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(slow piano music)
(rhythmic beat music)

English: 
- Charlie, Charlie, Charlie.
Where've you been man?
I've missed you.
I thought somebody stole you.
(stick hits floor)
You're gonna be a hard core, super fan
with what I've got to show you today
with this deck of playing cards, Charlie.
This is a good one.
I'm gonna take the Nine of Clubs
and put it in the middle
of the deck, face up,
protruding like a little sausage.
Charlie, I spin the
playing card 180 degrees
and it magically, mysteriously,
instantly transforms
into any playing card that I want Charlie.
It's a mother swearword miracle.
And your audience
Charlie, your participant,
your participant will
respond accordingly Charlie,

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accordingly.
I'm Daniel Madison, this
is the Wheel Change.
(stick hits floor)
I'm not gonna hurt him Thomas.
I just want me sausages back.
(thump and scream)
I'm Daniel Madison, welcome back.
Thanks for being here.
Thank you for choosing to spend
bit more time with me today.
Thank.
In this video I'm gonna
teach you the Wheel Change.
The Wheel Change is the final
change in my changes phase.
But Daniel Madison what does that mean?
Over the past month I've
been teaching colour change
after colour change, my transformations.
Most of which are from a
project that I call Changes
that I released a long time ago.

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Now I wanted to update and
refresh each and everyone one
and this is the final
one in that collection.
That's not to say that the Wheel Change
is the final colour change,
the final transformation
that I'm ever gonna teach.
No, no, no.
I have plenty more where
that came from my friend.
Plenty more colour changes on the way.
And I saved the best, and
the hardest to the very end.
The Wheel Change is arguably,
the most technically challenging
when it comes to sleight
of hand and dexterity
with your fingers,
with your little digits.
With your little sausages.
(Charlie caws)
Thanks Charlie.
Now when you look at the Wheel Change,
when you see it performed,
when you see it executed you might think
that it's very easy but you
are very wrong my friend.
Now I hope that when you see
this, when you learning this,
I hope that I can inspire you creatively
when you see the method because this one,
the mechanics in the Wheel
Change are quite different.
In most cases in most
sleight of hand when you,

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when you challenge sleight of hand
when you try and learn something
new or you try and create.
The idea is to start dirty and end clean
this one's backwards,
this one works backwards,
in this one you start
clean and you end dirty.
But don't worry right at the
very end you will end clean.
You can hand the playing
cards out for your participant
to inspect and respond accordingly.
Really not a fan of those
people who say things like.
I like to think outside of the box man.
I like to meet new people,
I like to go on walks with my dogs.
I don't like it when people talk like that
but this one, this one is
thinking outside of the box.
Simply because you start
clean, you end dirty.
It's kind of backwards
so when you look at this,
you might think it works one way
but really this one
actually works backwards.
Now I'm not gonna waste
anymore time talking.
I know you wanna get straight into this.
I know you wanna learn.
Without further ado.
I'm Daniel Madison and
this is the Wheel Change.

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To help us on this journey
of learning the Wheel Change,
I'm gonna enlist the help of my GoPro.
I'm gonna clip it right to my table here
so you can see exactly what I can see.
Bring you up close,
learn everything there is to
know about the Wheel Change.
This one is technically challenging today.
This might be a long video
but please, please be patient with me.
I do talk a lot but when I
talk, I talk for a reason
there's so much that needs
to be said when it comes
to the practise and the execution
and the performance of sleight of hand.
You need a deck of playing cards.
I'm gonna use two top playing cards,
we're gonna go Ace of
Diamonds, Nine of Clubs.
So I wanna start as
usual by just basically
just exposing the mechanics and show you
what's going on from start
to finish quite quickly
so that the method and mechanics
go straight into your head.
Then we'll spend time afterwards
talking about this in
great intricate detail
we're gonna start with
the top two playing cards.
I'm gonna have a break underneath
those top two playing cards this allows me

