- Whoo back in Bermuda.
(upbeat electronic music)
Yo yo yo, what's going on everybody,
Alex Pandrea here back with another video.
We are in Bermuda yet again,
the way this came about,
really quickly is I was in New
York, really crappy weather.
I had these awesome new
cards that I wanted to take
some videos of, some pictures of
and I decided you know what?
Let's come out here and
shoot some cool stuff.
I did want to go with somebody
though, so I asked you guys
on Instagram who should I go with?
Lot of comments of a
lot of different people
which I would have loved
for everybody to come.
But I spoke with my buddy Chris Ramsay
and he flew out the next
day and met me in Bermuda.
Now if you take a look at his
channel, we shot two videos
in Bermuda one with
playing card photography
and the way that we
shot some of these cards
and the second one is just a cool vlog
of us hanging around Bermuda,
the stuff that we did behind the scenes
and just having a good time.
So really quickly, if you haven't seen,
we released the Summer NOCs back,
for the first time in two years.
Everybody's been asking for these
and finally the summer has come
and we've released the Summer NOCs.
Back for the summer in orange, blue,
and also limited edition pink.
Now the pink version we
only made a small amount.
They are numbered and
sealed and what's cool about
this version is we
created a new tuck for it.
Finally having Summer NOCs
and making 'em different from the original
so that's pretty cool.
The link is down below, they are limited,
so they will sell out pretty quickly.
They're finally back.
Alright let's get into the tutorial,
I'm super excited for this video tutorial
because I'm going to teach you guys
one of the strongest things
that you can possibly do.
It's something that you could
add in to your own routines
especially an ambitious card routine.
An ambitious card
routine, you take a card,
put it in the middle,
you snap your fingers
and it's back on top,
put it in the middle,
snap your fingers and it's back on top.
Do it over and over and over
and it just doesn't stop.
Which I disagree with, in
an ambitious card routine
I think for me personally three phases max
and do your strongest ones.
You don't want to keep going over
and over because you're
gonna bore the spectator
and at some point it just doesn't
become believable anymore.
For me my thought process is,
when you're gonna do an
ambitious card routine
where something impossible
like that happens.
You don't just snap your fingers
and make it come to the top
you need a process involved in that
and later videos we're
gonna do more theory
and jump deeper in to how
to make routines stronger.
Especially ambitious card routine,
but for now I want to teach you one phase
that I think is killer.
What happens is the
spectator takes the deck,
you don't touch anything,
they cut anywhere they want.
They look at the top card,
put it in the middle,
put their hand on top and
then the magic happens
and the card jumps up to the top.
So the method to this is very very simple,
it's practically self working.
I'm going to teach you a few
things that you need to know
starting with something
that's already included
in the Summer NOCs, now this
is something that's also
included in other NOC decks.
I don't know if other decks
have it but it's something
that you can obtain, basically what it is,
it's a duplicate card.
Using dupes can be super
strong for your routine,
and the way I'm gonna do it here.
The spectator does all the work,
it's pure magic in my opinion.
Alright so the tutorial
you have a deck of cards
and what you need is two duplicate cards.
That the Summer NOCs
already have or other NOCs
already come with duplicates,
if not you just have
another deck and you
steal another card out.
So go head grab your dupes
and you're ready to go.
Now the slight setup that
you would need for this
is to crimp one of the cards.
So the way that I did this, the crimp
is to literally take it,
turn it face up like this
and you're going to take your
thumbs place it in the middle
and kind of make an x.
You're putting pressure here,
and putting pressure here
and you're going to slide it like that.
Turn it here and from the
middle slide your fingers
out to the corners like that,
almost making line an x.
Okay, or you can even
go from the corners here
and pinch you're pushing
down and then here as well.
Now what that's gonna
happen is once the card
let's say it's on top if it gets cut
into the middle it has a crimp,
it has a little bit of air in it.
Okay this is exaggerated,
you don't want it that much
but what that's gonna allow to do is
when you cut the deck it's on top okay?
Now if you want the card
on top you do the crimp
with the card facing up, if
you want the card on the bottom
you do the crimp with the
card facing down okay.
But in this case we want it on top.
So we have the crimp with the
card facing up boom, boom,
cut and now when you do any kind of cut,
chances are, now this is not 100%.
But chances are it's gonna cut to here.
Again ambitious card this is what happens,
card is placed in the
middle snap your fingers
it comes to the top, put it in
the middle snap your fingers
it comes up to the top, and
of course you're doing this,
so there's a lot of chance
that the spectators might feel
oh he's very quick with his
hands it's sleight of hand.
So we're gonna disprove this theory,
and we say okay we'll do it one more time
in your hands this time.
So now the setup is this,
alright so let's make pretend
the two twos are in two
different locations in the deck.
