Card Magic Tutorial - How To Do The HOT SHOT CUT

[@CardsharpChris]

I think the most important “flourish”, for me, is just mixing in a thorough, mind-boggling false cut. It helps in so many ways. It gives the spectator a sense that you really messed/mixed up the deck, yet it helps you for so many tricks and effects. Just an opinion.

[@MaxxyJay]

Hey Alex, just wanted to say thank you for your guidance not only in KZbin but via The Blue Crown....I work with vulnerable children and during lockdown I figured I would spend some time learning card magic to help them engage as these kids have been through the most traumatic stuff imaginable and by using a few bits i've learned from you it's helped a lot in getting the children i work with to engage....so again from the heart bro....thank you

[@chandlermiller3944]

I realized I wasn't subscribed after watching all your vids for the past year. You have the best tutorials for taking a beginner to the next level. I have improved greatly and take your advice to heart. Even though I'm just a hobbiest magician the card flourishes and professional advice you give (like no longer asking people to take a card) goes a long way for me. You deserve all the success you find.

[@tomsayeur6358]

Tried to do it with my credit card, I'm homeless now

[@mcgregor2348]

Lol

[@rozibhatti4116]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bradenwhited8592]

Splash is my favorite to use in card magic, its super simple and they get to see their card all the way into "the middle" of the deck

[@sooryanarayana3929]

You are the best card teacher in the world THANK YOU

[@bennyz.9693]

I would definitely do the Top Shot because it is an awesome flourish and a way to reveal a card. I also learned a lot and improved it since your last tutorial. Thanks :)

[@carloalbertovisentini4996]

This channel deserves an introooo! Keep it up Alex!

[@Snaler624]

I hope someday to be as good a magician as you are, greetings from Argentina

[@mateorometti7727]

Yo tambien soy de argentina c

[@JaviGamerSL]

Eaa comp andan los magos de arg?? De dónde son?

[@jean-lucgagnier3602]

Alex thank you ! It's the first time that i somewhat starting to master the move !! :-) Thanks From Candiac , Quebec in Canada ! :-)

[@7theshuffler729]

Awesome tutorial Alex!!! I love the Hot Shot cut it’s definitely one of my favorites!!!!! I love your videos so much thanks for everything!! If I could only use one flourish in my card magic I would use the Thumb Fan or the Top Shot...... aahhh their are so many great flourishes for card magic it would be so hard to choose, I will think about that one!!!!!🤩🤩

[@tymcknight1322]

I love doing moves such as the hotshot cut just for fun, but whether or not I use fancy flourishes in my performance depends on the situation. If it is for my family or close friends who already know that I have some amount of skill with a deck of cards, then I have no problem doing some flourishes throughout the performance. However, if I am performing for someone I've never met or don't know well, I don't do anything fancy, in fact I act as though I really don't know what I am doing, and will even drop a card or two while shuffling to give the impression that I am not skilled with playing cards, which lowers their guard, and allows me to do riskier moves because I know that they aren't expecting anything good from me. Then I can really blow their minds with my magic. If I do any fancy flourishes for them, then they will think of me as someone with incredible skill and control with a deck, and are going to look at what I'm doing much closer. I honestly have no problem with flourishes in a performance, but it's just not my style personally.

[@jorgelopeztomasello7097]

Excelente la explicación!!!!! Quizás alguna vez pueda conocerlo si viene a Argentina!!!!! Mi admiración!!!!! Un abrazo grande desde Argentina

[@parthnautiyal7292]

I don't know if you realise but you are motivating people like hell.❤️❤️ 2 days ago I saw your first video, and I dropped my jaw . So Now I am compled with all your videos

[@rossdonald3189]

Finished watching Peter Mickinon now onto Pandrea!!

[@caspar8103]

Awesome Shoot! Love your Content Bro🖤👌

[@michaelek1050]

Enjoyed the tutorial as well as your philosophy on flourishes. Great video, as always. New subscriber.

[@samehtricks4728]

alex you are one of my raw model in card magic my humble opinion as a beginer using this kind of advanced technics should be used in a moderate way which means florish should be used inside the trick you are playing without saying here is coming of florish technique which will leave the audience effected about how you get their card and how you master the deck at your hands hope to be in your level one day and always wish for you the best keep it up body to.learn more from you 😍

[@fangtasticchet2964]

Love all ur videos, learn alot from your video during quarantine period, you inspired me to create my own channel

[@keithrenaud5107]

I have seen you teach this before. So good. Fire trick. Thanks

[@tusharsehgal4716]

Great Work Buddy ❤️❤️❤️ 👍👍👍

[@mattamagician]

Hey Alex, your content is awesome. Any tips on getting the two packets to align when completing the cut in preparation for the Hotshot. I can do the moves but when I bring the packets together they are nowhere near aligned and often end up really high in the hand. Help very much appreciated.

