(gentle music)
- Slippery Susan Sausage selects
the Six of Spades from
a deck of playing cards.
Susan Sausage takes a
pen and writes her name
upon the face of the Six of Spades.
After shuffling the signed Six of Spades
into the deck of playing cards,
Susan Sausage turns over
the top playing card
to reveal the King of Diamonds.
The magician then takes the playing cards
and in one simple and
beautiful fan of the deck,
the King of Diamonds is instantly seen
to transform into Susan
Sausage's signed Six of Spades.
Salty Susan Sausage can then
inspect the playing cards
where she's invited to
respond accordingly.
(upbeat music)
(screaming)
(farting)
I am Daniel Madison and
this is the fan change.
You all right Susan?
Would you like a cup of frozen sausages?
(gentle music)
Hi, I'm Daniel Madison,
welcome back. (clapping)
Thanks for being here.
Thank you, thank you,
appreciate you choosing
to spend some time with me today.
Now, in the last video,
slippery Susan Sausage signed
the Six of Spades and I taught
six tricks in six minutes.
Well, almost, just as we
got into the last minute,
I ran out of time with the fan change,
so I'm gonna dedicate this entire video
to teaching you in great detail
a fantastic colour change
that I love to perform.
It can used as a colour change
and a control and a few other
things that I'm gonna
teach you in this video.
In the other tricks that I
showed you in the last video,
the other five tricks, if you
wanna know them in more detail
I wanna put them on a
separate video and teach them
in great detail, but this
video is gonna be a long one
so we're gonna strictly
dedicate the time on this video
to the fan change courtesy
of the one and only
sensational Susan Sausage.
(farting)
I am Daniel Madison and
this is the fan change.
The fan change relies on two principles.
One is skill, two, a deception.
First of all the skill
is the most obvious one.
You need to be able to execute a fan
with a deck of playing cards.
Two, two, you need to be able
to execute a Tenkai palm.
A Tenkai palm looks like this.
I now have a playing card palmed
in my right hand that you cannot see.
This is the exposed view.
This is a quite modified Tenkai palm.
I need this corner to be
kind of in that window
just the way it is.
This is my modified Tenkai
palm, just for the fan change.
Once I have this card in the palm,
all I need to do really now is
execute a fan with the deck.
I turn the top card over, the dirty hand,
the palming hand comes over
and holds the deck like so.
It very much looks like
nothing, like I'm just holding
the deck with my dirty
hand, with my right hand,
when what in fact I am
doing is, the deck is here.
I take the deck and I line the King up
over the index like so, so the
King is on top of the index.
I try to get it as level as
I can, as lined up as I can
so that underneath the
deception it looks like this.
The Tenkai palm comes over, goes on top.
You see the King of Diamonds lines up
on top of the Ace of Spades like so.
I can now hold everything
with my dirty hand.
From the right angle, from the best angle,
this looks like nothing,
looks like I'm holding
a deck of playing cards.
I'm now in position to
execute the deception.
The way that I do this, I
reach over with my left hand,
goes underneath the deck
ready to execute a fan.
My thumb pinches down on the King
holding him in place right here.
This hand does everything
it can to make sure
that this King is not seen.
Now from this position, from the front,
you can't see the King.
I open finger one and
I stretch over the deck
to prepare for the fan.
And this does a few different things.
One, it looks how it's suppose to look.
All I'm doing is going to fan the deck.
It also shows you the Ace of Spades,
the selected playing card,
or the subject playing card
in a window, so I'm
forcing you now to look
into that open window
away from the deception
or away from the dirty area.
So my finger reaches over
and I now execute a fan.
The King stays exactly where it is
and the Ace of Spades
goes underneath the King,
just as the King is exposed.
I can now close the fan allowing the deck
to straighten itself up leaving
us with the King of Diamonds
or a colour change, a fan change.
King of Tenkai goes over the index here.
I hold everything in this
hand, pinch that card down,
finger one pulls the entire deck around
underneath the King of Diamonds
hiding the Ace of Spades.
I close, square up and I'm good to go.
They are the basic mechanics.
