FABIEN'S CHANGE // TUTORIAL (color change)

[Music] what's up family thanks so much for tuning into my channel once again this week I'm bringing you a very visual and snappy cool looking color change entitled fabulous change this originated from a friend of mine named Fabian Dafoe sure who's from France and he's a very experienced an expert card flourish sure he also dabbles in magic and while playing around with car flourishes I guess he discovered this little move and so here's a performance of five days version how he performs it so check this out quickly so that was Fabio's version of the change I've adapted it differently I have a different handling four to three actually and I'm glad to finally be able to share with you guys so before I get into teaching I want to get on a little bit of a rant on YouTube and exposure and magic I'm not going to go too much into my thoughts on this but I do want to say that creators of the moves essentially have the right to do whatever the heck they want to do with it however it is important that things are taken seriously as in the practice and the time put in the efforts the research into where it goes so the crediting acknowledgments these type of things I do think that all these things are very important it's also equally as important to teach it well because if I teach you something and you go ahead and do it and I'm teaching it wrong I'm essentially you're essentially walking on a broken foot and it's just going to get progressively worse from there so it's good to learn the fundamentals from the start so you don't have to go and relearn everything else afterwards and as well we're spreading good magic and YouTube is the number one learning platform in the world so it's hard for me to ignore that it's hard for me to look at YouTube and say that's not a valid platform for teaching magic I don't think that's correct I think if I wanted to learn how to change a tire I can go on YouTube however I'm not going to watch a video about magic and and see a tire changing video in the thumbnails I don't think that's how YouTube works so I think to learn something you have to look for it and you have to know what you're looking for because there are millions if not hundreds of millions if not more than that videos on YouTube so stumbling across you know a double lift tutorial or this tutorial for instance it can be quite rare if you're looking for something else and if you're not generally interested in magic you're not going to want to know how it works you know you're not going to even care how it works and even if you do see how it works it doesn't change anything because all it is is a tool slights moves tricks they're tools and it's up to you to find out how you're going to use these tools so it's not about what you're doing but what you're leaving the spectator with and so ultimately these are all tools that you can learn once you learn them I'm not going to teach you how to perform them that's something you're going to have to find out for yourself through your own journey in magic so that's my rant I just wanted to touch base a little bit on how I feel about the whole YouTube thing although this is not a channel that's going to be devoted to teaching magic every now and then if I have an original slight move or a friend that has something they want to share this is a perfect platform for it I think you guys are generally interested in what we have to say on these platforms and so you give positive feedback and hopefully you apply this this knowledge to the best of your capability and give it some real-world practice and if not that's fine too as long as you don't go out and blatantly expose magic for the sake of gaining followers or gain views so there has to be some type of message there has to be some type of positive mind state behind all that I mean that's all I can say about it this is a relatively new platform for me and I expect that I'm going to use it to the best of my ability to the best of my capability and hopefully inherently through the magic and the flourishing and the psychology or philosophy that I'm going to share with you guys hopefully that'll make some of you better and not worse and if it starts to make people worse maybe it's time for me to shut the channel down so that's all I have to say let's get into the tutorial once again this is Fabian exchange Fabiani for sure if you want to check him out he is such a great friend and a great artist check this out don't move this is something he drew look at this so that's the critic a critic display from Tobias Levin he drew that and sent that to me so he's such an awesome dude if you want to check him out his artwork is his photography his flourishes it's a Fabio Defoe shirt on Instagram so check that out I'll leave the link below where you guys can click and go see what he does so thanks again that gang and let's get into it all right so before I begin I'm going to be using the exquisite bold playing cards by expert playing card company I don't think that these are available anymore but just FYI so this change although if idea show this to me I do believe that much of this can be attributed to herdin A's as he has a similar change using using the thumb where he goes back here and sort of and that can be found in the expert of the card table he's got a lot of actually different variations using the thumb as a color change so here's what the change looks like that's basically what it looks like as you see it's very very quick happen very fast now there's a few things going on so essentially you're bringing the car down this as simple as this you're bringing the car down here and as you go to strike you're putting this on top of the deck and the bottom card is being pushed out with the thumb so arguing with a thumb here is you're pushing it out like that alright so the patio thumb late in dealers grip here how do your thumb is just doing that just sliding it over to the side now there are a few things that make this slight very