Now that I feel a little bit more confident with cards in my hands I wanted to begin learning some tricks. It was more goal from the start to try and learn one trick a week and by the end have a full arsenal of some magic tricks remembered and mastered! After learning how to handle the cards in a little bit more of an appealing way to the viewer I wanted to find a trick that I could show of some of the techniques I had learned about.
I decided to go to TikTok to try and find a trick to learn. As I mentioned before I already had some videos saved on my account before this assignment so I thought I would look through some of those first and that way I could get to the learning stage a little quicker. I ended up stumbling across a video from Ash Marlow who is someone I have saved numerous videos from.
Marlow did not have a name for this trick, but the trick is finding a card that the viewer choses and then mixed around in the deck. The deck is shuffled, and cards are even mixed upside down. After all the mixing the deck magically appears all upright and the only card flipped over is the viewer’s card. Here is a demonstration of the trick I learned with my mom:
The thing I love about Ash Marlow’s videos is he demonstrates the trick fully through before walking through it step by step with you. Learning from a video allows me to stop it and go back as much as I need rather than asking someone who is showing you a trick to keep repeating steps. This allowed me to work on certain steps that I found more difficult.
Reflecting on the learning process has been crucial when learning card magic. It is important for me to realize what works and what does not work. When looking for tricks I have to make sure I am not reaching too far that makes it too hard for me to learn and gets me disengaged with my learning assignment. I try and find things that intrigue me but are also attainable. I found learning this week from a TikTok video was pretty similar to learning from a YouTube video as I used the option of being able to pause and go back numerous times. I also enjoy being able to try and copycat what I am seeing on my screen. The hard thing with learning this way is it is tough to ask questions to the person directly, although I have had some of my questions answered with other viewers of the video. When learning this trick, I was able to use the skills of last week with overhand shuffling and dribbling the cards. Being more comfortable because of last week’s work allowed me to learn and execute this trick a little easier. I was also able to use manipulation of the cards because they felt more comfortable in my hands. If you are curious to how this was done and where I learned through step by step here is the tutorial from Ash Marlow.
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Hi Dylan,
I have always been interested in how this trick is done. When I see it on America/Canada Got Talent, I always pause the show to think of how this is done. This makes me interested in your post and I will continue to follow your post to see if I can understand how these tricks are done. Also, I love that your post mentioned the idea of using a video in your learning project because you can always pause the video and go back to it as much as you need rather than asking someone who is showing you a trick to keep repeating steps. This is my plan for my next lesson (use a video so that I can pause and practice).
Hi Dylan:
This is so fun and intriguing to read/watch. I haven’t been able to successfully imbed video yet, but dang do I have a reason to figure it out now! Totally worth it!
I am relating to the whole comfortable enough thing too. I feel like I have figured out the how-to but in the application, it falls apart. I am learning a lot about how I learn, actually. I’m a practice makes perfect person I am realizing and think the next kind of project I’d like to take on is something like you’re doing so I can actually practice practicing haha.