Hello there, welcome to Magic for Beginners. I am Steve and you are going to learn a slip called the “back slip”. The back slip works like this.
What we are going to do is riffle through the cards, like that. Stop. Show the card there and show you what next card down is, it is the four of spades. That is using the back slip and I will show you what it is.
Now, this is quite good for impromptu works, and this is a nice trick. What you will need to do in this, first of all you want to know what cards you are going to say, “That is the card underneath”, if you know what I mean, if that makes sense.
So, you can do it in two ways. You can show all the cards are shuffled. And while you are doing that, you are looking at the top card, which is the four of clubs, kind of like all cards are shuffled with four of clubs. Remember that one, because that is when you are going to back slip.
Another way of doing it is if I come this way is by putting your fingers on the top of the deck like this, and you are going to turn that card over. But as you turn it over towards yourself, you are going to pull using those fingers. Pull out, slide out. This is what it looks like from behind, okay? And you are going to get a fake to that, the four of clubs. I will show you what it looks like and this way, it looks like this.
You cannot see what I am doing but I have actually got a card pulled that way, okay? The four of clubs. Now, this is the back slip. So you start off like this, you stay stop, or they say stop, whatever they want. So, you just stop there. Make sure you hold the card with these fingers up, because they are going to grab this card on the front. Now, when they stop here, open like a book. You open the cards like a book. I am doing it this way so you can see. Open it like a book.
Now, these fingers, as you open, we are going to grab the top card like this. And as you twist it, like that, that is the action—open, twist—these fingers are going to slide the top card onto the top in a different angle. So, to do it as best as I can, slide, slide, and then puts the top onto the bottom, you see? I will try and do it as best as I can, like that. That portion has got to be open up slight. So you are just putting the top card down from the top, like that. That is the back slip, okay?
Not the best camera angles, I know, but you get the general idea. So, it works like this, okay? You say, “I want you to stop at any card” and they say stop. Stop, open, hinge, and pull back with your fingers. That is the four of clubs, and that is the back slip.
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