Basic Side Hand Magic Trick

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Hi! I’m Chris McKay with Expert Village.com. I am going to show you guys how to do a very basic magic trick today. It uses a little side hand actually. You can learn more about my work as a professional magician and my website which is www.mckaymagic.com. Okay, so I am going to show you just the performance of this trick and then afterwards I’ll show you how to do it okay. First thing you do, you have the person pick out any card they want. So you can either spread them on the table like I showed you how to do before or you can just hold them in your hands or you can have them just take the deck and pull out whichever card they want; so they pull out any card they want okay. Say they picked the 10 clubs and then I’m going to say alright just tell me when to stop, say stop right there. Okay, I’ll put your card right there in the middle of the deck. I’ll keep shuffling it in there till your card is lost in the deck hopelessly. Now what I want you to do, I tell the spectators that they can cut the cards anywhere they want. So they go ahead and cut the cards. So alright I am going to mark that card. Let’s go over this real quick. You picked your card. You could have picked any cards you wanted in the entire deck, okay. Then I shuffle to the cards, you told me when to stop, you could decide anywhere you wanted to stop, I stop right there. You put your card there. I continue to shuffle the cards and lost your card completely and I hope it is at the end of the deck. Now I think that your intuition guided you right back to your card and I think you naturally cut right to your card, so lift off this chunk of cards and show them sure enough, they cut right to their 10 of clubs. Alright, this is actually very, very easy trick, very easy, okay. You are going to have to know how to do a Hindu shuffle for this. I showed that on a previous video so go ahead and reference that if you need to know how to do a Hindu shuffle but here is what you are doing. You have them pick out a card and first you do a regular Hindu shuffle to demonstrate basically what a Hindu shuffle looks like and you say you know it, just tell me when to stop whenever you want. I am just doing a regular Hindu shuffle, nothing fancy here, okay. They say stop whenever and then they put their card down right there, okay. Then I do the Hindu shuffle control. I grab onto their card like this, chunk of cards and pull off chunks here until I get down to their card. Again, a detailed explanation of the Hindu shuffle is showed on a previous video. So now their card is right here on top. The next part of this is a very simple deception. Their card is on top right now and you tell them to cut the cards. They can truly cut the cards anywhere they want but then what you do is you say alright I am going to mark that cut and you turn these cards 90 degrees and put them right on top. Now really if you were truly cutting the cards, you would just put these right on top and square; that would be a fair cut. Really what you are doing is you are just saying alright I am just going to mark it like that, okay and they don’t realize at first what you’re doing, Okay, or even what they did but you distract me even more by going through and explaining how the entire trick was done. So this gives what’s called time misdirection. Over the course of you explaining all the different things that you did, you shuffle them, they picked any card, and they could have told you when to stop anytime. As you go through that entire explanation they begin to forget what they actually did here when they cut and that actually the card that they cut you is the one on top here but since we’re misdirecting them they are going to gradually forget basically through the course of my explanation. It’s also important to have a little performance here, a little bit of an explanation of magic and kind of how it works. So I give this phony explanation that their intuition is guiding them to the card as they cut. So I explain that and then you just pick off this half and show them this card which has actually been on top the whole time and it appears to them that you shuffled the card in there and you didn’t even know what the card was the entire time; they were able to cut to it themselves. So it’s a very, very impressive magic trick that uses just minimal slide of hand and a little bit of misdirection.

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