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Chris Ramsay here.

Thanks for tuning in.

Today, we're gonna have a look at

the Cyclone tutorial.

Cyclone is a card toss from the deck hand to the other hand

and there are multiple applications for it

including bouncing a card off a wall,

catching it with the same hand

or just looking like a bad ass.

There's also a magic trick that I'm going to show you

that uses that principle, so thanks for tuning in

and let's get right into it.

So before we begin, I'm using the Verts

spring/summer 2015 edition.

These are cool cards because when tossed and spun,

they have this cool, sorta back design

that leaves a circular motion in the air

which looks kinda neat, so whether you're using these

or Tallyho circle backs,

any circular design, I think it looks cool

when tossing a card as well as when you flourish.

So here is the overlook on what this move should look like.

You should pop it down here with the pinky.

Slip your middle finger in,

release the pinky and flick these two fingers,

making the card spin out like that.

So in principle, it looks really simple.

It's a bit of a knack but I'm sure you guys will

get the hang of it.

And if you put the time and effort into learning this,

you're gonna be using it all the time.

Now, previously, there's been a card spin.

I don't know where this originated,

but this original card spin was using the index

and middle finger much like we're gonna do,

but without the pinky, and just tossing it like that

which is kinda weak.

It spins the card a little bit sloppily

and you can't necessarily control exactly

the momentum of the card.

Using Cyclone, you'll be able to toss it

anywhere very accurately, but also very quickly.

So the spin actually builds up with the pinky here

and as I slip my middle finger under,

it creates this bow.

Now that bow creates the tension,

and as soon as I release the pinky,

and I flick the index and middle finger,

the card spins uncontrollably.

So this is how this is done.

Let's get a closer look.

So what you want to do is

you want to grab the deck in this position,

which is not a dealers' grip,

where all four fingers are on the side of the deck

and the thumb is here.

You're holding it deep, in a deep grip.

And you're going to use simply your pinky

and your index finger at first.

So here's what you're gonna do.

You're gonna pull down with the pinky.

So much like you're doing like a Cardini change

or any of this type of move,

you're gonna pull down simply with the pinky

and you're gonna pull pretty deep

because you wanna create that gap.

This gap here is where your middle finger's

going to end up slipping under.

So do not use your whole hand.

You're only holding the deck here at this point.

You gotta kinda...

You got the velociraptor grip, alright?

So you pull down with the pinky.

Out pops one card up, just like that.

The middle finger then slips under that gap.

So your ring finger is not actually going under.

This, I think, is gonna be the hardest part

in learning is how to

only have your middle finger under there

and keep your pinky back.

Alright?

So once again,

all you wanna do is pull down here with the pinky

and slip the middle finger under here,

creating that bevel.

Now we have this nice bow.

So once you practice this,

at first you might have a hard time getting only one card.

I use the thumb to prevent any other card

so if I'm going like this,

instead of having only two cards here,

I use the thumb, which goes over the corner of the deck,

which allows just one card to pop out.

Once you've done that,

and you got the middle finger under here,

what you're gonna do is simultaneously,

you're gonna build up the pressure here

between these two fingers,

so you're middle fingers forcing outwards at this point

to create that bow.

And as soon as my pinky let's go,

that's when the card is going to get tossed out.

So here are a few things you can do using Cyclone.

One of my favorite things to do is just to simply

toss one card from one hand to the other.

It's a nice way of sorta producing a card

saying alright, well here we'll use this card.

Let's say if you're doing magic.

You could even catch it on the back of the hand

once you've practiced.

Other things you can do is you can

catch it with the same hand

which is a little bit more tricky.

This move actually requires you to

pull back your arm at the same time

you're shooting out the card.

Now what that does, is it cancels out the momentum.

So as I'm shooting and the card's travelling this way,

my arm is travelling this way.

Therefore, the card should stay perfectly straight

and just spin on its own.

Just like that.

Whoa.

So with practice,

you'll be able to control exactly

the momentum of the card

and to not have it spin out either direction

but stay completely still,

or almost.

Here's another cool thing you can do

using Cyclone is you can actually bounce the card

off the walls like this,

and catch them.

Kinda hard to show you here but basically

all I'm doing is I'm doing Cyclone towards the wall,

and I'm not doing directly at the wall,

because that'll make it bounce straight off

but I'm sorta just doing it at an angle,

so that it hits here and it catches over here.

Just like that.

So the card actually never stops spinning

and you catch it, just like that.

Now this is something you can do with practice.

You can do this off of glass,

off a wall, off somebody's hand.

These are all cool things you can do with it.

So the last thing I'm gonna show you guys

using Cyclone is an effect I call fingered.

And fingered is where you toss a card

and stab it in mid air so it's basically a karate card.

What's really cool about this is that

you actually catch the card in palm

and the sound of that sort of imitates

the sound of you piercing the other card,

which is quite fooling when you hit it,

so let's have a look how to do this.

Alright, so to do this effect,

you're going to need a duplicate card.

So in this case, I chose the jokers

and by the way, I got a little tip when doing Cyclone.

The stiffer the cards, the more spin you're gonna get.

Because you're building up that pressure,

if you use very, very stiff cards,

in this case I'm using cards from

Expert Playing Card Company,

which are very stiff, very hard.

These'll actually spin a lot faster than thinner cards.

So if you wanna practice and if you wanna really

toss them with a really crazy amount of velocity,

use stiffer cards.

You're going to need a duplicate.

You're gonna have one on top of the deck

and the other is gonna be in your back pocket.

Now you need it faced toward your butt,

so like this.

So basically, all I'm gonna do

when the time is right,

is I'm gonna take my hand back here

and I'm gonna poke that hole

just like that.

And I'm gonna have it in my hand like this.

So you wanna just prepare it right there.

Make sure the hole's big enough to get your finger through

about that far.

You don't want it slipping off either

because you want to be able to catch the card

while you're doing this.

So, we'll leave that right here.

So what you're gonna do basically without the card,

this is the action.

You're gonna toss it.

And you're gonna catch it in palm.

Now I've caught it here in cop,

and that's usually what it'll end up as.

It's very rare that I'll catch it in a perfect palm,

but it also happens,

which makes everything very, very clean.

But catching it in cop is very, very common.

Literally, three out of four times,

this is how I end up catching it.

And you point downward so therefore,

they're not seeing anything.

All they're seeing is the card on your finger

and then you can take the card off and ditch.

So let's try this in full speed.

Just like that.

And I pull away, now I have this card over here.

One more time.

Card goes in the back pocket.

Just like this.

I get ready to toss this card.

I move over here.

I'm putting my finger in the card right now

and as I go to toss,

Bam.

It looks like I've pierced the card with my finger.

This hand comes down and now

I can go ahead and ditch this while I hand this out

very cleanly.

I don't know how to go into detail

more than that.

It's just one of those things you're gonna

have to feel out.

So if you wanna practice,

just flick the cards off

and catch them in palm.

Just keep trying that.

You'll eventually catch on to where you need

to catch that card.

Sometimes it'll happen that the card will be sticking out.

But with a quick motion of you slapping down,

having that card, you can pull the card off,

you can ditch and you're all good.

Because the focus is no longer on this card

because it's basically disappeared.

The focus is gonna be on the card around your finger.

That with the sound of the penetrating card

creates a great illusion for the spectator.

There you have it.

Alright, guys.

So that was the Cyclone tutorial.

I hope you enjoyed it

and I hope you guys practice this move a lot.

Send me a link to your video performing it.

I would love to see it.

It's something that you can make your own.

You can use it in any type of way.