deceptive and one of them is actually conditioning the eye and so I do this first so I'm going to do this thing here what you're going to do is you're going to grab it by this corner so this is not the pip corner if you're right-handed it's over here with your index and middle and the thumb in the back and you can have this little sort of guillotine chopping motion so your thumb back there and your index is just kind of moving this forward and as this goes to chop down comes down here and basically strikes right through so in slow motion dove hard to do slow because this is something that happens fast but basically you want to condition the I to this movement here so as I go through here and then I come back I lift and then as I come here I reach right through as if it's one motion okay another use for this change and the reason I do this is because the AI gets used to this movement I don't want to do this pick up the card and straight go into it although that looks alright I think that a little bit of added deception little layer of deception extra to go a long way I like to start off like this so that's a cool little pop move all you're doing is you have a card face up here and your thumb goes on top and you're going to slide it over the side get it ready whenever you're ready your thumb is just going to move it to the side here and because of that little poppy poppy action so how to know where the card Peter you grab it by the bottom corner here strike it through it goes right through again so there are multiple ways of changing this card doing this change fab you a in the video you've seen does almost like a paintbrush change where he goes here and as he comes by here it'll be that card it changes into it which is quite cool again looks kind of cool there is a nice visual retention and I do like that however I do think that the focus is very much here and so they might be able to pick that up whereas using it this way your as you're bringing it up here the spectators I will follow the movement so the large action covers a small action as I come back down boom and that switches and now I'm clean and another way you might want to do it is just this quick change is sort of guillotine change as I call it as you're here chopping down you want to chop right into that position because that's the exact position that the other card is going to be in just like that now there are times where you're going to do this and it's going to get caught right there so you're going to want to overcome that and [Music] just like that it's a cool change it can be done sort of on the offbeat the one thing that I would not do is draw attention to the change because it is noisy there are some noise issues if you practice it you can reduce the noise but there's no real way of getting rid of it so this is kind of like almost done like a top change thing where they see the card that's not your card that's funny because now it is so almost like a visual top change so instead of top changing where you say something like this and then you change the card the best way to do it you're here and oh this wasn't your card oh that's funny because the way I look at it I still see your card here and it's just something that that flies by and the only way to do that of course is to control the card to the bottom so whatever control you like let's say the two space you have that control to the bottom of the deck and now this is your card the two clubs oh I was close right was it it was a two spades oh okay there it is and so it turns into this nice little offbeat moment aside from that I think academically this is really fun to do it's fund it in front of the camera it's fun to do in front of the mirror so there's nothing wrong with that as for color changes that I use in my regular repertoire this might not be one of them because I think this is just academically speaking it's fun to do for the camera it's fun to do for your friends maybe your close friends or magic friends or like I said maybe just just an offbeat thing could be kind of cool I played around some face down switching so where you have the card face down here and face up here or face down here rather and you go to you go to switch it it just doesn't look clean there's something weird about it use a top change of that case to be honest I think academically speaking this is fine to do in front of the camera there's nothing wrong with that I think a lot of hobbyists and a lot of the young guys out there love performing for the camera just show off your friends and on Instagram which I'm super fine with that's a platform for type of sleight of hand that we enjoy it's almost like this flourishing sleight of hand that we enjoy it's not practical strong magic what it is it's just visual eye candy and there's nothing wrong with that so I think that's one of the applications so let me run through this one more time you'll want to set up here so you set up with the top card here I like to do this little pointing thing it's kind of magical where you just kind of point in the card appear so all I'm doing here once again is sliding this card here right point grab the bottom run it through and all the way through that's it alright guys thanks so much once again for checking this video out if you did like it please like this video comment below what you thought about it and give it a share if you can I will be back soon with some more videos except this time I think we're going to go into some performance and show you some of some of my favorite original routines and hopefully I can share that with you guys I have a few ideas actually give you a little bit of glimpse that you see these uh you see those post-it notes see those are all video ideas so I am working hard and hopefully I'll be able to bring that to you soon so thanks so much for checking in one piece up you

Channel: Chris Ramsay

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Length: 13min 26sec (806 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 29 2015