7 Levels of Card Controls / EXPLAINED (Magic Tutorial)

Have you ever wanted to be able to control cards LIKE A NINJA? Here are 7 sleight of hand techniques, from VERY EASY to QUITE HARD that will show you how to control cards so you can amaze your friends (and other magicians, if that's your jam).

This video is part of our series "7 Levels of Sleight of Hand" where we teach different card magic techniques which you can use to elevate your card tricks.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 NOT TO BE MISSED
02:25 NO.1: PEEK CONTROL (EASY)
05:23 NO.2: MESSY CONTROL (SO-SO)
07:11 NO.3: FAN TOUCH CONTROL (A BIT OF PRACTICE)
09:17 NO.4: BLUFF PULL CONTROL (EASY)
11:05 NO.5: ONE HANDED TOP CHANGE (INTERMEDIATE)
12:54 NO.6: ANOTHER CONTROL (INTERMEDIATE)
15:21 NO.7: THE BLIND SQUARE (ADVANCED)

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ABOUT THE CULL (from Magicpedia)
Convincing Control is a card control or cull, named by Ed Marlo, which secretly gets a selected card from a face down, in the hands, spread to the bottom of the deck while in the act of closing the fan.

Marlo based on a variation of his bottom control "The Prayer Cull" that appeared in The New Tops (June, 1966) it was first published in Ed Marlo in Hierophant No. 3 (1970). Marlo was said to have created it based on a description told to him by Alton Sharpe (not the method, just what he had seen from a spectators point of view) about a move he had seen Larry Jennings do.

The same basic control, which many now refer to as the "Hofzinser Spread Cull", was also described in a Hofzinser card problem "Synonymous Thoughts" (First Method) which was first printed in English in the The Sphinx for April 1922.

Ackerman wrote in his book, Magic Mafia Effects (1970) that the technique was "a variation of Ed Marlo's improvement of the Hofzinser card pass" and called it "A Card Pass." (p. 29)


ABOUT THE PASS (from Magicpedia)
The Pass, also known as a Shift or a Hop, is a card sleight that permits to bring a chosen card from the middle of the pack to the top or bottom (or vise versa), usually by secretly transposing the upper and lower sections of the deck. Most Passes can also be used to perform a Color Change.

Possibly first published (in a book of magic[1]) by the French writer Gilles-Edme Guyot in 1769 in his book Nouvelles Récréations mathématiques et physiques under the title Faire sauter la coupe. There is also the explanation of a One-Handed Pass (which IS NOT the Charlier Cut) under the title Faire sauter la coupe d'une main.

A difficult sleight to master, it was once thought to be an indispensable sleight for card conjurers, easier sleights have since been developed over the years accomplishing the same objective. Many modern close up magicians still consider it a valuable tool.

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