[@wellteazm]

Wow. Crazy! Beautiful to watch 😂🙏🏼 Greets from Zürich 🇨🇭

[@chrismurray2978]

Alex,I realised after commenting on one of your previous vids(one handed shuffle) that I was about two years late by the time I'd watched it.I would like to reiterate my earlier remarks about trying to figure out why I was having so much trouble with even the most basic of card moves(two handed riffle shuffle,scissor cut, and revolution cut.when tousaud it took you only 10hours to learn the basics of the move and that it wouldn't take weeks or months, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.I'm a dedicated amateur who just loves the simple beauty of sleight card moves,and am mystified as to why I have so much trouble with simple stuff.Here again I know my hands are not to small, and I'm not stupid or lazy....is there such a thing as a person who will never be able to enjoy doing these moves?I try very hard and long, but after months still fail miserably(see my earlier rants on this subject)Have you ever seen this kind of ineptitude before?(I don't feel that blaming the card quality is the answer, but I don't know what is.If you have any thoughts on this matter I would love to hear from you(I don't have instagram or Facebook so emails or KZbin are my only way of accessing internet on my old iPhone and then chrome-casting to my tvI keep thinking I must be missing something. Since I don't need to perform professionally, and I live in New Zealand,I use only cash and can't easily find good quality cards, but I would be SO happy to be just one of those people who could achieve skills by hard work--this doesn't seem to work for me.Love watching your stuff Alex,and always enjoy your videos on KZbin but get a bit down when you say things like "oh, anyone can do this move with a bit of practice" I know you're being sincere but it never seems to work for me. Your thoughts if you can be bothered..

You need to bend it because you do it the (unnecessarily) hard way. Try using the middle finger and not the first finger on the opposite side of the thumb. You can use the first finger to stabilize the deck on the short side, when grabbing the top package. This was you won't hurt your fingers. Much easier.

[@michaelalthaus33]

Yep, "Cordvision" just commented with a video link a few minutes earlier explaining exactly that....

@@michaelalthaus33 Oh, cool! I wasn't sure if I could explain well, English is not my mother tounge.

[@chrisswed9770]

Been loving these last few tutorials! So glad to have you back, love your teaching style! Any chance on a flicker tutorial?

[@brno19]

Loving the amount of uploads your GREAT man !! Edit: Hyped for your new website

[@name.891]

great video, if I could only use one flourish it would be the top shot

[@nikhilverma7844]

Hello alex, I'm a big fan of you nd from India 😊. You are fab bro.. Its fun to watch you doing tricks.. And I'm trying to learn your tricks and it is so much fun.. Thanku so much

[@arthurdescrivan1513]

If I could only do one flourish it would probably be the sybil cut because its a nice looking false cut that is pretty easy to perform yet seems very complex when done properly or i would just pick the werm for the nice display also because you can have a card face up as the middle card for the werm which is a nice reveal

[@kingrobert1st]

My first teacher told me exactly what you said about starting with flourishes so I never bothered learn them. Thanks to lockdown (house arrest) I got some time to learn a few. When I've mastered this I won't have to learn any more tricks!

[@rutuz41]

I would do a cut like sybil or crawl or maybe the hot shot cut oh maybe benzais spin out too

[@jschiek8054]

Lately, I’ve been subscribing more to Daniel Madison’s Soap Theory (or Dirty Ba$tard Theory) and the idea that the more ordinary you appear as a performer, both in how you look and how you comport yourself with a deck of cards, the greater the illusion that what you’re doing is real magic. Flourishes are great, and I still practice them all the time (mostly as a meditative or fidgety thing to do when my ADHD kicks into high gear) but even if a participant can’t explain precisely how you did an effect, if they see that you’re better than average, or even amazing at handling a deck of cards, they can and will safely assume that that same flashy skill was used to fool them, instead of blocking off more false solutions to lead them down the Magic Way, as Juan Tamariz describes it. Then again, maybe your character benefits from a number of skillful flourishes. If you present yourself as some kind of card shark, flourishes may be integral into establishing credibility. All I know is, I’ve done a lot of them in my time, I’ve enjoyed the wide eyed looks and applause, and now I’m doing things a bit differently. To each their own.

[@שגיאזר]

You are king!

[@timmyjames1116]

Thank you alex now I can learn this🤗

[@pangkhongyun6290]

The one flourish should be fanning, as it is so much versatile which can be incorporate into control, change and switch. Flourish can always be incorporate into ones' routine as long as we can give a story and meaning to it.

