BASIC CARD CONTROL tutorial series pilot

Manipulating a cards position in a deck of playing cards is a basic concept in card magic. It´s called card control and many card tricks rely on it. Sleights designed to control a cards position in the deck are generally called card controls. Ever heard about The Pass, The Hermann Pass, The Gravity Half Pass, The Straddle Pass (Mike´s Move), The Venus Trap, the Fan Control (and many more)? However you don´t need to know any of this rather difficult, because timing and angle sensitive, card control sleights in order to perform great card magic. As a matter of fact the basic techniques of controlling a cards position in the deck are quite easy and also stress free! And this is exactly what you are looking for as a beginner or someone, who has been practicing the pass for years now, but never learned how to use it in the first place!
This tutorials series will introduce you to the basic elements of card control in card magic! Learn how to catch and hold a clean fourth finger flesh break, also know as pinky break or simply break. Also You will learn about three extremely practical ways of catching such a break within the process of having a spectator replacing a card at a random position in the deck. And there are going to be three tutorials showing you how to make use of a nice and clean fourth finger flesh break, feat. 1) The Double Undercut, 2) a simple Triple Table Cut as well as 3) a cut I like to call: Fu** The Double Undercut Cut.
Don´t practice heavy sleight of hand out of context. Instead learn fundamental techniques of card magic and study how to properly put them to use. Don´t just learn another, trick become a magician. What are you waiting for? SUBSCRIBE NOW!

TUTORIAL #1 IN THIS SERIES: HOW TO CATCH AND HOLD A PINKY BREAK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VmfpvTy2NQ
Learn how to catch and hold a fourth finger flesh break, also known as a pinky break or simply break. This is a fundamental technique of card magic to mark a position in a deck of playing cards in order to shift or cut the deck just to that position and thereby controlling a card or a stock to the bottom or the top of the deck.

You are an absolut beginner, but absolutely love card magic?
Get started with The Pic a Card Routine tutorial series. This tutorial series covers the very basics of card magic. Learn how to hold a deck of cards, how to spread a deck of cards and how to square up cards neatly. BASIC GRIPS, the CLASSIC SPREAD and the SQUARE UP are fundamental techniques in card magic. Any novice of the art form of close-up card magic, needs to get those right from scratch! Because every card trick builds on this fundamental three step pattern of handling playing cards. CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzxW8urHt0&list=PLHJE3NxS5tsP_jl2FVc_CwEjDDogS1KZe

Wanna learn how to shuffle playing cards? Here are 4 ROCKING ways how to shuffle a deck of cards especially for card magic. Feat. #1 THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE, #2 THE HINDU SHUFFLE, #3 THE RIFFLE SHUFFLE IN AIR/HANDS and #4 THE FARO SHUFFLE.
There you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YL635z_voU&list=PLHJE3NxS5tsPMSD3Az0Cc_7oaasUaFPuC

Learn about The 5 Most Valuable Flourishes in card magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmxj2g5-3y0&list=PLHJE3NxS5tsMWHHydDIKKB4pfM194nRi1
FLOURISHES ARE ARTISTIC, LITTLE PRESENTATIONS OF ELEGANCE IN HANDLING CARDS designed to please the eye and delight the onlooker. In card magic they appear to be accessory, but take a greater part for the success of the illusions to be performed on the contrary. This tutorial series pilot introduces you to the five most important card flourisches you simply can not miss out on. The Dribble, the Thumb Riffle, the Spring, the Ruffle and the Thumb Fan are indispensable tools in card magic. Especially FANNING cards, DRIBBLING and SPRINGING them has become a general expectation of a performance of card magic for quite a while now. Which makes these flourishes even more useful than ever!

Welcome to OTHMARIUS MAGIC, a channel dedicated to close up card magic! MAGIC PERFORMANCES to inspire and entertain as well as IN_DEPTH TUTORIALS. Learn amazing card tricks & basic sleight of hand techniques and become a great card magician!
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