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00:00 The International Magician Society's Magic Academy, Course of Magic Volume 1, Basic Card Slights.
00:07 And now, please welcome your instructor, Harry Lorraine.
00:12 Harry, welcome.
00:13 Oh, it's a pleasure to be here, Tony.
00:15 And what I want to talk to you people about is what slights to learn if you want to do miracles
00:21 with a deck of cards, any deck of cards.
00:23 We're not talking about trick cards here, any borrowed deck of cards.
00:28 I'll save you the 40 years that I wasted learning slights that I realized afterwards I didn't need.
00:35 There are three basic slights that you need to know.
00:37 I'll talk about those in a moment, but I do want to tell you that none of them
00:41 will be as difficult or as complicated as this.
00:44 What I want to try to do in the time allotted to me during this session is to talk about the three
00:58 main actions or slights or moves, secret manipulations, call them whatever you like,
01:04 that you should learn.
01:05 And if you know those three, you can do miracles with any deck of cards.
01:09 Just so you know what I'm talking about, the three of them are these.
01:13 There's a control of a card, to be able to control a card, a double lift.
01:17 I'll explain exactly what that means.
01:20 Well, if you know those three, you can do miracles with any deck of cards.
01:23 Just so you know what I'm talking about, the three of them are these.
01:27 There's a control of a card, to be able to control a card, a double lift.
01:31 I'll explain exactly what that means when we get to it, of course,
01:36 and a palm, which means how to steal a card out of a deck.
01:40 Let's talk about the control first.
01:42 Incidentally, I may go off on a few tangents.
01:44 There are a couple of offshoots that have to do with those three that I may,
01:47 if we have the time, teach you also.
01:50 But let's stick to the basics.
01:52 First, let me show you a card.
01:56 Let's use whatever card is on top.
01:57 Happens to be the eight of hearts.
01:59 Here's the point.
02:00 The point is to be able to shuffle the deck.
02:02 I mean really shuffle it and keep that eight of hearts on top.
02:06 Let me do it for you once more with a different card.
02:08 Well, that's the seven of hearts.
02:09 It's too close.
02:10 Here's a picture card.
02:11 Maybe easier to see.
02:12 The jack of diamonds.
02:13 The point is to be able to shuffle.
02:15 I mean really shuffle the deck and have that card remain where you want it, on top.
02:20 Now, let me show you what I was doing, what was happening,
02:25 and then I want to teach you how to do it.
02:26 It's called the overhand in-jog shuffle.
02:31 Now, let me first explain what an in-jog is.
02:33 This is called an undercut.
02:35 I'm cutting half the deck, the lower half the deck, undercut.
02:40 I move my right hand toward me and peel off with my left thumb one card,
02:44 but notice that it is jogged toward me.
02:47 That's why it's called an in-jog.
02:48 If it were moved out here, it would be called an out-jog.
02:51 In this case, it's an in-jog, and I'm going to exaggerate it a little bit.
02:55 Now, let me do that again.
02:56 That's the first card, and now I shuffle off, but look at the in-jog.
03:01 I am exaggerating.
03:02 There it is.
03:03 Let me move over here so that you can see it.
03:04 What's happening, it's in the center of the deck.
03:07 Can you see that?
03:08 In the center of the deck.
03:10 Obviously, nobody else is going to see that but you.
03:12 Now, once you've got that in-jog, and I'll go over this again, so don't worry.
03:16 You can always stop tape and rewind if you have to.
03:19 When I'm going to do the second part of the shuffle,
03:22 my thumb hits that in-jog like that.
03:25 You see that?
03:27 It hits the in-jog, pushes up, so that as I push up, I form a break at the in-jog.
03:34 Can you see that?
03:35 And again, it's obviously quite exaggerated.
03:38 One of the points that's very important and that most people don't realize
03:43 is the lower half deck should be below the first phalange of your thumb.
03:48 See that?
03:48 Below that.
03:50 The upper part of the deck is above it.
03:53 Let me take this away so you see what I mean.
03:54 It's above it.
03:56 The reason for that, and let me get back into position,
03:59 is that that way you have full control of that lower half.
04:03 Because the next step is to shuffle only that upper half.
04:08 Now you come to a stop, if you do what I told you,
04:10 and throw that portion back on top.
04:13 So that the way it looks from the beginning is
04:16 shuffle, in-jog, form the break, shuffle off the break, and throw on top.