[@jacoblott4002]

Got back from the store and there is a Alwx video. Turn up its Game time baby. Rose Bud lets get it

[@rrandom816]

Alex, should i buy summer NOC or NOC out?

[@TheSuperMatsko]

One vote for summer noc

[@tymcknight1322]

@@weemanling While that is true, magic and sleight of hand is a visual art, and as such, the cards that you perform with should be visually pleasing as well, to enhance the overall beauty of the performance. I wouldn't ever perform with a deck of bicycles due to how standard they are, but I also wouldn't perform with a $30 deck of cards with gold foil and whatnot. It's important to find a good balance of beauty and simplicity when getting a deck of cards to perform with, which is why the NOCs are so great. I personally would go with the Summer NOCs.

[@rrandom816]

Thanks guys i think i'll go with the summer NOC blue

[@chrisannablemagic]

If I could only do one card flourish, it would be this damn hot shot cut! IT has eluded me for years! Thanks for the great tutorial! I may just lock this thing down now 👍

[@ZGBrickfilms]

Very interesting tips at the end, great video Alex!

[@taslimaakter323]

Alex pandriya you are the best😍

[@themagicbuzz5728]

Maybe I’m a bit lame but the way I go is if I’m going to use a set up or a gaff I flourish and the opposite wig j am doing a pure sleight based trick.

[@arih0101]

Very smooth and stylish as always, cheers mate ✌️

[@markcaroc1552]

Nice beats man👌 My answer to your question would be the 50k by Chris Ramsay, simply because it is like a beginner type of flourish. Btw, my hands really hurt right now because of the flourish. But thanks for it.

[@lukeryan7303]

This was such a coincidence because I just watched Daniel Madison’s tutorial on the Blackout Shift and they are both based off of the same principal. Also, great teaching Alex!

[@rogerhuston8287]

Alex uses a beauty light. Of course he does.

[@kalebwiebe2888]

I had to watch this video three times and Chris's video aswell till I got it. But still very good tutorial.

[@strtkn]

This cut continues to confound me. Tried learning it from the Rise Magic channel, no luck yet. I shall soldier on!

[@hanzelnuts8446]

Same for me. I will get it someday. 😡😭

[@Yusuke06122]

You nailed again master 😁

[@bradmoegelin1823]

i am honored to be commenting so early. I LOVE U ALEX!

[@yozaahirrr]

If i could only use one fancy cut it would be the sybil cut(dynamo shuffle) because its a false shuffle and it looks cool

[@caspar8103]

If i had only one Flourish while performing Card magic, It would be a spring because i use it for palming of a Card.

[@pungenttoad7324]

The palming off of a spring isn’t very useful and is super fishy especially around people that know anything about cards at all I stopped doing it almost 15 years ago there’s much better palms. And for flourishes a one handed fan is much more useful for steals, controls, palms, and positioning compared to the like 3 things I know of that can be done with a spring I have over a dozen thingngs that can be done with a one handed smear fan.

[@thifswagger1623]

Subtle flex

[@josemelgarejo7406]

Buen video Alex, éxitos siempre💪🏼

[@3thern]

Intro song is Roof - Big Spoon

[@sense505]

Love the tutorials thanks Alex🤘🤘

[@lineummup9393]

I said the same thing years ago and quit don’t do what I did keep doing it Man U got this

[@adityanaidu8845]

And thanks a lot to teach hot shot cut and I will surely sign inn

[@KingO.K]

Defo the spring!!

[@mishpahatshain4899]

But Alex when I go to the website so it write yo me opening soon and it not open please answer

[@houseofcardistry7672]

4:44... That Omega Speedy ‘tho!!!

[@michaelprawira4264]

Yeahhh the hot shot cut tutorial....like it😍

[@MdSalauddin-ld1js]

I have learned 3 magic tricks from your video

[@ivanhvezda4506]

Best magician

[@marynduta3900]

plz alex teach some cardistry ur videos are dope

[@CH4SEexe]

ay I was waiting for next video 🔥🔥🔥

[@reiden4055]

Thanks for this! 🤩

[@pishway9973]

could you do some more flourish tutorials.

[@davewijaya21]

Thanks so much, Alex 🙂🙏

[@ramlethal8900]

its not a real flourish but my favorite its the dinamo shuffle

[@cordvision]

Here is a simple way to avoid having to stretch your fingers or bend the cards: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmioiaWZn9qrfqc

[@howieduin915]

I watch your tutorials. So detailed. So we'll described. So clearly shown. Then I get my pack of cards. WTF. I can't do this. Thank. Will keep trying.

[@elliotwood3998]

Hey do you (Alex or anyone else in the comments) have any tips for what to do if someone asks to examine something that can’t be. I usually just ignore them if there is a group but what about one on one? Thank you

[@ayaankazi6497]

If its a gimmicked card you can do some sort of switch. Maybe a double lift of the top of the deck or smth. If its something else, im not sure.

