- Yo, what's up?
Welcome back to the channel, guys.
Today I got a special
tutorial for you guys.
And I was sitting at
home and I was thinking,
you know, I want to teach something.
I want to teach something cool
that people can do on the fly,
and this is a really cool mentalism effect
that you guys can do any time, any where.
As long as you have a quarter
on you, you're good to go,
and I thought instead of
just telling you about it,
and sort of teaching you about it,
I thought it'd be really cool if you guys
could actually see this
effect performed practically
cause I enjoy watching tutorials
that have a performance.
So, I'm gonna let you guys
in on an uncut performance
of this effect, and then we'll go
into teaching and learning it.
So, stick around.
Let's go!
Reach in, grab a random quarter.
Okay, don't look, just grab a random one.
Make sure I don't see it.
Put it in my hand.
(mumbles)
- No, no, just put it in my hand.
Alright, so I'm not gonna look at it.
I'm just gonna feel it.
- Okay.
- The camera saw I didn't look at, right?
2008.
Did I get it, 2008?
- Yeah.
- You don't believe it?
He doesn't believe I can do it again.
So go in the drawer.
Random quarter, don't even look.
Just grab it so you don't...
Just a quarter, 25 cents.
Just one, just one.
Have a look.
2012.
Uh, 2012.
2012.
- (bleep) you.
You got it, again.
- [Chris] Whoo!
- How about that.
- [Chris] I want you to
say stop whenever you like.
- Don't run away.
- I won't, I won't.
Stay stop, say stop whenever you like.
- Alright!
- Right there?
- Yeah.
- Look at the card that's here.
I don't want to see it.
You got it?
- Yeah.
You got it?
Watch, look, I'm gonna rip the
corner off this card, okay?
- Kay.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- And put it right here.
Can you hold that?
Hold it without touching the card.
Come here, come here, come here.
Take the corner off.
Take it in your hand and hold it.
Hold it.
Take it.
Give up?
(sighs)
- Fuff.
Why do you have to be this?
- Look.
(bleep)
What the (bleep) is going on here then?
I thought you remember
going through my head, man.
- [Chris] Take it off.
- No, I can't man!
(bleeps)
I can't man!
Why you...
How you do that, man?
Has the card; he cutted that,
and then he put it down here man.
What the (bleep) is...
It's stuck.
I can't do nothing.
Is right there, and now it's
what-the-(bleep) there, man.
- So I hope you enjoyed
that little performance.
Oh, by the way, that extra performance
was a version of Angle
Z by Daniel Madison.
Actually, his handling
on this special gaff card
that you get with the King's deck...
Just this guy wanted to see more magic,
so I just did something else I had on me.
I happened to have this deck
on me with this gaff cards.
This card comes with this deck.
I'll leave the link below if
you're interested in that,
but it's a cool little effect
that you can do on the fly,
and kind of just leave them
with an impossible souvenir
or take it back and perform
it again and again and again.
But now let's get into the
quarter reading date tutorial.
So, before I start,
there are different ways
of performing this effect.
I literally just like went
out quick and did it quick
to show you guys that it can be done,
that there's no heat on
your hands or anything,
but in terms of performance,
in terms of how you want to perform it,
that all depends on your character.
So maybe if you're someone
who's a little bit more
into mentalism, you might
want to grab the quarter
as a object that you can feel its history.
So maybe you're gonna
hold it up to your head
and think, "I'm gonna try and think back
"on when this quarter was created,
"all the hands that it's been in.
"If you can imagine, there's
probably thousands of people
"who've held this quarter.
"In fact, there 12,872 people.
"This quarter is 2011."
You know, something like that.
If you straight-up want to read minds,
what you can do is, after
you've done the move,
you hold up like this.
You ask them to look at the date.
You're not gonna look at it,
and you ask them to just
think about the date,
and then you're gonna tell
them, "Think about this date.
"Think about something
that happened to you
"during this date, during
this date, like this year,
"something big that happened
to either you or something
"that I can get a sense of it.
"Okay, I got it.
"It's 2006."
You can do it like that.
Presentation ideas like...
I personally, I use the tactile idea
because it's kind of
like halfway believable.
So they're like, "Really, did you?
"No, get outta here."
And they kind of like really
believe that you can feel it.
I'm sure, I'm sure you probably
could if you're like...
If you can read braille,
you could probably pick that up, I'm sure.
With the same exact method,
you can create different types
of effects for the spectator,
and that goes without saying
for every magic trick,
whether it's a doublelift
or whether it's a peek
or whether it's anything at all.
It all depends on the context
of how you're performing,
and that is completely
up to you and your style.
So, for me, it fits
more the tactile thing,
kind of like a bar bet, but like I said,
you can go ahead and do
the mind reading thing
or have them look at it
and tell you the date.
Now, before I get into
explaining the move,
I just wanna also say what's
really cool about this
is that you can do it twice in
a row, which is really cool.
As they hand you a random quarter,
you switch it out for your quarter, boom.
As that happens, they're shocked.
On the offbeat, you can
peek the date and say,
"Do it again, grab another random quarter.
"Hand it to me," bam.
