One of the miracles I had was, I was at a bar and decided to do a classic force. The spectator ended up grabbing the card next it. Which I remembered was the 3 of spades. I told them to just hold onto the card and we will come back to it, with no intention to. I asked another spectator to name any card and I was gonna do a trick with that card. They named the 3 of spades. So I told the spectator to show the card he just picked and everyone flipped out. I ended up getting some free drinks that night.
I was fortunate enough to be the guest of Juan Tamariz in Barcelona for the last act you showed. I swear to god it felt absolutely magic. One of the best experiences in my life
I will always enjoy watching the features you put out for the people that have inspired you and all the other magicians and card artists out there. The excitement and reverence you have for these titans of the industry is contagious.
As a Spanish speaker, I can assure you that Juan Tamariz is way funnier in his native language, but his work is amazing anyway, I've never seen his work in English, pretty curious. Rene Lavand is another amazing, really amazing magician, but I believe that his storytelling is a fundamental part of his work, so try to translate his videos, adding subtitles would help, if you need help with that I'm pleased to help.
That moment you said, "when you're in the zone, miracles begin to happen." That couldn't be any truer towards every aspect of life too. I think that's the same thing as when someone claims that the Universe gives them many little helping hands all the time, as long as you truly believe you're doing what you're supposed to be doing in their life. I'm no magician but, these little things happen all the time. My favorite moments are when you're randomly doing a color change and the card it changes to is the same exact number or court card but a different color. It happened to me today too. I never filmed myself before for a few people in a discord channel today. Someone started talking about magic and sleight-of-hand so I made a quick little video of me doing a snap change from a random get-ready. The card I randomly picked from the center of the deck was the 6 of hearts and the card I double lifted for a snap change ended up being the 6 of clubs. A little miracle but, sometimes I feel like it's so good to be true that it seems to the spectator that I set all this up. Makes you seem way better than you really are to the spectators. I love these little favors from the Sleight-of-hand gods.
I liked your opener, Chris. Very smooth. I love how Juan yells "Yes!". Scare the begeezus out of everyone, haha. But man, how he is able to force cards without seeming to. Simply miraculous. It also goes to show that such enthusiasm goes hand in hand with the confidence to try riskier techniques. There is no explanation for the miraculous. I think that since cards are one of the oldest tools in history, there is simply no way to mathematically explain how things work out the way they do, seemingly ignoring probability and falling in favour of someone who has built a lot of experience and taken a lot of risks.
The other magician who speaks Spanish is the Argentinian "René Lavand", a specialist in card magic, who unfortunately lost his hand and part of his right arm. His stories and the way he presented his tricks was pure poetry. He always gave the opportunity for people to discover the trick, doing it more and more slowly, while he said his famous phrase "Can't do it slower", we really miss his talent.
he said his name right (and even the catch phrase) before the clip with him in it, and he also said it at the end and asked if we wanted to see more tricks from him. Dunno why the way you worded all that makes it seem like he never named him? :P
Chris - a number of years ago you had a video or two where you talked a bit about "jazz magic" which was something that really stuck with me. Being able to riff and adapt to how a trick is going, particularly using some of Juan's creations, is one of the most exciting aspects of magic in my eyes. Specifically, being able to create opportunities for those miracle-like experiences you mention.
I think that you need to do an actual series highlighting individual magicians for like a 20 minute segment. Your commentary is awesome and it would introduce people to magicians that you love and that maybe others didn't know about.
Very nice Ace trick at the start, sir! 👍😁 and I am glad you are doing another reaction video to Mr. Tamariz. The GOAT is always a pleasure to watch! Card tricks where the spectators "do the magic" are so fun!
The deck was prepared so they alternate from red to black. Cutting the deck multiple times does not change anything. He carefully placed the 2 cards chosen by them (one red, one black) in a reversed order on top. Again, cutting does not change the order. By alternating the cards in 2 piles, one pile is black, the other one is red but in each pile there is one opposite coloured card. Simple trick but magnificiently executed!
Hope you don't mind if I reveal my guess at the method for the first trick. To start, every other card is a different color. He kept saying that he shuffled at first, but if you look back, he only cut the cards in his hands. The two spectators also only cut the cards after that. When the spectators take their chosen cards off the top, he gets them to put them back in _reverse_ order, making them the only two out of order. After that, more cuts change nothing. Then he has one of the spectators deal every other card into a separate pile. Now, every card but one in each pile is the same color. Each pile can be shuffled at will after that. He then just finds the card in each pile that's the oddball color for that pile. After he finds their cards, he cleans up by quickly shufflng the two piles back into one another. Nice trick.
The first routine was performed by Siegfried Tieber in Fool us a while ago. I didn't know it was original by Juan Tamariz, but it makes perfect sense now that I saw him perform it. Such a great routine. As far as I know it's performed with a standard deck of cards.
It is a standard deck... and Chris would've known exactly how this was done if Juan didn't change one small thing up a little. In fact, I'm guessing Chris did know how it was done and just didn't want to say so
That first trick you would think that Chris know it. People think that slight less tricks are for beginners. He teaches that trick in Card College LIGHT. A lot of tricks without slight of hand are super powerful like that.
