- Yo guys Alex Pandrea here,
I hope you are having
a wonderful day so far.
Welcome back to the channel.
I'm particularly excited
for this video today,
because I'm gonna be talking about,
and teaching you one of
my favorite effects to do.
99% of the time when I'm out
and performing to friends,
to whoever is around me at a table,
I do this effect. Why do I do this effect?
It's simple it's straightforward,
it gets to to the point,
and there's a lot of psychology
around it that I like to,
talk about, so you can take that,
and put it into your own effects.
Now again remember,
simple is key for this.
Now it uses a move that I've taught,
and I've released in other places.
I'll give you some tips on
this move to make it better.
But it does use this move,
so I suggest that you will learn it,
and I'll tell you what
it is in just a second,
and after you learn this move,
you can perform everything
smoothly and wreck some minds.
Now before we get into it,
it is very important to
talk about sort of my style,
and thinking behind card magic,
cause it's gonna be important
to when I explain the effect.
This effect is a no brainer, okay,
and I'm sure there's a lot
of versions of this effect,
out there and it just seems the
straightforward thing to do,
when wanting to use this method,
this particular method,
for finding a card.
Now the one thing I'm not going
to do in this video is have,
somebody pick a card and find it, okay?
I twist it around a little
bit when I perform magic,
and the way I make it seem is that,
they're gonna think of a card,
and they're gonna find a card.
So instead of pick a
card, I'm gonna find it,
we reverse the roles a little bit,
they name a card, and it's
always better when they,
name a freely selected card,
at least in my opinion,
you don't want to please pick
a card, every single time,
and I've said it over and over.
So remember it's important
that they make the decisions,
on this all the time in card magic,
or I think in any type of magic,
if they make the decisions,
and they sort of orchestrate
where the effect goes,
I think it's stronger in their minds.
Okay, this is how the effect
looks to the spectator,
they shuffle up the deck
as much as they want,
and you tell them, you
know about the cards,
there's 52 cards in a deck, yes?
And there's clubs, hearts,
spades, and diamonds.
I'd like you to name any
card that you want now.
And let's just say they
say queen of clubs.
You say, okay queen of clubs
is somewhere inside the deck,
now it's important for
me to know where it is,
but not you, because I'm gonna
influence you in such a way,
that you're actually gonna find the card,
and you won't even know how you did it.
So I'm gonna go through it,
and try to memorize where,
the queen of clubs is in the deck.
Okay I think I got it, that
was a little quick but I,
I'm gonna try to influence
you, and in such a way,
that nothing is gonna happen,
but you're just gonna feel it.
So I'm gonna toss out the cards like this,
and you're gonna stay
stop anytime you want.
So they look, they look
at you into your eyes,
and they say stop, right about there.
One card and one card only,
what card did you say
from the very beginning?
It was the queen of, clubs not the hearts?
Okay good queen of clubs we got it.
Okay let's talk about this effect,
now as you saw it's a very
simple straightforward effect,
there's nothing really much to it,
but in fact there's a lot of
things that I wanna talk about,
that will help hopefully
your card magic in general.
So again, not about the effect itself,
which it is a very good strong effect,
that I perform all the time,
but are more about the
subtleties and things around it.
Number one, it's very important,
when you begin a trick like this,
to justify each action, okay?
Now the first justification
is having them name a card.
Alright? So when they name a card,
I believe this is a very important
tactic and re instilling,
some facts to them, that they
have a lot of choices okay?
If you just say name a card really fast,
the process isn't really
embedded into their minds.
So, how do we do that, I like
to do something as simple as,
you there's 52 cards in a deck, yes?
Again instilling that there
are 52 cards in a deck,
there's clubs, there's hearts,
there's spades, there's diamonds,
there's all these cards
to choose from, okay?
Just saying a few lines
like this in the beginning,
just makes it seem like wow,
there are all these combinations,
reds, and blacks, and spades,
and diamonds, and court cards et cetera.
So now the second point for
this effect is having them name,
a card, and you finding the card,
now the easiest way to find
the card that they named,
is obviously literally to
look for it, find it, okay?
But we have to do that while,
it's still being
justified, in our actions,
so, how are we gonna do that? It's easy.
