Ascanio Spread / Elmsley Count Tutorial

Hello again everybody. Okay, I've had a lot of questions on the Ascanio Spread and the Elmsley Count, which are necessary to do many tricks. They're slights that are used in the Black Hole Trick and also in the Magical Morphing Joker's Trick. So let me show you how you do these slights. The first one I'm going to go over is the Ascanio Spread. What you're doing here is... You want to hide the card. You want to make five cards look like four cards. So the card needs to be in the third position. So you see I have the eights through five of diamonds. The way you do this is you grip the cards in what's called a Biddle Grip. You have the top and bottom held nice and firmly. You're going to peel off the top card. Peel off the fifth card with your index finger and the fourth card with your middle finger. And you're going to pull Pull them out and spread them out just like that, and you've got the two. with the three right behind it. So it's actually a really easy move if you practice it a little bit it really comes natural. So again if you want to hide a card that's face up and you have four face down cards, grip it like this slide out the top card, slide out the cards in the fourth and fifth position and you've now hidden the card in the third position. Okay the next is the Elmsley Count. With the Elmsley Count what you want to do You want to hide the card in the third position. So let's say we have a face-up card in the third position and we want to make it disappear. What we do is you square up the cards. Now you want to make it look like a natural count. What you do is you pick up one and you're gonna take off two but you're actually gonna push off two cards. It's gonna be this card and the card you're hiding. And in the same move you're going to return The card that you just took and you don't you don't want that card to go be visible when you when it's going back. So you take off one you now take off two and you just return back this card right under that finger. 3, 4. So again you want to hide this 3 so you take 1, peel off 2 and return Just practice that, and it's pretty easy. the card. 3, 4. Now, also, in the last two tricks, I've had to use the Elmsley Count with five cards. If you want to hide two face-up cards, you put them in the third and fourth positions, and you do the same thing. You peel off one, then you push off the whole pack as two, three, four. So, again, just with practice, it gets easier. So you hold on to the pack, one, 2, 3, 3 cards, 3, 4. So hopefully that's helpful and it'll answer some of your questions on the Elmsley count and the Ascanio spread. Thank you. See you all next time.