THE BACK PALM
You worked on the back palm when you were a kid, but decided not to do a manipulation act right? (Well, many of you did :) So you've always thought it was a waste of time...
Let's change that!
The BACKPALM is a move that's been badly abused over the last hundred years and it deserves better. As a secret move it has powerful applications.
Within this playlist I teach and explore the basic move and then dive into new ways to use it, including a ton of effects and routines that use the back palm as a SECRET move, to create insanely clean magic.
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1 INTRO FOR 'THE MOVE'
A major portion of this playlist details amazing uses for the abused moved known as the Back Palm.
But before you learn any of these, Steve explains WHY.
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2 THE BACK PALM
The fantastic move that has been abused and over exposed, for nearly 100 years, is taught clearly here. You'll need to learn this, as you are about to learn some incredible card effects that use this move in unexpected ways...
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3 A CARD VANISHES
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PROOF OF BLACK ART
You'll believe a card can fly... away. After watching A CARD VANISHES, Steve felt the need to prove the Black Art really works...
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4 MAKING THE BLACK ART CARDS
An intro into black art with cards, and how to make the cards required.
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5 RISER + VARIATIONS
A chosen card rises out of a borrowed book, a simple, purely impromptu effect with any cards and any book.
Steve also adds his thoughts and variations that take Riser to the next level and lift this effect into the miracle routine category.
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6 SVBP IMPROMPTU BOOK TEST
Watch CIRCLED first and then watch this purely impromptu version, a brilliant book test, with borrowed props that can be performed at a moments notice.
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7 A MEANS TO AN END
Douglas Dexter, the brilliant amateur magician, invented this in the early 1900's. A terrific method and presentation that can be done with any cards, even on stage.
Up to three cards are chosen and lost in the deck, they are then are found NOT by the magician but by the spectators, all the...
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8 A MEANS TO AN END - THE ACT
Inspired by Douglas Dexter's STOP trick, A MEANS TO AN END, Steve has combined it with Super Stab to create a fabulous routine that's almost an act in itself. A makes full use of the props you carry.
Here Steve details his thoughts on weaving these effects together so they build to an imposs...
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9 OWEN CLARK'S SIX LITTLE CARDS
One of the few published card tricks Owen Clark put in print was this sweet little six card manipulation routine, not too hard and the crowd will dig it.
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THE NAP HAND BAG
Details Steve’s adaptation of a Douglas Dexter effect to the plot of The Nap Hand with fun and devastatingly clean results.
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43 C2P STRICTLY UNDERHANDED
Roy Benson's awesome addition to the back palm
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ARNOLD DE SEIVER ULTRA CLEAN METHOD
A wonderfully clean and open handling ofd the brilliant Card Through Hanky! It will fool anyone who knows the usual method :)