04:20 Now if you practice that, take your time and learn it,
04:23 I have to show you a variation of that and how it's used when a card is selected.
04:27 If you can do the jog shuffle, that's keeping the top card on top.
04:31 I'm doing it right now.
04:32 It's keeping the top card on top.
04:34 Look, there's the six of clubs.
04:35 I'm shuffling, and of course it comes back to the top.
04:38 Shuffle when a card is selected by your friend.
04:41 When you say, "Pick a card."
04:43 Now, ordinarily, if somebody were to put the selected card,
04:48 you say, "Pick a card," and your friend picks a card.
04:51 If he or she would put it back on top, sure, you can go right into a jog shuffle and say,
04:56 "I don't know where your card is, neither do you."
04:58 And that's fine.
04:59 The only problem with that is ordinarily, you don't have a card put back on top.
05:04 You have it put back in the center.
05:06 So let me show you two things you can do before you go into the jog shuffle,
05:12 where it really looks like the card that's been selected is just thoroughly and hopelessly lost.
05:18 A card has been selected, and what you do is you have your spectator put the card back
05:22 on top of the deck.
05:24 Let's assume the selected card is the three of clubs.
05:26 I said the top of the deck.
05:28 He puts it on top of the left-hand portion,
05:30 and then you apparently lose it by dropping this half on top.
05:34 Now, that is really what you do, except keep your left little finger between the two halves.
05:40 Look, this is called a break.
05:42 Do you see that?
05:43 I'm holding a break between the two halves.
05:45 The selected card is right under my little finger.
05:47 As soon as you do that, and as you're talking, while you're saying, "Please remember your card,"
05:53 and you're looking at the person, remember, when you look up into a person's eyes,
05:57 they're going to look back into your eyes.
05:59 You can almost do anything with your hands, and they won't see it.
06:02 So don't keep staring at your hands when you're working, but right now,
06:05 you're learning it.
06:06 That's okay.
06:07 So they put the card back, or he or she puts the card back,
06:10 and you say, "Please remember your card."
06:12 As you say that, pick up the half above your break,
06:16 push the lower half this way onto your fingers, and shuffle these onto that half.
06:22 What you've done is brought the selected card to the rear.
06:26 I think I'm going to do that just once more, and then we'll continue.
06:29 There's the selected card.
06:31 Put on the left-hand half.
06:33 This is dropped on top.
06:34 "Please remember your card."
06:36 Pick up all the cards up to the break.
06:39 Push these over with your left thumb.
06:41 Shuffle off with your right hand.
06:43 Now you want to keep that three of clubs at the rear of the deck.
06:47 This is called the slip shuffle.
06:48 All that means is you apply a little pressure with thumb and fingers
06:54 so that when you pick up the deck, it leaves the face card and the rear card.
06:58 Can you see that?
06:59 So I pick up and shuffle onto those two cards.
07:03 What's happening is that three of clubs is staying in the rear.
07:07 Now after you've done that only once or twice, turn the deck face down.
07:11 Remember, I'm doing this face up for teaching purposes.
07:14 Turn the deck face down, and then do the jog shuffle that I taught you before.
07:18 And you've got the card on top.
07:20 So the whole sequence, I will run through you once with the cards face down.
07:25 The three of clubs is put into the deck.
07:27 That's the selected card.
07:28 You say, "Please remember your card," or "Please don't forget your card," right here.
07:33 And if you drop a card, that's okay.
07:34 It looks good.
07:36 Okay, there it is.
07:37 And you end up with the selected card on top.
07:40 Okay, I've taught you how to control a card.
07:43 There are other ways to control cards, obviously.
07:46 I've shown you one of the easiest ways, and as far as I'm concerned,
07:49 one of the best ways, because that overhand shuffle is the way most people shuffle.
07:52 So that's impressive to them.
07:54 They see you shuffling.
07:55 The card is lost.
07:56 You've learned how to keep it on top.
07:58 You've learned how to put it at any position you want to put it.
08:01 You've learned how to use it after you've had a card put in the center.
08:04 Shuffle, done the slip shuffle, and end with the jog shuffle, and all that is fine.
08:09 Practice that.
08:09 And now, after you've practiced that, I'm going to show you how to do a double lift.
08:14 In order to demonstrate the double lift, and perhaps to teach it, I'll see,
08:19 I think I'd rather stand up, if you can work with me.
08:23 Now look, let me first show you what I mean by a double lift.