Once I was about to perform a magicians force... and I started okay "pick red or black" and he reply "4 of hearts" and I was thinking to myself THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING.... 1 in 52... no force was needed. A true miracle
Pretty much the only time I shocked myself was when I was first learning a few simple card tricks while I was still in high school. I had one of my classmates pick a card and show it to some of then others that were sitting there with us. Had him put it back into the deck and shuffle. I told him I had no real way of finding his card because I wasn’t good yet at producing the card after it was put back in the deck. So the weird part was I said I’d have a better chance at dropping the deck and making his card flip over. So I proceeded to drop the deck as a whole and it split the deck once it bounced and flipped over on his card. Blew my mind as well as everyone watching. I played it cool and handed everyone the deck to inspect it for cheating. I still have no freaking clue how that happened and it will forever be the coolest thing I’ve accidentally done with a deck of cards. 😂
i had the luck of seeing him live twice, speak with him after show (he always stay out of stage to meet the people there) and get a card signed. he is amazing and so nice. I have never guessed any of his tricks but the one you showed here (the first one) is so easy of you think on it a little. Is the first and only time i guessed how he did. :-)
Speaking of miracles, I did a force pick by arranging the cards, putting face cards at the bottom and cards that are identically mirrored facing upside down or straight, I force the pick on the top half of the deck, then subtly flip the deck upside down for them to put the card back into the deck with a symbol facing upside down. I then had the viewer fully shuffle the deck, then I have them flip the deck and spread it out. Usually I can find the card whose symbol like spades, hearts, or clubs is now showing upside down, however the viewer shuffled their card to the very top of the deck, instead of flipping through the cards I was able to just point directly to the viewers card. Learned this one from you Chris!
Juan is the reason why I chose this profession. I saw the last routine on live. That is not a just "miracle" or yes but he can do that miracle every time if he want. It's a combination of technics and a lot of subtleties. Many magic effects produce an "oh no, was that just it?" when we know the secret but in this case the secret is even cooler than the effect.
I have followed his books since I was 5 years old, I have grown up learning from his videos and books and I was even lucky enough to witness his lectures. There are methods and techniques in many effects that you use over and over again. I think that helps me recognize some things anyway every effect I haven't seen fools me at first, some I can understand and some I can't. Maybe it's not how I think anyway 😂
I think that 1st card trick has to do with the man drew his card 1st, but was also specifically asked to return his card to the deck 1st, which immediately takes them out of their original order. Which tells me the cards were probably pre-staged in alternating red/black. Subsequently you can cut a deck of cards as many time as you want and it won’t change their order, it only changes the starting point. Then by separating the cards into two rows, you should have all the red in one row and all the black in another, except for the two cards that were drawn. So her black card was in the red stack and his red card was in the black stack.
And the way he keeps saying you shuffled and Cut, during the Begining when they did not Shuffle... Makes it suspessious he wants them to think they shuffled the order.
I had a great experience in a bar in Lisbon, Portugal. Was doing a coin routine for the owner and a bunch of friends and I ended with the coin on her shoulder. She turned and the coin fell off her shoulder, rolled all the way to the bartenders feet, 3 meters away. There was plenty of noise so noone noticed. When I showed her it vanished they were already amazed, but they really flipped when I told them the coin was next to the bartenders feet. Dude picked it up with the biggest laugh. Great little magic miracle. I even got the recipe for a special cocktail they made for me and we took a few pics behind the bar. good times indeed!
I had a "miracle" event happen when I was going through a routine with some friends. The routine started with guiding someone through a deck of imaginary cards to have them end on the one I chose. All the while, the questions were meant to give the spectator the feeling of complete freedom. The whole routine was to climax in the reveal of the card that they chose. However, the spectator thought he would be tricky. When I started the routine, and asked them to imagine a deck of cards, they decided to simply say a card outloud as their chosen card. The card they had chosen happened to be the one card the card I was wanting to lead them to. I played everything off as part of the trick, but that one moment is what sealed the deal and convinced even the most skeptical onlooker to be surprised.
I’ve had some great moments where I’m planning to use magicians choice to eliminate packets down to a single card, but the person I was performing for picked everything perfectly with no magicians choice needed. I always highlight the consistency when it happens and it makes it that much more impossible. Great stuff!
Been wanting to watch this video since it was posted but I wanted to make sure I really took the time to appreciate it and not just have it on in the background. Glad I waited, thanks for giving this amazing magician a much deserved spotlight.
Tamariz intelligence is out of scope. Under his "weirdo" aspect there's a craftman... ;) About the second video Magician he's the Amazing René Lavand. I will not spoil you about why he's so good but I promise you a "surprise" when you find his trick. Thanks a lot for your work Chris. You are handsome, respectful and passionate professional. People like you makes the World a better place.
@Chris Ramsay Hey Chris, I saw the first routine from Juan performed by Siegfried Tieber on Fool Us (he did fool them), with some little variations and a very similar presentation. It's very interesting to watch it and the guy is hilarious.
My favorite personal "miracle" moment when performing was at a walk around gig I did years ago. I was doing a card in an impossible location and part of my routine called for a false "guess" of the card. I did it as a callback to an earlier mind reading routine but created the moment to seem more impossible. (They had picked a specific card that they wanted while my back was turned). I somehow managed to say the right card and ended the trick there. At the end of my set, I did the original reveal, but I still vividly remember trying not to be surprised that I got the card! XD
I know how the first trick is done, and I just don't perform it because it is so complicated to prepare and most important moment is checking all cards of these two piles (which is also hard to do fast). The fact he masks this check with sniffing cards is so funny 😂
Nothing is difficult with constant practice. a good faro shuffle is all you need, the rest is all on the spectator. It's Incredible what you can do with a half stack. Happy practicing!
Been following for years, found you in a dark place and thank you and your content for showing me light. I have hanayama puzzles and continue to enjoy the spectacle of your craft! 🖤
I once was doing a trick for two participants with a Svengali deck. The force card was the 9 of hearts. So when I had them both freely select a card (obviously they both would pick the 9), it was game time. So I told them both to say out loud the name of their card on the count of three. Now for unexplained reasons, they both said the 2 of spades! I was shocked and confused. One of them said “well they’re all the same card!” I said you’re right, they’re all the nine of hearts! The best part is that I just so happened to have a two of spades in my wallet. Best moment of my magic life.
