Yo yo yo guys, Alex Pandrea here! I'm a magician and sleight of hand enthusiast. I own The Blue Crown and House of Playing Cards. I started this channel because I love teaching and talking about magic! There are so many bad tutorials on youtube so i figured you might as well learn some stuff the right way! On this channel we will learn how to do magic, card sleights and talk about theory on performing TO MAKE YOU A BETTER MAGICIAN ALL AROUND WOO HOO! Subscribe and enjoy the journey!
That's another assignment 🤗👍, but I am still practicing the turnover pass since 3 months ago and there's something that I still find hard to mimic the actual move (the way you do) which is my favourite move 🤗👍
Excellent tutorial, thanks so much! One thing I added is, after I know their card and it's "lost" in the deck, I cut the deck and "psychically" figuring out which half their card is in, and put that half face down on the table. I tell them I'm narrowing it down, but really I'm justifying why I put half the cards down. I then go on to do the 5 cards out-jogged, and go on from there.
Put the amount of time that it takes to get this slight of hand down perfect and you could play a good piece of music on a piano. He makes it look easy but its not
I know several passes, but the one I personally like the best is the cover pass as for me I can do it looking my crowd in the eyes and with very little top movement of my hands. Of course this has one limit in that the controlled card ends up the second from the top instead on the top. It does allow me to pretend to have messed up by showing the top card and then placing it back on the deck where I thump the top of the deck and then do a double lift and produced the controlled card, which I then move on to the ambitious card trick where the top card of the double is placed cleanly into the deck only to now have the controlled card on the top of the deck
Beginners should pay attention to the very light touch Alex has with the cards, there's hardly any pressure involved. One of those moves that the harder you try, the more resistance the cards offer back, and the more difficult it becomes. The same is true of in-the-hands false riffle shuffles and lots of other sleights as well - the riffle fan, for example, requires so little pressure you'll probably drop the cards a few dozen times until you find the bare minimum amount!
I saw Michael Ammar do that wand spin, and disappearing object during a cup and ball routine some time ago. He did the disappearance from the left hand into the wand hand, the return of the ball to the left hand from the wand hand, and while he was spinning the wand, and had everyone's attention focused there, he carefully placed the ball on top of one of the cups. At the third spin, he pointed at the ball on the cup, and the woman sitting closest to it gave a squeeling "Oh my gah----!" The ball had suddenly "appeared" on the cup! It was brilliant! I had to run the tape back, and view it in slow motion to catch the move. All I could think was; "Mike, you 'Golden Handed' devil".
Alex dont know if you knew my father Larry White. He was a trick reviewer for MUM and a lifelong SAM member. Hes gone now but hed loved to see your amazing card control. Youre so smooth and i enjoy your teaching style. Youre awesome dude. Your passes are spot on. Thanks
I enjoyed this and have watched many times. However, I don't understand the idea of moving middle fingers to the sides of deck, and placing index fingers on top, thereby leaving the front so visible. Doesn't this expose the move much more than need be? It does certainly look as if there in nothing to hide. I keep my index and middle fingers in front to hide, and do the move pushing with my ring fingers. I went to watch a video of Daniel Roy doing push through shuffles. He seems to keep his index and middle fingers in front also. The idea to rapidly slide the deck forward and back while making the push through move - doesn't this draw attention and look suspicious?
I'm just wondering if there is any way you can do a double lift with damaged hands? I have all my fingers and thumbs intact, but limited motion and flexibility. Is there an alternative to the double lift?
recommendation 1: show an example of the shuffle being false ie sorted deck staying sorted... oops forgot that... rec 2: card backs that are effectively mirrors are sus
I know it's a relatively simple flair, but, the single card reveal flair done at around 1:40 has been giving my a bit of a head scratch (it's not the subject of the video, just done quickly in passing). I kind of have the grip figured out, but on the thumb flick I end up tossing out multiple. Any chance a quick tutorial video for it exists from the othe rperspective?