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to pick the playing cards up like this.
Thumbs gonna go underneath like so,
finger one on top
and I'm gonna turn it over like this.
So that I'm looking at
the Ace of Diamonds.
Now I'm doing this so
the audience doesn't see,
my participant doesn't see the card yet.
I don't want them to see it yet.
Because I'm starting dirty,
the Ace of Diamonds is
the dirty playing card.
I don't want people to see that,
that the Ace of Diamonds is the card
that's gonna be finalised.
So when I turn the card over.
I turn it like this.
So that the audience
are looking at the back
of the playing cards.
So once I turn it over
I riffle down the side with my thumb,
stop about half way,
place both of these playing
cards inside about halfway.
Like so, as they make it in
there I push the Ace down
just so that I can see
the top of the index.
Just the Ace itself
not the actual diamond.
I pull the Ace, the Nine up a little bit,

English: 
the next step is to push the
cards above it up like this.
But you want to push the
playing cards up like this
so that you just covering
up the Ace of Diamonds
from being seen.
So once I know that I'm,
I'm level like once I know that I'm safe
and nobody can see the Ace of Diamonds
I'm now ready to show
people the Nine of Clubs
protrude in the deck so I do that.
By the way my thumb covers the side here
finger one covers the side here,
so you can't see the Ace of Diamonds
that stands a chance of
being exposed perhaps.
So I cover them on the side.
I'm now ready to lower
the situation like this.
So I lower the playing cards
so that you can see Nine of Clubs.
So it starts like this, I lower down,
as I lower down like so,
finger two of the free
hand comes into play
comes over the back of
the cards like this,
pushes those cards back down,
and covers the Ace of
Diamonds here like this.

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So I'm now completely
covering the Ace of Diamonds.
From this position the deck hand
I'm gonna reach out
with fingers one and two
and finger two's gonna make contact
with the top right outside
corner of the Nine of Clubs here.
So this is my situation I'm currently in.
From the back looks like this.
Now what I'm gonna do,
these two playing cards are going to pivot
around finger three of the deck hand,
they're both gonna pivot around.
What you're aiming for is
both playing cards to do this.
That's kind of the aim.
So all of the pressure is gonna be
pulling both those card this way
and they're gonna pivot
around finger three.
That doesn't happen though
and I'll show you why.
So finger two's on top of the Ace,
finger two of the deck hand
is on top of the Nine here.
Now I pull the Ace of Diamonds,
I'm gonna pull it towards
finger two of this hand

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and what that does, it causes
both cards to start pivoting
and at the same time finger two
starts pressing down on the Nine of Clubs.
So I pull this, this way,
finger two presses the Nine this way.
I'll try and expose this
as much as possible.
And what happens is, is you see they both,
as they pivot around finger three
and they both straighten up,
finger two of the deck
hand is causing the cards
to straighten up whilst
finger two of the free hand
is causing the rotation.
As both playing cards
pivot around finger three
the cards straighten
up at this corner here,
you'll feel all the pressure
of the playing cards,
above those playing cards,
pressing against finger three
and finger two of the deck hand.
Now at this point finger
two pushes both cards
into the deck as finger
two of the free hand
keeps that rotation going.
Now that allows this corner
to clear finger three
and gets away and I now pull down
on both cards with finger two

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and they end up kind of
on the back of finger two
of the deck hand like this.
So you can see how the changes realised
just from that moment.
So from here, from this
position finger two's here,
I pull upwards, they rotate
and then I keep the rotation going
unto the back of finger two here
as I push them back into
the deck, both cards.
The thumb now comes along to help
by pressing both of
those cards on the side
like so to straighten up by the time
that you've achieved the
180 spin both playing cards
will be completely
aligned and as you can see
we start with the Nine of
Clubs, a single playing card
we ended up with the double playing card
we've actually finished dirty.
We started clean, we ended dirty.
So I'll do that once again
and a little bit faster.
So we lift the two cards
put them inside down
left the Nine up, I
cover this for a moment.
Get my grip right.
Finger two pushes those cards down,
makes contact with the Ace,
finger two of the deck hand
goes on top of the Nine here,

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thumb on the side I pull
upwards with finger two.
As finger two of the deck
hand is pulling down,
the cards rotate and now we straighten up
into the deck like so.
So that's the change side of it.
At this point I would then
simply pull the cards out,
put them on top, face down,
take that card off again
and we finish with another
change back to the Nine.
We're gonna look at some practising 
so that we can refine the
way that you perform this
and we're also gonna look
at all the intricate details
of what to do, what not to do.
And how to make this look good
when you're performing it.
As you can see I moved the
camera so it's over my shoulder
so you can see the playing
cards the way that I see them.
And at the same time you
don't get to miss out
on my strange little face.
Who am I?
Before I forget,
anybody who has not yet
seen Praxis by Chris Ramsay.
Head over to Chris Ramsay's
YouTube, check out Praxis.