08:26 If I show you the seven of diamonds, and if I snap my fingers like that,
08:30 you can see that it's changed to the six of diamonds.
08:33 Actually, there wasn't much of a contrast there.
08:35 Let me use cards that give you a better contrast.
08:38 Look, let me do that double lift again.
08:40 Watch, there's the four of hearts.
08:43 Do you see that?
08:43 But if I snap my fingers, that four of hearts changes to the eight of clubs.
08:47 Okay, I'm not going to teach you a fancy one like that.
08:50 That is a double lift.
08:51 I may show you one that ends up looking like this.
08:53 See the two of clubs?
08:55 Again, snap your finger, changes to the king of spades.
08:58 Let me show you what I'm doing here.
08:59 Actually, the title, I'm sitting down again.
09:02 Actually, the title tells you what it is, the double lift.
09:06 I am turning two cards together.
09:09 Now that seems simple, but it's probably one of the more difficult moves to get away with.
09:14 They must be, the cards must be perfectly aligned.
09:17 Save you a lot of time.
09:18 Always keep a deck perfectly square when you're trying these moves.
09:23 If you have to tap the table, do it, but keep it perfectly square.
09:27 I'm holding it up at my left fingertips,
09:29 and these left fingertips are holding the deck tightly,
09:32 meaning that the deck will remain squared.
09:35 Now look what happens.
09:36 My right hand is resting on the deck in a natural manner.
09:40 My right thumb lifts up just the top card.
09:43 Now that's going to take just a minimum of practice.
09:46 It's a matter of feel, just a gentle touch.
09:49 Look, that's step one.
09:50 Now my thumb bends in a little bit and picks up another card.
09:54 That's step two.
09:56 I have two cards there.
09:57 Step three is to bend your thumb so that the two cards fall together.
10:01 The upper one has fallen onto the lower one.
10:04 That has been step three.
10:06 Step four, look, I leave my thumb there,
10:09 move my second and first fingers to the cards right here,
10:14 and I pull the cards toward me so that my left thumb and fingertips act as a gauge.
10:19 Those two cards cannot spread.
10:21 These fingers that I'm wiggling right now,
10:24 not the forefinger, but that one and that one of my thumb,
10:28 act as a gauge.
10:29 Can you see that?
10:29 Look, they act as a gauge and I'm still at step four, I believe, and is turn it.
10:35 Now I'm going to have to turn to show you that card.
10:38 I'm showing it to my audience, okay?
10:41 And then it's step five is turning it down again between the left fingers
10:46 so that they cannot spread.
10:48 And step six is pushing it back into place.
10:51 So look, from that angle, while I'm at this angle,
10:54 I've just done step one, I've lifted one card.
10:56 Step two, I've lifted two cards.
10:58 Step three, I've let them fall together.
11:00 Step four, I'm squeezing here so that they must stay aligned
11:05 and I pull between my left fingers that they stay aligned.
11:08 Step five, I'm showing the card.
11:10 Step six, I pull it out, turn it down, and flush it.
11:14 Now, you can always stop tape, of course, and go over this,
11:18 but very quickly once more.
11:20 Incidentally, when you're doing this, and I can't show it to you
11:24 because we have a close-up of my hands,
11:26 I start facing my spectator, I turn to the left as I do step one, two, three, and four,
11:34 and I turn back as I do five and six.
11:36 Turn slightly with your body, but turn your hands a little bit.
11:39 You don't want to turn so much that your back is toward your audience, obviously.
11:43 So what I mean is you start steps one, two, three, four,
11:46 as you turn to show the card, and come back as you replace it.
11:50 It happens in the front. The card lifts only at the rear.
11:54 Step one, one card. Step two, I lift the second card.
11:57 Step three, I bend my thumb so the two cards fall together.
12:01 Step four, I come over and grasp that card so that they can't come apart.
12:06 Step five, I slide that card out toward me so that my left fingers can act as a gauge,
12:11 and I show the card to the audience.
12:16 And then, of course, step six is pulling it out again between those fingers,
12:19 putting it back, and flushing it.
12:21 You've shown the queen of clubs or whatever, but actually it's the second card, not the top card.
12:28 That's one way of doing the double lift.
12:29 Make those steps blend. That's your practice.
12:33 You don't want to pause after each step.
12:35 That's a good way to practice, so remember to turn a little bit to the left as you do it,
12:39 and come back as you're showing your spectator the card that's apparently on top of the deck.