Now that you know how it
works, I'm gonna spend
a little bit of time teaching you the fan,
so if you know the fan, you
might wanna skip forward
a minute or so and then we'll get
into the intricacies of the fan change.
So I brought the camera
in over my shoulder
so that you can get a
view of exactly what I see
when I'm doing this, when I look at this
in a bit more detail.
But first of all, for
the people who don't know
how to fan a deck of playing cards,
it's only right that I teach
you that because without a fan,
you can't really achieve this technique.
The way that I fan a
deck of playing cards,
there are plenty of
different methods out there
and different ideas, for
me this is just something
that you kind of learn
organically very naturally
when you're messin'
about with playing cards.
I think everybody arrives
at what might feel
like the same fan, the same situation,
same destination should I say.
For me, you're gonna use finger
two and finger one mainly,
the deck of playing cards is placed
right on finger two like so and finger one
and the thumb goes central to the back.
So this is the grip, or at least the way
that I hold a deck of
playing cards for a fan.
So straight on finger
two, the grip is between
the thumb and finger two.
Finger one is gonna be used in a moment
to help close the deck, but the main grip
is finger two and the thumb like so.
I take finger one of my free hand
and you can if you want square up first,
thumb on the back, finger two on top.
(bird squawKing) Thanks Charlie.
Finger one's gonna come to the side here.
In fact, I'll turn this way.
Finger one's gonna come to the side.
Finger one is gonna work
its way from the bottom
to the top as I pull the deck to my body,
so I'm gonna pull round this
way starting from the bottom,
slowly and gently
pullin' it and you end up
with a very simple, easy to achieve fan.
If you just press down,
if you were to just press
down here with your finger,
have a tight grip here,
if you were to just press down and pull,
you also kinda get a fan,
but you have more control
when you push from the
side and push very gently.
The grip that you have on your left hand
or the hand that you're
gonna use to grip the deck,
the free hand, the finger
one acts very gently.
The grip that you have on the actual deck,
for me it's fairly tough,
like I am actually squeezing
that deck, if I hold it too lightly,
then you have less
control over the spread.
If you hold it too tight,
you can cause problems too.
And especially if it's an
old kind of worn in deck.
For me, you just gotta
find that nice sweet spot.
And that's something that
you'll just get used to
when you fan, so that's the fan.
Basically finger like
this, now the grip is still
between finger two and
the thumb at this point.
What happens now underneath the deck,
finger one pulls back
here, presses upwards
and then goes back to
position causing the deck
to spin back around like so.
Finger two helps, finger two
is already in position here,
over the edge of the deck,
so finger two is over this,
so it's breaching the end of the deck.
This allows these playing cards,
these bottom few playing
cards to kind of pivot
or rotate around that finger two like so.
Is you flick your wrist
when you're doing this,
gently flick your wrist, they
call it the sausage flick.
If you flick your wrist like so,
then you get a nice easier close.
I've seen a lot of people
putting their hand here
just in case the cards fall,
it's a fairly easy thing
to achieve, so that's the fan.
Basically, that's how you
fan a deck of playing cards.
Now that you know that, let's look
a little bit closer at the Tenkai palm.
The Tenkai palm is an age
old palming technique.
If you don't know what palming is,
it is the act of hiding
one or more playing cards
in a hand secretly, deceptively
where nobody can see.
The Tenkai palm looks like this.
Very, very strange when you don't know it,
when it's new to you, it looks very weird.
You have this playing
card just kind of clipped
in your hand with your
thumb and is protruding
in all different kind of ways.
And as you can see
instantly from seeing this,
you can tell that this is a very
angle sensitive kind of palm.
That being said, this palm
allows you to hold your hand
in a very natural position and
it does this wonderful thing
which moves the playing
card out of the way
of your main palm allowing
you to keep your fingers open.
It's a beautiful thing,
if anybody saw your hand
and the fingers are moving and not closed,
it looks like an empty hand.
It looks like the way
it's suppose to look like.
There are plenty of different
techniques and improvements
and modifications that you
can apply to the Tenkai palm
allowing for your hand
to look more natural,
cheers Charlie, but the
palming technique itself
allows you to look like you're
not holding a playing card
which is what palming is
suppose to achieve anyway.
