want to know how to peek a card, how to force a card,
force multiple cards, control a card,
control multiple cards, fan a deck of cards
using a pressure fan, anything.
They cover absolutely everything in this book,
from little sleights like the second deal
or the bottom deal, all the way to full routines.
And you can fool the hell out of people with,
and the reason it's so fooling,
the reason this is so fooling, 'cause nobody reads.
That's where all the good stuff is,
or you can be like every other YouTube magician
performing French kiss and every other trick
that's revealed on YouTube and think
that that's the plethora of magic in the world.
Well it's not.
This contains so much more things
than you will ever be able to find on YouTube.
This book has it all.
This has everything you'll need.
As a beginner, an intermediate, or an expert magician
and literally walk away with knowledge
that you will carry with you for the rest of your life
and I'm not even kidding about that.
And I'll also leave a link below
where you can find this book, so by the way
if you want it, it's not that expensive.
It's on Amazon, you can order it,
you can get it by tomorrow.
Here's just the table of contents, all right?
This is what you're going to get.
Look at that, look at that.
It's ridiculous.
On the cover of the book, there's a tutorial right there.
Just gonna hold it up for a second so you can see
and really, I'll show it to you because it's on,
it's on literally the cover of the book.
I'm gonna teach you this right here
following the instructions right here.
That's how easy it is to learn from books.
All right so let's get into this little tutorial
that literally is on the cover of this book.
So I'm not literally revealing anything,
it's right there, there's the technique.
By the way, these cards are really cool.
I like them a lot.
They're the chainless Bicycle playing cards.
I'll leave a bunch of links below
where you can get these
and the other ones in this collection.
There's like four or five in this
sort of retro vintage collection.
We raided Target.
We went to Buffalo and we stopped at like five Targets
and cleared them out of absolutely
every one of these decks.
I'll leave a bunch of links below
where you guys can actually check those out.
All right let's get into this little tutorial here.
So literally before I show you the rising card,
I'm just gonna show you this.
Basically you want to control let's say
this is the selection.
You want to control it second from the top.
You can use a cover pass, that's taught in Erdnase.
You can figure that out, so here you go.
You're gonna show the top card
and obviously be wrong because your card is second.
Is this your card?
And they say no it's not.
Now this is meant to be done sort of on the offbeat
and once they say no, that's not my card
you're gonna push off this one here
and your pinky and ring finger are going
to pinch the corner of this card after you
push it off, just like that so that you say
is this your card?
They say no, you say oh that's interesting.
Okay, well let's see what we can do.
And it's a really cool color change
because the psychology of this,
in their mind, this image of the card in this position
and this is like the same thing,
and that's basically this trick.
All right enough of that.
Let's get into the rising card.
All right so first things first,
you want to be able to control a card
to the top of the deck because that is where
the card rise is going to take place.
So although it looks like it's coming from the center,
it's actually coming from the top
and that's because of the straight on angle.
And a really easy way to control the card,
I could run through this quickly.
Let's say the nine was selected.
You ask the spectator to place the nine on top of the deck
and you shuffle the cards like so,
keeping the nine on top.
That's a really, really fair
and easy way to control the card at the top.
All you're doing is this little slip cut thing here
where you're pulling down the top card
so you're holding it face up as you're about to shuffle
and you're pulling the top card as you're
pulling a whole bunch of other cards,
so that's there.
I'm pulling it out so you can see what I'm doing,
but basically if I hide it you won't see,
you won't see what's happening
'cause it'll be hidden.
So once that card is on top, you're going
to hold the deck on this side, just like
I'm holding it here, just follow along.
And you're gonna thumb down just one card like so.
Once that card is there, you just want
to keep your thumb there so you catch
that break just a little bit.
Once you have that break, you're going to place
the card like this in your hand,
but obviously not like this just really casually.
It's kind of like you're squaring up the deck,
and you're going to place the card like so with a bend in it
'cause that bend is what's going to allow it
to rise to the top.
You've controlled their card.
