Card Flourishes & Sleight of Hand

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick from mikepatrickmagic.com. You can also find me on Facebook by typing Mike Patrick magic. It’s pretty simple. I’ve been doing magic for about 12 years, and I’ve been a professional for the last eight. I specialize in doing full magic shows. I also do walk around magic for weddings and …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to make a coin vanish. You take the coin, you blow, and the coin disappears and reappears like this. It can also go into this elbow and come out of here, and that’s how you make a coin vanish. What happens is these fingers are here. …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do the Coin Through Handkerchief trick. Place the coin in the handkerchief, blow, and you can actually massage it, getting it to go all the way through the handkerchief. I’ll do that one more time. You can take the coin, place it inside, and immediately …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do the String and Straw Trick. You have a string and you place it through the straw. Take a pair of scissors and I cut straight through the middle of the straw. And somehow with a blow the string stays in one piece. That’s the …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to make a cigarette disappear. I’ll show you two different ways of doing this. One, is to take the cigarette. Make it vanish and reappear like this. And the other one is to take the cigarette burn on the floor and you can immediately get it …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do the classic Cups And Balls Trick. You have three balls and three cups. You place one of the balls onto the center cup, stack and then snap, and then one of the balls magically goes through the cups. I can do it again. I …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this how to do the jumping thimble trick. It uses 2 thimbles. If you watch the vanish the thimble, it’s essentially this: you’re holding it and it goes into thumb palm, like so and it comes out except you’re doing this in both hands. You got to learn how …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to make a thimble vanish and come back. The way you do this, is you’re going to use something called a thumb palm. So, this is the basic technique, your finger curls in, your thumb goes over it, and your finger is removed. Practice doing this …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do the disappearing handkerchief trick. You take a handkerchief. You place it into your hand. You snap your fingers and it disappears, completely. You can see that there’s nothing in hand, but if I just give it a wave the handkerchief comes back and there’s …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do the instant knot trick. You simply take the rope and you toss. Sorry, you’re supposed to snap your fingers. And then you get the knot to appear inside of the rope. The way this works is you tie a knot in advance at one …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do a top of the fist sponge ball vanish. You simply place the ball into the hand, blow, and it disappears. It’s over here. The way is works is you place the hand on top and your going to simulate pushing this into your hand. …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is How to make a Sponge ball Vanish. You take the ball and it disappears. You make it reappear like this and there are a lot of other ways to do it. You can also put it in this elbow and take it out of this elbow, and …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do an overhand lift style shuffle. What it looks like is this. But it’s a bit more sneaky than that. Because, for example, if I have the three of diamonds, I have no other three of diamonds in this deck. But if I shuffle the …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do a thumb cut. A thumb cut looks like this. It’s easier to do with half the deck. I can do it with an entire deck, but you’re going to have to have awfully large hands and stretch a whole lot to do it this …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do a one-handed shuffle. It looks like this. You take the cards and shuffle them with one hand like this. The grip is a little bit unusual. You have three fingers on one end of the deck and your pinky and thumb on the other …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this how to do an arm spread. It looks like this. You would spread the cards along the arm. You can turn them over and you can re-assemble them like this. You can also throw them in mid-air and catch them depending on how excited you’ll feel that day. …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do a boomerang toss. What you’re going to do is, it’s very much like holding a card for regular throwing. I always, when I’m doing this type of boomerang toss, I always clip the card from this corner, and I have it in here. You’re …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do the very famous ‘card spring’. There are a lot of different ways of doing this. I’m going to show you the best method. I recommend that you learn doing this way. I’ll show you the incorrect ways very briefly and quickly. Two different ways …