I got to see a masterclass with Juan in the early 90s at the Blackpool Magician's Convention. Being only 13 or 14, I was taken in by his personality and manic energy (and also I was doing some serious fanboying over Paul Daniels, Ali Bongo and the Pendragons), but it's only now that I'm older that I can really appreciate just how slick his hands are.
I remember this was one of the firsts routines I learned from Juan Tamariz a millon years ago, It´s so easy and simple, that when you find out how it works... you realize the beauty of its simplicity.
My favourite "miracle" trick was a trick with Scotch and Soda. The "miracle" part came at the prestige. Where did the coin re-appear? On the seat my target was sitting on. Why was this such a miracle? 1. My target was my brother who had seen me perform this trick before. He had an idea of how it worked... Until that point. 2. The seat he sat on that day, was a seat he almost never sits on (maybe once a year if that). 3. I did not lead him to that seat. 4. I had been practicing all week, so he knows I had the coins with me fairly recently. Even if you know how Scotch and Soda works, there is only one explanation, a magician's miracle. The other one is still a fun miracle but a lot more common. The spectator drew a card, placed it in the deck, and shuffled the deck themselves. When they were done, without me touching the deck, I asked them to turn over the top card and it was theirs. Yes, the deck did have 54 different cards (incl. 2 different jokers). Clue for why this worked and it is a fairly common "miracle", for this trick it is almost guaranteed to work when the spectator uses a Hindu shuffle. If they don't I just shuffle the deck and choose a reveal method.
At a hostel, in my 20s, I once performed the same concept as yours, except I kept the deck and had controlled the 2 of diaomnds to the top, then put it in my back pocket... she answered all the "right" things except she said Hearts instead of Diamonds: so I said "hearts can break, but diamonds are forever, so we'll go with the 2 of diamonds". I then asked in how many tries I should find her card, she said two. I randomly fished out a card from the middle of the hostel deck... which happened to be a "FOLDED/CREASED/BROKEN" 2 of hearts! So I miraculously found her card which miraculously represtented the BS i had said! Needless to say, pulling out the forever 2 of diamonds got me more than just drinks...
It is weird to listen him in english ... So nice guy ... I still remember him and his performances. We can still see him in some performances. I will try to see him in Madrid: perform in 9 Agust and 6 september 2023 in teatro de la Luz en Gran via. If I can, I will go. So good time seen him, he is a legend.
When I was a kid trying to learn magic and not knowing any mechanics I tried to guess what cards my family members picked. I would shuffle the deck and have them pick any card and not show them to me, and I just tried to guess with absolutely 0 information, I actually guessed correctly 5 times in a row with different family members before I failed the 6th time, I'll never forget that.
@@lukemurphy7yearsago513 I don't think so, my brother would never do that lol, and the time I failed was when trying to do it again with the same person but this time they said it wasn't the right card.
I love these so much. When those "miracles" happen, how do YOU, the magician, manage your own reaction? I'd immediately freak out and crumble into laughter.
One perfect coincidence happening to me was when I performed at an event that was titeled "hokus pokus". I had the letter ready with the dmc alphas deck and the spectator said "ok now i just say the magic words amd something happens?" I was like "yeah sure" and he said exactly 'hokus pokus' and I told him to turn over the cards to reveal exactly what he said. That was a great moment ☺️
The first one is very easy, absolutely no skills required, I did it to my family:) The deck was NOT shuffled in the beginning. The exact same routine fooled Penn and Teller, I don't remember the guys name, but he had this huge disco hairstyle.
Your comments at the end make me think of how when I'm just fiddling around with a deck I like to just randomly guess the next card in the deck. It's crazy how many times it's right.
I was on stage for a mentalist routine in college. You know how it goes, I'm sure - "OK, turn to a random page in the book. Now pick any word on that page, not too short, don't make it easy for me..." Long story short I was under the guy's control perfectly despite trying my best not to be. I've never fully recovered from that and still get angry with myself when I think about it, since it makes me feel like a fool. Worked a treat for the audience, though! Was it a miracle? Well, of course not but there was surely a chance for the trick not to work.
Many years ago, I went to a Art degree final show in an old building in the middle of town. One artist’s final piece was making loads of tiny yellow ducks and hiding them all over the building… so you’d be randomly walking between exhibition spaces and there’d be a tiny yellow duck on the window sill, or on the stair handrail, or perched on top of heating pipes… you get the picture. I think the point of the art piece was to remind people to see Art in unexpected places. Or something. Several years later I went to a different event hosted in the same old building, with the person I’d been at the exhibition with. As we walked in through the front doors I commented “hey! This is where they had all those tiny ducks… wouldn’t it be amazing if…” and reached up to the ledge above the doorframe. My fingertips instantly connected with a tiny shape behind the ledge and, grinning widely, I held out my palm to show my companion the tiny yellow duck in my hand. The look of stunned amazement on their face was priceless. At first they were convinced I’d taken one from the exhibition all those years ago and secretly kept it, waiting for that exact opportunity.
Such a great video. At a recent performance I was performing strolling magic and in once group I got a spectator to Google something whilst doing it I took a mental note of his 4 digit number to phone. (Side note - it wasn’t a date and was random) Later during the same event a completely different group I was doing a PIN number to bank reveal and the numbers from the two people (who didn’t know each other) matched! Even better when I ran over and asked the guy (with the phone) to say out loud what BOTH their PIN numbers were….
I had the honor to take some classes in her daughter's magic school in Madrid, Ana Tamariz. I had the honor as well to be the chosen spectator in two Juan shows. I can rest in peace with a smile in my face.
When I was eight, I laid out 24 red cards and the ace of spades face down in a grid, so no one knew what the cards were, and asked my uncle to tocuh one card. The one he touched was the only black card (the ace of spades). Rather than continue with the planned trick, I showed all the cards and took the miracle. The perplexed look on his face was a better reaction than any other trick I've performed.
