my first cardistry video

last night i was bored so i was thinking what can i do, so i said to my self i'll just
shoot a video about cardistry, i picked my cam and tripod then some lights and viola im ready to shoot. i've video shoot for almost 30mins then proceed to edit in my computer using sony vegas 8.0 this is my first time editing in sony vegas so i tried everything i know to accomplish what i want.

the video consist of my currently favorite flourishes like:
squeeze
ragnarok
anaconda dribble
the werm
sicked and twisted wings of the mockingbird
00.327.000
akira
pandora
curly cue

all of that flourishes are from:
daren yeow and kevin ho of the virtouso
dan and dave buck
bone ho
and mr paul lepaul

ok some info about my cardistry life, i started practising seriously just last june so it would be 2 months of non stop pracitising(ouch my hands hurts)
i liked cardistry for 2 reasons:

*first is because i love hard moves and its such a fullfilment for me when i finished something like the flourishes above

*second is because i like it when i saw someone doing cardistry in any videos



i named this video cardisTRY with the "try" word capitalized because i want to have the word cardistry a meaning with this video with is "trycks(me) is TRYing to do cardistry"

i hope you like it,
-trycks

my favorite flourish :D

right now im into flourishing and i just want to share to you guys whats my favorite flourishes out there, and heres my list and review:


pandora - from DnD's dvd trilogy, i like it because of the crabshack and the tornado its beautiful flourish when done smoothly. practicing for about 1 and a half months now and im getting better at it =D

sick and twisted wings of the mockingbird -this flourish is created by kevin ho, i like it because of its long name (joke) i like it because of its movement and the flow of the flourish, this flourish is inspired by daren yeows mockingbird and sean and scott sicked and twisted and i think because its really different i think they call this kind of flourishing "single card cuts" i still learning it right now i hope i can do it after a month

dalena - heres another favorite of mine from youtube user name "thinhv12" which i think is much better than the sick and twisted wings of the mockingbird (s&%^t long name) that has a card production

oo.327.000 - another flourish from DnD dvd the system i liked it because of the packets movement, rolling twisting packets. if your think i've forgot to add a link nope i just cant find any video of it lol

molecule 4 - DnD dvd trilogy again as usual i like it because of its flow and also its easy :D

anaconda dribble - this is from bone ho, i like it because theres no one doing it in our group not until i did it, also because of the length of this dribble right now i can do it 2 feet................... no link again try to search for yourself LAZY

well that's all the flourishes that i like and prctising right now. i hope you like it also, see you till my next post

first tsc competition + extended jamming

yesterday is one of the most happiest gathering of my life, why because its our first tsc close up competition and its a success =D we are jampack in the room we have many guest also there is some guest from magfi.

the participants of the competition are:
jake gacus
frederick garcia
sam halili
harry temperante
mrmark
tenkai
norman nunez
christian lacsamana
and germain magno

the competition went well the first participant to performe is jake gacus with his story telling magic, then frederick garcia with cards and coins routine with a jumbo coin ending, then sam halili with his funny geek magic, harry teperante with his goldfish production, mr mark with his misers dream routine, tenkai with his funny card magic, norman nunez with his restless lady, christian lacsamana with his reset/gambler vs magician routine and last but not the least germain magno with his cutting the aces with the finale trick of "will you be my qeen of hearts" by jay sankey hahaha

the second placer is germain magno
first place is frederick garcia
and the champion is.....................sam halili :D

i was so happy about the competition because they have exceeded what i expecting to happen in the competition. also we also see the other members of the tsc south because of this event

after the event mike, julian, tong, christian, angel and tryck(me) went to burger king welcome rotonda to extend the evening and also to talk and jam with magic.
as usual we talk about cards, coins and other magic tricks. until we have a topic about magic with rubberband hehehe, it was fun to know many other tricks with rubberband but the most funniest of all is when we did a rubberband trick called antigravity ring to christian we all know the method except him who is really baffled how we can make the ring go up in the rubberband.

then julian asked me to show him my take on the culligula (the ultimate triumph) by kostya kimlat and make a video footage of it in his cell phone here it is:


this is all for now!!!!!
-trycks

clipshift

i first became interested in this move when i've seen the trick "the queens" by dan and dave the last vanish of the queen made me say "putcha pano nya ginawa yun"(wow how did he do that?) then i researched whats the name of that trick which led me to the name clipshift.

clipshift is created by chad nelson, the clipshift is a versatile move that can do vanish, control and i think it depends on your imagination. this move is unpublish but
there will be a dvd named surfaced by chad nelson which will be released this june or july the producer is none other than the buck twins :D. this dvd teach the clipshift and other tricks by chad nelson.

check the last vanish

my first magic lecture =D

ok! this is my first post this april because im a little busy preparing for the tsc card workshop, the lecture took place in rotary center, april 23,2008
the organizers and lecturers were andres, nomer, richard and trycks(me).

the first lecturer is trycks(me) who did my own routine consist of my variation of gambler vs magician(dr. jacob daley) followed by my variation of rock & roll aces(harry lorayne)/jazz aces(darwin ortiz) and last but not the least my variation of hershey kiss(cyril takayama) with uses a cockroach instead of hershey kisses chocolate.

