- Yo yo guys welcome back
to my channel, my name is
Alex Pandrea and today we were
talking about the fingertip pass
What is the fingertip pass you may ask?
I dunno, I just made up the name.
But it is a pass that I
sometimes use in performance.
It is a open pass, an open-style pass
that you do out in the open
Now here's the thing with this pass,
yeah I've done it and
I've gotten away with it
nobody ever questions
it, so it does fly by.
But in my theory a mediocre
pass flies by anyway,
so this is just something
to add to your repertoire.
If you feel like using it
in the right circumstances,
I think it could be pretty cool.
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many different versions of classic tricks
and effects and sleights,
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So let's talk about this
fingertip pass as I call it.
And basically what I wanted to do,
is use the actions of the Herman pass
which is basically the bottom packet
moving from the bottom to the top
in that manner but in an exposed view.
And this really came from
just practicing this motion
just like that in an open way,
before getting my hands
in the right position
to do the pass, I would
just practice like that
just to get the action down.
And doing this more and more I felt that
maybe it could be used
as a pass on its own.
So I played around with it
and this is sort of what I came up with.
So the idea of that finger tip pass
is using sort of the finger
tips to shift the two packets
but we're also going to add
some body misdirection if you will
and some movements from
left to right and vice versa
depending on where the spectators are
to sort of get away with it.
And like I said this is definitely
not a pass that somebody can
burn and watch your hands
but in any case a lot of
the passes shouldn't be done
while somebody's burning
their hands anyway.
So we have enough power
in our misdirection
and pattern presentation that
we can get away with this.
So the action is as
follows in slow motion.
Now your probably staring
at the screen saying
there's no way that is going to work.
But we're going to find the way around it
using our body and what
we say as misdirection.
Now I'll break down the
pass in multiple steps,
so here it is in slow motion
of what we're going to accomplish.
Basically switching the
two packets in our hands
under the guise of sort of tapping
and placing the cards back
on top of the selected card.
Okay so that's the action
of it, here's your card
okay it gets placed back
somewhere in the middle
and using that tapping action
as sort of misdirection
and also your body movement.
So step number one is to
have the card selected
just as you would a normal
control or a normal card trick.
So they have the card selected
and here's your positioning
with your hands.
Your left hand is in a
dealer's grip position
with the bottom packet of the deck
and your right hand has the top half
of the deck spread just like that.
Now you're gonna want to get from here
to this position right, squaring
up the cards in your hand.
So the way that we're
gonna do it in this control
is tapping with the right hand packet
on the left hand cards okay.
And by doing this not only are you
gonna set up for later in the control
but you're also gonna square
up the cards, all right.
So that is step number
whatever the step is.
Now you're in this position,
you have the two packets
with the selected card still over here
and you're tapping all right.
This is going to be the
basis of this control
because after you do the switch
you're gonna continue to tap.
And now you're going to,
here's the position of
the right hands packet,
you're holding it with the
thumb on top all right.
So it's not really in a dealer's position
is more held higher like that because
remember when you square up like this
your pinky usually is back here.
So you want that pinky back there or
this finger or some finger over there
just to help at the
end to grab that packet
without the cards falling okay.
So just keep that in mind, one finger
should definitely be back over here.
So now what's gonna happen is that
when you come together
to switch the packets,
your left hand's first
finger is going to kick up
this bottom packet from
a horizontal position
to a vertical position just as you would
if you are doing a Herrmann pass right.
In a Herrmann pass this packet
gets placed just like that right.
You're gonna do the same thing here,
as you come down your first
finger comes underneath
kicks this packet up just like that
and it's almost also like
you're doing a spread pass.
So if you know a spread pass you're here
and you're kicking up that
packet just like that.
Well we're gonna do it
sort of out in the open
while you're down here these
are cards are not spread
and you're kicking this packet up
it's going into the right hand
and it's being pushed
with the first finger
and pushed with the first finger,
this packet is now being
held with the left thumb
as you push all the way the bottom packet
is now gonna be the top
packet in the right hand.
Grab that packet just like that,
this gets placed back
into the same position
that this was in just a second ago
and then you tap again all right.
So done in slow motion, high
tap, card gets placed back
do the tap and as you come
back to do a final tap
or rather of continuation
of the tapping motion,
you're going to kick up, grab
this gets placed down and tap all right.
And add speed here and there all right.
Now like I said I know
what you're thinking
this will never fly.
And I've done it quite a
few times and it did work
and that's only because people were not
staring directly at the hands
because they might be
like, that was weird.
So we're gonna do it sort of in a motion
of bunch of spectators here
and we're gonna use our
body to cover it all right.
So the way that I would usually do it
is have somebody on my left
side, pick the card right,
and go ahead and take a card grab it
as you grab it back you tap here.
And now I can point with the hands right.
So there it is I can
show people once again
and lean towards the left side all right.
I can point and say can you
remember the card, yes good.
As I do that they're answering,
my head is up and I ask a question,
can you remember the card?
I tap.
Can you remember the card they say yes.
Hopefully they say yes if they say no
then you have a whole other issues.
So here can you remember
the card, perfect.
Did you guys see it as well, all right.
So we're gonna use a left-to-right motion
to cover the action and
that's gonna be the time
you do the shift here it is, boom.
Can you remember the card?
Perfect did you guys
see it as well, awesome.
Cards go on top I don't know where it is.
And this is a sort of action that is
meant to be done in a
playful sort of manner.
it's not a very structured kind of pass
or not something that you have to be
very concentrated on, it's something open.
It's something just
here, here and here okay.
See for me it's very
important to be sort of
loose with the hands, talk to the audience
in a sort of natural manner.
So when I do things like this, it goes off
better than when on
here and then I have to
do something and come here
and be very structured with it, okay.
So you're loose, you're comfortable,
you're talking you having a good time.
Boom you saw the card, did
you see it as well, good.
Look we'll leave it
somewhere in the center
and you do it that way.
So guys this is just
something to play around with
it's something to experiment
with, see if you like it.
If you enjoy doing these kinda things.
And I think the more you
try out different things
the more you can push those
boundaries of what is possible
and what you can get away
with and what you can't.
So the more you know, the more you know.
Now there are two ways to go about it
either you can come here
and really quickly try to
get away with it, right
as you do the the body motion
or you can take your time with it
and wait until the spectator looks up
and then that's when you do the motion.
So you're here you wait you talk
and as you get that one glimpse up,
because if you wait long enough
and if you ask a question
they're gonna look up, right.
And as they do this, you come here
you tap and now you're almost back
in the same exact position.
This is obviously the
other way around all right.
But you're sort of back
in the same position
so when they look back down at it,
it almost look the same,
you place these cards on top
you can dribble them really nicely
on top now and it seems fair okay.
So just one thing to keep in mind
so here here bla bla bla,
yeah I don't know exactly it is
but look I know it's
definitely in the middle.
Question of the day is a simple one,
what is your favorite pass?
That's it what is your one favorite pass
that if you could only do that one pass
for the rest of your life that would be
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