I remember watching it cant be done any slower than this on some network magic show. I was mystified. He just kept going slower and i kept getting more confused. True magic
I dont want to criticize, Cris...you are a master for me and I've learned a lot from you. But the first trick was so easy to understand...and I've never seen it before. Standard deck...just notice the order: guy picked a card, lady picked the second one. Guy put it back, lady put it back. Done...
I once performed the trick "do as I do" which entails the performer and spectator each having a deck, shuffling and randomly picking a card, and through the effect it is apparently found to be the same card. But while I was doing it I messed up and lost both our cards. I didn't know what to do so I then asked them to cut the deck and turn over the top card as I did the same...I was planning to do try something else from there...but it just so happend that they were the same card. They were amazed...as was I. And that's when I put away the cards. No way I could top that.
On the first trick, after choosing the 2 cards and before revealing the deck face up to the public, he carefully shuffle the deck twice => probably to hide some arrangement / predefined ordering of the card before the trick. It must be some clever arrangement, since they are still valid with the various cut and separation of the cards during the trick. PS: i have no idea, just a thought.
Oh boy, I love magic. Can't even imagine sitting in one of those, next to him. I have seen once a magician live, here in Romania... he preformed children's magic for adults at a festival, so most of them were lacklustre, and I knew the self-working tricks he did. No problem with self-working tricks, that would have been great! But even he was bored, he was like a robot. Doing the trick, waiting for the applause. That was ever few minutes after he finished a trick. I remember as a child I went to the circus to see magic, but I never did, but the TV said they have magicians, so I only enjoyed clowns :P They were funny.
The last trick seems like an odds game rather than a reliable trick. If you film it 52 times, odds are you will get a success. More likely, there's a prepared continuation for the 98% of times where it doesn't luck out, so the participant still has a great experience. Chris snaps his fingers when he says "black", and does not prepare the question when he says "red" which may be a mentalist style trick. He reinforces the choice by saying "perfect". Then he quickly says "hubs or spades" with clear enunciation on the "Spades" while looking directly at him and gesturing. The deck could be stacked with likely guesses on top and bottom to improve the odds; note that the participant is instructed to choose a "number between 0 and 13". I don't believe anyone would choose 10-12 when phrased this way, and putting "zero" as the floor makes it confusing to choose a low number. They are instructed to cut the deck twice, which returns it to a similar state to the original position, though not guaranteed to be exact. With these tricks in mind, it's likely we've increased our odds of success to 10% or more.
DON NOT INTERACT WITH SCAM BOTS! I dont have Telegram. Contest has ended. ♥️
Great! So im on the verge of being scammed!
Nice try, that's exactly what I'd expect a scam bot to say 😄
Caught a lil flash on the intro 🤫
Don Knotts did what? 😆
@@ramonhamm3885 i bet they don knO
One of the miracles I had was, I was at a bar and decided to do a classic force. The spectator ended up grabbing the card next it. Which I remembered was the 3 of spades. I told them to just hold onto the card and we will come back to it, with no intention to. I asked another spectator to name any card and I was gonna do a trick with that card. They named the 3 of spades. So I told the spectator to show the card he just picked and everyone flipped out. I ended up getting some free drinks that night.
It's true. I was the card! Lol
You lucky guy yep that's happened to me too
Such a cool story! Must’ve been pure adrenaline when you heard the guy name the 3 of spades and it clicked.
Wow Chris !!! Your opening card trick totally blew my mind.
Please keep doing what you do.
You’re incredible and a true inspiration.
a probability of 1 in 52 is a very loose definition of a "miracle" in my book, but hey, to each their own i guess.
Juan tamariz is just a wonderful personality. His exuberance for what he does is infectious. When he performs i can't help but smile.
It's incredible ain't it?
I was fortunate enough to be the guest of Juan Tamariz in Barcelona for the last act you showed. I swear to god it felt absolutely magic. One of the best experiences in my life
I'd believe it!
I will always enjoy watching the features you put out for the people that have inspired you and all the other magicians and card artists out there.
The excitement and reverence you have for these titans of the industry is contagious.
As a Spanish speaker, I can assure you that Juan Tamariz is way funnier in his native language, but his work is amazing anyway, I've never seen his work in English, pretty curious. Rene Lavand is another amazing, really amazing magician, but I believe that his storytelling is a fundamental part of his work, so try to translate his videos, adding subtitles would help, if you need help with that I'm pleased to help.
That’s a generous offer, I’d love to see that.
"No se puede hacer más lento"... un genio
René Lavand, pride of Argentina.
RIP, Maestro. We miss you.
That moment you said, "when you're in the zone, miracles begin to happen." That couldn't be any truer towards every aspect of life too. I think that's the same thing as when someone claims that the Universe gives them many little helping hands all the time, as long as you truly believe you're doing what you're supposed to be doing in their life. I'm no magician but, these little things happen all the time. My favorite moments are when you're randomly doing a color change and the card it changes to is the same exact number or court card but a different color. It happened to me today too. I never filmed myself before for a few people in a discord channel today. Someone started talking about magic and sleight-of-hand so I made a quick little video of me doing a snap change from a random get-ready. The card I randomly picked from the center of the deck was the 6 of hearts and the card I double lifted for a snap change ended up being the 6 of clubs. A little miracle but, sometimes I feel like it's so good to be true that it seems to the spectator that I set all this up. Makes you seem way better than you really are to the spectators. I love these little favors from the Sleight-of-hand gods.
I liked your opener, Chris. Very smooth.
I love how Juan yells "Yes!". Scare the begeezus out of everyone, haha. But man, how he is able to force cards without seeming to. Simply miraculous. It also goes to show that such enthusiasm goes hand in hand with the confidence to try riskier techniques.