The Tenkai palm for me
and for this change,
the best Tenkai palm, the best position,
you wanna take the Ace of Spades.
You're gonna take the top right corner,
the outside right corner, whoa!
There's a storm here by the way.
I know you can here all the
water against the studio window.
The top outside right corner
is gonna press against
the clunge, I believe they call this part
of your hand the clunge,
press it against here.
Your thumb's gonna reach over the top
and you're simply gonna hold
it in a very relaxed manner
here, you don't want any bends,
you don't wanna squeeze it.
In fact, to modify this, a
lot of people actually bend it
inwards so that it wraps
to the shape of your hand.
So that from different angles,
you can actually kind of show
inside this gap of the thumb too.
Which is quite interesting.
There's no need for that
in this trick though.
The most important part of
this palm for the fan change
is that you're leaving
the index exposed here
because we're gonna need to purchase that
on top of the deck in a few moments.
So that's the basic grip
for the Tenkai palm.
We'll talk afterwards about
how to get into this position
and how to perform the trick,
right now I wanna focus
on the mechanics of the deception.
So we're in Tenkai palm, the next step,
the next deceptive
method, we're gonna turn
the top playing card over with finger one.
And then we're gonna take the deck
with a palm in your empty free hand here
and what we're doing there, we're lining
the Ace of Spades up on
top of the King of Diamonds
index right here like this.
I'm gripping the deck with
my thumb and finger two.
Now from the right angle, it
looks like I'm just holding
the deck and it makes it look
very fair and very honest
because I can now use
this hand very freely
and this looks very natural,
this looks how you would
hold a deck of playing cards.
The dirty angle, you can
see everything's in position
ready for the fan change.
Now the execution of the
fan change to achieve it,
to achieve the accepted
method, you're gonna come in
and execute a fan, a little
bit different though,
you not gonna obviously go in the middle,
you're gonna hold the Ace of Spades.
You're gonna pinch it
into the corner like this
of the King of Diamonds like so.
You're gonna pinch down,
this hand stays where it is.
Obviously you don't want to
expose this Ace of Spades yet.
Finger one is gonna reach over to the side
in preparation for the fan.
This does two things, one, it
gets me ready to fan the deck.
But two and more importantly,
it isolates a window
to show you for one last
moment the King of Diamonds.
I'm forcing your attention
into that window.
So you're looKing in here,
'cause this is your only option
and it's taKing your attention
away from the dirty angle
over here and forcing you to look
at the King of Diamonds one last time.
Right until the very end, you
see that King of Diamonds.
Now I'm pinching the ace on
top, now all I have to do
is execute a fan, the King goes
underneath the Ace of Spades
just as the Ace of Spades is exposed.
I now kick the deck closed,
finger one underneath.
Kick it closed.
Sometimes I'll use my
right hand to help clean up
because you can see the
King's exposed here,
but I'm gonna show you
something in a second
so you don't have to worry about that.
And then we have achieved the fan change.
Let's look at this from an exposed angle.
There you have the fan change.
Now there's some beautiful
little deceptive techniques
and methods that you can apply to this
to make it look so much better
and so much more invisible.
So let's get up close and
talk about the performance
of the fan change.
Now that you know the basic
mechanics of the fan change,
we're gonna look at this very close up.
We're gonna look at all the intricacies
and I'm gonna tell you everything I know
about this transformation,
about this colour change.
There's a lot going on,
I know it's easy to learn
in those few simple steps
where you just fan the deck
from a Tenkai palm, but
there's so much more to this
then just that basic mechanical technique.
So we're gonna look at
everything from start to finish.
First of all, the Tenkai palm.
The Tenkai palm, if you don't know
much about the Tenkai
palm, you're gonna learn
the most from practising
, from trying this
and from walKing around like this.
Just try and do normal
things with a card in Tenkai.
The way that I mastered most
of my palming techniques,
specifically the gamblers
cop is by always having
a playing card in the gamblers cop.
When I go to the shop,
when I go to the toilet,
when I'm cooKing my frozen sausages.