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It's an incredible utility move,
he first showed it to me
about seven years ago.
A way of controlling a playing card
from the middle of a deck.
Now if you tie praxis off,
if you put it together with
a Fan Change, oh heavenly.
I'm not gonna show you it right now
but check out Praxis then
check out the Fan Change.
Not a bad control.
So the Wheel Change.
There's a lot to cover so
we're gonna get right into.
Now I'm gonna stick to
the same playing cards
that I used in the demonstration,
Ace of Diamonds, Nine of Clubs.
Nine of Clubs on top, Ace
of Diamonds underneath,
you have a break underneath
the top two playing cards.
You lift up like so, so when
I lift these playing cards up
I'm seeing the Ace of Diamonds,
the participant, Susan is looking
at the back of this playing card.
Now as I do this I start
riffling straight away
and I wanna get about half way down.
To be honest it doesn't really matter
how far down you are as
long as it's in the middle

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of the deck because you're
relaying on the deck
to keep these two playing cards
held together posing as
a single playing card.
So lift it up like this, riffle,
put the cards inside about half way.
Now when I'm doing this,
nine times out of ten,
I will put the playing
cards in all the way down
so that I can just about see the Ace here,
there we go, just about see the Ace.
So I go in like this and
then I'll come back up
with the Nine like this.
So from the participant's side,
from what they're looking at,
it's just looks like I'm
putting a playing card in there.
When really I've set my self up.
Now I want to, is bevel the right word?
When like pushing these cards
up like this is that a bevel?
Beveling, I don't know.
Bevels, so you wanna push those cards up.
In fact you don't even have to do this
you're gonna have to judge
this based on each performance,
each time you're doing it.
If you're doing it in front of a camera
it's gonna be a lot different.
If you're doing it for
people then you're gonna
have to think about
your angles a lot more.

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By the way this is quite angle sensitive
but I've worked on this to a point
where it doesn't need to be,
it feels very dirty because it is
and there's a lot to hide
because there's a lot going on
but really the bits that you
showing to the participant,
to your audience, when you show
them the face of these cards
everything's kind of covered up anyway.
You only really need to
worry about this here,
this situation right now,
where the Ace is protruding
slightly in the way of the Nine.
That's the only thing you
got to worry about really.
So once you're in this position
you don't have to do this
but you push these cards up
so that you end up looking like this.
This just hides the Ace of course.
(Charlie caws)
Cheers Charlie.
That just hides the Ace of course.
So from this position I'm now ready
to show this to the audience.
Now as a close up performer.
I don't do stages and big places like that
I like to be personal,
right intimate right up with people.
So this one for me is, you
get as close as you can
without being uncomfortable,

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you don't want to start hugging someone.
You know, you don't want to get
in someone's personal space.
But you wanna get as close as you can
so that once you're in this position
so you go from here with talking
stood about as close as my reflection
I'm gonna lift the card up like this
they can't see it yet,
put it in the middle
and now I'm gonna show the card.
So now I can come down, I'm
gonna show the playing card.
And don't worry in a
minute I'm gonna teach you
how to do with, like this,
where you can show the card like this
and then put it in the middle
and you're good to go.
I think that's they way that
I did it in the demonstration
but I wanna teach you every
single aspect of this.
So I'm this close, I lift the cards up,
put them in the middle,
I'm set up I'm good to go.
Now I lower the cards
down as the playing cards,
as the deck is coming down like this,
this hand will come over the top.
This hand will come over the top
and get in position by the time I'm down.
So I will have already
covered up the dirty card,
the Ace of Diamonds by
the time, come on camera.
By the time I get down.