There is no explanation for the miraculous. I think that since cards are one of the oldest tools in history, there is simply no way to mathematically explain how things work out the way they do, seemingly ignoring probability and falling in favour of someone who has built a lot of experience and taken a lot of risks.
Juan is simply amazing, one of the best in the world. Saw him live and he is incredible.
He saw you too.
The other magician who speaks Spanish is the Argentinian "René Lavand", a specialist in card magic, who unfortunately lost his hand and part of his right arm. His stories and the way he presented his tricks was pure poetry. He always gave the opportunity for people to discover the trick, doing it more and more slowly, while he said his famous phrase "Can't do it slower", we really miss his talent.
he said his name right (and even the catch phrase) before the clip with him in it, and he also said it at the end and asked if we wanted to see more tricks from him. Dunno why the way you worded all that makes it seem like he never named him? :P
How the hell did he lose his arm?
@@olinater5 these are dangerous tricks, probably some sleight of hand gone horribly wrong.
@@olinater5 a car hit him and ran over is arm when he was very young.
Chris - a number of years ago you had a video or two where you talked a bit about "jazz magic" which was something that really stuck with me. Being able to riff and adapt to how a trick is going, particularly using some of Juan's creations, is one of the most exciting aspects of magic in my eyes. Specifically, being able to create opportunities for those miracle-like experiences you mention.
The way he intertwines sleights, mnmca, patter, and personality makes for an incredible spectacle every time you watch him.
To Juan 🍾
I think that you need to do an actual series highlighting individual magicians for like a 20 minute segment. Your commentary is awesome and it would introduce people to magicians that you love and that maybe others didn't know about.
I second this for sure
Very nice Ace trick at the start, sir! 👍😁 and I am glad you are doing another reaction video to Mr. Tamariz. The GOAT is always a pleasure to watch! Card tricks where the spectators "do the magic" are so fun!
The deck was prepared so they alternate from red to black. Cutting the deck multiple times does not change anything. He carefully placed the 2 cards chosen by them (one red, one black) in a reversed order on top. Again, cutting does not change the order. By alternating the cards in 2 piles, one pile is black, the other one is red but in each pile there is one opposite coloured card. Simple trick but magnificiently executed!
Could also be done with mnemonica and a quick grasp of odds and evens
@@JeremySmyth you are worthy my friend!
@@JeremySmyth That would be very hard for nothing though since he doesn't show the cards ^^
Hope you don't mind if I reveal my guess at the method for the first trick. To start, every other card is a different color. He kept saying that he shuffled at first, but if you look back, he only cut the cards in his hands. The two spectators also only cut the cards after that. When the spectators take their chosen cards off the top, he gets them to put them back in _reverse_ order, making them the only two out of order. After that, more cuts change nothing. Then he has one of the spectators deal every other card into a separate pile. Now, every card but one in each pile is the same color. Each pile can be shuffled at will after that. He then just finds the card in each pile that's the oddball color for that pile. After he finds their cards, he cleans up by quickly shufflng the two piles back into one another. Nice trick.
The first routine was performed by Siegfried Tieber in Fool us a while ago. I didn't know it was original by Juan Tamariz, but it makes perfect sense now that I saw him perform it. Such a great routine. As far as I know it's performed with a standard deck of cards.
It is a standard deck... and Chris would've known exactly how this was done if Juan didn't change one small thing up a little. In fact, I'm guessing Chris did know how it was done and just didn't want to say so
That first trick you would think that Chris know it. People think that slight less tricks are for beginners. He teaches that trick in Card College LIGHT. A lot of tricks without slight of hand are super powerful like that.
The one handed Argentina magician René Lavand is magnificent magician his card techniques are masterful
My brain melted on the one handed trick
@@Jameloaf Magnificent even with the tea cup and small balls he does masterful art
Once I was about to perform a magicians force... and I started okay "pick red or black" and he reply "4 of hearts" and I was thinking to myself THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING.... 1 in 52... no force was needed. A true miracle
Thanks for shawing some Tamariz. I think his Magic Con performance is his best stuff in RUclips. Highly recommend!
Pretty much the only time I shocked myself was when I was first learning a few simple card tricks while I was still in high school. I had one of my classmates pick a card and show it to some of then others that were sitting there with us. Had him put it back into the deck and shuffle. I told him I had no real way of finding his card because I wasn’t good yet at producing the card after it was put back in the deck. So the weird part was I said I’d have a better chance at dropping the deck and making his card flip over. So I proceeded to drop the deck as a whole and it split the deck once it bounced and flipped over on his card. Blew my mind as well as everyone watching. I played it cool and handed everyone the deck to inspect it for cheating. I still have no freaking clue how that happened and it will forever be the coolest thing I’ve accidentally done with a deck of cards. 😂
Awesome moment!!! Thanks for sharing.
Obviously it was magic! 🤷♂️😂
i had the luck of seeing him live twice, speak with him after show (he always stay out of stage to meet the people there) and get a card signed. he is amazing and so nice. I have never guessed any of his tricks but the one you showed here (the first one) is so easy of you think on it a little. Is the first and only time i guessed how he did. :-)
Hey Chris…. Lost track of you for a while.. Glad to see you’re still around, and teaching!! Blessings…. RP Lewis. Flint, Mi.
Loved the Aces trick at the start 😁🤘🃏.
I loved your last video on, Juan - and this one was just as cool.
He truly is the GOAT 🤘.
Great video man 🙏.
Neither Blind Nor Silly is such an awesome Tamariz classic! Both a fooler and completely self-working.
