How to Control a Card for Magic Tricks

Video Transcript

"Hi! I am Brandon Nowasky and on behalf of Expert Village.com I am going to show you some more on card tricks. What we are going to do now is see how to control a card. What I am going to do is we are going to have a face up so you will be able to follow it. If you had a card selected and you had a break so we had break right here, you can easily control this card with a number of methods. Easiest would be just to do a simple cut to bring back to the top. Little more convincing methods are things such as what is called double cut, pretty much the same thing; you just cut twice and bring it back or you can do it all in the hands which would be just cut from the bottom half and then you cut to the break bringing it to the top. Those were just the cut methods. You can also, if you have the break, transfer the break to your thumb we’ve done before and you know where the break is, you can shuffle to the break and drop it off doing overhand shuffle. This is a pretty convincing one especially done in high speeds. It just looks like you are just shuffling the deck and just bring it back. Once again, hold the break and whatever method you want to use, cut, double cut, it is going to bring it back to the top. Now, if ever you want to you can also control to the bottom by doing what we did before a cut and then do an overhand shuffle but stop at the point one card off the top, shuffle it down and now you control the card at the bottom of the deck. Our next clip we will show you how to do a trick using that method. "