Learning Paths
93 courses · 790 lessons · 1207 videos · 263h of content
BeginnerBeginner Card Magic Handling: Deck, Grips, and Cuts
Eight lessons by Julio Ribera on choosing a deck and learning basic grips, spreads in the hands and on the table, the Swing Cut, and the Swivel Cut. An introductory handling journey with practical explanations.
BeginnerCard magic openers with Luis Olmedo
Two openers explained by Luis Olmedo: Amarillo, a prediction using a Svengali deck, and his version of Cutting to the Aces. Setup, patter, and spectator management are all part of the work.
IntermediateSpecialty Gaffed Decks
A guide to using gaffed card decks and gimmicks to perform highly visual transformations and vanishes.
IntermediateRope Magic Routines: Fishing, Sympathy, and Professor's Nightmare
Julio Ribera presents and explains four routines: fishing a card with a rope, making two ropes react in sympathy, removing and returning the ends, and building a Professor's Nightmare routine using magnetic ropes.
IntermediateCard Magic Masterclass
Master sleight of hand, routine construction, and the performance of card magic: cuts, controls, counts, memorized decks, palms, forces, and gimmicked cards. Includes complete routines, naturalness exercises, prop crafting, and an introduction to filming and projecting close-up magic.
AdvancedVisual Color Changes
Master a versatile toolkit of visual card transformations ranging from classic sleights to modern flourishes. Learn to instantly change one playing card into another using varying methods and angles.
BeginnerKnots and transformations with ropes
Four lessons with explanations by Julio Ribera: an impossible knot challenge, a knot transposition, the handling of the Hindu rope, and the classic version of Professor's Nightmare.
BeginnerESP Card Coincidence Routine with Ariel Hamui
A complete card coincidence routine: performance examples, prop preparation, handling, variable endings, and patter. Ariel Hamui explains how to adapt it to ESP symbols or standard cards and to the spectator's choices.
IntermediatePacket flourishes: Werm, Chrome, Sybil, and combos
Five tutorials by Julio Ribera on building cardistry flourishes and connecting them. Learn Werm, Chrome, and a compact version of Sybil, plus the Werm–Chrome transition and a combo featuring a drop or a packet aerial.
BeginnerStripper deck: handling and three applications
Four lessons by Julio Ribera on the stripper deck. It covers the mechanics, a spectator-as-mind-reader divination, a poker routine, and a setup to cut and adjust a specific number of cards.
IntermediateCard Fanning Masterclass
Learn to perform perfect circular fans, pressure fans for old decks, and visual one-handed flourishes. This course covers essential fanning techniques and a unique illusion that makes a regular deck appear blank.
AdvancedCardistry Flourishes Masterclass: Squeeze a Square, Mockingbird, Bowtie and Nimbus
Four flourishes explained by Julio Ribera to work on geometric figures, packet spins, and two-handed coordination. From Squeeze a Square and Mockingbird to Chase Duncan's Bowtie and Nimbus, featuring openings, transitions, and closings.