- Yo, yo, yo, guys, what's going on?
Alex Pandrea here, back
with another video.
In today's video,
we are gonna go over a very
cool, unique card switch
that I came up with long time ago.
What I like about this is that usually,
when you do a card switch
where one card switches with the other,
with the spectator's card,
you have to use a double
or some way around that.
This is a way to not use a double,
'cause sometimes I know
we don't have duplicates laying around.
Or do we?
I know all my decks come with
duplicates, most of them.
But anyway, it is a cool, easy way
to do a card switch effect
that I think you're gonna like.
Now, before we get into the tutorial,
the packs, the Hard NOCs,
sold out in less than a day.
Now, we didn't make a lot of them,
so I wanna know your thoughts.
If you missed the chance
to get or if you want more,
comment down below if we
should make more of these.
I definitely will look into it,
because I read every comment
and every piece of feedback.
Now, with that being said,
it is the time everybody
has been waiting for.
We reached 10,000 followers
on @nocplayingcards on Instagram,
and I promised everybody once
we reached 10,000 followers
I will reveal what the MYNOC
project is, #MYNOC project.
So, what is it?
Well, I will give you a
little bit of info now.
I'll reveal what the main project is,
but the way that we're gonna do it
is still something that I'm
gonna need your help with
because it does involve everybody.
What the MYNOC project is
is basically a collaboration
between me and you guys, the community,
to create a deck of cards.
Now, what I mean by that is,
everybody who has purchased
in the last few months
from houseofplaying cards.com
has gotten a little sticker.
It's a MYNOC sticker,
and you're probably
wondering what to do with it.
Some of you have already figured it out.
Basically, what we're gonna
do is take that sticker off,
and you're gonna slap it
on any sort of surface,
and you're gonna create your own NOC deck.
Now, that's not the NOC
deck that will be produced.
The NOC deck that will be
produced as a community effort
is something that we're gonna talk about
in the next few weeks
of how we're gonna do that,
how we're gonna structure it
so that you guys make the decisions,
and then I go ahead, I
take all those decisions,
I put it all into one deck,
and we vote.
Basically, we're gonna vote
on each of the different
decisions that need to be made
to make this deck a reality.
Then we're gonna take
the deck and print it.
Now, the deck is gonna be printed,
and it's gonna be released
at the end of this year,
so we have many, many weeks and months
to decide different things.
But that in its whole is
what the MYNOC project is.
It's a community effort to
build a community NOC deck.
But if you have the stickers,
go ahead, grab those stickers,
slap 'em on anywhere.
#MYNOC, post 'em, and I'll
definitely check them out,
and we'll be reposting on
@nocplayingcards Instagram page.
Also, here on the channel,
we're almost at 100,000 subscribers.
That is super cool.
Once we reach 100,000,
I have a big event
planned, a big giveaway,
a big everything.
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Hit the notification bell,
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Without further ado,
let's get into the effect.
All right, the spectator's gonna choose
two cards for this effect.
The way they're gonna do this
is you spread the cards like this,
and they touch anywhere they want.
You split the deck at that location.
The first card will be the ace of spades
that we're gonna use, ace of spades,
and we're also gonna use
the five of diamonds in the left hand.
Now, the five of diamonds
in the left hand,
ace of spades here.
Five of diamonds actually on the table,
and the ace of spades will
try to switch places with it.
I just come close, but I don't touch.
I get the five of diamonds
to now jump into the hand,
just like that,
and of course, on the
table, is the ace of spades.
It's a miracle, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
All right, for this effect,
all you're going to
need is a deck of cards.
You don't need any duplicates.
That's what I like about it the most.
A lot of times,
when you have one card switch for another,
you're gonna need a duplicate,
'cause you wanna show that card again
before the switch happens.
This is just a variation
of a two-card switch,
but I tried to give myself
the task of doing this
without having a duplicate.
That's a nice creative
task for you as well.
Now, there's only one real move
that you have to learn,
which makes this effect very easy,
and that is just going
to be with the thumb,
you're gonna pop off a card
off the pack like this.
You're gonna have a break like this,
and you're gonna use your left thumb
to just pop it off the deck,
and it's gonna be in this position.
That's all you're going to do.
You're gonna do this with
half the deck, actually.
It's easier with half the deck.
Once you get this very difficult
move down, we can begin.
The basic idea of this
is that two cards are gonna switch.
It's gonna be the one after you spread
and hold the spread like this,
The one right here, and
this one right here.
For the first thing that we're gonna do
is have the spectator place
their finger somewhere,
and you split it like this.
This is the positioning.
Right hand, the spread, that's important.
You're holding it like
this with the thumb.
I use my pinky here to
keep everything aligned,
'cause sometimes, if they're not aligned,
you're not gonna be able
to do this move well.
I'm gonna spread like this
and just make sure that they're aligned,
and we're gonna use this
card as the first one.
You show the right-hand card first,
and then you turn over the left-hand card
using the right-hand packet.
That's the move right there.
You say, "Look, we have
two cards we're gonna use.
"The six of clubs, can
you remember this card?"
You show one spectator,
and the other spectator,
"Please remember this card."
You turn it over just like that.
Now, when you ask 'em again,
here's a little bit of
misdirection needed,
because this is probably
the hardest move of the whole effect.
You're going to switch the four of hearts
for the six of clubs, all right?
Now, this is used as a control, usually,
but this time, we're just
gonna use it as a switch.
You're gonna make sure that
this card is just a little bit,
you don't want it like this,
but just a little bit
separated from the rest, okay?
You don't want it too squeezed
in together like that,
because you'll have a harder time,
and you don't want it too much like that.