And what ever I'm doing,
I would always have a card
in gamblers cup, it's
the best way to learn
the best way to make it have...
(bird squawKing) cheers Charlie,
best way to provide it
with the most natural,
the most natural look to it.
When people look at
you, you wanna look like
you're not holding a playing card.
The Tenkai palm is very angle sensitive.
I mean, from your point
of view, from your angle
when you first look at
the Tenkai palm in palm,
you're gonna be a bit scared of it.
It's gonna be a bit weird to look down
and see that card sticKing out of the back
sticKing out like this.
It looks very strange, it feels dangerous
and it feels like it shouldn't
work as well as it does.
It feels like everybody can see it.
It's not until you start
practising  in a mirror
that you realise, this
isn't as angle sensitive
as it feels at first
when you can see it here.
There are so many angles that
you can hide that card at
and it allows you to hold
this hand in such a natural
position, especially
for moves and deceptions
like the fan change because
I'm holding the deck like this.
So many times in your
deceptions and in your practises
and your performances with playing cards,
you're gonna hold the deck
of playing cards like this.
So with a card in Tenkai, you
can hold the deck like this
very naturally, nothing suspicious.
And the card in Tenkai
like this, over the deck,
it's already in position
for the fan change.
So it's perfect for this.
There is no other palming technique
that we could use for the fan change.
How do you get into the Tenkai?
How do you get into it?
It depends, every time you perform
it's going to be different,
you can't do the same thing
every time and I try not to be too stern
and specific when I'm teaching.
Especially now that I'm
teaching this on film
and every single one of you
who goes out and does this,
you're gonna have a different experience.
So there's a few different
ways, a few different things
to take on board and think about
when you're getting a
card into Tenkai position.
For me, the easiest way
possible, the deck face up.
Face up, face down?
So that you can see all the playing cards
and the top playing
card, the Ace of Spades,
I'm just gonna have the deck held here
and my free hand, my left hand
is simply gonna push the card
very slowly to the side like so,
and it's gonna move back, the
right hand is gonna just grip
so that I'm pinching
that card now between,
in fact I'll come a bit
closer, pinching that card now
between the clunge and the thumb.
So and this isn't a move by the way,
this isn't even a deception,
this isn't even a slight
of hand technique,
this is just something that I would do
while I'm talKing to somebody
just before I do the trick.
So I'll push the card over like this
and then I'll move it down like this.
Now it's in position for me to just grip
the playing card in my
hand and my thumb like so.
So step one is now achieved.
I now have the Ace of
Spades in Tenkai palm.
Very easy, it's not even a move.
This is something that happens
before you're even performing.
And by that sense, by those
rules, you might as well
take a card, put it in Tenkai
and then go up to somebody,
hey do you wanna see a magic?
Not that I would suggest you do that.
So now that it's in position,
I'm gonna turn the deck facedown.
This hand is now free, now
I have to hide this card.
I have to work on hiding the
Ace of Spades in Tenkai palm.
So I use finger one to turn
over the top card like so.
Now I'm showing the King of
Diamonds and I'm ready to go.
Already ready to go, all I have to do is
hold the deck like so.
What I like to do at this
point, hold the deck here,
make sure the ace is
lined up with the King
and pause for a moment,
I'll take this hand away.
I'll do that from start
to finish, in fact,
just so you can see.
So the Ace of Spades
is on top of the deck.
I turn the deck facedown, face up.
I move the card into Tenkai position.
I adjust or change my grip
allowing the Ace of Spades
to be on top of the deck,
turn the deck facedown.
Turn the top card face up with finger one.
Hold the deck, put my hand aside,
go and grip that Ace of Spades,
(bird squawKing) cheers Charlie,
equip that Ace of Spades
on top of the King
and then execute the fan change.
Everything that you're gonna
learn about the fan change,
you're gonna learn by doing it.
It sounds like a cop out
from my point of view,
but this is one of those
things where I could
really be there with you, I
need to be there with you,
so all I can do is teach you
everything I know about this
which is what I'm trying to do.
So from this position, you now
end up with the Ace of Spades
on top of the King of Diamonds.