the next lecturer is nomer lasala who did some mentalism card magic like mocking bird, etc.

the last lecturer is anthony andres who did card magic with misdirection like card in box routine, and many more that uses heavy misdirection technic

i think the tsc card workshop did a pretty good job thanks for the support of the tsc members and other magician who attended the workshop also i would like to thank mr evil_eye(richard) who help us organize the workshop

heres some of our pictures

group picture =D

trycks(me) lecturing

trycks again

nomer doing mockingbird

nomer again

richard thanks for helping us

andres

andres again hehehe

last me doing anaconda dribble

thanks for the pictures fritz =D

*david roth and michael rubinstein lecture

all i can say is WOOOOOOOOOOOOW! they really deserves to be called coin gods, i thought
all i can see is all their tricks in there dvds and let me bore but its really different if you see them perform their tricks live at you.

we got there early at around 5:30 pm (mga excited eh) with james, tong, andres and me, then after a while mike and pierre came, we chatted a little to kill time and when its already 7:00pm we got inside the clubhouse, hehehehe thanks to doc for his plastic jumbo coin i have a souvenir with an autograph from the lecturers and also for the 5 peso coin shell(tail side) that he gave us for a reasonable price or a bargain? hehehehe thanks again doc.

the lecture started at 8pm and ended 12pm, i really love the coin retension of rubinstein called rops move with is very deceptive and also his spellbound sequence with a chocolate coin. for roth i like his 3 ball routine that has a move he did repeatedly and all of us can't seem to know how he did it and also his okito coin box set/routine, and a device to make any coin grips easily it is called rosin mike buy 1

after the lecture its picture and autograph time ^_^, the lecture ends with a group picture of all who attended it. thanks to rannie raymundo for bringing david roth and michael rubinstein here in manila.

all in all it's really an unforgetable experience for all of us, "sa mga hindi nakapunta mainggit kayo hahahaha laki ng nawala sa inyo"

Back row: Tong, Richard, Pierre, Michael and Rony; Front: James and Anthony

Back row: Tong, Richard, Pierre and Michael; Front: Doc Ronnie, Anthony and James

autograph of david roth(left) and michael rubinstein(right)

autograph of jeffrey tam(left) and rannie raymundo(right)

autograph of david roth(left) and michael rubinstein(right) in jumbo coin

t-shirt souvenir ^_^

eto pa close up

*97th eb the storycircle gathering

this is just last saturday hehehehe. our eb is located at the rotary this time(my favorite venue) when i came there i was hesitant if i will get the last remaining ticket for david roth and michael rubinstein lecture from crizz, but then i decided to get it, he's selling it only for 1k hehehe bargain for me ^_^. we did a magic round roving including me, what i did is scarne aces which didnt went well but that's ok i just make fun of it then proceed to mercury variation then last invisible palm hehehehe. there was also some guest from magfi, also mr aldino former president of the magfi went there just to get some items from doc. we leave the rotary almost 12am then as usual we extend it in starbucks we jam there and the committees did the final interview for sam after that jam again till the starbucks have to close

later tonight i'll go to the lecture with andres, tong and mike ^_^ ill just update you all what will happen to us. i hope this will be another memorable magical night for us

*96th eb the storycircle gathering

so this post is late hehehehe, its better late than never ^_~. well as usual im late at the gathering, the gathering went great. i jammed with other tsc members then after that i proceed to do the final interview for the participants of the 4th level up jam
i interviewed swirve and jjorell then in the middle of the interview the other committees(markgic and evil eye) help me with it. after that we leaved the starbucks because its closing time(mga adik) but before that some group pics first hehehehe then we went to dunkin donuts to extend our ebs(mga adik talaga)

here our some of our pics:

*95fth eb/the level up jam + extended jam? ^_^

ok! at last the 4th level up jam is finished, the eb went great, the program starts at around 5:30 with a round robin to our new members like xhien(joshenne)who did a soulmate effect, 8xtian(christian)with his spelling the aces trick, and jen with her predecktability effect also some of our old members performed like john2(john)with his own trick and chaoserver(carlo) with his play it straight triumph effect after that the level up jam is started, the first is sandman he did las vegas leaper and pk cigarette?, second is zephyr who did no jokers aloud and title bout(a variation of gambler vs magician), third is jjorell who did twisted flush and invisible palm trick variation, forth is miggs with his two shuffles harry and out of this world, fifth is swirve who did many short tricks but i only remember the ring thing, bizarre twist, and the misers dream
then the six participant is gotcha who is late, so to keep the program going nomer did a trick which is the pk touch, he did it really good hehehehe then after that its resembles turn with his hilarious linking ring, ring and rope routine and his famous 1 coin routine(hay sawangsawa na ko dun). then ronstoppable came to promote the david roth and michael rubinstein lecture (hehehe gusto kong pumunta dito) and invite us to the magfi competition. after that gotcha came then do his assign trick which is the oil and water by larry jennings (hirap nito) and also he did his balloon to nose yuck! hehehehe.

