Instant Cardistry II - The Art of Artistic Card Shuffling

1. Trailer and Intro: Hey guys, my name is Piers and welcome to Eastern car industry part. I've been recording is still a magician for the past 15 years. And in this Skillshare course, we're going to learn some not combusting a beautiful most. You can learn to amp up your code again. Some of these are easy, some of these are difficult. There's something in here for everybody. So grab your favorite deck of playing cards. Mine right here. And let's get started. 2. What we need: For this skill share course, we're going to need a deck of poker playing cards. Now you can use any that you want. But doing this course, we're going to use decks in different conditions where you're going to need the extra bit more used like this one. And we're going to need the extra bit more new ones that you're going to see in the Skillshare course. But if you just have one single deck of playing cards, that's completely fine. Don't worry about it. But if you want to be a cartoonist and you want this to be your hobby, then I advise you to have multiple decks in different states. One is brand new, ones will be used, one is very used, and one of them is very used, we call it but **** deck. Now that we got that sorted out, grab a deck and let's get going. 3. The Fan Throw: We're going to start off with a beautiful idea that is easy to execute. And you guys can just take it off immediately. Is this fantastic? That just makes things so much nicer. It looks complex, doesn't accomplish, it looks difficult. Now it looks like a stunt. Something circuits both tomato, but actually in reality is very easy. All you need to be able to do this is a deck that is not in new condition. So don't get a deck that is way too knew that all the cars just fly away. Once you get that. You can do a fan, right? You're going to do a sum fan. But the fender you do is very important. You don't want to do one of those fans that are very fanned out, pun intended. Because once you do that, the cards are really going to stay there. They might. But it is a bit more wobbly, but you gotta meet the circle much bigger. In order to have a really beautiful fantastic, what you're gonna do is you're going to make the fan much more compact. So we make the fan much more contact. Instead of gripping it towards the lower side, which is more thumb higher. And then you execute the fan and you're going to notice the fan is much more compact than usual. This course from sodium are a bit different to the pips. So that's why you see a lot of white over here. Usually what another deck you're going to see a lot of tips on this side, so it's gonna look better. Once we're in this position. We're going to form a circle with our right hand. And then we're going to place this corner of the deck right here that you see inside that circle. So imagine this part going in the middle of the circle. You turn on your right wrist and you place the cards over there. You'll notice that the firm will just sit there and wait for you to do something, which is exactly what we're gonna do when we're going to throw the cards. But the throwing isn't really throw, throw. So we're not just throwing keys, not doing that. We're not throw me. It's more of a I go up and then I come down with my hand allowing the fan to fall in my hands. I think that would be much better to put it that way. Instead of throwing it, I come up and then I retract my right hand, allowing the fan to fall. And because of that, the cards are much more likely to stick together. So let's recap. We're going to hold the cards face up with all compact fan like this. We make the circle and we spin our left wrist, that middle, the corner of this fan goes in the middle of the circle. We leave the cards over there. And from that point, we're going to come up and down and grab and catch the fat. You're just going to catch the fan just like we put it there. So that's about it. Once you're in this position, you can just use your fingers to rotate the fan over here and close it. If you're not familiar with this way of closing. If you're not familiar, you can use it. If not, you can learn it. And if you don't want to, you can just close it with the other hand. Just like that. I like doing a teacher deck clip at the end because it makes it so much more beautiful. And many courts do this just because it looks nice at the end, like a period at the end of a sentence. Now, when you're putting the cards, if you want, you can already pulled back your fingers over here. See, I'm already pulling back my fingers in preparation for the fact that I'm going to leave the cards over there. Sometimes our fingertips are a bit stickier, so they might stick to the top card. And this is delays the beautiful moment of dropping the fan on the right hand. So what I do is I pull back my fingers so that only the fingertips and the nails touch the courts. So when I placed them there, I can instantly let go without any of the cards sticking to my fingertips. And from that position, we chopped the fair, we close it however you want to and you have a Dava do. That's about it. 4. The Iconic Fan Catch: We're going to be learning a very beautiful move where one single card is being caught in the fan. Just like this. The coin and fan is a beautiful in classical move that everybody wants to be able to do. It's a bit risky, but it's so nice and rewarding. So let's get it done. You're gonna have to be able to do something or do any sort of family you want. Basically, what