- Okay, I'm going to riffle the deck,
and I want you to see a
card inside and remember it.
Watch.
Did you get one?
All right, don't change your mind.
Here we go.
Three, two, one.
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I'm going to teach you
guys today a tutorial,
something that I quite enjoy,
and we're going to go on top of that rock
over there at the beach.
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All right, let's go.
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Yo, yo, yo, guys.
What's going on?
Alex Pandrea here, back
with another video.
What a great day for a new video,
and a great day to learn something cool.
So let's go.
All right, guys, so what
are we talking about today?
Well, when I was young, I
saw a trick performed on TV
by David Blaine, straight to the camera,
and it fooled the pants off of me.
I literally took off my pants,
and started running around
the house screaming.
It was a good time.
So this effect, basically,
is a thought of card.
You get somebody to think
of a card within the deck,
and then you're able to
guess what the card is.
You could either reveal it by naming it,
doing some color change,
or just using that to your advantage,
and making the card appear somewhere else.
So we're going to teach
you how to force the card,
basically, in this riffle process.
And then we're going
to show you some ideas
of what to do with that
card after you know it,
or after you've forced it.
The force itself would
look something like this.
You take the cards, and you
say, 'Just look at a card',
and they get one.
'Did you get one in there?'
Okay, so it's probably the
king of clubs that you saw.
One thing that I want
to say before we start.
This is not a surefire force.
If you do it just right, it's
going to work out perfectly,
but if you go too slow,
they might see other cards.
If you go too fast, and then you only stop
at that one force card,
it might be super obvious.
So just keep that in
mind because the rhythm
is the most important thing
for this particular force.
The first part is getting an
injog on a card just like this
on the top half of the deck.
Now, the way that we're
going to go about this
is going to be easy because
you don't need to do this
while the spectators are looking.
You're doing this before
the effect even starts.
So the card that you're
going to want to injog
is going to help force
the card above it, okay?
So in this case, it's the ten of clubs.
One tip that I'd like to give you is
I like to find the court card, right,
so any of the face cards,
kings, jacks, queens,
which are more easily remembered
than, let's say, a six
or a nine of spades or
something like that.
So I tend to riffle the back up,
and you'll notice that in
this portion of the deck,
you're always going to find at
least a few good force cards.
So when you shuffle up a deck of cards,
you're going to, most likely,
always find in, I'd say,
the top third, or a quarter
of a deck, actually,
a court card that can be used.
So in this case, the jack
of clubs would be best.
And the way that I would
do this is by riffling.
Remember, this happens before
any of the effect starts.
I'm going to do my, get
ready, I'm going to riffle up,
and I'm going to spot that court card.
So I spot the jack of
clubs and I stop on it,
and I get a pinky break just like that.
All right, I'm going to
pull down on the break,
and create an injog with the
card below it, all right.
And that's going to be the
first part of the set up
into forcing the jack of clubs.
Okay?
So we're here, we've got the deck back.
I'm going to riffle up, I see the jack.
I do this, I stop at it.
Okay, you might have
to do this a few times.
So I check if there's a court card,
and then I go back to
it one card at a time,
put my finger in there,
pull sideways, all right.
So you're pulling sideways,
and now when you square up,
it'll be outjogged, all right?
So now, from here, we're
going to actually use this
to bring it down a little bit
more to create more of a gap
between the card below
it and the card above it,
which is our force card.
All right?
So the way that we're going to do that
is to get into the position
of bringing the right hand,
grabbing it here using the
base of the thumb and the pinky
to hold the injogged card,
and move it this way.
All right, as I move it into the hand,
I have the spectators here, and
I'm going to do it this way.
So from behind you can
see that this is hidden
by the palm right here.
So they just think that
all the cards are here.
Nuh-uh-uh.
There's one card injogged, all right?
So that's the whole set
up into getting ready
for the riffle process, all right?
So one more time.
You're going to go, see the jack.
I'm going to go one by one.
Do this, get my injog
as I'm, maybe, talking,
having a drink, laughing.
You know, you've got to have a good time
with the spectators.
Unbeknownst to them, boom,
you've got your injog.
Boom, you've got your further injog,
and you're ready to do
the force, all right?
So now you're going to go to them,
and say, 'Look, can you see
all the cards in the deck?'
