Jumping Gemini
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2007
- Jumping Gemini, one of my favorite effects to perform, especially for kids. After the first phase they invariably shout: "they're all two of hearts!", which is perfect.
Note: I am a beginner, have only been doing this for about four months, but as part of my job I get to perform magic for audiences every day. Therefore I would appreciate very much suggestions on how to improve, so that I can put on the best show possible.
Thanks for watching! - Zábava
one of the best performances for this ive ever seen
Check out this guy's version from 2006... not too bad here either czcams.com/video/4U8tgI6l9kk/video.html
This is the best card trick song ever. WHAT a card trick song.
The best Jumping Gemini performance that I've yet seen on CZcams (it's the fourth so far. Moving on...)
beautiful and clean performance. didn't suspect a thing when you showed the 4th Ace of Spades
DAMN! I just watched a tutorial for this, then practiced for like a day until I had it down pretty good...then watched this video and realized how much better it could be. Incredible skill, every lift seems exactly the same; they're almost tosses. So smooth. Thanks for posting.
Very nice handling. I really enjoy your videos and great seeing some good old classics amongst the wannabecrissangeldavidblainelevitationstreetmagicpunks. Thank you"
Thank you Mr. Kent. There are some advantages to growing up in Europe, I guess... Italy is not that far from France, and Mano Negra was part of the soundtrack of my despondent adolescence... Thanks for the compliments!
Thank you, I was trying to pick a song that would go with the trick. Glad you appreciate!
Amazing. Your flips are so perfect. I'm not even able to follow your movements and I have perfected this illusion
You a great serious!!! great! And good music choise, ur 1 of the funny guys!!
Great and smooth card handling!!
Cool music! :)
And well done routine!
Thanks a lot lilmonwns! As you can see appreciation for Mano Negra varies on the Internets. Glad you appreciated. ;)
Very well executed. I usually use 10's and kings, but I liked this a tad better. I will use clear cards while doing walk around and that always gets em too.
such a flawless elmsley count
I've actully just been in Horsens to Magic junior weekend in Denmark and i talked with the creater of this trick. Darwin Ortiz!
He was there and he showed me the jumping gemini and some other tricks AND HE PERFORMED THEM PERFECT!!!
I talked to him and asked how many deck of cards he use each yeah!
and he answerd 500!!!
He also train 6 hours a day!
He also used my deck of cards, for some tricks and after he signed the deck!
You executed this very well.
fun trick and nice performance! i got a good laugh out of this.
The best performance on youtube! 4/5
Thanks, good tip on the flushtration count!
yep nice. Diminishing count was good but watch out for the last card. Also when u do a flushtration, make sure you keep the cards in a fan in the left hand when youre done showing them. Its much more "eye pleasing" and clear. Great job!
thats so cool!! i wish i could do card tricks lol
I can do this trick but you do it alot better, good job
it was well esecuted. I like it.
what i admire most about this performance is that you can't (at least I can't) tell that they're double and triple lifts :).
I think its more fun to show the last two Jokers at the same time and just lay 'm open to see. Makes it even more asumeable that the cards are in fact 4 Jokers.
@orozcormanuel Right, 'cause everybody knows that when they go to the bottom, cards magically change to jokers? I'm not trying to hide that the cards come from the bottom, that's what it is supposed to look like.
Good performance, i like it! :)
Hey,
hahah I think every magician does that when they look back at when they were a beginner.
Yeah I guess that was a little confusing but what I meant was that compared to most other peoples versions of Jumping Gemini, the "bit" or parts in the middle were more true to the original trick that you performed. Hope that helps.
Oh and sorry it took so long to reply to the post.
And don't listen to the guy above, even if it was an earlier performance it was well executed.
your really good at that
thats aperfect perfomance !:D well done and i love the song haha :D
That's the power of Mano Negra!
smooth...I like
cool music and trick also)
Thanks, rahulydav, I appreciate the encouragement!
Your lifts are quite amazing. Mine often look a little weird, and are therefore not as convincing... I guess it's an innate ability, because I've been doing magic for about a year now and still my lifts kind of suck.
Pretty nice JG. The first I've seen that uses jokers, which should be obvious, really.
@Lopplt I'm not sure... I haven't tried it, but I think there is a risk in a discrepancy in procedure: why leave only two of the four cards face up? What's different about those two?
No problem. It's called the Flustration count, I believe.
This is one on my favorite card tricks, but extremely hard to perform.
That's a pretty good "sugjusttion", although I like mine with a little more worcestershire sauce. :)
May I suggest that it is both less violent and more economical to just drag the volume slider all the way to the left?