I do here is I just plot the card out from the top of the day. Basically that I do This is just get the courts here and then I'll just stick the chord from there. I apply pressure with my thumb and a grip, the fan, and I've pulled it out with my phone. And from that point in time is basically a combination of two things. One, we have to be able to throw a card in a straight line, right? So it's going to be as straight as possible. We don't want to do it sideways, and we don't want the court to be at an angle and blindness. We want it to be as straight as possible. And the easiest way to do this is to grip record using three fingers, your index and middle finger on the back of the card, on the face, you're going to have the thumb in the middle. So these are the positions at corners, the two cars and in the center you have thumb and then you're going to rotate the cart. Just like this. There is motion of one finger back, the other thing of forward. Because your thumb is over there, it rotates around your thumb. Then you have to get used to being able to pull on the card with your index finger at the corner. And then at the same time, release it and throw it in here. Once you get flexible with being able to throw it into a vertical line, the secret behind the card going into the air and penetrating the fan is basically you loosening the fan for a second. So you know how to do a fan, right? If you just release the grip for a second, notice that the courts starts separating. There is also this model we're going to be learning in. Oh wow. Now obviously God expects so. You have to get comfortable with being able to release the fan for a second. And that's exactly when the court is going to enter your fat. So you have to make those two things meet up at the same time. Obviously don't don't do that. I let it way too much. Honestly just happens for a split-second. See, I'm just releasing the pressure for a split second. And then you put the two things together. You grip instantly, you catch the court. In the fact, sometimes the fan gets a little bit more messy. Sometimes it doesn't go in, sometimes it goes out. Sometimes you're going to catch it with your thumb behind. It is to just keep on practicing. And C Now, hit, hit the fan. I went backwards for some reason, probably didn't give the chord too much spin. So we've got the infiltrate, the other quotes. Note hit, it, hit literally the same spot and went up, right? So all these things can actually happen. But as long as we loosen the fan up and do the vertical spin, obviously, don't try it many more times after that because the course is going to be all over the place. Then I'm sure it's gonna, you're gonna get it guys because it's one of those moves that just takes being confident more than actually some sort of secret technique behind it. As well as the secret technique is loosening the loosening the fan, which is something that I don't think people that are not cartoonists do. Because once you start doing it to realize is just how much it helps you if you lose some the fan-out for secondary. Besides that, I did a couple of times with you. So you can see just how it goes. Sometimes you have to follow the cord with the Fed at the same time. C Now what went in and went out. So wasn't dumb. I don't really care if I feel I just big coil up and do it again. And if you want to do it for a spectator, you are going to tremble. You're going to travel. But it's worth it. It's worth it, honestly. So good luck with that one. 5. The Fan Split: Split is a classical move invented by this morality from Israel. And it's been around for so, so long that it's been actually taken by both magicians and by Curtis. It's such a beautiful way to separate a fan into two packets so that you can then start performing with both of them or do whatever else with the decks. In order to execute the fence split. All you need to do actually, let me show you is to press down on this side of the deck. On the lower side of the deck, usually you hold the fan over here, but if you're just going to bend your knuckle inwards, let me show you without holding onto the deck, just going to bend your knuckle inwards. This is going to force the deck two separate. Now, it's not just pressing down with your thumb on that side of the car, the deck, because that will not actually cause the course to separate completely. You need to have some action from the front of the deck as well. Now that you got how to do the back part, here's what's happening from the front. You found the chords, you hold the fan. And then at the same time, notice how my fingers went from this position to pressing down on the fan on the lower side. So they're here. Notice how I buckled them so that I get a good grip on them. And then I press down on the lower part. And it's at that point when both my thumb from the back and my fingers from the front press on that part, presses a powerful word. I'm just more like applying pressure from both sides. It's what's actually causing the courts to separate just like this. There's some beautiful physics involved over here. And if you're into physics, you probably understand why this is happening. Because I'm applying pressure there and it's exactly at the center of the fence. So the cards are separating by themselves as if by themselves. So grip the course like this. Press down. And if you're pressing down like I just press right now, the cars are going to go in all directions. But besides just pressing, you need to become a bit softer with