12:44 Of course, it really isn't. You're showing the second card.
12:47 Now, right now, let me show you a little more sophisticated way of doing that,
12:52 almost that same double lift.
12:53 You're going to do exactly the same thing, but you'll find that after a while,
12:57 steps one, two, and three simply blend.
13:00 If you can see this, it's look, it's that fast. It's done.
13:03 There's steps one, two, three.
13:05 In other words, that's my get ready.
13:06 It's interesting, incidentally, that when you do the double lift,
13:09 it is not necessary, once I've done steps one, two, and three, to go immediately into it.
13:16 It's what I call a delay, a delayed double lift,
13:18 and you're usually better off doing that.
13:20 What I do is I do steps one, two, three,
13:22 and I lean the fleshy pad of my left little finger
13:26 against those two cards so that they're separated from the deck.
13:30 I don't know if you can see that, but it's called a flesh break.
13:32 In other words, now that you're a little closer, look,
13:35 I'm doing steps one, two, three, and I just push in my left little finger.
13:39 I don't push it all the way in.
13:41 It's a flesh break.
13:42 I'm just holding those two cards aligned and separated.
13:46 Now I can pause for a moment.
13:48 Now instead of turning it the way I showed you,
13:50 and I'm going to stand up for a moment now because it's easier for me for my hands.
13:54 Instead of doing that, move it here, flip it over, show it, and flip it back.
13:59 That's a more natural movement.
14:01 Let me do the whole thing for you again.
14:03 Look, there's the ace of hearts is what you say.
14:05 Once more, I'm doing steps one, two, three.
14:08 I hold my flesh break right here.
14:10 Now I move it here, and I'm holding with my thumb.
14:13 I'm breaking it down for you.
14:15 I'm holding it with my left thumb so they can't possibly spread apart.
14:19 Now I grab here.
14:20 Again, they can't spread apart.
14:22 I flip them over, leaving them in judge so I can grab them again easily.
14:26 In other words, if they were flush, I'd have to struggle to catch them,
14:30 which I don't have to do, but you will.
14:32 So when you turn down, leave them like this.
14:34 Pull it over here.
14:35 Hold with your thumb.
14:36 Flip face down.
14:38 So for the last time, here is the way it looks.
14:41 When I show the ace of hearts, snap your finger,
14:43 change this to the seven of clubs.
14:45 Well, you've learned two important things.
14:48 You know, you've learned how to control a card,
14:50 how to put it in a certain position from the top of the deck,
14:53 and you've learned how to do a double lift,
14:54 which is a great piece of magic all by itself.
14:57 You make a card change in front of the spectator's eyes.
15:00 Those are two of the three I talked about, the three basic slides.
15:04 Now I want to talk about the third one, and that is how to palm a card,
15:10 which really means how to be able to secretly remove a card from the deck
15:14 and have it end up in your pocket or wherever you please,
15:17 but basically to remove it secretly from the deck.
15:20 We'll talk about that right now.
15:22 I want to palm the top card.
15:25 In other words, perhaps I've done the jog shuffle
15:27 and kept the selected card on top the way I taught you.
15:30 Now I want to palm it off.
15:31 That's the terminology.
15:32 Okay, the deck is down in what's called left-hand dealing position.
15:37 Down, not up at your fingertips, but down now.
15:39 Do the first step of the double lift I taught you,
15:42 which is just your right thumb lifts up at the rear
15:45 so you can get a break under the top card.
15:48 In this case, it's not just a flesh break as I taught you before for the double lift.
15:52 Now it's a legitimate full break,
15:54 meaning the tip of your pinky, a little finger, goes under that card.
15:58 Now, your right hand has been resting on the deck all along as you do that.
16:02 Now I move the deck up to my fingertips.
16:04 If you can start at your fingertips and do that, that's okay.
16:07 That's your call.
16:08 But I end up now up at the fingertips with a break under the top card.
16:12 My right hand, as I say, has been resting here.
16:15 The big mistake beginners make,
16:18 and some people that are not beginners make the same mistake,
16:22 is they reach down to take that palmed card.
16:25 That, incidentally, is the way a card is palmed, okay?
16:28 It should not be seen, and I have small hands,
16:31 so don't use your small hands as an excuse.
16:33 That is not an excuse, okay?
16:35 And incidentally, when you're really doing it,
16:37 that thumb should not stick up like that.
