One Way To Do The Elmsley Count - TUTORIAL

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The Elmsley count is a MUST for many magic card tricks. Here is a my Elmsley count tutorial.
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AI GeneratedThis tutorial demonstrates the Elmsley Count, a card magic technique used to maintain the illusion of a four-card packet while secretly hiding or repositioning a specific card. The goal is to make the count appear natural to the audience while manipulating the order of the cards.
Hello everybody. Right now I'd like
to show you what's called the Elmsley Count and this will
be a tutorial for the Elmsley Count.
The Elmsley Count is a way of naturally
making counting the cards with a natural look like this one two
3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, but you want to do it
and you want to bury and hide this card.
So the card needs to be in the third position,
and here's how it's done.
1, now the second maneuver is you're pushing two cards,
these two cards, you're pushing
them together, you want to give the appearance
that you're pulling it with your thumb, but
you're pushing it.
You also want to line it up with this card right here.
And you also, at the same time, want to get it under this finger
so you can pull it and you can get it away.
Because what you want to do is you want
one, push the cards, two, three, four.
You do not want to have this card that's going back visible
so when you go one and you go two
that card can't be seen at the top because
then you'll see it's you're pulling it back and it'll
ruin the effect so again you have the card in the third position
and you you say one two three
Four. I'm going really slow because I'm not good at it,
but that's the whole idea. You go one. Again, this card goes over here.
This finger pulls this card back. That's two. That's three.
That's four. When you get good, you can go faster, but I'm practicing.
They say the best way to learn is to teach,
so I'm showing you how to do it, and hopefully I can get better at it.
I hope that was helpful. Thank you.