after the its interview time then jamming to the max, after that at around 12:00am we leave the rotary and decided to go to starbucks to jam a little more but before that
manips, evil eye, marco, killer, angel, badchoys, cyberheart, 8xtian, xhien, tj and last but not the least me hehehe decided to eat at chowking thanks to evil eye for the halo-halo (grande pa hahahaha). after that we followed the others to starbucks jam a little then leave the starbucks at around 2:30am.

but some members dont to drink so badchoys, cyberheart, empress , chaoserver, nomer, 8xtian, xhien, tj and me decided to go to the place of xhien. well as usual the jam again and talk about tsc matters ^_~. we leaved there at around 8am(mga adik)


participants

sandman

zephyr

swirve

jjorell

miggz

gotcha

judges

other pics ^_^

*my asher twist (modified)

this is my variation of the asher twist, i can't do the original asher twist because i always flash the twisting part so i make my own variation that i think is much better because i can do it slower and almost sorrounded.

hope you enjoy!

*94th eb the storycircle gathering

as usual im late again ^_^, i got there between 8:30pm-9:00pm, the gathering is fun
then there are new faces like 8xtian and i think 2 girls that i think is a member of the ust tsc chapter. also there is dina and carlo, alive and still kicking hahaha^_^
im also happy because i got my new shadow master deck thanks to jonas_byron.

speaking of the ust chapter, i dont agree with it because i think its just applicable if the location is far like the tsc south, ust is also in metro manila and our gathering is not that far. well the ust tsc chapter is there, i can't do anything now but to support this chapter and be there if they need a help.

im happy that the tsc members like my variation of "the jack robbers" FYI this is the first effect that i learned that is taught by my cousin, after that my magic journey starts. so in my tribute to this first effect that i learned i did my variation of it.

after that at around 12:00am we talk about the upcoming level up jam and the 100TH/2nd anniversary of the storycircle, some said that they will donate to the upcoming event with is good ^_^. after that we leaved the starbucks at around 2:00am
maybe ill post a video of my variation of the jack robbers when im not busy

*imc competition

it's valentines day and imc competition day, tong and i came late, we came there at around 10:00pm(the competition starts at 7:30)so we didnt get a chance to watch any of the participants specially nomer and andres T_T. the winner of the contest is none other than mr chris castro.

there are also some tsc members that came like germain, oniznoy, angel, carl and criss.
almost all of us do a crash ^_^ except tong and oniznoy. the one and only group that i crashed was all heckler ^_^ but its ok i have solved the problem i only did 3 tricks starting with my ambitious card routine then followed by cull-gilla(triumph) and the last effect is the rock and roll aces.

after that we ate at the pares house near the pepetons, then we left at around 1:30am
when i came home my computer is still slow so i search the internet on how to remove the jaymyka.wen9.com virus after 20 min i finally got the answer to my problem, i got a program called noob-killer i think its the best anti-virus if seen it can remove different kind of viruses.

thats all for today, thanks for visiting my site regularly ^_^

*jamming with germain

last night germain came to my house at around 10:30pm, he told me he wants to jam so as usual we talk about magic. after that we decided to watch some magic videos, we watch the lecture of carlos vaquera a student of jean pierre vallarino, in the start of the lecture he talk about combining different kinds of art like mime and magic to create more powerful presentation, then he did an anniversary waltz effect with blank cards, he also taught how to approach a table if your doing a table hopping, he said never to tell the spectator that your a magician but show it to them.

after watching his lecture i learned that to maximize your effect you need to have a good technical skills, good patter and also good acting skills, when im watching him i see him more as an actor than a magician, while he's doing his effect sometimes he will change personalities or do two personalities.

before i forget jean pierre also shows a NO PALM CARD TO WALLET effect which is good but he didnt teach it because he said he is selling it T_T. after watching his lecture video we are hungry so we ate then jam again, germain left at around 4:30am hehehehe adik yan si germain eh.

tonight i will go to imc because there will be an imc competition and also to support nomer and andres because they're one of the participants.


ill keep you updated, after the imc competition ill post what happen to us ^_^

*93rd eb the storycircle gathering!!!

its a bit bad trip eb for me because first i cant find my bicycle deck so i open a brand new red bee deck, the deck is nice but the smell is awful it smells like cockroach (yuck) then when i came in eb at around 9:00pm cakit and marco told me that the starbucks will close soon at around 10:00pm because of water shortage T_T. there's a new faces like grim jargon and the other two guys sorry if i forgot your names^_^. for my TM friends only andres and julian came. we jam a little together and ask me to teach my trycksting the aces (my variation of waving the aces II) so i taught it to them ^_^ also they leaved early at around 11:30pm-12:00am.

the committees including me talked about the level up jam, and the upcoming tsc anniversary in the end of march. after that i taught "the werm" flourish to some tsc members. then i and carl made a practical joke to germain with the use of shocking sharpie hahaha. after that carl, sam,germain and nomer shoot some parody of david blaine i wish they upload it in youtube. at around 1:30am we went to mcdonald to eat then we leaved there at around 2:30am