I literally tell them,
it's important for me to know
where the card is and not you
because you're gonna
be the one finding it,
I'm only gonna influence you okay?
So with that being said,
you can very easily look,
through the deck, find the card,
and secretly control it to
where you need it to be.
So that's something that I
do in a lot of my effects,
where I tell them, it's important,
for me to know where it is,
so I can actually have the
justification of looking,
through the cards, now whether I go,
I'm gonna memorize it's position,
because I'm gonna influence you secretly,
or as you take a look, and you go,
no I didn't really see it here.
Anything like that it
really doesn't matter,
what you say after the fact
depending on the effect,
but the beginning is always the same.
Now it's important for
me to know where it is,
and that justifies you looking
through the cards, right?
If you find it really
quickly, and then let's say I,
called it to the top,
or I do some control,
then I can say look, it doesn't matter,
I don't wanna know either,
right? If you find it quickly.
If you have to look through
the cards a little bit,
and you say look I'm gonna just try,
and memorize the position
of where your card is,
okay I think I got it,
and then as a running joke,
sometimes I would shuffle,
where it's already controlled to the top,
I would shuffle, and then
I'd do like a face like,
oh, now I don't know anymore.
Alright, so it's depending
on how you play it,
you could go in a few
different directions, okay,
so keep that in mind.
Now the last thing about this effect,
is that you're gonna, use the second deal,
now the second deal, we're
gonna go into it just a second,
just a few tips on it,
and how to improve it,
I do have a link below,
on my full tutorial on the second deal,
but the second deal is one of those moves,
that is never done in performance,
because like me I was always
scared of messing it up.
Now it's a very knacky move,
and if you don't feel comfortable,
you're not gonna use it in performance.
The way that I've made this
routine is for me to actually,
practice the second deal,
the first time that I
was doing this routine,
I actually was gonna do a second deal,
and I told them, the spectator,
right before I was gonna do it,
you know it's important for
you to look me in the eyes,
and that was just a way to get
around doing the second deal,
so they don't look down at my hands.
Now that became into
a more powerful thing,
where look me in the eyes,
could be used for
something more than just,
don't look at my hands, it
can be a nice, powerful,
mysterious moment where
they look you in the eyes,
and something happens okay.
You're gonna influence them in all,
comes around full circle,
so keep that in mind as well.
Now as far as the second
deal is concerned,
you'll notice that the first three deals,
that I've done were real deals,
so I deal three cards, which
justifies this is a fair deal,
and then I start my second deal okay?
So that's also important. So
keeping those points in mind,
we're gonna put it all
together into this effect,
and I hope you're gonna enjoy it.
So let's get into it right now.
Okay, so what's going on in this effect,
is as follows, the steps really quickly.
The card is named, you're
going to locate the card,
wherever it is, and you're
gonna control that card,
from the middle to a position of,
third or fourth from the top.
I usually do it fourth from the top, okay.
You can do it in other positions,
but that just means you
have to know how many deals,
or real deals to do off the top,
okay as you saw in the performance.
So, I do it fourth from the top,
you're gonna turn the deck over,
and deal out one, two, three, real cards,
and when you get to the fourth one,
you're gonna start to do a second deal,
now whichever second deal that
you decide to do it really,
doesn't matter, that's up to you,
but you're going to keep
hold of that top card,
which is now the top
card, their selection,
until they say stop.
Now the first thing that we wanna learn,
is how to get the card
from the middle to the,
whatever position you want,
so again we're gonna do it,
fourth from the top, they
name a card I tilt up,
and I say, it's important
for me to know where it is,
not you because I'm gonna
influence you to find it yourself.
So let's say five of
diamonds is right here.
You find the five of diamonds,
and here are the few ways,
that you can do it, to get it to the top.
First way is the most
obvious way to do it,
I find the five of diamonds,
and I push over three more cards,
and I hold the break,
and then I cut the cards.
I don't suggest you do that,
but that is a very easy
way to do it if you want.
The last way to do it, is I think,
what I use most in this
effect, is to cull the card,
and you're going to do a cull
of the card, as you see it,
and then go all the way to the end,
as you spread out the cards,
and the card goes into
the certain position,
wherever you wanted, and
the easy way to do that,
is find the card again, tilt up,
as you see it, I'm gonna rotate
my body to the spectator,
so the spectator sees the card,
but by the time I do that, I cull.
