This man, David Blaine needs no introduction. All his tricks are so powerful, very visual and amazingly stunning.

This card jumping trick is one of his favorite street magic tricks. It is really worth a watch.

David Blaine’s Card Jumping Trick

Alright. Now is the time to reveal this card jumping trick, part by part as explained in details below.

Revelation & Explanation

It is quite simple after you know the know-how. What is needed is of course “unlimited” practice to make it perfect.

The Magical Straight by Stephane Vanel is a very strong card trick. This trick is so amazing, where David Blaine performs it in his street magic show.

The Effect

Once a card is randomly taken from the deck, 3 separate shuffles and a little bit of magic make a straight miraculously appear – missing only the card originally taken.

What You Need

Just a deck of cards.

The Explanation

OK, here is the secret, revealed.

Note: You can learn all of Stephane Vanel’s card tricks from his DVD, Card Trick Magic featuring 12 incredible tricks, essential sleight of hand techniques and other bonuses.

This is a horrifying extreme magic performed by David Blaine during the taping of Carson Daly’s late night show.

David rips off his chest and pull his beating heart out, put it back in and then collapsed.

Fake or true, you judge.

Tying your shoelace without even touching it! This is the Self Tying Shoelace Trick by crazy magician Jay Noblezada. Jay invented the effect and David Blaine performed it on TV in his Drowned Alive Special.

The Effect

You walk down a busy street with your shoe untied. Complete strangers will interrupt you to tell you your shoe is untied.

You give your foot a little shake. Your shoelaces start to snap back and forth, criss-crossing…

If you could move your foot in just the right way you might actually be able to tie your shoelaces without even touching them…You give your foot another little shake and this time you get it just right.

To the astonishment of your spectators, your shoelaces visually tie themselves! The best part is, it’s a real knot and bow! Your spectators can inspect till their hearts are content!

What You Need

These are basically the things you need to make the gimmick: A matching shoelace for you shoe, a mini pulley, a safety pin.

The Explanation

This tutorial will explains how to make the gimmick and the method of this trick.

This is a kind of mind reading trick using cards performed by David Blaine on his TV specials. This trick requires some easy setup for the gimmick but the effect is fantastic! The explanation below.

The Effect

A deck of cards is been riffled through and the spectator is ask to remember any one card that he/she saw. Then, magically the top card turns to be the card of the spectator with a snap on the card.

What You Need

A deck of cards with two identical cards and an extra card (a Joker will do) which is cut 1/4. Two pieces of scotch tape.

The Explanation

This video clip will teach you how to make the gimmick and the method of this trick.

A cup of real coffee visually changes into a cup of coins in front of the spectator’s very own eyes! This is one of David Blaine’s tricks where he visually turns a cup of coffee to a cup of coins. Watch it for yourself.

Just to share, this is a levitation trick performed by David Blaine at a street in front of three spectators. This it one of many levitation effects out there, I’ll post more about levitation tricks and secrets.

David Blaine levitates and floats few inches off the ground leaving the spectators screaming and laughing!