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this is my first magic video so dont be too mean =P

Jack Sandwich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCnYPuxwnY


hope yall like, Matt

My first thought was "I wonder where he learned that".

There are so many variations on the sandwich effect but I've never come across this one before. Seriously, where did you learn it?

I think the placing of a jack on the bottom and a jack on the top and then cutting the deck isn't going to fool many people - especially in Texas, the spiritual home of the best game ever: Hold-em.

I have a sandwich routine but I'm racking my brains and I can't remember where I learned it, so I can't point you toward it, but seriously you need to work on a better handling for this effect.

It's not hard to make a sandwich effect seamless when you... well... that would be exposure

PM me and I'll show you how to disguise the sandwich sleight as a natural display of the Jacks. No suspicious cutting required.

And can I finally add - you need to work on your handling. You looked like you were trying to do it wrong handed for a dare or something.

I too have never seen that version. At one or two points you looked...Indecisive at what to do with the cards. It seemed like you just learned it a few minutes before filming. I can't go into details without blatantly exposing it so I'll end here. Most of what I was going to say has been said so...

I get real nervous around cameras lol

There is a nice ace sandwich effect in Mark Wilsons where the card is placed between two black aces, it disappears and appears in the middle of the deck between the two red aces!

Anywhom, the effect is okay but your handling really needs smoothing out.

At 0.30, that third card is looking a bit suspicious!

Overall, I liked it. However, your hands seemed as if they were on caffeine at some points- were you nervous?. There's a similar effect in card control which utilises a more effective "sandwich move" as it were. PM me if you'd like more details on that.

To conclude then, smooth out your handling, and add some verbal patter (I really do despise youtube magic videos with no verbal patter and a thrashing track in the background) and you're ther

Nice work

i especially didnt like the two minutes of black screen with whatever music it was...

anyway - good on you for posting it up..keep at it..

but please, do yourself a favour and learn a different handling, it'll save you lots of aggro...i personally love the lewis jones versions...

and work on your dl too...good luck with it all though...keep on going...we all have to start somewhere dont we...

maybe, rather than use two cards, use two blank faced ones, and write "i will find" on one, and "your card" on the other...so when you finish the effect their card is nicely sandwiched between two visually unusual cards?

Obviously no exposure here, but my version of the sandwich effect goes as follows:

Spec selects a card fairly. I have it returned to the deck and lost. I then ribbon-spread the deck on the table and ask them to try a "divining" experiment, like with those sticks that find water, by passing their finger over the spread and out-jogging two cards. I tell them to pick two to give them a "back-up" if the first one wasn't right. These are left face down as they're slid out of the spread. I gather the deck back up, scoop up and turn over the two cards they chose onto the deck and display them. Neither are correct. Then I say nevermind, there's probably a reason you were drawn to these two, and I charlier them into the middle of the deck and table it. More patter, I ask them to name their card. The deck is spread and their selection is face down inbetween the two face-up X cards.

If anyone is interested in knowing more about that handling I'm sure I can jot a few things down. Just not in public, of course.

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dream2reality wrote:why don't you upload the video to talentainer too? it is more professional
try talentainer.com

Do you work for them or something? Each of your posts so far have been relating to talentrainer (or whatever it's called). I can't put my finger on it but you make my spider sense tingle.

Don't fret, d2d is now banned !