There is one, there is the other okay?
Usually you can tell
just by looking which one
is the crimped one, and
you'll want to set it up
so that both of them are on top.
So an easy way to do that
is just as I'm talking
I spread and I cull, we talked
about this in another video
and I cull the second one as well.
Alright if you wanna
know more about culling,
Roadrunner Cull I think
is the best option.
So you're culling the cards to the top
or you can do a cut or you
can just sort of move them
as you shuffle, whatever's easier for you.
Once you have them on top the crimped one
is on top of the regular one.
So this is the crimped one,
this is the regular one,
regular one second from top,
top card is the crimped one.
You cut the deck and you give
it to the spectator alright?
Now the spectator's
holding it in their hand,
so you hold out your
hand flat, you tell them,
bring their hand here, place
it right there on their hand.
Now what you're gonna do
is you're gonna say look,
we're gonna get a random card,
one that you don't even
know you're gonna think of.
You tell them go ahead, cut the
deck anywhere that you want.
So this is what's gonna
happen a lot of the times,
especially if there's a table.
They're gonna cut the deck like this,
and usually cuts to the break okay,
90% they're gonna cut
to exactly at that spot.
You're gonna tell 'em look at the card,
take a quick peak at the
card, they're gonna look.
Maybe show people and
place it in the center.
They place it in the center themselves.
You're gonna take the rest of the deck,
and you tell them, you don't
touch anything at this point,
you tell the spectator, go ahead
and place the rest of the deck on top.
Square it up, put your hand
on top of it, bla bla bla bla.
Again we're not gonna get into the theory
or the performance of this, just the phase
and from here you do your
magic you snap your fingers.
I hate snapping the fingers,
but whatever the magical gesture,
and then when they take a look at the card
I'm telling you this is
such a strong moment.
Now I know what you're thinking,
hey there's a dupe in there.
Don't worry 'cause you
can fix that right away.
The easiest way to do that
is after they freak out,
you take the deck remember
the card is crimped
so all you gotta do is cut
and then the card is on top
so now I can palm it off
and again we have
another video on palming.
I'll leave the link of all of these things
that I mention below or probably up here.
Palm the card out and now you are done.
If there is no table and they
want to do it in their hands,
again setup is crimped card
and let's crimp it again.
These are getting a little bit warped
with the Bermuda weather.
Regular card here, cut
the deck, you say look,
you're gonna do it go ahead
cut the deck anywhere you want.
Now here's a cool thing,
if I note the bottom card
when I give it to them
and that's gonna help.
Because when they do do
the cut, if the bottom card
is the same you know they
cut in the right spot okay?
Didn't cut it there, so I would note
the bottom card right here.
Two of spades, while
the two cards are here.
So I note two of spades,
I could do a kit cut
and I say look you're gonna do it.
Hold out your hand, good, give it a cut.
So let's just say, they
cut not there right
and I say okay I do like a little peek,
I grab the card just for a second
and I go you know what,
no keep it in your hand.
Cut it again, cut it as
many times as you want
and a lot of times chances
are they're gonna cut,
they're gonna cut, until
you peek the two of spades,
you know you're good.
From here you're gonna tell
'em to look at the top card
whatever it is, are you happy with it,
do you want to change your mind?
They never do.
Place it in the middle, cover
it, place your hands on top.
Do the magical gesture,
take your time with it.
Take a look at the top card,
they're gonna freak out at this point
and it's really good
you take the deck back,
give it a cut, palm off the top
card, and you're good to go.
Yeah I think you guys are
really gonna like this
if you put it to good
use, if you incorporate it
already in your ambitious card routine
where you do a first few phases.
Maybe force the two of
hearts to begin with okay
and then have them cut and
oh look it jumped to the top.
That's the easy way to do
it you see the spectator
can do it if they cut the
deck, you don't even know
where you cut, take a
look oh now it's on top
now I'm going to show
how to actually do it.
Place it in the middle, cut it this time,
just hold your hand on top
of it, do the magical gesture
and then it jumps up to the top.
That's another way to do it,
really it's just one phase
but it's such a strong phase that
you can use it any which way you please.
Okay guys hope you enjoyed
what you learned there,
put it to good use, Like
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I think that's really gonna help.
I gotta go drop Chris
Ramsay off at the airport,
so I will see you guys in a bit.
Alright guys so there you have
it, that was the tutorial,
I hope you guys enjoyed that,
I'm dropping Chris off at the airport.
We had a great time
this weekend in Bermuda.
If you haven't seen the stuff obviously
go check out Chris's channel
there's two videos up there.
Link to the Summer NOCs down
below we will see you guys
next time, and until next time man.
Any last words?
- Peace bra!
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