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- Yo what's up guys, Chris Ramsey here
and welcome back.
Today, guys, I'm in New York,
I'm sat here in Brooklyn
with my buddy Brian.
Thanks Brian, by the way,
he's hooking up the sweet
visuals on the videos.
Today we're gonna teach you
something really exciting.
I went out and shot a
street magic video today
which will be up later on this week,
I'm so looking forward to
showing this to you guys.
Because I did that, in honor of that,
I wanted to teach you some card forces
that you can use out on the street.
These are three card forces
that I use all the time
that are really fool proof.
They're not forces that
you're gonna mess up
if you practice them,
so they will hit every time
and they're very deceiving.
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Alright guys, let's get into the moves.
First we're going to need a force card.
I will use this one, it is a force card.
I'm going to teach you first
and foremost the dribble force.
The dribble force is probably
one of the more difficult of these three,
it takes a little bit more slight of hand
and I'm gonna teach you
roughly how to dribble cards
and you'll be able to do this.
So what you want to do first of all
is you want to have your
force card on the bottom,
or on the top, it's up to you,
because you can either force this card
or you can force this card.
Let's say you want to force,
let's say we leave it on top.
So your force card's on top,
I think it's a lot simpler.
What you're gonna want to do
is you're gonna want to
swing cut into this hand
and you're going to want to overthrow it.
This is something that I do
and a lot of people, like
they dribble back here
to get a break and then
they hold their break here.
Something that I like to
do, which is really casual,
is here and then throw it here.
My thumb then pushes down
and I've got these cards
here which create a break.
It's a very very simple thing,
and again, my card's on top, swing cut,
cut again, I get that little
side step which is cool.
I rectify it with my thumb,
and the break could even
be that small, right here.
Once you have that break,
so this is before you see the spectator,
you then ask the spectator to
say stop whenever they want.
Your thumb's going to come in,
and you're going to push on that card,
and you're going to hold
the break with your thumb,
okay just like that.
Your hand's here, you're
going to have your fingers
on top of the deck,
your index is going to
apply pressure down here,
while the rest of the fingers
sort of pull up on the deck like that.
Now you're going to release
them from your thumb, okay,
so your thumb is going to
release them like that,
but in the air, so it's
gonna look like this.
Now this is gonna take some practice, but.
And then when they say stop,
they look at this card,
which is the force card.
Let's say you had it on the bottom,
you could also do that.
Cut it, now you're here,
now the force card is here.
So if you dribble, they look at that card.
Now the question is, how do you know
that they're going to say stop?
Well you tell them, say
stop whenever you want
and no matter where the say stop,
so the card's here,
I'm gonna ask Brian to say
stop whenever he wants.
Brian go ahead.
- [Brian] Stop.
- Right there?
You happy with that?
- [Brian] Yep.
- Boom.
Let's do it one more time from the bottom.
So we got it on the bottom,
we're gonna cut in the middle,
we're gonna keep a break.
Brian go ahead and say
stop whenever you like.
- [Brian] Stop.
- Right there?
So you have about a second,
like a half second, of play.
So what I like to do is
slowly start dribbling
and then whenever they
say stop, go really fast.
So one more time Brian,
say stop whenever you want.
- [Brian] Stop.
- Right there?
I release everything
as soon as he says stop
and I force the card.
That is the dribble force.
Very very practical for a
lot of different reasons
and it looks really fair when
you can successfully do it.
It will take some practice,
so just go ahead and
practice dribbling the cards,
you can use your finger here.
Some people like to dribble
from the corners, like this.
I prefer this, just the
cards seem to be sturdier
and fall a lot straighter.
Let's move on to the riffle force.
For the riffle force, again,
card goes on top of the deck.
You're going to cut it and again,
you can keep a break, right,
so we got that card here, we push it down,
and we have this break.
Now we're ready to go.
I don't like doing this.
A lot of people, when
they do the riffle force,
they go, say stop.
And it's just kind of like
a weird thing you do before.
I mean, you can do that,
but I just kind of like,
alright I'm gonna try
something with you here.
Do you mind saying stop whenever you like?
So now I've incognito
got my force card ready
with that same sort of throw over,
with that side jog card,
my thumb comes to the
corner, pushes it down,
and now I've got that break.
So now I can push the
thumb in, lift it up,
and stick my pinkie in there, okay.
An important note is that
if my pinkie's there,
I don't want too much of a gap here,
because if I'm like this,
it looks very suspicious.
So you want to push down with these
and lock it in with your fingers
so that there is no gap, it looks like,
to anybody's eye, it
looks completely normal.
