Magic Course

Magic Course #03: Double Lift

what’s up guys welcome back to my channel today we are going to learn about double lifts I’m using the black bicycle def right here so basically what a double lift is it’s one of the most

fundamental technique in magic in card magic it allows you to lift two cards and turn it over making it look like one card when it’s actually two cards in your hand almost everyone almost every

magician uses is almost every myth magic tricks involves using some sort of a double lift it’s really important this is what it looks like you lift you turn over a card and you put it somewhere in

the middle of the deck push it in and it magically jumps to the top that was a double lift and here is the tutorial alright so this is what a double lift essentially looks like what you’re going

to do is you’re going to hold it in a mechanic’s grip like such check my very first video it’s going to tell you what it is how to do it and everything it’s a very short video go watch it and at the

start its let’s start it’s going to feel very awkward it’s going to be very difficult you’re going to get frustrated because you just started but essentially what you want to do at the start is

you’re going to like you’re going to show the audience that all the cards are facing facing down and spread the cards and while you’re holding it back into mechanic’s grip you’re going to get a

break a pinky break under two top cards that’s going to allow you to grab the cards easily and turn it over making it look like you just float two cards when I mean yeah flipped one card well in it

you actually flipped two cards that’s the very easy easiest way of doing it or what you want to do is you can actually count down with your thumb with your right hand to top two cards like that

and then get a pinky break with your pain and then turn it over like that which will also do the job but as you get better and better you’re going to make

wanting you want you will want to make it look more fluent right you don’t want it to make it flashy because the spectator will be suspicious of it right so basically what I do now is I at the

start for me I had to push the whole deck with your with my thumb so it slants it like this and then come over with your right hand if you’re all righty and riffle down on the side with

your index finger like that until I grabbed two cards like that and then I would turn it over like that and then I’ll do the same thing when I turn it back over like that I’ll riffle down

turn two cards like that and then again riffle from the side and then turn two cards like that it’s a very difficult process what I recommend you to do is practice pushing the deck like this so

it’s slanted perfectly and then what you could do is you’re going to prac you should practice rippling down so to the very top so until and then grab the cards so that you only grab two so

that’s a two that’s a two right there that’s a to that’s a to this is what I did at the start this allows you to like you gotta get the muscle memory that’s what I’m saying if you can do this

consistently without making any mistakes that’s when you’re ready to go out into the streets and perform magic tricks involving double lists otherwise it’s going to look very awkward and you won’t

they will know what you’re doing and they will not be impressed right now once you get the hang of that slanting it riff lling down grab two cards and flip what you want to do is when you

flip it you want to hold it with your top three fingers your thumb your index finger and the ring finger like that and the ring finger and the pinkie finger will grab the whole rest of the rest of

the deck on the bottom and your thumb index finger and the ring up middle finger will be placed on the card like this is showing right and what you want to do is your you want to give a little

pressure with your index index finger so it slightly bends the card that allow that conceals the thickness of the card or any gap you will see like this if the spectators users you’ll know right away

what you’re doing so again you want to flip riffle down and grab two cards and turn it over like that and then you’re going to grab it with your thumb on the side your index finger and the middle

finger like this I give it a slight pressure on the top so it bends the cards but not too much don’t over exaggerate that will actually bend the cards permanently you just give it a

slight pressure just enough to bend the cards so they can’t tell if it’s two cards and then you’ll say hey this is a top card and then you’ll flip both cards and then you can put it in the middle of

the deck snap your fingers or do any magical gestures and it’ll magically jump to the top so here are some applications involving double lifts you can say I’m going to get the two of

diamonds put it in the middle of the deck and I’m I can give a few cuts that’s a double undercut I will teach you what that is and how to do it in my next video basically it’s a way of

controlling the cards the top right and then you’ll say so your card is not on the top that’s not your card right you regardless of tube diamonds it’s not on the bottom so it’s somewhere in the

middle of the deck that’s dribble I will teach you it’s a technique and i’ll teach you again but if i look at the five of spades it’s not my fingers well actually

change to your card two of diamonds right that’s an application of double lift or you can do a carlini change let’s see that’s their card get up pinky break or do a double left like this and

then you can just like do that that’s that that’s called Cardini change I’ll teach you how to do it later there are so many color changes that I can teach you just stick around and watch for more

videos in the future so again let’s go over from the very beginning what you want to do is you want to hold it in the mechanic’s grip push the deck over so it gives a slight slant to the side with

your index finger you’re going to riffle down so you until you feel two cards you gotta practice doing this remember that so you have the muscle memory and once you get that down you’re going to

practice turning it over and then holding with your thumb index finger and the middle finger with a slight pressure with your index finger so it bends the card if you get that down you’re ready

to go you’re ready to perform it in front of your audience and you’re good to go so that was a double left tell me how you thought about it if it was difficult or if it’s easy for you I hope

that tutorial was somewhat easy to follow if you liked it please like the video and subscribe i’ll see you next time

One technique that every magician uses: the double lift. I hope you liked the tutorial.