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I am a bit new to magic, actually the only effects I perform are Tagged (Richard Sanders), ID, and tricks with a marked deck.
I wish to learn the hot shot cut, where the card flies out and spins into my hand.

Does anyone know the best resource to learning this and similar types of tricks?

Konrad

Tutorials for the Hot Shot Cut are quite common. It's taught on De'vo's Xtreme Beginnerz (or however the hell he spells it), which is a good resource for.......well, for beginnerz.

The chap who came up with it, Daryl, teaches it himself on Daryl's Card Sleights Volume 8, though I'm sure there's other stuff he's done with it on. Come to think of it he teaches it on Xtreme Beginnerz too.

Lastly it's taught on The Triolgy by Dan and Dave Buck. If you're new to this i'd leave that alone lest you become quite overwhelmed.

David Blaine managed to turn the Hot Shot Cut into a trick, but i consider it a fancy reveal at most. It is addictive though, once you learn it cards start flying everywhere.
Good luck with it.

thank you very much.
I'll look at both the xtreme beginnerz and the encyclopedia volume 8 and see which one I like better. And yeah, I'll leave the trilogy alone (for now) as it does look quite hard. But I think that will be my goal.

it was invented by lennart green...or at least i thought it was...

Iain, you may be confusing 2 different cuts (and excuse my presumption if you are not); Top Shot was invented by Green. Hot Shot Cut is by Daryl.

Paul Harris has an "easier" variation of it in Art of Astonishment. It's also shown in one of his Stars of Magic DVDs. Personally, I dislike his variation; the deck is harder to keep square during the cutting process.

The easiest version I find is holding the deck between ring and index finger and peeling off a packet with thumb, rotating under main deck and shoot out a card.

A quick search reveals it taught in depth here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgvJPdN1X-I

Cerulean, I don't think posting links to Youtube videos is allowed here - especially ones that breach copyrights - this cut is Daryl's and one should only learn it from the sources mentioned in the above post by Grimshaw. Creating such videos is considered immoral and illegal and supporting them is certainly an equivalent crime.

The Hot Shot cut is very impressive to lay people as a great way to reveal a card as the ending to a trick.

However, it's not intended as a trick on its own and you don't seem to have any suitable card tricks at the moment to use it with.

I would give this a miss for the time being and spend your time and money learning more card based material and re-visit the Hot Shot cut much later on.

I was thinking of the top shot as well.

Still can't do either.

dat8962 wrote:I would give this a miss for the time being and spend your time and money learning more card based material and re-visit the Hot Shot cut much later on.

I agree. At your level of experience, there are far more things you should be getting on with before going anywhere near this advanced, flourishy cut. An excellent DVD I can recommend for you is Oz Pearlman's Born to Perform Card Magic. It will teach you the basics and also features the Hot Shot Cut, should you decide you cannot live without it. Plus, it also teaches the Biddle Trick which is genius.

Botn to Perform is a marvelous DVD and should be in every Newbies collection.