your touch. So you need to allow the courts for them to fall down. If you're just going to press there, nothing is going to happen, but the course is just going to go up like that. So you need to press while at the same time loosening your grip on the cards and allowing them to fall down so that your right hand can grab the right packet and your left hand can graft or left packet. Over here. I'm already preparing and I'm pressing down and allowing the course to fall down. If you're going to have courts falling, don't worry about it. It's completely natural disposition. You can go into any flourish that you want. I'm just going to do here a couple of triangles. It was like that is such a nice, beautiful display over here. Once more. Fanned, move your fingers. Press from the back then from the front while allowing the courts to fall down. And from this point, it's all up to you. What should do from this position. 6. The Waterfall Catch: In order to execute this move, you're going to have to be able to do a water and you're going to have to be able to do proper waterfall, not just like an charitable waterfall. You have to be able to do a big one, right? Because if you do, it's very small. It's not going to look as amazing. And my trouble you think with a big waterfall is that you're gonna be able to manipulate the last cards. So you can actually throw one or a couple so that the wheels turn around. The way that we do this is by water falling the cards. And then the last card, just by field, you're going to throw it so that it turns around. I'm trying to do it in such a way that you see what I'm talking about. Now, while you're doing this, you're going to catch the court with your right hand. So try and think of this just like a whipping back. You're here in shampoo commercial, imagined a woman. We think back her hair, you know, and that arc that you get from the hair, which is similar to what you're trying to re-create right now. Let's get a different deck over here. Just like that. You're throwing the cards. And because you're arching it, the last card is much more likely to separate from the rest of the courts because that's the last one that you touched. So you're arching it, you're throwing see, I'm throwing the waterfall in the air. And because I'm throwing it the last card, usually the last card, but you might get another one as well. It's going to contract more air because of my whipping motion. It goes to two. And the last one I contacted a bit more. So that's why it turns around just like that. So I'm trying to show you how to practice in the beginning, just with the deck and make it so that one card separates from the rest of the packet. Because after that, the only thing that you have to do is just catch the chord and play with it as you want. So make sure that you are able to do the waterfall, the proper waterfall. Then try arching it. See how I'm moving in an orange in the course of falling one after the other. I'm dropping. I'm not water falling the course one-by-one like this. Not doing that. I am letting go of all of the courts at the same time while going up. And this is what's, what makes them stick to each other, except for the last chord that you've come in contact with. That, then you'd have it guys. That's the waterfall catch. 7. House Structure: In order to perform this flourish, we're gonna be using something that we learned previously in a more difficult flourish and this way of forming a pyramid. So we do it similar. We do the secret, lit the court fall, and then we form the parent. From this position, we're going to move our thumb here at the top and regroup in such a way that we can hold these two packets by the front and back side with our middle and thumb finger from here on our thumb from the right hand and our fingers from the right hand are going to pull on those two courts. And by gripping these two packets with our left hand and pulling those two cards were actually able to maintain the shape of the courts from above, while also pulling cards from them and forming a small little house reminiscent of the house that we draw when we were kids. We close it over here where we just pull it back in the close together. Then we come back in this position. And from here on, we are going to go forward while at the same time, let me show you. While at the same time we're going to press where our thumb here, keep the motion. And at the same time hold the packet here with our left thumb. Grip the packet, come forward and drop this one, FaceTime. So it'd be like this, become the thumb, right? I am currently holding both packets. Then I encrypt that one with my thumb and index finger. I come from underneath and I left that one code on top. So let's see once more. We're over here. We grip, we let go off the packet, and then we move over here. We pull those two cards. We have the small little house. We put it back on top. If you want, you can continue doing this. Would be nice if you could have like a nice running thing where you keep pulling the cards, you can dropping them perfectly there. But this is up to you guys, start playing with it and see what else you've discovered. Or over here, we'll put it back, close grip and then drop on top. And then if you want it in the work, that was a bad thing. Do they fit into a leg lift and continue on? This is the house structure with a bit of flexing here at the end as I can see, my hands sometimes just go ahead of me. 8. The Cross Production: Any four chords in place, two of them on the