Vanish A Card Into Thin Air
This is a really useful sleight which will allow you to appear to make a card disappear. The sleight should enhance your magic trick routines. Vanish a card in thin air. Learn this exciting card sleight here.
Effect : A playing card is held in the magician's hand in clear view of the audience.
Suddenly and unexplainedly, the card vanishes into thin air and the magician's open hand can be seen to be completely empty.
Then, just as suddenly as the playing card was vanished, it is plucked out of thin air again and is clearly shown to be in the magician's hand.
This great disappearing card sleight requires only a deck of cards and is a useful sleight in close up magic and street magic.
Method :
Show a playing card to your audience. The card should be held as shown with the thumb on one side.
And your two middle fingers on the other side.
Lengthwise edges of the card are gripped by your first and fourth finger.
They grip the card bending it back against your two middle fingers that are pushing against the other side of the card .
Straighten your two middle fingers while still maintaining the grip with the other two fingers.
This will leave the card hidden behind your hand as shown. The audience view of the palm side of the hand will look like the card has vanished.
To make the card appear again. Curl your two middle fingers in again and press your thumb against the card as shown here.
Use your thumb to push the card up into a position where you can grip it as if you just snatched it out of the air
This is a deceptively simple card manouver which depends totally on smoothness of movement and timng.
It is also heavily angle sensitive so deseves lots of practice in front of a mirror before trying to perform it out in the wild. The results should be worth it as this is a timeless classic.
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