As you hold it in your hand, you just square up.
Make sure it's bowed toward the inside.
If it's like this it's going to be hard
for you to catch that, so just push it
towards the inside like this.
The card is going to be placed here,
so you're just going to place that card there
and this hand here, the left hand,
grips with the thumb and all four fingers here
and that's basically how the card rise works,
so the mechanics of it, you'll kind of figure it out
when you hold it, is you just kind of loosen your grip
and as you loosen your grip that card's gonna rise up.
Just kind of like loosen your grip a little bit.
You might drop the cards a few times.
That's happened to me when I was practicing this,
like the whole deck would just fall to the ground,
but after a while you kind of get the idea of it.
Obviously you could just
make it look like the card has risen.
Now the card won't go out further than that.
It's a little bit limited.
However, I think that's still good enough for a reaction,
and once you're at this point,
use this hand and sort of strip it out
like you're grabbing it from the middle
or even just pull it out, just make sure
don't do this 'cause they will see
that it obviously came from the front,
so once again you got a break,
you put it here, boom, like this.
You show them this side, not this side.
You show them this side, they're looking here
and then you just release tension a little bit,
you can give it a little bit of a shake,
and that card will look like it's rising
right out of the pack, so all right so
in full performance it should look like this.
I have the king of clubs.
I'm going to lose that king of clubs somewhere
within the deck, so I have no idea
where it's at at this point,
but what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you
just to concentrate on your card 'cause in a second
that card will kind of look like,
kind of look like it's rising up to the top.
Almost like it's rising out of the pack.
And just like that, your card,
the king of clubs.
So a little bit of a subtlety is that
after it does rise up, you will have a bend in it
which will make it pretty hideous, right?
You'll be here and then you'll have this like crimp in it,
so one way to counter that is when you strip it out
just kind of give it like a good
thumb over, you know what I mean?
Kind of like boom, or if you're pulling it out this way
just kind of like, just splay it like this
and then you can hand it out.
So just straighten up the cards
so you're not left with like boom, your card,
and then you know this awkward moment.
All right folks, that about wraps it up for this
book review type tutorial edition.
I'm gonna do many of these where I'm gonna
grab a book that I really love that's good for beginners,
that's good for intermediate or expert
because basics are basics.
There is no what's the book, well there are books
that are like catered to like people who
literally don't want friends in their life.
For the most part, all the good magic
is in the books that are accessible to everybody
and I'm gonna run through those
and I'll probably teach you like a simple effect
in all these books.
I don't want to reveal too much, 'cause
a lot of the strong magic's in there.
I want that to remain in the books,
and if you guys seek it out, you will learn it.
That's how lucky you can be.
So I'll leave the link for the Expert Card Technique below.
I might leave a few links if they only have a few in stock,
so guys check 'em out.
I highly highly encourage you to pick this up,
and if anything just thumb through it,
get the Kindle edition, get the hardcover,
get the softcover, it doesn't matter just get it.
You won't regret it.
This will be something that you will keep with you
the rest of your life, and that you'll pass on
to your grandchildren, the inner secret
of magic right there, in a nutshell.
Chris how do we learn the really cool stuff?
I've learnt everything on YouTube.
I'm giving you the answer right now.
So guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode.
I'm kind of throwing it out there.
I'm really hoping to get good feedback on this
because this is a really touchy subject for me
is teaching something that's in a book
that I hold close to me and that a lot of magicians
hold close, but I wanted to give you guys the opportunity
to learn it correctly, and I wanted to also
showcase a little bit of what you can find.
The gold, the beautiful genius that is whether
it's impromptu or gimmicked or whatever, that you can
find within these books.
It's really really incredible, it really is
and there's a reason why you know magicians
all over the world are known magicians
and there's a reason why they're so good at what they do.
This is the reason, so check this book out
and maybe next week sometime, I'll put up
another type review from a different book,
maybe even a coin, a coin routine with a book.
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and I'll try to get to that.
So guys, thanks again, and we'll see you next time, peace.
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