Materials required: playing cards.

1. Fold a card in half with your hands, as shown in the picture below.

2. Align the pre-cut playing cards with the front and connect them with your hands.

3. Among them, the fingers blocked the connection.

4. In the same way, connect the other place with your hands.

5. When the time comes, use the thumb of your right hand to pop out the folded racket.

6. Finally, clamp the torn off card surface with your fingers and gently pull it outward.

7. Block the torn pat with your left hand and hold the good card in your right hand, as shown in the picture below.

8. This is done. What the audience sees is actually the folded card like this.

Extended information

Performance form

1. Close-up magic

Performing in front of one or several audiences at close range requires the ability to Skilled techniques, the props used are mostly daily necessities, such as coins, playing cards...etc. Because of the face-to-face contact with the audience, the audience can often touch the performance objects, which often brings great shock.

2. Table performance

Usually performed in restaurants, performers perform along table after table.

3. Street magic

Due to the rise of performance methods, the most famous one is the American magician David Blaine who uses the street as a stage to perform various interactive performances with the audience.

4. Stage magic

It requires large-scale magic props, dance, stage lighting, and sound performances. (If necessary, the stage must also be specially modified.) This type of performance is only suitable for Conducted in long-distance viewing areas such as large theaters or auditoriums.

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