So you're not really clean,
you can't really just hand this out.
If you want to, this
becomes a development trick,
a development move
because now I can execute
a double turnover, a double lift.
Take the top card and it's
back to the King of Diamonds.
It depends on what you wanna do with it,
this is how you do it, but
if you wanted to end here,
if you wanted to clean up here,
the most simple way of
doing that because you have
a King of Diamonds
behind the Ace of Spades,
is lift the deck up like this so they see
the backs of these and
then simply just take
the ace off like this.
Now I'm very naturally
hiding the King of Diamonds
on top of the deck and then
you can clean up afterwards.
I mean, at this point, the trick's done
and you don't really need to clean up,
but at the same time, you need to prove
that a card has changed.
This made me start thinKing
about the fan change,
completely rethinKing it so
when I first taught this,
I taught it just like this,
just like I've told you.
I've developed it so much since to a point
where I'll be in a position
where I have the Ace of Spades
and I have about I'd
say four cards below it.
Ace of Spades face up at
the bottom of the deck
and hold the break there.
So now I will shift all of
those cards into a Tenkai palm.
So I'm now palming the Ace of Spades
and four other playing cards facedown.
What this allows is so much more freedom.
I get so much more freedom now.
So from here, the five cards
at the bottom of the deck,
I very simply just shift them
over into Tenkai palm like so.
I can now turn the top
card over with finger one,
King of Diamonds, put all of these cards
on top of the King of Diamonds
just here on the index.
And now when I fan, the King goes behind
all of those playing cards
and then when I close the fan,
that was terrible, when I close the fan,
I'm now completely free.
In fact, let me do that
again, I'm not sure
if the camera picked that up,
I'll do that very quickly.
So all the cards move aside,
Tenkai to the top, I fan.
Now the King of Diamonds
goes behind all five
of those playing cards, all
of those top playing cards.
Now I'm free when I close the
fan, I'm free to just hand out
the top card or just hold
out the playing cards
so that the participant, the
audience member, whoever,
can take the top playing card.
That's the way that I like to do it now
because it gives me
that freedom at the end
where King of Diamonds has vanished,
you know, the King of Diamonds is gone.
That does bring along a
little bit of a problem
if you wanna do something
with the King of Diamonds.
Perhaps you've got a
duplicate King of Diamonds
hidden somewhere or you've
planted it somewhere,
it's under a book, it's in
Susan's pocket, perhaps.
So when you vanish it
or when you change it,
it doesn't matter that it's
hidden near the top of the deck.
It doesn't matter because
they're gonna be distracted
by the duplicate, by the
other King of Diamonds.
And obviously you can
take more than four cards
beneath that Ace of Spades, you can take
a whole bunch of them and bury
that King of Diamonds
way deeper into the deck.
You can also just do it
with one playing card.
Just get one playing card
behind the Ace of Spades
and that'll be enough once
you execute the fan change
and straighten the deck up.
You just take the top card
and the King is hiding
right underneath the top
card so that could become
something of its own after the fan change.
I think the most important
things to focus on here
are the change itself
and then kind of proving
without proving that there's
only one card in play,
there's only one card on top of the deck.
So that it does genuinely
look like one card
switched somehow for another,
whether you say that's magic
or slight of hand, that's not
up to me, that's up to you.
Something that I really
love doing with this.
My favourite way of performing this.
My absolute favourite
way, you're gonna take
the Ace of Spades, you're gonna get three
or four playing cards
below it facedown so you're
in the same situation
that we just went over.
You're gonna get these into
Tenkai palm as you're talKing,
as you are kind of prepping,
preparing your audience.
You're gonna get a
spectator, not a spectator,
you're gonna get a
participant, an audience member
and you're gonna give them the deck.
Give them the playing cards.
You're gonna stand there
palming, the dirty hand,
you're gonna be palming the
ace and the rest of the cards
and you're just gonna stand there
and wait for the deck back.
Now what you're gonna do is
while you're palming these,
give the deck out and
invite the participant,
invite Susan Sausage to
shuffle the playing cards.
So she's now going to be
shuffling the playing cards.
