Course Includes:
Return of the Angels
Twisting Aces Plus
A Hors d'Oeuvre
Araki-Hofzinser Aces
Acrobatic
Jewelry Force
Araki Pass
Araki-Erdnase Change
Chon's Invisible Pass
Side Steal
MA-Double Lift
Electric Change
Electric Change #2
Shadow Change

Ichiro Araki demonstrates how to disperse and regroup four aces throughout a partial deck with a level of stealth that is beyond detection. By the end, your four aces will have found their way back to their starting positions seemingly instantaneously.

In just five minutes, Araki will teach you how to simultaneously hide and reveal your deck's four aces repeatedly before ultimately producing a baffling color change. You'll be able to impress any audience with what seems to be just a few simple twists and turns of the cards.

Learn how to magically transform your aces into kings and back again right before your audience's very eyes with A Hors d'Oeuvre. Due to the use of seemingly basic and minimal movements, this trick is beyond detection and relies on your ability to deliver a smooth execution.

Araki demonstrates his version of the Hofzinser Aces Problem, a classic card problem created by Jack Avis in the 1950s. The four aces will help you locate your spectator's chosen card that has been seemingly lost within the deck. But, has it really?

For a beautiful production of any four of a kind, Ichiro demonstrates how to deliver a perfectly devious trick that'll let your audience believe they see all. As usual though, there is more going on just beneath the surface.

Araki's Jewelry Force will make your audience truly believe in magic as they repeatedly pick the ace of spades out of the deck, even as the card count dwindles.

Is it really magic or the work of some other more tangible force?

It's essential that every performer has some version of the pass within their arsenal. It is a practical trick that requires years of practice. Learning to control your deck with subtlety and ease will prove to be a truly crucial element in your card dealing career.

In this video, Araki provi...

Araki performs and provides a walk-through of the classic color change effect, the Erdnase Change. After this short tutorial you'll be able to change the color of any card in your deck with nothing more than a mere wave of the hand.

Araki introduces a pass that can be completed so instantaneously that is almost completely imperceptible to to the untrained eye. This version, that begins very similarly to the Herrmann Pass, is much more quiet and swift than the original.

Araki's modifications have made this pass even more ...

Araki presents his version of the Side Steal, another classic sleight that exhibits a dealer's total control over their deck by commanding the spectator's card to the top of the deck every single time.

Fool audiences with this double lift. As they watch their card be placed into the middle of the deck, they won't know if they can trust their eyes as their card appears to actually be at the top of the deck every single time.

Araki demonstrates another fundamental and essential effect that al...

Araki demonstrates a change that is so quick, it's basically electric. Shock your audience with the speed in which you can control any card to the top of your deck with nothing, but a swift wave of your hand.

Araki provides a second version of the Electric Change that allows for increased audience engagement and interaction. They'll be shocked by where their card turns up in the end.

Araki introduces a highly visual variation of the Erdnase Change called the Shadow Change.

By maintaining almost constant spread fingers, this trick appears to allow for zero cover. This leaves your audience with the belief that you couldn't possibly be hiding anything.

Course Includes:
Introduction
Geome-Trick
Silent Destiny
Up-Down Coin
Instant Triumph
Spiral Cut
Spiral Cut Control
Floating Deck
Pyramid Production

Ben Salinas introduces legendary card master Ichiro Araki. Araki has been in the magic community for almost 60 years and has become a true staple within Japanese magic. In this series, Araki presents some of the finest coin and card tricks the world of magic has to offer.

Araki demonstrates a simple geometric inspired production trick. The help of a little palming and the Jimmy Wilson grip will magically produce a coin out of two invisible circles and a triangle.

Araki teaches you how to effortlessly pass three coins back and forth between your left and right hand. This can be done so effortlessly that your method is well beyond detection by the untrained eye. To an audience, it'll appear that the coins are inexplicably appearing and disappearing over and...

How can you force a coin to teleport straight through a solid object, and bring it back again? Araki knows the secret. All it takes to unlock the mysteries of teleportation is three slaps to the back of the hand.

Araki provides a demonstration of hands-free, no table needed Triumph. This trick works most efficiently with a prior knowledge of and experience with the Araki pass. Although Araki makes it look effortless, his take on Triumph is an advanced and impressive trick. One that'll require frequent pra...

A simple flourish that is just as fun to learn as it is flashy. This move will impress your audience by demonstrating your unquestionable control over your deck and your undeniable dexterity.

This move builds off of the previous flourish Araki previously demonstrated. Instead though, you'll learn to use it as a means to control a card instead of just as a fancy attention-grabber.

Call it telekinesis, levitation, ability to affect gravity - they're all in the same ballpark. They're all talents your audience will believe you possess with Araki's floating deck trick. A floating deck that'll add some mostly effortless fun to any routine.

Only after you've advanced completely through this collection of tricks will you be ready for this production move. The most ambitious move included in this series, the Pyramid Production allows you to seek out the spectator's card from within the deck while constructing a pyramid with the cards ...