And now you're one ahead,
so this is an effect you can do twice
like I just did on the video.
He couldn't believe it.
He's like, "Nah, that's not true."
Do it again.
So, this is really, really easy.
This is something you're
gonna be able to do.
Go straight out, and you're
gonna get some cool reactions,
and to go along with that
sort of which hand effect,
it's just a quarter.
That's all you need is a quarter.
So you can start with this.
You can start with the which hand,
coin to watch like I taught.
All these different things...
Lots of things you can do
with a borrowed quarter.
I enjoy magic with a
borrowed quarter more so
than with silver half dollars and stuff,
just because it's more organic.
You've got a whole repertoire
with borrowed change.
Basically, what you're gonna do
is you're already gonna have a quarter
and you're gonna memorize the date.
This on is 2008, so I
want to keep that one.
Now there are different
ways of doing this.
You can do a Bobo switch,
which is taught in Bobo's Coin Magic.
I'll also leave the link below to that.
What that looks like...
Let me grab another quarter here.
So what that's gonna look like
is you're gonna have your
quarter in finger palm, right?
So right here between these phalanges.
You're gonna have that right there.
You're gonna take their quarter,
and as you're here, you're
gonna toss your quarter,
not their quarter, to the other hand.
And the way that works is easy.
So you have it in finger palm.
You have it here.
Let me turn this down a bit so you guys
can see what I'm doing.
I'm literally going to just
slide this down with my thumb,
and I'm going to shoot that over there
as I'm holding this here,
and then this one goes into finger palm,
so now I'm like relaxed.
I can do whatever.
This one's in finger palm,
and this one over here is
the switched out quarter.
Now how to get away with
that during performance
is super easy.
You're, "Hand me the quarter"
like I did in the video.
"Got it, right, I'm not gonna look at it."
My head's turned at this point.
"I'm gonna try to read,"
boom, and the quarter fell.
Don't drop the quarter.
I'm here.
"I'm gonna try to read
what's on it using my hands
"or try to feel the history of it.
(breathes in sharply)
"1999!
So however you perform it is up to you,
but that is the Bobo switch essentially,
which is super easy, but
what I did in the video
is even easier than that.
I had a quarter that I
memorized the date of
in my left hand in finger palm.
I took his quarter and basically
false transferred it here.
Right, so I'm here.
That's all you need to do.
You're here.
Hold it so it doesn't fall in finger palm,
and as I go here, the
vision retention is such
that it looks like the exact same quarter,
but I'm not gonna look at.
So my hand's like this.
I'm like, "Hand me a quarter, perfect.
"Now, I'm not going to...
"I'm just gonna feel the quarter."
As I'm feeling it out, boom,
"I can tell you the date."
So, super, super simple.
All you need to have
is a borrowed quarter.
Now, if you want to do
this effect over again,
bam, once you're here,
boom, boom, you read it.
You give it back to them.
As you give it back and they're reacting,
go ahead and peek this date here.
This date here happens to be 2015.
I've got this one here.
As they hand you another quarter,
I'm just gonna casually
drop it into that hand.
So they hand me another quarter,
and I'm gonna do that same thing.
Try to read it here.
And meanwhile, this hand if you like,
if you want to ditch it,
just go straight to your
pocket and drop it in.
It's not even a big deal.
Don't shove your hand in your pocket,
just literally just let
it drop in your pocket
and you're done and you're left clean.
So because this isn't a
super complicated move
or tutorial or anything, I'm
not gonna go into big detail.
You guys get it, right?
It's a Bobo switch or a false transfer,
but don't let that fool you.
Don't let...
I should choose my words better than that.
Don't let that stop you from thinking
that this effect is strong.
The reason I went out and
I just kind of performed
it right away is you can see that people
are genuinely fooled by how I did it,
and it's super easy, so
don't let the fact that
"Oh, they're gonna look at you're hands.
"Oh, they're gonna ask...
"What if they ask me
to show my other hand.
"What if..."
Just move on, like it doesn't matter.
If you're in performance,
and people believe that you
can do these tricks and stuff,
they'll stop guessing methods,
and you'll just get away
with things on the offbeat.
So it's up to you to just
generate that type of atmosphere
to be able to create
these types of illusions,
which are hyper-easy to do.
So this could be used to get a free drink.
It could be used to get a phone
number, whatever you want.
Have fun with this fun
little mentalism routine.
Like I said, you can either
do the tactile thing.
You can do the history reading,
or you can do the straight-up
mind reading mentalism.
Look at this strong magic that you can get
out of just one quarter,
so hope that helps you out.
Some impromptu piece of
magic there for you guys.
Hope you enjoyed this, today's tutorial.
It was a bit short.
It was a bit easy,
but you guys wanted to
learn some mentalism
and this is one of my go to
on-the-spot mentalism things
like when I have nothing else on me,
and this could also be
done borrowed quarter.
You just borrow one before
you get up to people,
and be like peek at it, alright, done.
Here, "Anybody got a quarter?"
Bam, bam, da, da, da,
da, done, and that's it!
So, guys, thank you so much.
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Peace, rock!
(piano jazz fusion)
