- Hi guys, welcome to this
week's Magic Showcase,
I'm your host Christopher James.
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This week's quick magic trick
is how to produce a playing card.
It's really not that difficult,
it's much easier than vanishing them.
And what you have to do
is be able to palm cards,
number one, okay?
That's not as hard as you think,
people think that all the time.
Not as hard as you think.
You palm the cards and to produce them
you're just simply
pulling it out and around.
You're pulling them out and around.
Now you'll notice that as I do that
I have it pinched between my index finger
and my middle finger.
So watch closely, I pull
the card out a little bit,
I pinch it between my index
finger and the middle finger
and just twist it around.
Bringing the thumb to the back
will allow you to produce
the card more cleanly.
And it also allows you
to push the card out
just a little bit away from your hand.
Did you notice how I did that?
With the thumb, you push
it just slightly away
so it looks like it
actually comes from nowhere.
Now a little subtlety that I like to do
is to spread these other fingers.
I'm still holding cards here,
but by spreading these
fingers you give the illusion
that your hand is completely empty.
So when I bring my hand
up it looks like so
and a production happens relatively quick.
To hide the motion you
can always move your hand
up and down, the big motion
hides the little motion.
And you're up, you're
down and you produce.
Up, down, push it between
the fingers, slide it around.
That's it, that's all you have to do.
Quick easy lesson from Christopher James.
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