Transcript Hi. My name is Mike Patrick, and this is how to do a quadruple cut. It looks like this. This is based off charlier cut and the triple cut, so you should learn those first. But what you’re going to do is allow a small packet, about a third to a quarter of the …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and I’m going to teach you how to do a charlier cut. First you go into straddle grip. That means that you have your index finger on one end, your little finger on the opposite end. Your two fingers should be over here, and your thumb is there. The grip …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is How you do the Butterfly Cut. The action begins with two one-handed Charlier cuts. So you’re going to go into straddle grip as we discussed in that video. I will pivot the cards like this, break it with my thumb and I allow my index finger to …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do a triple cut. Looks like this. The action is very similar to a Charlier Cut, do not attempt to do this unless you do a Charlier Cut first. The action, you get into again the straddle grip like we’ve described before, that’s the index …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do a pivot cut. It looks like this. And you can do it in both hands, like so. The grip is that you’ve got to get into a straddle grip. A straddle grip means that your index finger and your pinky are on the opposite …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick and I’m going to teach you how to do a false cut. It looks like this, you give the cards a cut like this and nothing has happened. Just to let you see what’s happening so you can follow along a little better, I’ll leave the 7 of diamonds on …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do a double bridge with your shuffle. You do this. Standard shuffle; do you standard bridge; and, then, you can do a double, like this, using just one hand. People are very impressed when you can just bridge with one hand. They seem to think …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do an overhand shuffle. It looks like this. And the technique is somewhat important. People often group them incorrectly and when you shuffle, the cards will become all uneven and cards will fall down. And the ways to prevent this are first, is the grip …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do an in-hands riffle shuffle with a waterfall or bridge finish. All you do is you hold the cards in your hand like this. You have your fingers at the face or on the front edge of the deck. Your index finger is curled over …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do a tabled riffle shuffle. This is the type of shuffle that they do in casinos. It looks like this. You take the cards, give them a shuffle, and push them flush. First you cut off half of the cards and you place them to …

Transcript Hi. My name is Mike Patrick, and this is how to do the faro, weave, or dovetail shuffle. Generally speaking, it’s referred to as a faro shuffle. Faro was a really old game. It’s spelled FARO. The game isn’t really played anymore, but this was the shuffle that all the faro dealers used to …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick. This is how to do Hindu shuffle. It looks like this. It’s a very traditional way of shuffling cards. What you do is you hold them from the inner end. My ring finger and middle finger are on the edge, my index finger is curled over the top and my …

Transcript Hi, I’m Mike Patrick, and this is How to do a Cascade, a shuffle flourish. You take the cards, you shuffle them, and you allow them to simply cascade into your other hand. The method is that you must do a pharaoh shuffle. The better your shuffle is, the more smooth the cascade will …

Transcript Mike Patrick: Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and today I’m going to teach you how to throw playing cards. The grip I use most often is, I use two grips. One of which is like this. I use these two fingers, the index and middle finger, and it clips the outer right hand corner, and …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this how to catch a deck of cards from across the room. Either your friend can throw it to you and you can catch it or you can throw it at your friend. Once you know the secret, it’s very easy. If you just throw a deck of cards …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to close a fan with one hand. This can be used to close any fan, whether it’s a pressure fan or a thumb fan as long as it’s not this type because that doesn’t work. So you make your fan and what you do is your …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do a one-handed fan, second version. You can see the other version in the other version’s video. Basically, this is the same exact thing as closing a fan, for example like this, with one hand except in reverse. This works much better with half a …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do the one-handed fan. It looks like this. Your alternative is to do it in both hands, and you can make an S fan and close it like this. This is how to do it. You should hold it in. . .you’re going to use …

Transcript Hello, I’m Mike Patrick, and I’m going to show you how to do the giant, or double tiered fan. First, you need to do a faro shuffle. I have a video on how to do this. You’re going to place the cards like this, and you’re going to get into a pharaoh. The only …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick, and this is how to do the pressure fan. To do a pressure fan, you hold it in the same position as if you were to do a thumb fan, that being your two fingers are along the end of the deck, and your thumb should be able to go …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do a blank fan. What you need to do is master the thumb fan in the right hand. It doesn’t work in the left hand because that is very not blank. So what you should do is you need to be able to do the …

Transcript Hi. My name is Mike Patrick, and I’m going to teach you how to do the thumb fan. You hold the deck so that it goes with your middle finger and index finger should ride along these, and you’re two fingers aren’t really used, your ring and pinky. Your thumb just goes along the …

Transcript This is how to do a ribbon spread turnover. You hold the deck of cards in your hand and you have it slightly beveled. That means you place it like this and you get an angle going towards your hand so you should get an angle like this and you place your index finger …

Transcript Hi. I’m Mike Patrick and this is how to do a basic Sybil style cut. It looks like this and this is the basic explanation. The angle of how the cards are going to move is a little bit difficult to describe, so I’m going to show you step-by-step and you should follow along …