The V-Tech Steal

[Michael Kras]

This is a move I've been working on... Essentially, it's an invisible steal of a playing card from the deck to facilitate a visual appearance or vanish. Or, simply, the card can just be stolen and ditched or loaded somewhere else.

I'd love your thoughts on it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcpO7oPhZQ&nomobile=1

Michael Kras

 

[eostresh]

That's great! If that has some similar Earick's Broadside center steal then it is almost exactly like something I have been working on lately. One way or the other the effect is the same and I think their are a lot of potential uses for such a sleight. (meaning a sleight that steals a card from the center and reverses it.) Anyways, I obviously like it a lot as I too have been thinking in the same direction.

 

[Chr!s]

Thats a good idea (As usual!) Mike, but I'm sure i've seen something similar before, if you're doing what I think you're doing.

 

[Justin.Morris]

Looks really good. That would be a nice addition to ambitious card.

 

[formula]

I don't think we need another steal and it's probably not new but I can't fault it. Looks good.

 

[eostresh]

I don't think we need another steal and it's probably not new but I can't fault it. Looks good.

While I generally agree with you in that there are a lot of people out there who re-invent the wheel merely for the sake of doing so I disagree with your assessment of this particular technique. This is more than just another steal. The technique he seems to be working on both steals a card from the center, and reverses it in the pack. That's something new. now the real question is how many applications can he find for it.

 

[Michael Kras]

I'm glad you guys like it, but let me clear something up here: The card is not stolen from the centre. I controlled it to the top via a shift, and stole it from there.

 

[tokyoUW]

I'd say it is great if you only perform for people who have their chins resting on table tops and your hands at their eye level.

I can deduce the method pretty easily, and played around with it in front of a mirror, but perhaps you would like to shoot it from different angles to give people a better perspective of what it might look like from a real performance?