Once she's done, you ask
her to either turn over
any playing card on top of the deck
or just turn over the top
playing card, it's up to you.
I like the freedom of
tellin' 'em to go through
and pick a card that they like.
The problem with this,
it depends which card
you've taken out of the deck
because if I've taken out
somebody's favourite playing
card and say pick a card
that you like, they might be
looKing for the Ace of Spades
or they might be looKing for
one of these four playing cards
behind the Ace of Spades.
Saying that you want a random playing card
is probably the best way to go.
So you tell them to shuffle the deck.
Go through the cards,
I'm great at shuffling.
(laughing)
Go through the cards and
take out any playing card
that they like, Susan Sausage takes out
this time the Nine of
Clubs and she puts it
on top of the deck face up.
These are your instructions to her.
You now ask her to give you the deck back.
Hopefully she's gonna do this,
she's gonna hold the deck out
like this so that the
Nine of Clubs is displayed
nice and open so that you can
grab it with the dirty hand.
I love this kind of magic,
this kind of practise
of deception where I'm gonna reach out now
with a dirty hand and take
the deck with the dirty hand
and I'm gonna load these cards on top
whilst the deck's in her hand.
It's beautiful, it's one
of those beautiful things
in magic that just gets me.
If they're not gonna hold
the deck in a position
where you can lift it with this hand
or if you're scared, if
you're a scared little girl,
(laughing) if it scares you a
bit, if it worries you a bit
going to go to get the deck,
then just take the deck back.
Take it back and it's held
in your hand like this.
And then you're just
gonna go straight into it.
You take the deck back, this
hand goes over onto the top.
You fan the playing
cards, execute the change
and everything's left to inspection.
Now, obviously not
everything's left to inspection
because they can go through and they can
find the nine of clubs.
I've had this happen once
recently and it wasn't
even like they discovered the method.
They didn't even, they looked
through and they were like,
wow, it's face up
halfway down in the deck.
It wasn't, it was face
up like five cards down.
But still, he took that
as part of the story,
part of the performance,
part of the programme.
So it wasn't even a bad thing,
it wasn't a negative thing.
As for cleaning up that
card that's face up
near the top of the deck,
I've never worried about it.
I'm never thought about that really.
It's a very natural and organic process
once you've changed the card
and hand out the Ace of Spades
for inspection, if you ever even do that.
Or if you just prove that
it wasn't the one and only
top card, then you can very
easily cut that face card
to the bottom and half
pass it, turn it up.
Or just turn it face up
openly in front of everybody.
These are the kind of little
nuances that you can only do it
in the moment, you can only
do it in the performances,
no right or wrong, there's
no real way of doing it
other than right there in
the moment like all magic.
Now I'm sure that when
you practising  this,
you're gonna be coming up
with some creative ideas.
I wanna give you a few
creative ideas to show you
a few different things
that you can do with this
so that it doesn't just have
to be a basic transformation.
Imagine using different
coloured playing cards.
Different designs, different
back playing cards.
So you can change the colour
of somebody's playing card.
Just a very simple, basic idea.
But another idea that I really like is,
if you wanna control the playing card.
Let's say we have the King of Diamonds
and I wanna control this card in the deck.
When I put this card into the deck,
I'm gonna shift it to
the bottom of the deck.
I'm gonna get it into Tenkai palm
and I'm gonna hand the
deck out for shuffling.
Susan Sausage shuffles the playing cards,
she gives them back to me.
I take the deck back
and execute a fan change
and I've now successfully controlled
the King of Diamonds on top of the deck.
Simply, just a few more thoughts I wanted
to give you for creative inspiration.
So that was the fan change, I
hope you enjoyed this video.
If you learn the fan
change, if you figure out
any interesting things
that you can do with it
other than the control, other
than the colour change itself,
or the colour change in deck, let me know.
If you perform it, if you
perform any of my deceptions
online, tag me in, I wanna see 'em.
I wanna see what you do with them,
how well you practise and perform.
And I love to watch being
deceptive with playing cards.
Let me know what you do with
the fan change in the comment
section, I'll be there right
after you see this video.
Hi, I'm Daniel Madison,
thanks, see you next time.
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