Just a snack

In order to make you waiting a serious card study post her

e is a little "bouchée" like we say in French.

Because after ending my exam which explains by the way why I don't often post recently, I will make a little trip. To get ready I'm learning few bar bets. I'm watching now the world best bar bets starring the real hustle team and dropped on this :

WTF!!! and who is holding that?

No one else than Paul Wilson, I'm wondering who the hell brings a deck of Jerry's Nugget in a bar? Is he showing off? Of course he is but who o

n earth besides us card geek is catching the thing?

You may think it's an magician exclusive dvd (because it's a dvd). Of course not it's available on amazon at £3,49. WTF again. The shipping costs more than the video, furthermore create the DVD itself may cost more than the price.

Back to the content, there are entertaining ideas but sometimes I feel like they're forgetting the fact if the audience thinks after the bet's wording it's impossible... then they will never take the bet.

For instance take a pen cap (bic) and drop it in a empty beer bottle and lay this bottle on the table. Do you think you can take back the cap without touching anything?

Again WTF... who will take the bet unless they no the solution.

Here it is enough WTF for today.

OK, the last one.

Jerry's Nugget 3 card Monte.

Lack of inspiration

I'm really wondering how http://pasteboardpimps.tumblr.com/ for instance is keeping such a high activity of his blog.

I was quite active in April but here in May I didn't have any inspiration.

I've seen few videos as the Paul LePaul by Paul Wilson... what a dumb trick. Sorry it's not because we have the same name you can/dare release such poor material.

Same critic goes to Jay Sankey's Bending the real. This is bad bad... It looks like a magic dvd but it's not.

So Sato

Today I want to talk about a Japanese magician. I have his book and his booklet, both are actually great. His name is So Sato and he's an amateur magician.

He has came up with a good triumph's version.

This is the one selection's version, the original version contains two.

I love the handling, we can notice a bit of Lennart Green influence with the mixed up display and honestly I've killed lot of guys with this one.

His materials are available for a long time but sadly for you only in Japanese and I think it's still impossible to get it from the rest of the world because Japanese retailers used to ship their products only in Japan.

But I have lot of expectancy from you and I think you may find the solution just by watching this video or the original one.

I'm quite generous today and in order to excuse my last absence I'm going to give you a clue.

The key point here is not to focus on technique that by the way he executes very smoothly but on the choreography because it's what makes this trick so deceiving.

close up mood

These last days I have been quite in a magic mood and have watched and read bunch of stuff.

First I've kept playing on the lazy rise/falling elevator duet in order to a decent result. In fact I'm not able to perform both but working on it. Wait for me I'm quite enjoying giving hard time to my small hands. I have now in mind a good effect I need to find a good flow and justified sequences but the effect could be cool.

-Two cards are chosen, one is the elevator card which we reveal and the 2nd one which is put back in the middle.

-Elevator card starts to climb to the top but pass through the selection so the performer make the card falling a bit.

-He spreads the deck but both above and below elevator card's cards are not the selection. (elevator card is still the genuine one)

-Performer retrieve these cards and the elevator card has changed in the selection.

I hope you'll enjoy it. Not very powerful but quite cute I'll say.

Today I was reading Jon Allen's book, Experience and stopped on the oralgami. What a nice trick. 'So' what I like : clever, mindblowing, easy to do, what else. Which brings me because of the techniques involved in the trick to Joshua Jay's cornered, a few years old material. It's a video produced by penguin magic before Joshua Jay has started vanishinginc with Andi Gladwin. This one too, so sweet, yummy. One of the most practical bill travel I've ever seen. Well I admit not being a close up expert but it's very deceiving. If you want you can appreciate my point of view as a layman. Isn't it even better?!

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".