I think you're referring to the Ace, which in Roy Raphaeli's version was a 10. To me, doing it with a little "jump" calls attention to the fact that you're doing something weird. The audience might not catch what you did, but they know you did something. On video you can catch a lot of stuff that you normally wouldn't, and I found that the way I do it is never actually caught by the audience, if done swiftly and on the offbeat. Just a matter of preference, really. ;)
Nice performance
@wallace2311 not only that, he also hesitated after that first card tried to escape.. I think that was the real magic going on.
Thanks for the feedback. This was posted more than a year ago (hard to believe); in the intervening time, my technique got better... Sometimes I watch some of my older videos and cringe a little bit. What bit in the middle?
Good preformance.. Good lifts :)
You are using rommy cards and not poker cards right?
They look a little slim to me, and I think they are the best kind of cards for this trick... At least I think you need to keep a tighter grib on poker cards as they are a bit wider and harder to flip over without sliding apart.
Anyway nice preformance, sweet tunes..
Is this your own effect? It was completely invisible to detect, but I know the moves to do it. There is absolutely nothing I would change about it, your performance was superb. But, as I know how, and without revealing, I am asking your permission to have a go at doing this myself. I wouldn't perform it as it is a hobby not a profession and would only be for my wife and kids amusement. :-)
Sorry to bother you once again, but regarding the move near the end where you show all four cards as being the ace (second time, after the DLs and TLs), do you know the name of it? I know how it's done, of course; I just wondered if it had a name.
Ohhh Ps..
One think I think you forgot or did not do, is that you should show the last 2 cards together or very close to eachother, as it is the only chance you really get to do it, and it gives a nice effect to see that you can show em like that as well..
This was well performed.
In terms of technique it is the best I've seen on youtube.
However, work on your lifts.
They could be slowed down and be a bit smoother.
I also like the little bit you added in the middle--its quite good.
Keep it up.
Hi!
Press thumb and forefinger together and stick two cards just between the tips of these two fingers. Then they will not slip away since your fingers stick together. hth
Yeah, the gemini count was a little clunky. I was using Bycicles Master edition, which are a little stiffer than regular cards, making the sleight hard to perform smoothly (for me). However, I was under the impression that they should look like they're all coming from the bottom, so that is not a problem in my opinion. Still doesn't explain how they're all four jokers after they've been two of heart and ace of spades... :)
@learningstudio I get what you're coming. But the thing is: you keep showing 1 of the others at the time. If you show 2 Jokers at the same time it makes it'll amaze the audience even more and make them more likely to believe there are in fact 4 Jokers. Should always try to make the finishing move a bit different,
@orozcormanuel I do this trick and if you think that you can figure it out just because you feel he revealed by grabbing from the bottom, you know very little about magic. There are quite a few moves in this trick. To make it look as good as this you need to practice it many times. This was a great performance. And I know how it's done!
:D. It's much easier to slide the volume control to the left. It's right up there, next to the time of the video.
No Mano Negra fans around here?
exelent
@WeAreFuturistic I'm not sure... It used to be Mano Negra's "Magic Dice", but then the copyright hellhounds complained, and I changed it to something royalties-free... And now people complain about the cheesy smooth jazz! You just can't make everyone happy, now, can you? ;)
when ever i try an do the double and triple lifts like that, thay always slip away from each other.:( Any Tips?
Thanks. Look up Brother John Hamman's book: I'm using his handling of a DL from a small packet, which quite honestly is the only way to go if you have 4 or 5 cards.
ALOOSSOME
sii proprio na manoo negraaaaa :D:D:D:D:D
00:48 that was good :)
omg i fucking hatttttttttttteeee the sonnngggg!!!
@slambe1966 I actualy liked the song for some reason, I don't know why.
Actually, my performance has been officially clocked at a clean 58%, so there! :)
Hi peeps
It's relatively easy, actually. All you have to do is find the most comfortable chair in the house, sit down, and spend seven days and seven nights with a deck of cards in front of you repeating this mantra: "vernonelmsleyhofzingerdonotrevealsecrets". Eat nothing but microwaved ramen noodles. After the seventh night a one-armed dwarf will appear to you in a vision, giving you the method via an interpretative dance. ;)
Sorry...
Mano Negra is not annoying, it's classic. But, if you don't like it, just turn it off. We have the technology to mute sound! Really, it is possible. Just stop whining about it!
so fast
rough dl...
you can clearly see it pulling it from the bottom hehe
@unmungo umm, not the greatest music ever.
The music ruined the video. Shut that crap off!
The music SUCKS!