Speaking of miracles, I did a force pick by arranging the cards, putting face cards at the bottom and cards that are identically mirrored facing upside down or straight, I force the pick on the top half of the deck, then subtly flip the deck upside down for them to put the card back into the deck with a symbol facing upside down. I then had the viewer fully shuffle the deck, then I have them flip the deck and spread it out. Usually I can find the card whose symbol like spades, hearts, or clubs is now showing upside down, however the viewer shuffled their card to the very top of the deck, instead of flipping through the cards I was able to just point directly to the viewers card. Learned this one from you Chris!
Juan is the reason why I chose this profession. I saw the last routine on live. That is not a just "miracle" or yes but he can do that miracle every time if he want. It's a combination of technics and a lot of subtleties. Many magic effects produce an "oh no, was that just it?" when we know the secret but in this case the secret is even cooler than the effect.
And its first effect is in the book "El mundo Mágico", which came in a series of collectible installments that were bought at newsstands in the 90s.
Hey is there any way to read how that last trick was done? As you said that the secret was even better than the trick
I have followed his books since I was 5 years old, I have grown up learning from his videos and books and I was even lucky enough to witness his lectures. There are methods and techniques in many effects that you use over and over again. I think that helps me recognize some things anyway every effect I haven't seen fools me at first, some I can understand and some I can't. Maybe it's not how I think anyway 😂
Juan's personality is amazing. Love 😍
I think that 1st card trick has to do with the man drew his card 1st, but was also specifically asked to return his card to the deck 1st, which immediately takes them out of their original order. Which tells me the cards were probably pre-staged in alternating red/black. Subsequently you can cut a deck of cards as many time as you want and it won’t change their order, it only changes the starting point. Then by separating the cards into two rows, you should have all the red in one row and all the black in another, except for the two cards that were drawn. So her black card was in the red stack and his red card was in the black stack.
And the way he keeps saying you shuffled and Cut, during the Begining when they did not Shuffle... Makes it suspessious he wants them to think they shuffled the order.
Sure It was done in that way. I cannot believe Chris didn't understand...
My favorite one of him is playing poker with Pepe Carrol. That was just fantastic.
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Elivis’s Rugged Twin 👀👀
Love the guy’s enthusiasm! Whoever shuffle’s for him…. Will be shuffling for their life! 😂😂😂😂
Rene Lavand, yes please. That would be great.
The stories he narrates while doing the tricks are the best.
Honestly that initial cut got me. There’s a “mind reading” variation of this that I like a lot.
I had a great experience in a bar in Lisbon, Portugal. Was doing a coin routine for the owner and a bunch of friends and I ended with the coin on her shoulder. She turned and the coin fell off her shoulder, rolled all the way to the bartenders feet, 3 meters away. There was plenty of noise so noone noticed. When I showed her it vanished they were already amazed, but they really flipped when I told them the coin was next to the bartenders feet. Dude picked it up with the biggest laugh. Great little magic miracle. I even got the recipe for a special cocktail they made for me and we took a few pics behind the bar. good times indeed!
I had a "miracle" event happen when I was going through a routine with some friends. The routine started with guiding someone through a deck of imaginary cards to have them end on the one I chose. All the while, the questions were meant to give the spectator the feeling of complete freedom. The whole routine was to climax in the reveal of the card that they chose. However, the spectator thought he would be tricky. When I started the routine, and asked them to imagine a deck of cards, they decided to simply say a card outloud as their chosen card. The card they had chosen happened to be the one card the card I was wanting to lead them to. I played everything off as part of the trick, but that one moment is what sealed the deal and convinced even the most skeptical onlooker to be surprised.
The guy who shuffled the card is his assistant
I’ve had some great moments where I’m planning to use magicians choice to eliminate packets down to a single card, but the person I was performing for picked everything perfectly with no magicians choice needed. I always highlight the consistency when it happens and it makes it that much more impossible. Great stuff!
I too have done a dealer's choice force and had the subject give the right answer at every step.
Been wanting to watch this video since it was posted but I wanted to make sure I really took the time to appreciate it and not just have it on in the background. Glad I waited, thanks for giving this amazing magician a much deserved spotlight.
Tamariz intelligence is out of scope. Under his "weirdo" aspect there's a craftman... ;)
About the second video Magician he's the Amazing René Lavand. I will not spoil you about why he's so good but I promise you a "surprise" when you find his trick.
Thanks a lot for your work Chris. You are handsome, respectful and passionate professional. People like you makes the World a better place.
@Chris Ramsay Hey Chris, I saw the first routine from Juan performed by Siegfried Tieber on Fool Us (he did fool them), with some little variations and a very similar presentation. It's very interesting to watch it and the guy is hilarious.
That first trick is taught in a really popular book, and it slays. My go to trick when I have a crowd and a table. Juan is just so damn clever.
My favorite personal "miracle" moment when performing was at a walk around gig I did years ago. I was doing a card in an impossible location and part of my routine called for a false "guess" of the card. I did it as a callback to an earlier mind reading routine but created the moment to seem more impossible. (They had picked a specific card that they wanted while my back was turned).
I somehow managed to say the right card and ended the trick there. At the end of my set, I did the original reveal, but I still vividly remember trying not to be surprised that I got the card! XD
I know how the first trick is done, and I just don't perform it because it is so complicated to prepare and most important moment is checking all cards of these two piles (which is also hard to do fast). The fact he masks this check with sniffing cards is so funny 😂
Nothing is difficult with constant practice. a good faro shuffle is all you need, the rest is all on the spectator. It's Incredible what you can do with a half stack. Happy practicing!
Lol. That first trick is a masterclass is crowd management. Easy trick covered with fun banter. What a gem.
Watching again, it’s possible to arrange the deck and do the trick for 4 spectators
Been following for years, found you in a dark place and thank you and your content for showing me light. I have hanayama puzzles and continue to enjoy the spectacle of your craft! 🖤
That was complex. Mixed with mentalism. Mind blown.
Too Clean!!
