Elevator

I've always been intrigued by the raise rise move by ray kosby. It's a difficult move and lot of easier techniques have a appeared after that with one hand and the two. I've known the existence of lazy rise for more than one year but I've never spent time on it. No offence chris mayhew I don't know the reason myself.
But finally, I've decided yesterday to learn it. You'll ask me why, because I have to learn it now for an effect.
All this elevator moves have only one duty : rise. Not a single one fall ... until recently, the falling elevator. It's not from me but from Bizau Vasile Cristian. Not revolutionary it's even logical in the conception but the most important thing it works.

Here is my point now you can have the card rise and fall at your will in the deck. Here a situation I'm working on : Imagine having two cards selected, one will be lost and the other one will be used to retrieve the first one. You start by rising the card and you'll say I think it's a bit too far we have to lower the card a little. When you spread the deck the spectator will notice that the card just above once turned up is the selection.

Bonus : Chris Mayhew during his lazy rise explanation said : "[...] That's why you add a little bit of movement in this case some shaking especially I like to do it down here on my crouch area ... it's very subliminal."

I was quite busy recently in order to prepare my exam so I apologize for the delay.

This last month I've not spent much time on magic. I'm quite satisfied with my materials actually now and I prefer to master my stuff rather than exploring new landscapes. I have now a visual routine, a vietnam plot, an ACAAN and a variation of the trick which can not be explained. In fact I have other creation but I'm not working on it these days.

I've showed few tricks to a magic buddy who is used to perform in order to live and told me that it's definitely a bit complicated for laymen audience. Of course I'm enough objective to understand and accept his critics but I've thought there is a magic which is able to fit both magicians and laymen.

For instance lot of professional magician think ACAAN is definitely a brainstorming between magician and shouldn't be performed for laymen for simple reason they won't catch the complexity of the plot and will simply notice that you retrieve a card at a given position. Whereas I'm thinking it depends on the performance and how you introduce the plot. Because I like routine and not 30 seconds trick where you only watch performer's hand, ACAAN shouldn't be only a take/think of card ; give me a number between 1 and 52 ; take the deck and count to this position.

In my pattern I'm more likely to have a card selected ; ask the spectator to put it aside in his mind in order to come back to it later while I start on a new thing. I try then to wait in order to make the revelation more astonishing.

10 cards poker deal performance idea

I was quite surprised by this but with 10 cards poker deal you are able to win all the time.

In fact it's more powerful than that because you can either choose to win or lose.

Don't you see the opportunity here?

Introduce the way how pro poker player use to play a game.

A good gambler is someone who lost a bit but win a lot.

No one can win all the time so you have to minimize your lost and maximize your win.

Have a prediction on a piece of paper on which you have written:

1 : the spectator win

2 : the performer win

3 : the performer win

The start looks like a 3 cards monte and you on purpose take the jonas card.

During this 1st phase you show how the game will be played.

For the second phase and the third this time you don't take the jonas card and you leave it to him.

You finish by saying it's useless to always win because no one will play with you so the best way to keep increasing your money is to control the game.

In order to prove this point I've written here a memo before the start of the game, can you read it.

I maybe a bit wrong by revealing too much during the ante-prediction revelation but I'm thinking it can give false explanation to make the trick "un-back-trackable".

52 times a week

Mika respect for your work.

It's always a pleasure to study your performance.

He claims to be the genuine 365 project inventor and I believe him.

Have a look on his site.

52 times a week

I had a real great feeling this week, I've fooled one of my best magic buddy and damn this tastes good.

To sum it up because I don't want to give too many ideas (I cherish too much the method), it's my take on the trick that can not be explained. You may be wondering how it's possible to have a variation on it but I think this is the most similar trick which exists and even it's less impromptu, I don't need to see the face of the cards and have much more outs. Finally I don't ask the spectator's card. In fact it's a mix of this plot with an impossible location without looking the face of the cards.

One advise to you reader, if you want to fool your magic buddy even if it's not the best thing in magic go on the trick that can not be explained.