bottom and told them on the top, I like to mix and match them. So I put red and black on top and red or black on the bottom. Then you're going to classic poem, one of the chords in your right hand. So move on to chords and your right hand. And grip the deck in Biddle grip just like this. And a couple of elections are going to happen at the same time. We're going to push this cart with our index finger. In this motion. You're basically pushing the cart to the left and then forward so that it can arch just like this beautiful, beautiful motion. And we're gonna get a pinky break above the bottom chord so that when we rotate the deck in this open way, we can rotate that card as well. Notice how it brought it around the middle finger. So this just leaves the last chord, which is the ten of hearts, which we're going to rotate slightly in this position. And we do this by using our right middle finger in order to just push it similar like we did over here with our index finger. But we do it over here with our middle finger. Card is bombed that we get a pinky break. Above the bottom chord. We get in position and then move. Turn. We start pushing this card. We hold onto the ten of diamonds. We keep pushing over there. And then we rotate that card as well. From this point on, what I like to do is I come forward towards the ten of spades. I grid those two cards. Then I dropped the ten of hearts. And I turn the packets around. The closer you can pretty much do anything as long as you have a certain rhythm to it. So you pumped the scores, don't pop to courts obviously. Get that pinky break down around. And then here you can play around. You came from put the card underneath the ten of hearts and hold it just like this. So when I'm spinning, instead of putting it on top, I put it underneath so I can hold it with my index finger. Then we have this beautiful stop picture over here. The way that I usually do it myself is I come over here, I turn. And then that was a lie. I never do this anymore. I think it was just improvising right now. Let me show you. So first thing I put on the cart without nobody's seen a turnaround. I spin. And then here's what I do. I come down towards the ten of hearts. I gripped those two chords. And then this one over here, I put it. Then I dropped the entire deck and teaches at Flip it in order to arrive in this position. So as long as you ended in a beautiful way, you're free to experiment. If you want to cover the fact that you're pulling a card, I suggest you use divergence poem. We're just swinging the court into your right hand. And from that position is just so much easier to do anything that you wish that you have guys, the cross production. 9. Hourglass Display: This one is the most complex on this entire SkillShare course. And honestly, you're going to have a lot of fun with it. That's all I can say. So let's hold the deck in Biddle grip position with our right hand. We're going to turn it towards the front, just like this. You see, I'm going to come with our left hand in this position. And we're going to grip the deck with our thumb and index finger. Now we're going to make a secret, just like this. Now, I am going to treat this as if you're a beginner, but this is not a beginner mode, okay? So you get into the Z rep. Now here's what's going to happen. We're in the Z group that is orientated downwards. And our fingers here are holding the middle packet. We can let go from the right packet, let it slide until the bottom. So at this point we can just come and kiss our thumbs in order to have a beautiful triangle. Now this is not the only thing that we're gonna be doing. We're going to be separating the triangle from the rest of the cards. And we do this by digging with our right thumb into the middle of the left packet and separating one of the packets seemed just like this. From this position. We can actually twist our hands. Nowadays. You can twist my right hand towards the front. See, I can twist the deck towards the front so that a few things can happen at the same time. My left pinky can actually come underneath over here. While at the same time my index finger takes grip from the left side so I can turn this thick completely with my left pinky over here. I'm going to contact these cards. And at the same time, I'm going to break half of the deck from the right path as well, so that I can completely abandon this triangle on my left pinky over there. Notice that now, because I've moved this deck over here to the left, I can move this deck to the right. Now I can position the triangle on my right, pinky as well. So now pinky, pinky index fingers holding the bottom packet. From there on, I can push down on this on the back of the cards from the right hand. And I can refill couple of chords while at the same time squeezing the packet that it reaches the top. And then I can form the second triangle. Now this position, I usually group it here with my right middle finger. I move it towards the left so that I can separate these two triangles just like this. Now you're ready to have, oh, there we go. Now you're ready to have a beautiful badass position, which are two triangles over here. To end it, we're going to move the left triangle. Notice here, as it's seated on my left fingers, moving towards the left with my right thumb until it reaches the end. Now this is going to take a little bit of practice because you're dropping the, the triangle or the pyramids, while at the same time keeping hold of the courts, some of the cars may actually be slipping off at the beginning. Now you have this beautiful diamond and you can just let go hold the course from the center. Turn down once, whereas the left and then drop the cards. Now we've gone through the explanation. Once, you can go back through the explanation and see bars, they have completely missed. 