16:39 I'm just demonstrating now.
16:41 It should be down naturally, okay?
16:43 The big mistake people make is they reach down,
16:46 and if you see that movement of the right hand,
16:49 that's a giveaway.
16:50 That telegraphs the move.
16:51 You don't want to do that.
16:53 What you want to do is keep the right hand as close as possible to the way it looks now,
16:59 and push the broken card.
17:01 This is called "it's broken" because I'm breaking it with my little finger.
17:05 Straighten your little finger and push it into the palm position, and there it is.
17:10 I'm going to stand up so you can see how that looks.
17:12 Look, I'm about to palm that card.
17:14 It's done.
17:15 You see it?
17:16 Let me do it again.
17:17 Look, I'm getting ready up near my fingertips.
17:19 I push it up with my pinky.
17:21 It's done.
17:22 Once more.
17:23 You can slow this down after you rewind if you want to.
17:27 There's my break.
17:28 I'm going to sit down again now.
17:30 Look, I push in and square the deck.
17:33 The whole thing should look...
17:34 I'm standing again.
17:35 The whole thing should look as if you're doing a squaring action of the deck,
17:40 and you've got the card palmed.
17:42 I've shown you one method of palming off the top card.
17:46 Incidentally, if you could get a break under three or four cards,
17:49 you would be palming three or four cards.
17:51 That should be obvious, but sometimes the obvious eludes us,
17:54 so I want you to understand that.
17:56 The next one I'm going to show you, you can only palm one card, only the top card,
18:02 but it's a more sophisticated palm.
18:04 It's a better way of palming a card,
18:05 and perhaps a little more difficult than the first one,
18:08 but you should learn the first one just so you get the feel.
18:11 Now, let me show you the better way to do a top palm of the top card.
18:16 A top card palm can be done with one hand.
18:20 Look, I've just palmed the top card.
18:22 Now, that's very difficult because I'm pushing.
18:25 I want you to understand this because it's part of the move I'll be teaching you.
18:28 What I'm doing is I'm holding the perfectly squared deck.
18:31 Remember I told you, always keep a deck square.
18:33 You see that finger?
18:35 The fleshy pad of that little finger is resting at the upper right corner of the deck.
18:41 I don't have to tell you right and left.
18:42 It's the only place your little fingertip can be.
18:44 Now, look, I push with that little finger.
18:47 That's the part that takes practice until the inner end of the card goes past my thumb.
18:52 Do you see it?
18:53 And it flips up into my palm.
18:55 It actually does.
18:57 The action is that.
18:58 Look, you really can't see it, okay?
19:00 But that's very difficult.
19:02 So let me give you a way to help do that.
19:05 All I'm doing is I'm going to change the one-hand top palm to a two-hand top palm.
19:10 Now, I'm going to stand so you can see this better.
19:13 Same exact grip.
19:15 Now, I told you that the tough part is to make that top card move that way into the palm.
19:20 Well, look, here is a natural grip with your left hand.
19:24 You're holding the deck.
19:25 With your left thumb, push that top card over to the left slightly.
19:31 And as you push it, push down with your right pinky.
19:35 And that brings it into your palm.
19:37 In other words, what I'm doing, let me -- I'm just wetting my fingers because they're a little dry.
19:41 Let me take my right hand away and show you what the left hand does.
19:46 That's all the left hand does.
19:48 All I want to do is clear that corner.
19:51 Look, that corner.
19:52 Now, I'm putting my right hand back.
19:54 I do that and at the same time, push down with my pinky, which brings that card right into my hand.
20:00 The way it looks in actual action is that.
20:03 I just did it.
20:04 All right, let me turn over here.
20:06 Another view.
20:07 I push with this thumb, push down with my right little finger.
20:11 You can see the card coming into palm position.
20:15 Now, I'll show it to you from the other angle.
20:16 Look, right thumb is pushing that card so it loosens that corner or frees or clears that corner.
20:24 The right pinky presses down and I hope you saw the card jump up.
20:29 Now, I'll show you from front view.
20:31 That's the way it looks.
20:32 It's done.
20:33 The whole thing should be a squaring action.
20:35 And the reason this is better, you don't have to do a break the way you did before.
20:39 You go right into it.
20:41 Look, the card is palmed.
20:43 Well, I've taught you the palm basically.
20:46 That last one, the one I just showed you, is really the one to work on.
20:49 It is probably the most standard palm you'll be using.
