(spooky music)
- Heyo, what's going on?
Chris Ramsay here, welcome back.
Happy Friday the 13th, people.
Today is Friday the 13th, so I thought
I'd drop a little something special today.
But before we get into that, go ahead and
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I went to Toronto a few days back, little recap.
I had a gig in Toronto, so I had to get ready.
I had to go to the airport, I had to fly to Toronto.
Went to the hotel, showed up to the gig, did the gig.
Afterwards, I met up with some friends,
so Bobby Motta, Chris Mayhew, Chris Westfall, Jonah Babins.
A bunch of guys from the Toronto crew,
and we goofed around for quite a bit.
It was actually a lot of fun to just hang out and jam.
I rarely get the occasion to jam with friends
outside of conventions, so when I'm hanging around
with other magician friends, just jamming,
just having fun really, coming up with dumb stuff
but not really, not really caring about content
or performing, we're just letting loose
and it's a lot of fun to do that.
You know what, I thought I was gonna
vlog this whole trip, which I did.
Honestly, nothing crazy happened.
I just had a good time, I performed,
I didn't get any of the performance on-camera
because these corporate gigs, you don't wanna
walk around with a camera in your hand.
You're not allowed to, honestly.
They pay you a lot of money to be there,
they don't want you vlogging the stuff,
so I totally get it.
At the same time, I wanted to bring something to you
but I didn't want to just bore you with a plain old vlog.
You know, I'm not just about, oh, here's my day
and I went to go pick up my laundry, and (mumbles)
'cause nothing exciting happens to me,
it doesn't merit a video.
But today is Friday the 13th and I thought,
what a better way to sneak up on you guys
with a surprise tutorial.
And this is actually just a little impromptu haunted deck
that I love doing, just on the spot, it's kind of fun.
Now let me start by saying this is a tutorial
not for everyone.
There are literally a hundred different ways
to do the haunted deck routine,
and the one that I do in performance
usually requires something extra, but I thought
I'd teach you just a cool impromptu routine
that you guys could just do right now,
straight out of the box, and just have in your repertoire.
Keep it for a rainy day.
You know what, without any further ado,
let's get into the tutorial right now.
(whoosh)
I'm not gonna go overboard with the explanation,
this is just something you can do straight-up.
By the way, these are Odd Bods playing cards
by Art of Play, I really like these but I need,
for this tutorial you'll need a newer deck,
so unfortunately the old decks will not work
but don't fret.
If you don't have an old deck, just keep watching.
You'll understand the principle and then
when you have a new deck, you can just apply it right away.
So I'm just gonna run through it really quickly.
This is a super-fun thing to do, even like I said,
on your own it just kind of fools yourself.
So what you want to do is you want them to select a card.
Now the best way to do that for me
with this particular effect is to dribble,
and have them say stop wherever.
If you can't dribble, you can just have them pick a card
but it gets awkward with the handling so it's better off
dribbling because you'll need this hand
to hold these cards like this.
This whole principle kind of relies on the spinning double.
The spinning double is a great little thing,
it's kind of like where you take two cards and you just
kinda have 'em magically spin on the pack like that
and they're actually two cards.
That's the spinning double and that's kind of
what this whole principle relies on
for this version of the haunted deck.
So you can take your deck of cards,
you can give it a good shuffle if you like.
You can even ask them to shuffle it.
Then you have them choose a card, so whatever card
they like, let's say it's the nine of diamonds.
You're gonna take that nine of diamonds
and you're gonna place it back on top of the deck
and place the rest of the cards on top as well.
At this point, you can give it a bit of a false cut
and that's completely up to you, whatever false cut
you want to use, false shuffle or whatever.
If you look closely, it's gonna kinda look like
the deck takes on a mind of its own.
Almost as if the deck is haunted.
As you can see, it's separated itself
into two parts right here.
Let's lift up exactly where it separated
and have a look at that card.
The nine of diamonds.
Everything obviously is examinable after that.
So this principle, again, is super, super simple,
it's not hard at all.
It's a bit of a knack, but once you get it down,
practice a few times on your couch. whatever.
You'll need a new deck and the idea is,
when they select a card, first of all, you want to dribble
but you want them to select a card
within the top third, I would say.
Not half but like, let's say, this.
This is like two-fifths.
So very easy, you just dribble and whenever they say stop,
you basically just stop them right about there.
They have a look at their card.
As they look at their card, this hand here,
you're going to apply some pressure
and just kind of bend it like this.
Now don't worry, these won't permanently damage your cards,
you can faro shuffle them out of it,
and once you play around they'll come back to normal
but for now, you're gonna take this,
you're just gonna bend it like that,
and this one here, as soon as they place it back,
you're going to place your knuckle underneath
and you're going to bend it this way
so on the length and on the width.
So now what you've created is this sort of inversed point.
That top portion can freely move on that bottom portion.
With a new deck, like I said, this works best.
