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magic_evmeister wrote:Stevebo, I've never heard of the Ego change. Anywhere you know that we can see it?

Look at my video in the file sharing section. It's the thread Cardini Change. Although the name is different, it's basically the same change. You can learn it in Daniel Garcia Project vol 1.

Edit: by the way, I have improved a fair bit since that video.

Yeah I;m having quite a bit of trouble with the Ego change. I don't think it likes me I'd love to be able to do it though coz it looks amazing.

...keep practicing andrew.

Just out of curiousity - I can do this - not well - I couldn't be asked to buy the video from ellusionist - or another dvd - so just picked it up from watching this performed on various online video clips.
I occasionally do it when messing around with a deck of cards - to me, even though the change itself looks cool - to two things make it obvious - to my eyes at least -
1) the slight pulling down of the two corners, making the card bend (and then spring - won't say more so as not to expose it).
2) the fact that the card has apparantly rotated horizontally by 45 degrees or so - e.g. you start off gripping the top right and bottom left, and end up gripping the top left and bottom right corners.

This 2nd point was the one that looked odd and gave it away to me.

Admittedly - I had to look at the clip repeatedly and knew what to look for, so not really a true test - but have other people had this problem with laymen noticing this?

If not, then I may have to consider perfecting this, as the change itself looks...well magical.

Bcfaigg

Bcfaigg wrote:2) the fact that the card has apparantly rotated horizontally by 45 degrees or so - e.g. you start off gripping the top right and bottom left, and end up gripping the top left and bottom right corners.

Bcfaigg

No one notices the change even on that Sankey one where you shake them ( in my view more obvious). Its not something laypeople watch for.

Magicians think about stuff like this.

Yeah I get huge reations with the 1st change on Joker's Wild. I think it's obvious but there you go. I guess they don't know what's coming but it seems to work, and it's nice and easy