Your opener, 4 ace 👌🏾 slide.
Ooh wee, still got it! 😆
Thank you for showing me this! feels wrong that I haven't already watched the back and forth between the magicians video ✨
For the first trick,I think the odds were stacked against the spectators
6:18 suddenly Dobby is doing the card trick and I'm HERE for it xD
More of the performer who uses one hand!! Cool stuff.
That 4 ace move was amazing Chris. Might be the best I’ve seen you do it. Very nice brother.
You should watch his older stuff. Chris is actually a beast.
I once was doing a trick for two participants with a Svengali deck. The force card was the 9 of hearts. So when I had them both freely select a card (obviously they both would pick the 9), it was game time. So I told them both to say out loud the name of their card on the count of three. Now for unexplained reasons, they both said the 2 of spades! I was shocked and confused. One of them said “well they’re all the same card!” I said you’re right, they’re all the nine of hearts! The best part is that I just so happened to have a two of spades in my wallet. Best moment of my magic life.
Love these videos. Thanks for taking the time to share you thoughts! Magic is all around us, just need to stop and appreciate it some times.
Sounds about right.
I got to see a masterclass with Juan in the early 90s at the Blackpool Magician's Convention. Being only 13 or 14, I was taken in by his personality and manic energy (and also I was doing some serious fanboying over Paul Daniels, Ali Bongo and the Pendragons), but it's only now that I'm older that I can really appreciate just how slick his hands are.
That's really great to hear.
I remember this was one of the firsts routines I learned from Juan Tamariz a millon years ago, It´s so easy and simple, that when you find out how it works... you realize the beauty of its simplicity.
Only a million?
@@deucegalamagic yhea sorry i was counting in dog years
19:00 dude, how is that possible, seriously
My favourite "miracle" trick was a trick with Scotch and Soda. The "miracle" part came at the prestige. Where did the coin re-appear? On the seat my target was sitting on. Why was this such a miracle? 1. My target was my brother who had seen me perform this trick before. He had an idea of how it worked... Until that point. 2. The seat he sat on that day, was a seat he almost never sits on (maybe once a year if that). 3. I did not lead him to that seat. 4. I had been practicing all week, so he knows I had the coins with me fairly recently. Even if you know how Scotch and Soda works, there is only one explanation, a magician's miracle. The other one is still a fun miracle but a lot more common. The spectator drew a card, placed it in the deck, and shuffled the deck themselves. When they were done, without me touching the deck, I asked them to turn over the top card and it was theirs. Yes, the deck did have 54 different cards (incl. 2 different jokers). Clue for why this worked and it is a fairly common "miracle", for this trick it is almost guaranteed to work when the spectator uses a Hindu shuffle. If they don't I just shuffle the deck and choose a reveal method.
At a hostel, in my 20s, I once performed the same concept as yours, except I kept the deck and had controlled the 2 of diaomnds to the top, then put it in my back pocket... she answered all the "right" things except she said Hearts instead of Diamonds: so I said "hearts can break, but diamonds are forever, so we'll go with the 2 of diamonds".
I then asked in how many tries I should find her card, she said two. I randomly fished out a card from the middle of the hostel deck... which happened to be a "FOLDED/CREASED/BROKEN" 2 of hearts! So I miraculously found her card which miraculously represtented the BS i had said! Needless to say, pulling out the forever 2 of diamonds got me more than just drinks...
It is weird to listen him in english ... So nice guy ... I still remember him and his performances. We can still see him in some performances. I will try to see him in Madrid: perform in 9 Agust and 6 september 2023 in teatro de la Luz en Gran via. If I can, I will go. So good time seen him, he is a legend.
Juan Tamariz it's pure magic. I love his show
He's pretty great.
When I was a kid trying to learn magic and not knowing any mechanics I tried to guess what cards my family members picked. I would shuffle the deck and have them pick any card and not show them to me, and I just tried to guess with absolutely 0 information, I actually guessed correctly 5 times in a row with different family members before I failed the 6th time, I'll never forget that.
Do you think they might of been to nice….
@@lukemurphy7yearsago513 I don't think so, my brother would never do that lol, and the time I failed was when trying to do it again with the same person but this time they said it wasn't the right card.
I love these so much.
When those "miracles" happen, how do YOU, the magician, manage your own reaction? I'd immediately freak out and crumble into laughter.
That was smooth. Small flash in the second exchange but that first ace shift was sick
It's quite inspiring too see such a display of skill to do that swap and find with the aces and kings apparently with one hand.
That was a beautiful narration about miracles there.
A video on René Lavand would be incredible!
One perfect coincidence happening to me was when I performed at an event that was titeled "hokus pokus". I had the letter ready with the dmc alphas deck and the spectator said "ok now i just say the magic words amd something happens?" I was like "yeah sure" and he said exactly 'hokus pokus' and I told him to turn over the cards to reveal exactly what he said. That was a great moment ☺️
Did anyone else notice that the girl on his right that forgot her card is the same girl on his right with 4 aces routine?
The first one is very easy, absolutely no skills required, I did it to my family:) The deck was NOT shuffled in the beginning. The exact same routine fooled Penn and Teller, I don't remember the guys name, but he had this huge disco hairstyle.
Love the first trick Siegfried Tieber did a similar rendition on Fool Us with the Yes and No great trick
Juan Tamariz a legend in his own lunchtime. Amazing magician.
My lunchtime too.
Your comments at the end make me think of how when I'm just fiddling around with a deck I like to just randomly guess the next card in the deck. It's crazy how many times it's right.
Juan Tamariz is a legend, full respect for how much he has perfected his craft
i love how he said YEEEESSS louder and louder every time lol :D
Really dig the video Chris! Thank you for putting this together. ✌️
I was on stage for a mentalist routine in college. You know how it goes, I'm sure - "OK, turn to a random page in the book. Now pick any word on that page, not too short, don't make it easy for me..."
