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00:00 The Peregrine Pass is a technique that allows you to control your spectator's card to the
00:17 top or to the bottom of the deck.
00:20 If you love doing card table magic, this is the perfect way to control a card.
00:24 It is natural and it is invisible.
00:26 My name is Daniel Prado and welcome to the Peregrine Pass.
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00:58 What if you could do real magic?
01:04 What if you could spread the cards on a table, place your spectator's card in the middle
01:08 of it and when you finish picking up those cards from the spread, his card is already
01:12 on top of it?
01:13 Now you can, or at least pretend you're doing real magic.
01:18 The Pass is the most magical way to control a card, because it is instantaneous.
01:23 From the spectator's point of view, you place his card in the middle of the deck and bam,
01:27 it is already on top of it.
01:30 The Peregrine Pass is the perfect way to do exactly that, only in a card table situation.
01:37 I'm going to teach you in every single detail everything you need to know to be able to
01:42 execute the Peregrine Pass.
01:43 But before I start, I would like to give you a brief history on the Pass and its relation
01:47 to my technique.
01:55 The Pass is basically a shift, so you switch the bottom part of the deck to the top of
02:00 it or the opposite.
02:02 According to the book Invisible Pass by Fred Browie and Gene Hugard, the Pass is a technical
02:07 term used by magicians to denote the slight whereby the halves of the pack are made to
02:11 change places secretly.
02:14 This kind of shift is actually very old and one of its first references appeared on Olivier
02:19 Guyon's book from the 14th century, Le Mepris et le Contenement de Toujours de Sorte, and
02:25 the first reference of a shift like the Classic Pass on the English language was made in 1774.
02:31 I would like to give credits to William Kalush in his amazing lecture on EMC 2012.
02:37 There are a few Passes most commonly used.
02:38 I'm not going to extend myself, there are plenty of material where you can learn them.
02:43 But the most common ones are the Classic Pass and the Hermann Pass.
02:48 On the Classic Pass, you pull the top part of the deck to the bottom of it and on the
02:53 Hermann Pass you do the opposite.
02:56 There are a few different ways to hide the weak spots on the Hermann Pass and I strongly
03:01 recommend you watch Jason England's video about the Hermann Pass, it is just fantastic.
03:06 But what about the Peregrine Pass?
03:08 Why is it so different?
03:10 Well you probably know that, but card table magic has its own particular set of shuffles
03:16 and cuts and every time you try to execute a Classic Pass or a Hermann Pass, you're
03:21 in a bad situation in terms of angles and position of arms and hands and you may look
03:27 suspicious or unnatural from your spectator's point of view.
03:33 On my research I found different ways to solve this problem.
03:36 I found the Zingon's Table Pass, the Gagnon's Ribbon Spread Pass and even the Charlie Miller's
03:41 Table Pass, this one you can find on Divernon's book "Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic", page
03:46 94.
03:49 But none of them were perfect on the angle, look, invisible or natural from my point of
03:54 view.
03:55 What I would like to achieve with the Peregrine Pass was to be able to execute a pass on the
03:59 same motion I used to scoop a regular Ribbon Spread.
04:02 And by regular Ribbon Spread I mean if you're right handed, you pick up the cards with your
04:07 right hand and you open from your left to your right in a kind of a shape of a rainbow.
04:14 And when you need to scoop those cards, you use your left hand and do the same motion,
04:21 picking up the cards from your left to your right.
04:25 One of the most important things I found during my studies in magic in the last years was
04:31 to look as natural as possible.
04:34 There is a quote from the great magician Alcoran that says "If it looks like a move, it isn't
04:40 magic".
04:41 So I try to take this as a motto for my practice in developing new techniques and tricks.
04:49 So without further ado, let's learn how to do it.
05:01 The first thing to consider is the surface.
05:04 You'll need a soft surface to be able to execute the Peregrine Pass.
05:08 A close up bet should do, but the problem with a regular close up bet is the size.
05:13 I strongly recommend you to use a large close up bet or a table like this.
05:17 But this shouldn't be a problem because if you're considering doing card table magic,
05:22 a soft surface is vital.
05:24 The next thing is the Ribbon Spread.
05:28 You want to do a Ribbon Spread in a soft curve like this.
05:31 You don't want to do a hard curve, otherwise it will be difficult to execute the Peregrine
05:36 Pass.
05:37 You may want to try to do a straight line or a soft curve.
05:43 Another important thing is the distance between the cards.
05:46 On a table like this with 24 inches, the cards should be approximately with 0.3 inches.
06:01 Let's talk about the placement.
06:02 Let's assume your spectator picked up the 9 of hearts.
06:05 You want to put this card on the first third from your left to your right if you are right
06:11 handed.
06:12 So approximately here, like this.
06:15 You'll put it right above a card, like this.
06:21 When you do that, you kind of stack two cards together.
06:25 So once you raise your eyes to your spectator's level, when you return, he won't be able to
06:32 differentiate the cards.
06:35 Of course, this is face up and you're going to put the card face down.
06:40 So he won't be able to see the difference between these cards.