Now for this guy back here,
he's gonna see everything,
so you might want to keep it here.
Alright?
You're gonna ask them to say stop,
same thing again, except this time,
they legitimately can say
stop anywhere they want.
Alright, so, you can go ahead
and say stop whenever you like
- [Brian] Stop.
- Right there.
Now you see that my break is here,
that's where I want to break,
but he said stop there.
So what I like to do is a little subtlety,
I bring my finger and I bring it in here
to kind of open it up
as I'm gonna grab it,
but then when I grab it, I grab
at the break with my thumb,
so here,
I grab at the break,
and then I pull up,
and now this is the force card.
So again, they say stop
whenever they want.
- [Brian] Stop.
- Right there.
They look at this card.
So this little subtlety
gives the illusion that that's
where you're grabbing it
and as soon as you tilt forward,
they can't see where the break was, okay.
Even if you say stop here.
You can't really see what happens.
Or if they say stop lower,
right here.
So it's really deceiving
if you can get that action smoothly,
they say stop whenever,
you say right here,
you go like this, your index comes over,
your thumb is back here at the break,
you ignore this finger,
it just closes as you
tilt forward at the break,
and now you've successfully
forced the force card.
Next force.
What's funny is that Brian just told me
that normally he shoots my magic,
but he shoots the performances.
He just said it's kind of funny
because now he has to angle it
to where he can see the flash
so the complete opposite of
anything else we've been filming
which is kind of funny.
Alright last one,
this is a doozy.
This is a real fooler.
This one goes on top, alright.
Now what you're gonna do,
you can either set up before,
and the set up is very easy,
you take this card,
so you just like peel if off,
and then you spread cards over it
so they can't see it.
It's under here, kind of
like you culled it down here,
and they can't see it and you say,
just point to a card.
Now they point to a card,
let's say they point to this one here,
so you're gonna pick
that up with this hand,
and you're gonna say this one?
And they say yes.
Now what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna square up everything
and show them that card.
If you're getting ready, you
can just be here and say,
oh go ahead and pick a
card, just point to one,
and they say this one,
oh this one right here?
Boom, square up, and they look at that.
Very simple.
But sometimes you don't
have time to get ready.
So what's the excuse?
All you need to do is say,
alright in a second I'm gonna
spread through a few cards
and I want you just to
go ahead and touch one,
and they're gonna touch one.
This one here, perfect.
Have a look at that.
So that gives me a nice justification for,
to be able to sort of like casually,
alright in a second we're
going to do something,
I just want you to go
ahead and touch a card.
This one here, perfect.
Have a look at that,
and we'll put that away.
Now I've successfully forced that card.
So all you're doing is one
at a time peeling them off,
you're keeping the force
card at the bottom,
and then when you're ready
you start spreading lightly
over the hand,
and you keep that gap there,
there's a little gap here,
because if it's here you
might get cards or whatever.
You wanna just keep the
pressure so the gap's there,
a little bit, not a big gap,
because they'll see those cards, right.
So again you want to
keep that gap very small.
If I go here like this
and say okay, go ahead,
and now there's like barely any gap,
it's very small, because if I'm here,
that's very obvious.
Or if I'm here with the cards out,
that's very obvious too.
You really want to make sure that you're
concealing the force card,
wherever the force card is.
You really want to make sure
you're concealing that card well
so that no matter where they pick,
they feel it's very fair, anyone at all,
this one here?
I just show it like that.
Square up, show the card,
and that is the force card.
And guys, we're losing
light, so that's it for me.
Alright guys so that was it.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this and
I hope you learned something.
I've never taught forces on my channel.
I've taught cuts,
flourishes, color changes.
I've taught you how to
sort of read people's mind.
This is the very first
time I'm ever teaching you
how to force cards on people
and don't take this lightly.
This is a very, these
techniques, I should say,
are very strong.
I've been using them for a long time
and all sorts of magicians use them.
It's a fool proof way of forcing a card.
Now what you do with that card force
is completely up to you.
You can read their mind,
you can reveal it on a piece
of paper that's in their pocket
you can have a plane spell out
the seven of hearts in the sky,
and that's up to you
and I'll let you guys
get creative with that.
So all I'm giving you today
are the tools that you're
gonna use to create
an amazing magic effect.
And that's all I got.
Right now I'm pretty tired,
I'm headed back home,
and hope you guys enjoy this.
By the time you see this, I will be back,
and I will be editing
the street magic videos.
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Let me know which one
of these three forces
is your favorite
and which one you would use
or you're already using,
and if not, which force do you use.
I'd love to know, let's
start a conversation.
Guys, that's it for me.
Peace.
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