'Try to see one inside.'
And you're going to start to
riffle with the first finger.
Riffle, riffle, riffle.
And you'll notice when you do this,
you're going to see a gap, right,
and it's automatically going
to just stop right there.
All right, obviously, you
don't want to have them stop,
all right?
But one easy way to do this
is to have them just say stop.
Just say stop anywhere you want it,
and when they say stop, you do
that to get to it, all right?
But I don't think it's as strong.
The best way to do it
is to come here and say,
'See your card inside?',
and you start to riffle.
The most important thing is the rhythm.
So you're going to riffle,
riffle, riffle like this.
Stop for a half a second
on this a little bit more,
and then continue going, all right?
So the timing is here.
All right, so you can
see it from the side.
All right, so in sound
effect tutorial would be
(Andrea makes shuffling sound)
right, if that made any sense to you.
It did in my head.
(shuffling sound)
So with that being said,
I hope you get the
rhythm down of doing it.
So do it a few times, do it in the mirror.
Record yourself and see when
you're doing it too slow,
when you're doing it too fast.
The point is for them not
to see any other cards.
So if you're doing this too slow,
chances are they might see different cards
as well as your force card, all right,
and we don't want that.
So we want them just
to see the force card.
So I'm here, I get it, move
it up, see your card inside.
'Did you get one?'
And you don't want them
to take too much time
after the fact so you do this.
After you do it, snap your fingers.
'Did you get one?'
And you make them commit to one.
Don't change your mind,
keep it in your mind,
say it over and over.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then you can take it from there.
All right?
So one tip that I have for doing the force
is that sometimes what's
going to end up happening
is instead of them seeing the force card,
they're going to see the
top card of the deck.
And the reason for this
is that as you do this
at the end, you're going to
slow down, stop the riffle,
and that one card is going to get stuck.
Not really stuck, but on the first finger,
it's going to be shown
to you a little bit more.
This is some of the times
why you've seen this effect
with the method.
He's literally doing this,
and then stopping at the top card.
I think that's really bad
because it could be very obvious,
but I guess it depends on your audience.
If you can get away with
it, I guess that's fine.
But I don't like that
because it's super obvious,
doing this and then just
stopping at the top card,
and saying, 'Did you see one?'
Yes, it's easier to do, but you
really want them to remember
that they saw it in
the middle of the deck,
not towards the end or that kind of stuff.
So, with that in mind, I
like to always remember
the top card as I do this.
So I go, I find my court
card, I get my break,
I get ready for the riffle.
And then when I'm ready to do it,
I just literally pick up the
top card and remember it, okay?
And there's a few ways
to get around, also,
knowing which one they selected.
So now I know the top
card is the four of clubs,
and I know my force card
is the queen of clubs.
Okay?
So I'm going to do this,
do the force, all right,
and let's say you do it this way.
They see the force card,
and they see the top card.
All right?
'Did you get one?'
'Yes.'
'It's a low number, right?'
And now I'm purposefully going to try
to get it wrong on my guess.
Now, the reason for this
is that I want to know
which of the two that they
saw, okay, just in case,
If I feel like I showed
this a little too much.
If I don't feel I showed this too much,
maybe I'm not going to do this.
But if I feel that for
some reason this was
sticking out a little bit more,
I'm going to ask them
something about the top card,
all right?
'It was a low card, yes?'
in comparison to whatever
the force card was.
If it was a red card,
right, if it was a red card,
then I'd do the same thing.
I do this, I do the force, get one.
Oh, whoopsy.
I got a little bit too much
of a peek on the top card,
and I know that, so I'm
going to come down and I say,
'It was a red card, yes?'
And if they say yes, I
know they saw the top card.
All right?
If they say no, then I know I'm
good, and they saw that one.
But this is also good
if you think about it,
to have two outs, right?
It could never hurt to
have a few more outs,
especially when you don't have
to force a particular card.
So keep that in mind.
All right, let me talk about a little bit
after you've done the force.
So let's get our force
card, queen of diamonds.
Looks good.
Get my injog, bring it
here, force the card.
Now, what are we gonna do?
Well, you have a few options.
Either you can literally
just push everything back in,
and just name the card
as a mind reading effect,
which is okay, but I think you
can take it a step further.