06:45 But you'll be able to do that because from your point of view, you can see that there
06:50 are two cards together.
06:52 So this is your clue.
06:56 Well this is for the top control.
06:58 I'm going to talk about the bottom control later on.
07:00 So let's learn the first steps to execute the Bear Green Pass.
07:12 Well the first thing you want to do is you're going to place your thumb more or less in
07:16 the 7th or 8th card, something like this.
07:20 And with your middle finger, you're going to grasp the bottom card, like so.
07:26 And I'm going to pick up the bottom card to show you how you're going to grip this card.
07:32 So you're going to place the card like this, in the joint between the distal and the intermediate
07:40 phalanx, like so.
07:42 The skin of your finger will hold the card like this, and you can apply pressure above
07:47 it.
07:48 Once you've got the first card in place, you can drag the whole deck with it.
07:54 So let me place it again.
07:56 Your thumb goes in here, you place the bottom card in the right position and you start dragging.
08:04 When you got to the selected card, you're going to place your thumbnail on the selected
08:08 card and you're going to scratch it, like this.
08:14 When this packet of cards is free, you raise it and you see, you can sustain the whole
08:23 packet with the grip you did with the bottom card.
08:26 And now with your pinky, ring and middle finger, you can continue dragging the cards around.
08:35 I'm going to do it a little more fast so you can see it.
08:43 You place your thumb, you grasp the bottom card, you start dragging, place your thumbnail,
08:50 start scratching, raise and keep dragging the rest of the deck.
08:54 I'm going to show you a little bit faster so you can follow.
09:06 Now let me show you what it looks like in real speed.
09:16 That's it.
09:23 Let's talk about the bottom control.
09:25 The bottom control is very simple.
09:28 On the top control, you place the card, let me put it face up, you place the card right
09:33 above this card.
09:37 On the bottom control, what you want to do is to place the card like this, below one
09:45 card.
09:46 And now you can see again that there are two cards stacked together but your selected card
09:53 is the bottom one.
09:57 When you do the Peregrine Pass, you execute the Peregrine Pass on this card, so you do
10:02 that.
10:03 And when you finish, this card is on the bottom.
10:08 I'm going to do it face down so you can follow the card on the bottom, so the Nine of Hearts.
10:16 I place below this card and I keep track of it looking at this stacked part.
10:24 I grasp my card, I start dragging, and when it comes to here I do the pass and now the
10:30 Nine of Hearts is on the bottom.
10:39 Beyond the top and bottom control, what I like to do is what I call face up control.
10:45 I'm going to show you the way I do.
10:47 I dribble the cards for my spectator to call stop anytime he wants, but I accelerate the
10:53 first part of the dribble so I can get him to call stop between the 10th and the 20th
10:59 card.
11:00 So I ask him to call stop, he calls stop, I ask him to memorize this card, so for instance
11:05 the Nine of Spades.
11:08 And while he's memorizing his card, I do a bubble pick in the top card of the part that
11:15 I'm holding with my left hand, like this.
11:18 So in this case, the Two of Spades.
11:21 Once he finishes memorizing, I finish dribble the cards.
11:26 You can do the false cuts you want.
11:30 And now I'm going to open the cards face up so he can see that his card is already on
11:36 in the middle of the deck.
11:38 So I remember, I spotted the Two of Spades, so now I know his card is the Nine of Spades.
11:44 What I need to do to control the Nine of Spades to the top is to be able to execute a pair
11:48 of green pass on the Three of Diamonds in here.
11:51 So I'll execute the pair of green pass on the Three of Diamonds, close the cards, and
11:58 now you can palm the card or whatever you want.
12:09 One of my favorite things to do with a pair of green pass is what I call the gap control.
12:14 If you work with any kind of stack, like the Side Stabbings or the Juan Tamariz Mnemonica,
12:20 you can do that.
12:21 This deck is on Juan Tamariz order and you need to be able to execute an almost perfect
12:29 ribbon spread and you understand why.
12:32 If you open the cards and ask your spectator to pick up a card, let's assume he picks up
12:37 this one, you see, it will leave a bigger space, a gap between this card and this one.
12:44 And if you are able to execute a pair of green pass on this card, when you're squaring the
12:49 cards, you can spot the 40th card, like the Four of Spades.
12:56 And if you know that, you know that that one is the card right below the Four of Spades,
13:02 the Seven of Hearts in Juan Tamariz order.
13:05 Yeah.
13:06 And you can do any pair you want, like Reading Minds or whatever.
13:11 This was the gap control.
13:21 One of the things that make the execution of the Bear Green Pass a little bit easier
13:26 is leaving a bigger space on the card you want to control.
13:31 You see?
13:32 Of course, with time, you need to be able to execute the Bear Green Pass with the same
13:37 space of the other cards.
13:39 You don't want your spectator to notice anything different from the beginning of the spread.
13:45 Well, this was the Bear Green Pass.
13:49 I really hope you enjoyed it and I really hope you can use it as soon as possible.
13:55 If you have any questions or doubts, you can contact me.
13:59 I'll be more than happy to answer your questions.
14:03 Thank you very much.
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