20:53 There's another little point about that that I want to show you right now.
20:58 The one thing you should know about when you're practicing, if you push that card too much with
21:02 your left thumb, the card may stick out that part of your hand.
21:06 And if that happens, then you know you're pushing too much with your left thumb.
21:11 It's really the gentlest little push.
21:14 Get this in your mind.
21:15 Your right little finger is pressing down on that card at the same time.
21:21 Let me verbally underline that.
21:23 At the same time that your left thumb is pushing the card.
21:27 That's what makes it work, and that's what makes it work quickly.
21:30 I just wanted you to know that.
21:31 Right now, while I've got you looking at my hands in the deck, let me talk about a false cut.
21:37 It's something you should have in your arsenal, among your weapons of card slights.
21:41 This is called the swivel or the kick or the swing cut.
21:46 Now, that's one way, and I'm just going to do that.
21:49 This is not the false cut.
21:51 I just want you to see that.
21:52 I'm pushing with my right forefinger.
21:55 I'm lifting half the deck and taking it with my left hand and dropping this on top.
21:58 That's fine.
21:59 Another way to accomplish the same thing is called the swivel cut,
22:03 and that's the one I want to talk about.
22:05 Look, the side of my left forefinger hits the deck so that half of it swivels around
22:12 and falls into the left hand, and that goes on top of it.
22:15 I think, again, if I stand up, you can see that better.
22:18 Watch.
22:19 There's the top half of the deck swiveling into my left hand.
22:22 The right hand drops the lower half onto it.
22:24 The deck is legitimately cut.
22:26 It is really being cut.
22:28 I want you to see.
22:29 Look, there's the angle.
22:30 See it?
22:31 This hand hits here.
22:33 It takes a little practice to pull out about half the deck,
22:36 and it's difficult to do it slowly, but you'll get the idea.
22:39 See?
22:39 Drops here, and that's a regular cut.
22:42 The reason I'm showing it to you is once you get your spectators used to that,
22:46 when you can really cut the deck, the next time when you want to do a false cut,
22:51 do the first part, but now drop the right hand on the table,
22:54 come back, take the left hand half, drop it onto that, and you've done a false cut.
22:58 And that's a fooler.
23:00 That'll fool people, even magicians.
23:01 Look at that nine of spades.
23:03 It's on top.
23:04 I've cut the deck.
23:05 It stays on top.
23:07 That's what I mean by a false cut.
23:09 So the beauty of this is that they both look exactly alike.
23:12 If you do it in your hands, it's a legitimate cut.
23:15 If you do it to the table, it's a false cut.
23:19 So the false cut is do exactly the same.
23:21 When this goes into the left hand, drop the right hand half to the table,
23:24 go back for the left hand half, take it, drop it onto the tabled half.
23:29 You've got a false cut.
23:30 Okay, we're coming toward the end of this volume, this tape.
23:36 You've learned some very interesting things.
23:39 I've got a minute or two to just go over them, which I'll do right now.
23:43 You've learned how to control a card.
23:45 There's the four of spades.
23:46 That means you've learned how to shuffle the cards using the overhand jog shuffle,
23:50 keeping it on top.
23:51 You've also learned that you could do the same thing
23:53 when the spectator puts the card in the center.
23:56 You do the shuffle I taught you this way,
23:58 and I told you it's okay to drop a card, and then the slip shuffle, keeping it on top,
24:02 and then another jog, which really makes it look like the card is hopelessly lost.
24:08 You also learned how to do a double lift so that you can show the card is not on top.
24:12 The four of spades is not on top.
24:14 That was a double lift.
24:15 You also learned, if you want to, how to do a false cut, keeping it on top,
24:20 and then you learned how to palm it off like that.
24:23 Well, I've taught you quite a bit in the short session we had.
24:28 That means you've learned quite a bit, but part of the learning is the practice.
24:32 You do have to practice the things that I was showing you.
24:35 Make that practice part of the learning experience and make it enjoyable.
24:40 Practice should be enjoyable.
24:42 That's part of the art of magic, you know.
24:44 Practice while you're watching television.
24:45 It gives you something to do with your hands, and the next time we meet,
24:49 I will teach you some wonderful effects, tricks, routines that you can do
24:53 utilizing only the moves that you've learned during this session.
24:57 So learn the moves.
24:58 I look forward to seeing you again.
25:00 Hopefully, that'll be real soon.

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