10. The Classic Backhand Fan: Starts out, you're going to hold the deck in basic surely grip. This is surely cut. So we start from this position. Then we're going to move our thumbs on the left side and grip the deck between our pinky and thumb. Just like this. This is a grip that I'm actually applying pressure here, so it's not an easy thing applying pressure. So I can move all of my fingers underneath the deck and straighten them out so I can rest the deck on the back of my hand. This is something that I have taught in one of my other courses. And this has been actually popularized, this certain grid has been popularized by Russian American cartoonist Andre Jake. Just like to see, because the cars are so small, they're just going to run down my hand and instantly. So we must be able to do this part. This is the first prerequisite beyond the pinky fan just over here. Once we're in this position, the pinky finger notice is on the left side. Obviously, we're going to allow the courts to run down the pinky finger. And in slow motion, what's going to happen is we're going to allow the cars to run down over here. Just like that. They're going to rotate around the pinky finger. And instantly we're going to catch that fat. Just like that over there. We put it here and then we catch the cards as they are running down. And meanwhile, our fingers from underneath o going to spread the rest of the cards as well. So we're over here, this is gonna go down, we're going to catch it. And then our fingers from underneath from over here, they're going to keep spreading the deck. I'm trying to explain it as much as possible and slow motion. So we're over here. Notice if I, if I get a fan here, the fingers from underneath can spread the cards from underneath by just extending. We're just extending and applying pressure, pressure on the face of the cards. This is much easier said than done. I know. My advice for you is to sit on top of bed and get used to that because this is what's going to happen. You're going to catch the cards much later. You're going to drop the cards quite a lot. So this is what's going to happen. The course is going to fall down. You're going to catch a couple of cards and it's going to look like a fan. But you have all of the other cars that are on the floor and you don't want to keep picking them up. So either it gets some nice Hammer pants which I'm wearing right now. Sure, perfect for picking cards up. Or you stay on top of it. Now the idea is, as you've noticed, to catch the cards early on. So you will allow them to start falling down the pinky and I already catch them, so I don't want allow them to go a lot. And then by turning my wrist, notice that I am allowing the course to fall over here. And then I am rotating my hand clockwise and at the same time extending my fingers from underneath. And this is what spreading the risks that affect. Over here. We don't extend fully, we stay in this position. Then I leave the cars to fall and I catch the chords and then I extend the fingers. The pinky fan. Honestly, it took me a couple of a couple of good months of practice. And as you can see, still sometimes I catch the course a bit too late. But it's definitely a fan. Works is nice. And it looks amazing once you start pulling it off. It's one of those or trial and error things. So there's not much else I can tell you guys except for what you have already been taught. Tilt the hand a little bit towards the left so that the cards are motivated to run in that direction. Because you want them to run in that direction so you can catch them. And then as you tilt your wrist towards the left side as well, you can have that beautiful fat here and there. And obviously get used to picking cards off the floor. Here. Let's see, underneath, everything is being held by these two fingers, the ring finger and the pinky fingers. And it's extending and then it's blocking the cards. So the pinkie over here is really applying pressure on the cards while the ring finger is applying pressure here so that the fan is being held in the hand. When you want to close it off. You are here, live those cars, they're coming the thumb over here, go up and square root the rest records as you put them in the hand. That guys is called the pinky fan. It's a fan of goes back to the date, unique days back in two thousand and three thousand and four. It's very old fan. Not a lot of people still do it anymore. I don't know why, but it's honestly wonderful. 11. Until next time : That was IT guy is minus because I have a lot of other courses here on Skillshare. I'm actually the only chord this, that is the teacher here on Skillshare. So if you want to learn more corn, she go on my channel and check that out. You're going to find quite a plethora of stuff over there. Not a plethora. It's just it's just a couple of things over there. I think you're going to enjoy it. I've been using some noon playing cards. I think they're an amazing brand. Do check them out. And I hope you guys have fun learning about country and learning hardest removes. Show them to your friends, practice them how a lot of fun, they're the best out of cards. And I'll see you in the next Skillshare course.