What I like to do is
palm off this card now,
and steal it away from the
deck, take it out of the deck,
so it vanishes and then,
maybe, reappears somewhere.
So this is how we're going to do that.
The easiest way to do it is to
push down on the injog card,
and now you're going to get
a thumb break like this.
All right?
And from here, you're
going to cut, very easy,
just cut the card to the bottom,
so now the card is at the bottom.
And from there, you can
gambler's cop it out of the deck,
and as you spread the cards,
put this in your back pocket.
Or put it under the box, under a glass,
or something like that, okay?
So that's going to be up to
you, but that's the easiest way
to steal out the card from the deck.
If you want to get a
little bit more fancy,
you can go again.
Look, queen of diamonds.
I do this, I say, 'Take a look,
try to see a card inside.'
'Did you get one, yes?'
Now, I'm going to steal the
card directly from the middle,
and they way that I'm going
to do that is as follows.
Again, push, all right.
So you're pushing to get
a pinky break, and now,
from the pinky break, I'm
pushing up with the pinky,
and using my third finger,
which is the ring finger,
as a little bit of a pivot
point to get that card, sort of,
diagonally to get ready
for a diagonal palm shift.
Okay?
So that would be the
more direct way to do it.
So you're here, you're pushing down,
getting the break with the pinky.
And now pushing up on the card diagonally,
and now doing a diagonal
palm shift as you move away
with the right hand,
this palming the card,
which is a more direct way of doing it.
Or another way to do it
is you're here, push down,
and now with the fingers of the left hand,
you're going to go into a side steal,
or a straight palm from there
to palm off the card, okay?
And that is taught, the side
steal is actually taught
on one of my other videos
where you can steal it
off of from right here,
control it to the top,
or effectively come away with it,
and steal it from the right hand.
So the choice is yours of how you want
to steal out that card,
but I think it's important,
once you force it, to steal it out.
So a few important final thoughts
that I have for this effect.
Basically, what we're doing is
we're finding different ways
to have a card selected, okay?
If you followed any of my
material, you know I hate the fact
that we all do, 'Here you
go, please pick a card.'
I hate that, and we always have to find
better ways around it.
One of my favorite ways is
just looking at the spectator,
saying, 'You have a favorite card?'
Or, 'Think of a card.'
This is just as a good of
way because it's random,
they have it in their mind,
and you can honestly say,
'And you didn't pick a card, right?'
'It's in your mind, right?'
'You just saw one', which
is really, really good,
after the fact, to do a
callback where you say,
'Okay, let's see you do
any card, any number.'
For example, 'You have
a number in mind, yes?'
'And you have a card that
you just thought of, right?'
It's good for that.
Another thing you want to
keep in mind in this effect
is that we're forcing a card
that we don't know ahead of time.
If you want to force a
particular card, very easy to do.
Let's say you take a card,
whatever you want to force,
and you control it to
the bottom by culling it,
or doing whatever.
And let's say we want to
force the king of spades,
you would turn it over.
You're going to cut more than
half, so I like to cut, like,
three quarters of the
deck, do like a swing cut.
And then as they come here,
my right thumb contacts
this bottom card, injogs it like this,
and now you're ready to
go the same exact way.
And now you're forcing the
exact card that you want,
so all right?
So what do I do from here?
A lot of the times I would force a card,
and then steal it off, like I said,
using a diagonal palm shift.
And as I spread the cards on the table,
the card goes in my back
pocket, steal it out,
and then you can do a thought
of card to back pocket effect.
That's a very good one.
You can sneak it under the
wine glass, or, literally,
sometimes, I would take
the deck, spread it,
and as I turn over the
cards so they can see it,
what I do is I take the card,
and I just put it in the box,
okay, as you're looking
for the card on the table.
It's really good, it's fun.
You should try that out, but
those are just some ideas.
You can take it and make it your own.
All right, guys.
There you have it.
That was the video.
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Peace.
Yeah, that's good.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Now stop.
All right, now turn.
Yep.
I'm coaching through the phone.
See what we do for you, guys?
All right, and then keep going.
Yeah, that's great.
It looks good.
How does that look?
All right, cool.
Thanks.
Bye.
All right, we have ourselves a reveal.
Now, we just gotta do the trick.