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So my hands are gonna be
over the top like this.
That's not a bad angle actually.
So like this.
Now that I'm confident
that they can see the Nine
and I'm covering the Ace with
all fingers cover the Ace,
I'm confident they're
looking down on this remeber,
so they're just seeing the top.
Once I'm confident that they've registered
the Nine of Clubs,
then I can start the Wheel Change.
So a few things to note before we move on
to the actual change it self.
One, if the card's too high up,
finger two is not gonna
be able to reach it.
Finger two will not be able
to get to that corners.
Don't put yourself in a
situation where you put the deck,
the card in and you're
here and you can't reach.
Cause you're gonna have
to start rearranging
and changing things and
you kind of give away
that you're doing something dirty,
that you're up to no good.
You don't wanna add any extra,
you don't want to add any
extra or unnecessary actions
readjusting once you put this card in,
well readjusting is a bad idea.
You want it to be right from the start.
So like I said I get it in about halfway

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cause I know finger two
can reach that corner.
Or that point.
So from here my fingers covered.
Finger two reaches over
the top, I start to pull,
I start to execute the Wheel
Change so I pull up here
let it pivot around finger three
as it straightens up,
let those two corners
these two corners clear finger three
as the cards are pushed.
I'm not holding the
deck tight enough there
but as they push in, the thumb helps.
And I'm straight, and I'm complete.
From this position you can do
it a few difference things.
First of all you can very easily
just take both playing cards out as one,
turn them face down on top of the deck
then you're left with
another kind of change,
another impressive,
I don't know what you wanna do with that.
Maybe you could turn it
into a different change or,
I don't know it's up to you.
It's up to you when you perform.
That's the first option
is just taking it out.
But from this position there's
actually a lot you can do.

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One of the things I like to do,
so we're here, we achieve the change.
One of the things I like to
do, turn the deck like this
so you've done the change
in front of people down,
down here, down at belly height
so I've done the change
everybody's looking down on it.
I'm now gonna readjust
because I have the Ace here,
I'm gonna readjust up here my position
change position, bring it here
and I grab those two cards on the corner.
Can you see that all right?
If I grab those two
cards on the corner here.
Now I can pull the deck away.
As I pull the deck away,
I'm gonna do a Snap Change .
And then clean up as I
show the Nine of Clubs.
One option also you can, you can
do a Snap Change inside the deck.
Which is an idea that I love,
the idea of a Snap Change from the deck.
So you don't have to actually
take the playing cards out of the deck
move them down slightly maybe here
and then Snap Change in position.

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Now this allows you to
drop the Nine of Clubs.
This allows you to, once you're here,
this allows you to clean up on the back
as you take this out.
It gives you the freedom
of movement this other way?
I love to do that.
So once you've done the Wheel Change.
These are now up here,
Snap Change and then
showcase the next card.
One idea.
Another idea that I like
too is an Instant Clean Up.
So once you've done the Wheel Change,
so let's get in position actually.
Get ready for the Wheel Change,
do the Wheel Change once we're here.
Once we're in this position
you can now freely cleanup.
We have two playing cards here.
So we're in a dirty situation, right.
All it's gonna take,
because I'm showing the Ace,
is pushing that Nine into the deck
as I take out the Ace of Spades,
Ace of Hearts, Ace of Diamonds.
And we're left fairly clean.
Now obviously the Nine
of Clubs is in the deck.
Face up the wrong way round.
But you could turn that into
a trick if you wanted to.

English: 
Depends on your situation.
Depends who you're performing for.
What style of trick you're going for.
Really is up to you right
now I'm just wanna show you
everything that I know about this.
Now the ideal situation,
the ideal situation
is being as clean as possible.
Now that's the ideal
for, in terms of handling
in the way that you,
your dexterous control
over playing cards with
your sausage fingers.
The way that you handling everything.
So to make this as clean as possible
we might have to sacrifice
parts of the trick
now this might make sense to a lot
of sleight of hand people watching
as I explain the next part
because I don't mind being
dirty, I'm a dirty boy.
Right I don't mind to be dirty
when it's to do with sleight of hand
because I know that I
can control it to a point
where if I show you two playing cards
I know that you're gonna believe
that's only one playing card
from they way that I handle it.
If you hold playing cards like this.