Just a little more than
the rest, I would say.
Now, as you turn this over,
you're going to use the thumb
to grab that card like this.
You do this on an off beat.
You show the four of hearts and you say,
"Can you remember that?"
And then you look at him, and you go,
"Are you sure?"
Ha-ha, joke.
You can use corny jokes to your advantage
as much as you want.
Don't do that, I'm kidding.
As you turn over the four,
your right hand goes over it like this,
your left thumb comes up,
and you grab this one and you
separate back as you relax.
Remember the move that we talked about,
separate with the thumb
like this by kicking it out
so they see that this is
separated from the rest.
You're gonna say,
"Now, you're gonna leave
that card on the table."
Let's say it's the four of hearts.
"So, four of hearts, you'll
remember that, right?
"Actually, the four of hearts
I'm gonna leave on the table,"
or you could put this in the
spectator's hand at this point.
Don't forget, squeeze it tightly
or put your hand on top of theirs,
"You got it."
Now what we're gonna do
is that move that we
learned in the beginning.
By getting a break as you point,
you get a break, you point,
you say something about that card,
and then you're gonna come
here and you're gonna stroke
this part of the pack like this,
like feathers, look at that.
Just stroke it like that.
You're gonna stroke this.
As you do this, your
left thumb kicks this out
and you're gonna place
it on the bottom of here.
You're gonna place it on the bottom.
As your fingers grab that card,
at the same time,
your left thumb is gonna keep stroking.
Now, of course, you
don't wanna go overboard.
That would be overboard.
You just wanna do it a
few times, all right,
and then kick up, kick up,
so that literally, this happens,
and then, since your thumb's
already here in this position,
it places it, boom, right there.
You want a little bit of a this angle.
Boom, right there.
You keep stroking.
You say, "Look, I'm gonna try to switch
"this card for that."
I forgot what the cards were.
Let's go back for a second.
You're gonna say, "Six of
clubs and the four of hearts."
"Now, the four of hearts,
"I'm gonna leave actually on the table.
"Put your hand on top of
that, if you don't mind.
"Now, I'm gonna use the six of clubs
"here in the right hand
"to come close, but I don't touch."
Boom, you do this, and now you show.
So, from here to here, kick up,
and remember, the angle is also important,
so even if you could just maybe
turn just a little bit
as you talk to them,
and you do that, that would work.
You don't wanna push, all right?
This is the last thing that you wanna do
is just push and do that,
'cause that is obviously not as good.
Let's just call it that.
You wanna get this,
and maybe even pop it off
to begin with to start
if you feel that you don't wanna do it
all in one motion.
Pop it off just a little bit as you talk,
and now all you gotta do is
just turn your wrist like that.
And then, boom, you're here.
From here, you're gonna say,
"Look, I'm gonna use
this card to come close,
"but I don't touch."
Now you're doing the same display
as you did in the beginning, okay?
Or what you can do is
squeeze the deck like this,
boom, do that,
or another thing that you can do
is after you do this,
you can out-jog this and
just boom, and switch it.
That's really up to you at this point.
Now, once the first switch happens
and you got nothing left
to do but snap your fingers
and have the second one done.
Of course, I am not an
advocate of snapping fingers.
I like to take our time
when doing magical moments,
switching, and things like that,
so it feels real.
If I were to perform this to a spectator,
regard the performance that you saw
that I just did for you guys
so you saw what the effect is like,
it'd be something like this.
"We're gonna use two cards here,
"the jack of hearts.
"Now, it's important that
you remember these two cards.
"Who's gonna remember the jack of hearts?
"All right, you're gonna remember it.
"Very good.
"We'll also use the eight
of hearts, all right?
"So, two different cards.
"Who's gonna remember this?
"You, sir?
"Are you sure you can, or,
"all right, no, I believe in you.
"Eight of hearts, look,
I'll leave it on the table.
"Now, do me a favor.
"Place your finger on the eight of hearts.
"In fact, you know what?
"Place your whole hand
on the eight of hearts.
"Perfect, all right.
"Now, this card here," I
forgot what the card was.
All right, jack of hearts.
"So, jack of hearts," I keep forgetting.
"Jack of hearts is gonna come close.
"In fact, watch.
"I just take it, and I just,"
and remember, their hand is here,
"I just take it and I do this,"
and now you just wait, and you wait.
And you keep waiting.
Eight of hearts will jump through the hand
into my hand, like that.
And now, you don't reveal this just yet.
You have their hand on
top of it like that,
but then you say, "Look, just wait."
And you put pressure on it,
and you just milk this moment,
because the magic is done.
There's nothing better than
when the magic is already done
and you milk the moment.
And then you put your hand on here.
Don't do anything that's very,
just, that wouldn't be believable,
like snap your fingers,
and that's when the magic moment happens.
Really take your time,
come in here, press down,
maybe put the deck on top.
Do something so it feels like
something is happening here,
and that's all there is to it.
Now you turn it around, the card,
and it is the switched
card, the jack of hearts.
It's a nice, quick visual,
and I know a lot of people,
they like to do the put it in your hands,
and then the card switches,
but that uses duplicates.
Here is just a nice, easy
way without the duplicate.
Hope you enjoyed it, hope
you learned something,
and thank you for watching.
All right, guys, there you have it.
That was the video.
That was the tutorial.
Hope you guys enjoyed it
and learned something.
Be creative with it.
Like I said, this is just an example,
an outlet to come up
with ways to do things
that you don't have.
In this case, we don't have a duplicate,
so we came up with this effect.
Maybe do stuff that, maybe,
if you need a gimmick for,
can you do things without gimmicks?
Try and experiment with different things.
I think you'll have a good time.
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