Scaling Playing Cards

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Hi! My name is Chris McKay with Expert Village.com and right now I am going to show you how to scale playing cards, that’s what looks like card is spinning off. Believe it or not that’s scaling playing cards. If you would like to learn more about my work as a magician in Los Angeles and in Cleveland, you can check up my website at www.mckaymagic.com. Okay, scaling playing cards. There are many different ways of scaling playing cards. I am going to show you probably one of the most basic. It’s pretty easy and again it’s a knack and it’s going to take a lot of practice. You know at least a little bit of practice to really get it right. Let me show you kind of what’s going on here. With the pad on my pointer finger, I am holding the cards in not a brittle grip but kind of a modified brittle grip. I am just holding with my middle finger and my thumb at the very edges here. Then my pointer finger comes in here and pushes down like that’s on the right side of the card for me, for me it’s the right side, pushes down on the card, you only want one card obviously and as this finger points more downward, it’s going to shift the pressure from the pad on my finger onto the fingernail and you can see the card starting to slide; it’s because there is obviously less friction on my fingernail. So once it hits my fingernail, it wants to shoot off like that and what’s actually happening here is you are creating a sort of tension on the right side of the card by pushing down on the right side. And when your finger gets onto your fingernail, the card slides off and then releases that tension and that tension on the one side of the card causes to spin off your thumb here, so it’s spinning off my thumb and then it keeps rotating because of that tension that is built up on the right side and then released. So you can even do that; you can even do a similar thing with just one playing card just by squeezing and then letting go. The card will shoot because of the tension and I mean you saw some of those are kind of just flipping like this; that’s not what you want, you want it to spin, you can actually see the cards spinning, that’s where you shoot for it to spin and I mean you can get these to shoot pretty far and some people are good enough at it where they can just you know can rapid fire like a machine gun or something. That’s the basics of scaling a playing card from the top of the deck.

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