Perfect way to end any trick! // Shin Lim Tutorial

Hey everybody, Shin Lim here. Welcome to my video since last week. I'm sorry I haven't been able to post a lot of videos lately and I am preparing for my tour around North America as well as my show coming up in Vegas at the Mirage Casino and Hotel. May 31st is when we start our opening day for Las Vegas. I am so excited. I will be performing alongside Colin Cloud. Both of us have very different magic, so I think it's a perfect mix if you're in Vegas or if you want to make a trip out there, go ahead, come see my show. It'll be really fun. I'll say hi, we'll do some close-up magic, card magic, who knows, I might even fool you. I have no idea what I'm talking about. Oh, also, the winners of last week, congratulations to Shanto Das. He wrote, I think your favorite experience was the one where you called Tyra Banks to stage and perform your version of The Ambitious Card. That is absolutely correct. It is one of my favorite experiences only because it was my first experience on AGT. I had never done the show before, it was my first time auditioning, waiting in line and then just performing and also seeing the judges for the first time, interacting with Tyra. All of that was new to me, all of that was a first for me and so that's why it was the most memorable experience and I think I'll remember it for the rest of my life. Shanto, if that really is your name, send Alex Pandrea a DM either on the YouTubes or on Instagram and he will send you my signed Noctek, the signed version of the signed series of the Noctek, Shin Lim version 2.0. I think my hair is fine, just the way it is, should I not just keep it like this for the show? It looks like a nest or something, yeah? How about that, what do you guys think? Comment below on whether or not I should get a haircut or if I just keep it this length. Might be down here when I see you in May at the Mirage. So come to the Mirage, please, come to the Mirage. I need the ticket sales. Welcome to the trick that I just showed you, it's not really a trick, it's more of a flourish, I call it the Backpack Backshot, it's a weird name, I just came up with it just now but it's essentially a move that I incorrectly learned from Kevin Ho. Kevin Ho had a move where he would shoot a card into the deck, I think it's something like this, I can't really do it very well. That's not how you do it, you can go ahead and check it out on his stuff, he's an amazing flourisher, sorry, cardist. But I incorrectly learned it and now I use it to end all of my flourishes or tricks. So if I have an ambitious card with a signed card and I just did something amazing and I'm getting an applaud, I tend to just go like that, thank you. It's kind of like a little moment of applause, like you're just saying, oh, thank you very much and you kind of finish a moment or a trick. Or for example, if you're doing a bullet by André Jaques, you go here, here, here, here, here. I think it's a great way to just kind of end it, you know? So go ahead and let's get right into it right now. Here is the move. If you've ever done the back palm, which is this, right, if you've ever done that, I'm sure you've at least seen it here and there, it's kind of like a really bad back palm. It's almost like you're flashing, yeah? So if you just turn the card completely around like this, you're already set for the positioning of the shoot. So how to get in that position, I like to think of it as this. You have the two fingers, your fourth finger, middle finger, and your thumb, like that. You're going to curl it like Spider-Man, and then you're going to extend the middle finger and the fourth finger, okay? So the basic move is this. Thumb, these two fingers, curl in like Spider-Man, curl out to get into this position. Now of course the back palm, real back palm is like this, yeah? But we don't want to do that. We're just kind of loosely having it out like that. Now this hand of course is doing, I don't know, whatever flourish you want to do, or it can be completely still, it doesn't really matter. And the cool part is you're going to flick it now with your first index finger, like this. You pull down and you just flick the card out, okay? And if you do it well enough and you have your hand far away enough, the card will actually spin throughout the air. And that's really, really cool. So not only does the card turn over, but it kind of spins. So how are you going to get the card to come out? A lot of people when they first do it, the card kind of bumps like this, like that. So to keep that from happening, all you're doing is you're making sure that this jack is leaving the pinky first. So it's doing this, okay? So think of it as this. But instead of clipping, see how I'm clipping it here? You're just making sure that there is a gap between your middle finger and your index finger. So like this. Not like that, but like this, okay? And