Long story short I was under the guy's control perfectly despite trying my best not to be. I've never fully recovered from that and still get angry with myself when I think about it, since it makes me feel like a fool. Worked a treat for the audience, though!
Was it a miracle? Well, of course not but there was surely a chance for the trick not to work.
Clever. What he does making one thing look like the problem when really it’s not the problem.
Great video Chris. Tamariz is a master. Thumbs up for the René Lavand video!
Your La boca Parasite quad makes me so jealous everytime I see it. 😮
signed too. Come on now! Love it and beautiful job as always with your vids.
Siegfried Tieber did a similar performance to the first trick on Fool Us. The whole pacing and construction of that routine is so amusing
Many years ago, I went to a Art degree final show in an old building in the middle of town. One artist’s final piece was making loads of tiny yellow ducks and hiding them all over the building… so you’d be randomly walking between exhibition spaces and there’d be a tiny yellow duck on the window sill, or on the stair handrail, or perched on top of heating pipes… you get the picture. I think the point of the art piece was to remind people to see Art in unexpected places. Or something.
Several years later I went to a different event hosted in the same old building, with the person I’d been at the exhibition with. As we walked in through the front doors I commented “hey! This is where they had all those tiny ducks… wouldn’t it be amazing if…” and reached up to the ledge above the doorframe. My fingertips instantly connected with a tiny shape behind the ledge and, grinning widely, I held out my palm to show my companion the tiny yellow duck in my hand.
The look of stunned amazement on their face was priceless. At first they were convinced I’d taken one from the exhibition all those years ago and secretly kept it, waiting for that exact opportunity.
Such a great video. At a recent performance I was performing strolling magic and in once group I got a spectator to Google something whilst doing it I took a mental note of his 4 digit number to phone. (Side note - it wasn’t a date and was random) Later during the same event a completely different group I was doing a PIN number to bank reveal and the numbers from the two people (who didn’t know each other) matched!
Even better when I ran over and asked the guy (with the phone) to say out loud what BOTH their PIN numbers were….
I had the honor to take some classes in her daughter's magic school in Madrid, Ana Tamariz. I had the honor as well to be the chosen spectator in two Juan shows. I can rest in peace with a smile in my face.
When I was eight, I laid out 24 red cards and the ace of spades face down in a grid, so no one knew what the cards were, and asked my uncle to tocuh one card. The one he touched was the only black card (the ace of spades). Rather than continue with the planned trick, I showed all the cards and took the miracle. The perplexed look on his face was a better reaction than any other trick I've performed.
It's always incredible when that happens.
I remember watching it cant be done any slower than this on some network magic show. I was mystified. He just kept going slower and i kept getting more confused. True magic
I've just watched the routine for the first time and I'm mystified too!
Where can i get that information of such great effects! The first one is crazy.
SiegFried Tieber fooled Penn and Teller with that exact same first trick that Jaun did. He even asked the same exact questions to Penn! Great routine!
I dont want to criticize, Cris...you are a master for me and I've learned a lot from you. But the first trick was so easy to understand...and I've never seen it before.
Standard deck...just notice the order: guy picked a card, lady picked the second one. Guy put it back, lady put it back. Done...
Great vid, thanks Chris. Also reminds me, I love the Smurfs!! 😜😆
I once performed the trick "do as I do" which entails the performer and spectator each having a deck, shuffling and randomly picking a card, and through the effect it is apparently found to be the same card. But while I was doing it I messed up and lost both our cards. I didn't know what to do so I then asked them to cut the deck and turn over the top card as I did the same...I was planning to do try something else from there...but it just so happend that they were the same card. They were amazed...as was I. And that's when I put away the cards. No way I could top that.
On the first trick, after choosing the 2 cards and before revealing the deck face up to the public, he carefully shuffle the deck twice => probably to hide some arrangement / predefined ordering of the card before the trick. It must be some clever arrangement, since they are still valid with the various cut and separation of the cards during the trick. PS: i have no idea, just a thought.
I've had a couple crazy miracle moments when performing jazz magic where things worked out so good it made me look like an uber magician.
Oh boy, I love magic. Can't even imagine sitting in one of those, next to him. I have seen once a magician live, here in Romania... he preformed children's magic for adults at a festival, so most of them were lacklustre, and I knew the self-working tricks he did. No problem with self-working tricks, that would have been great! But even he was bored, he was like a robot. Doing the trick, waiting for the applause. That was ever few minutes after he finished a trick. I remember as a child I went to the circus to see magic, but I never did, but the TV said they have magicians, so I only enjoyed clowns :P They were funny.
The 1st trick is from "Mnemonica Miracles" by Tamariz..... what a man, what a legend...... inspiring generations of magicians...
The last trick seems like an odds game rather than a reliable trick.
If you film it 52 times, odds are you will get a success.
More likely, there's a prepared continuation for the 98% of times where it doesn't luck out, so the participant still has a great experience.
Chris snaps his fingers when he says "black", and does not prepare the question when he says "red" which may be a mentalist style trick. He reinforces the choice by saying "perfect". Then he quickly says "hubs or spades" with clear enunciation on the "Spades" while looking directly at him and gesturing.
The deck could be stacked with likely guesses on top and bottom to improve the odds; note that the participant is instructed to choose a "number between 0 and 13". I don't believe anyone would choose 10-12 when phrased this way, and putting "zero" as the floor makes it confusing to choose a low number.
They are instructed to cut the deck twice, which returns it to a similar state to the original position, though not guaranteed to be exact.
With these tricks in mind, it's likely we've increased our odds of success to 10% or more.
At 8:26 you say he shuffled, but he did not: he did consecutive cuts. He was using a prepared (previously sorted) standard deck.