It's basically like that double, that double move
where you can spin two cards, but instead of spinning it,
now you've created this point where the top card
is right here and all the other cards here,
so you got this inverted.
Now that's pretty blatant if you look here,
so the idea is as soon as you put these cards back on,
you can go right into a false cut
so use whatever false cut you wanna use
and after that, you can even false shuffle.
You can spring the cards, so now look,
it all looks back to normal but as soon as I pop it,
boom, it's separate.
Isn't that crazy?
Look here`, this is all normal, there is no break.
I'm not holding it very tightly, there's no break
but as soon as I hit that click right in the middle
with my knuckle and let go, it bounces
right at that break, so now I've got this break again.
Place that on top after you've done the false shuffle
and false cuts and now you want them to look top-down
so if this means you getting down lower
or getting right under them, don't do this from here,
like up here, do it so they're looking down at it
and then you wanna open your hand completely flat,
almost like the middle of your palm is elevated
because the slightest movement in either direction,
I mean really, really, really slight movements,
barely tilting, if I tilt barely to the right, barely,
you're not even gonna see that on camera
but all you're gonna see is the bigger movement happen.
So what you wanna do is you wanna unequivocally
make sure your fingers are not touching,
'cause that'll give them an explanation,
and just sort of slightly move in any direction.
Now you're gonna see, if you start to move in a direction,
and more, and the reason we do only a third
is because if it's too low, it's gonna be too heavy
and it's going to split into multiple packets
so keeping it in a smaller packet makes it light enough
for that movement to happen consistently.
You can even ask them, here, hold my fingers,
make sure I'm not doing anything weird.
And the deck is just slowly gonna take on a mind of its own.
See, it just stops right there, isn't that weird?
How it just kinda like stops there, boom.
And then bam, their card.
So again, this is just something you can practice
on your own, but just practice the different movements,
because sometimes if you go back, it won't really happen.
You gotta go forward a little bit, let it go
and if you can control that, ever so slightly,
the slower you can control it, the better
because as you go slowly, that's when
it's really gonna look magical.
It's just something fun to practice,
I thought I'd show you guys a little bit of
physics thing using a deck of cards.
It's completely up to you if you guys wanna use that or not
but you know what, growing the magic knowledge
and repertoire is what it's all about
so as long as we have all these little pieces,
maybe one day this'll serve you, maybe it won't.
I don't really care, it's just a fun thing to do
so have fun with that, and that's it for this.
(whoosh)
Alright guys, thanks so much for joining me today
on Friday the 13th.
Go out and have fun with this if you so desire.
If not, you know what, you don't have to,
but just a little something, something extra,
a little bonus tutorial this week for you guys
to take home and just to practice.
Remember, this works best with a brand-new deck
as I mentioned, worn-out decks won't work as well
so don't fret if you don't have a brand-new deck,
just keep it for when you do.
So anyways guys, that's it.
I won't take up any more of your time.
Stay tuned this weekend, I will be dropping another video
but Monday's tutorial is coming up as well.
It's the 13th, so two days left on 1st playing cards,
they're already massively funded but if you haven't
had the chance or if you're waiting on picking up a deck,
now's the chance, you've got two days left.
Anyways, guys, thanks for watching this video.
Have a good day.
I'm sat here with Bobby Motta and usually
when I sit with Bobby, I get my mind blown
and today is no exception so check this out.
I'm on a movie site with all these different movies.
Literally, they're all different, can you see that?
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Chris] There's no, they're all different.
[Man] 100, there's 100 in there?
- Yeah.
I'm gonna stop anywhere, and guys?
I swear to you, this is not pre-arranged,
this is blowing my mind right now.
So I'm gonna stop anywhere, right here.
Random...
You got it? - [Man[ Yeah.
- [Chris] Alright, Bobby?
- [Bobby] Yeah?
Okay, um, movie or a name, are we doing a movie?
- [Chris] Yeah.
- So it's um...
I think you went halfway probably, somewhere around halfway,
the movie you probably stopped at is Unusual Suspects.
I'm not too sure.
- What!?
- [Bobby] Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Go again.
- [Chris] What?
- [Bobby] Stop at a movie or whatever you want.
- [Man] Let me see your wrists.
Stop at a movie, don't, make sure no one's behind.
Stop at a movie.
- Alright, okay.
- [Bobby] I get Psycho, go to a different movie.
- [Chris] What?
- [Bobby] Keep going, go to a different movie.
Alright, you've stopped at that movie.
- [Chris] Hold on, hold on.
Yeah, okay, I like that.
- [Bobby] Re-- - [Chris] Never heard of it,
- Rear, something, wi--
Something widow?
Window?
- [Man] Rear Window, yeah.
- Rear Window, go to a different one.
- [Chris] Yeah okay, that's there.
- No, Sunset Boulevard?
- Get the...
- [Man] What is going on?
- [Man] He got it, he got it!
(hooting)
- I have not been genuinely this fooled
in I don't know when.
Well done, you'll be hearing from me.
- [Man] What is it?
- And my attorney.