[@martinmagic181]

You are Back nice

[@rajahazman_]

Nice video👍🏻

[@xavieryoung6253]

Just got into magic thanks to Corona. Definitely going to start working on this to add it to my routine. Great Vid!

[@kingrobert1st]

Thanks to corona you won't have an audience to perform for!

[@Wesley_KNL]

Me too😂

[@brendanlau5465]

I love your shades haha

[@rishabhbhandari1098]

Card Spring🖤🖤

[@adityanaidu8845]

Alex please teach us circle flourish please please

[@maxlife3690]

Haha it was only yesterday I was trying the hot shot cut, and know I can be sure to get it right

[@MdSalauddin-ld1js]

Dodo you magic is good and awesome

[@scortotronic]

how do y'all deal with dry hands? i have so much trouble bc my fingers dont grip at all. lotion? exhale on them? lol

[@abhiamal5879]

Hi Alex. Your videos are interesting👌

[@chaoxiong16]

Is this doable with any type of deck? Looks like you are using plastic cards. I'm using regular bicycle cards and I'm not getting the same bend on the cards.

[@sundarveluthedan4471]

Are you using normal playing cards or special cards to do this trick?

[@taslimaakter323]

Plz anybody tell me.. I really need to know this.. Is qeen amy only for ios?

[@srinivassivamani6153]

Thalaiva How to cull multiple cards thalaiva?

[@MdSalauddin-ld1js]

Your video are amazing

[@dhruvsomeshwar6113]

Love this channel a lot... I am now an intermediate magician because of the way Alex breaks stuff down to simpler forms.... but this channel desperately needs a FRIGGIN' INTRO (yo yo yo is not an intro; that's what you can say AFTER the intro.) Please get a good intro Alex. 😎😄😅🥺 Even some music in the start when giving an awesome clip (which you already have) of the performance will do (for example Shin Lim's channel) or like a PROPER intro (for example Spidey Hypnosis's channel). Just a suggestion for your channel. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Btw, I feel that if there was one flourish that I could do for the rest of my fife, in every trick, it would be WINDCHILL FLOURISH. I feel that flourishes should be done after tricks because it adds to the awesome end effect of the trick and shocks the audience even more.

[@taraljoshi315]

That one flourish would be bullet I love bullet. Plz do a tutorial on bullet❣️🥰

[@thinker6445]

Can i get some use decks of yours in cheap price.

[@doublem-magicmentalism5741]

I think that just for having a deck of cards and showing them something, they´ll think that you are quick with the hands, with or without flourishes. But I also think that if you show yourself as clumsy or that you don´t care so much of the cards (juan tamariz- dani daortiz), they will think that there must be something else apart from being quick with the hands.

[@lincolncarter5049]

first love u man keep up the great work

[@xn1143]

Love from India alex

[@luciienprinc3-molina359]

So Im a complete newbie.. Started collecting decks about two years ago. & have finally been enamoured by you Alex Pandrea & Chris Ramsey. My hands aren't that big & im starting suuuper late in life.. lol But Im so excited to learn as much as I can & practice every day.. However I'm starting to realize that to perform these actions the quality of the deck matters allot the consistency the thickness ect.. My collection is Small for now. So @ first not wanting to ruin my high quality cards I have been practicing with an old Bicycle deck realize they're too old & that is not going to work. So I picked up an extra monarch deck.. does anyone have any suggestions on the best deck to use for practice. Like do the card shave to be flimsy thick thin ect? sorry if its adumb question .. like I said complete newbie here.. lol

[@luciienprinc3-molina359]

I notice the colored deck he uses has a flimsier consistency then the monarch decks have.. maybe its cause mine arent broken in?

[@nikhilverma7844]

And i want to know that can i buy your cards from india can it be deliver here. Coz i know I'm in need of these to learn some of your awesome tricks 😊. Md your card is much lesser price even on amazon thier price is so high.. So please tell me.. About shipping

[@jamesbloom2630]

I like 52kards cut better but you explain the shooting better

[@funwithshay5945]

My favourite move

[@dlite1972]

I remember seeing David Blaine do this cut on his first ever tv special (many moons ago) I watched it over and over and copied everything he did until one day it happened. Result 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@qarvit]

Which special you said ?

[@ashmitakhamroi3636]

Hi , my name is Ashmita Khamroi , I am from INDIA , West bengal. I am 14 years old and i want to be a magician . Thanks a lot for making this videos , I watch all of them and I show magic in my school .etc..... Thanks a lot.

[@MdSalauddin-ld1js]

And you magic is awesome