at the same time, this index finger is also pulling down. So you're doing all those actions at the same time and the card should fling out and should spin. Now sometimes that spinning action, that takes a while sometimes. It doesn't happen automatically. It takes a lot of practice, obviously. But as long as you have this action of the card leaving the pinky first, as you can see here, and then your index finger pulling in like this, then the card should kind of swing out appropriately like that. So that's the first action, like this. And how you catch the card is, that's actually one of the hardest parts, to be honest, for me at least, when I was first starting out. And those of you who do a lot of arrow stuff, I'm sure catching card is actually way more harder than the actual springing of it. Essentially, I like to kind of have my hand out like this as much as possible to create as much surface area so in case the card kind of lands in any different direction, I'm able to catch it no matter where it is. And the better you get at it, then you can do other things like this, like the charlier, and go into the charlier, or you can do even one of these ones. I'm not really sure the name of this move, but you can do the same thing as well. I know there's some advanced here and inside, but you don't have to do that. I just kind of do the charlier, and I think that's good enough, and it gets a really good reaction. Oh, and another thing is, you want to make sure you keep your hand parallel to the floor. So you don't want to kind of have, obviously this, that's not good, because it'll be impossible for you to catch the card, unless you catch it just now, then clearly you're pro, but no, that was just luck. That was just luck. So no, you want to make sure your hand is always parallel to the floor, because while the card is flying, it's also parallel like this, so kind of think of it as this little trajectory right over here. And of course, if your hand is parallel as well as the card, it's going to be much easier for it to just kind of land, okay? So that's pretty much it. Index finger, you want it to kind of have it like this when you're first starting out, especially when you're kind of beginning this move, it's very daunting and the card's kind of flying everywhere. So you want to kind of cradle your hand like in this position, because having it in this position, I have it like this now because I've done it a lot, but I think when you're first starting out, sometimes the card can hit these three fingers while it's flying in the air like that. So you want to leave a lot of room for you to be able to catch the card. You won't need to do anything, you'll just kind of let the card drop. And again, extend your hand as much as possible, that way the card just kind of lands on either one of the fingers, like either here, here, or here, because again, the friction's going to cause the card to stop. So in my opinion, it's kind of a success even if it lands like that, because at least the card didn't fall on the floor. Ideally, obviously, you want the card to land perfectly here. It doesn't happen all the time. It doesn't happen for me either. But the more you extend your hand, the more surface area and the more friction these fingertips will have to stop the card. So, but now that I've done it so much, I can have my hand here like this, and then I tend to just catch it with my thumb, or my other three fingers like that, or like that. So I'm able to kind of track the card with my eyes, or like that, if I'm doing a Charlier, right into it. It's a really nice move. And there we go. Let's take a look at some slow-mo shots of this close-up, that way you can kind of figure out the fingering positions. So you're probably wondering when can I do this move, or at all. I prefer to do this at the very end of a Flourish, because it has a very nice finishing touch to everything. So I like to do it here at the end of this Flourish, which is kind of a triangular, weird kind of Flourish, like this, and then end it like that. And then also I like to do it at the end of a Bullet, if you guys enjoy Bullet. I do as well, like that. Alright, that was it guys. Thank you so much for watching. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up, comment below on maybe what you want to see next, or if you want to see more tutorials, or touring, or whatever, my life, or hair product that I use. Whichever one you want, doesn't matter, I'll teach whatever you ask. Just say it and I'll do it. I'll do anything. I'll do anything for you. For more information on my tour shows, link is below, because I know a lot of you guys want to see me live, to see whether I can actually perform what I do on TV. The truth is, I really can't. Hey, go watch me struggle live on stage, it'll be great. Catch you guys in the next video. Peace out. Peace out, Natsu. Peace out. Say subscribe to my channel. Peace out.