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Very carefully or I've seen a lot
of new magicians hold them like this.
Look I'm only holding one
card look, look it's just one.
Like over proving or not
being comfortable enough.
So in terms of being dirty when you get,
when you're good a sleight of
hand, when you get good at it.
You don't have to worry about those things
but I have to be very aware
that new people are watching too.
Because I'm confident with
how cleanly I can handle
two playing cards as one,
I don't have to worry about
when I'm dirty or not.
That's what I'm trying to say.
But if you wanna be as clean as possible
if you wanna start with one playing card
and end with one playing card.
The mechanics of it do change slightly
or should I say the
set up changes slightly
because now we have to
already have the Nine of Clubs
in place ready for the change at the end.
So we're shifting the sleight of hand
to mechanics from one place to another.
It's still quite dirty,
it's still the same
amount of stuff going on
the only benefit that
you get from this one

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English: 
what I'm about to show you
is being able to handle this playing card
as one at the start and at the end.
Or should I say the Ace
of Diamonds at the start
and the Nine of Clubs at the end.
So really what we need to do is
we need to start with the
Nine of Clubs in the deck
face up and protruding
by about a centimetre
just so we can see the Nine.
And then with the bevelled decks as well,
if that's the right word.
Spread over the Nine.
So if we start in this position
obviously it's easy to set
this up when no one's looking.
When no one's around, when no
ones in front really watching.
And obviously with a bit of skill,
a bit more effort you can do this
right in front of somebody
without them knowing.
For example have past
the bottom playing card.
Turn the bottom playing card face up
right in front of everybody
while you're talking.
Protrude it slightly by a centimetre
underneath the bottom of the deck.
Bevel the whole deck forward like this.
And then simply cut half
the deck to the top.
Now I'm in position and I
have the Nine of Clubs face.
I shouldn't need to explain this

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but I'm just showing you this.
You don't have to worry or
overthink about these things.
So if we've begin with the Nine of Clubs
in the middle of the deck, face up
protruding like a little
sausage one centimetre out
just so that I can see the
Nine and it's covered up here.
Now I can handle the deck fairly freely.
And when I hold on to the
sides of the Nine like this
just so that I can hide
them from each side.
And this is what we want
people looking down on.
On the top if they look from
the front it's little bit,
little bit of a discrepancy
but if we can keep this as
clean as we possibly can
or as hidden as we possibly can
then we can start like this.
Now I'm gonna take the top
laying card and handle it freely.
This is just one playing card now
and then I'm gonna come down
I'm gonna hold the deck down here
I'm gonna show everybody the card
and then I'm gonna come upwards like so
and the outer index,
the closer, inner index

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English: 
is gonna come up and contact the back
of the Nine of Clubs.
And as soon as I'm confident
that it's touched the
back of the Nine of Clubs.
I'll show you as close as possible.
As soon as I'm confident
that it's touched the back
of the Nine of Clubs here
then I'm gonna push it all
the way. (Charlie caws)
Cheers charlie good timing.
All the way in, like so,
so that the Nine of Clubs
exposure is just on top of it.
Now I can do this.
So take the top card, show
it freely, show it fairly.
It goes in like so,
and it looks like I'm just
putting it in the deck,
when really I'm putting it
behind the Nine of Clubs.
Now I'm in position to
execute the Wheel Change
right from putting a single
playing card in the deck
so we go from here, underneath the Nine.
Put it in and then straight
in to the Wheel Change.
Once you've achieved the Wheel Change
and you're in this position
one final suggestion
if you now turn the deck
this way to the audience,
to your participant move the card around

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this way so you have like this,
you can now from this position
achieve a Swing Change.
That was the Wheel Change by me.
Hah!
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If you wanna learn more sleight
of hand with playing cards
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I'm Daniel Madison.
This was the Wheel Change.
I'll be back soon with more
playing card tutorials.
More deceptions.
See you next time.
(playful music)
What the swear word is going on?
(screaming and beep)

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