So there's the queen
of spades for example.
As I turn it culls, so it's gone,
and I spread through it really quickly,
and then I come back, so
it's just this action that,
I think covers the action of the pull,
because a lot of times you
see, this, and I hate this.
You see this, and the
card just disappears.
So to cover that, I find
the card that's tilted up,
I start to pull as I pull,
I do this and it's covered all the way,
and then I come back, you could
go all the way to the end,
and shove it in to the
fourth position, okay?
So, once we know that, we can get started.
Alright, so in this demonstration,
the card will be the queen of spades,
it will be the selected card.
It goes fourth from the
top, and you turn this over,
and you go look, I'm gonna deal
out the card just like this,
and you're gonna say stop
anytime you want, okay?
So you deal out the first three cards,
and then you say but look,
it's very important that
you look me in the eye.
Now, this depends on the
spectator and your approach,
and your mood, and your whole persona,
if it's weird for you don't do this,
but, I'm telling you it's nice to do,
because even the spectators
around you will look at,
the connection between you
two, and not look at the hands,
I've seen it, I've tested it, it works.
So once you get here you're
gonna just start to do,
a second deal, and I
like to toss them out,
so I do a strike second
when it comes to that,
keeping the card on top.
But you could also do a
push off, just like this,
and push over the cards,
so that it remains.
Whatever second deal you decide to do,
just keep the rhythm
going, don't go too fast,
do go too slow, and keep that eye contact,
if you are gonna do it that way,
it clears it up all the way.
But just a little tilt, is all you need,
and a few tips for the second deal,
is just make sure if
you're gonna do a strike,
that the card comes out and
it doesn't come out fully,
before you move this
back on this pivot point,
or if you're going to do
a push off second deal,
just make sure that the hands
and both of them come down,
as if you were doing a real deal,
so always mimic it to your real deal.
This and this should look the same,
and this and this should
look the same, okay?
So mimic it to your real deal,
keep those few things in mind,
and again if you want the full tutorial,
I have a whole tutorial
in the description below.
Okay, so you've dealt
a whole bunch of cards,
and they're gonna say stop,
so as they say stop, you push
over that card into the hand,
and at this point it's nice,
to toss over the cards onto the table,
so you just have that
one card in your hand.
At this point they name the card,
and you're gonna turn it over.
Now there's a few things
you could do at this point.
You can just literally just turn it over,
you can make pretend you got it wrong,
so if they say three of spades you go,
Oh, not the queen of hearts?
Oh okay good.
Alright that's a nice little touch.
I like to do convincers,
so right before I turn the one,
that they could of stopped on one before,
oh not it, if you would of went one more,
it would of been this card not it.
What card did you say?
The three of spades?
Okay, yes, and you do it that way.
So I think it's very important
of how you stylized this,
so it's not over too quickly, okay?
That's also important.
So I'll do it face up so you can see,
that's the selected card,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
and a great way to see their lips,
when they say stop, so you
can actually grab the card,
before they do it, so they
start to open their mouth,
and as they open their mouth to say stop,
you actually push that off and you stop.
Leave this to the side, blah, blah, blah.
And turn over the card. Okay?
Okay, guys so there you
have it, this is a very,
straightforward simple effect,
but it has a lot going on, okay?
From the selection process
to justifying everything,
to doing the fake cards on top,
everything is very nicely formed,
so I wanna encourage you to
take this sort of psychology,
and building of the routine,
and put it to your own magic.
This is a very good trick, you
should definitely try it out,
and use that look me in the eye,
especially for girls,
girls just works great,
if you're a guy, and
you wanna do this trick,
you say it to the ladies,
okay but it's very important
you look me in eye. Eyes.
Unless you have one eye.
So it is very nice to get that connection,
where you look each other in the eye,
and you just deal, and they say stop,
and then you look down at your hand,
you grab that one card, you
turn it over, it kills trust me.
Last thing, to really keep in mind,
is to work on that second
deal until it becomes natural,
and you can just toss out the cards,
not even think about it,
and work on that presentation
okay, cause that's key.
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I will see you guys
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and I hope to see some videos
of your performances soon.
So that's about it, I'm
gonna go hit the beach,
and I will see you guys next time.
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