Magic Tricks And You

Learn Various Ways To Do The Double Lift

The double lift sleight of hand is considered to be one of the fundamental basics of magic tricks. Even beginner magic tricks utilize the double lift in their performance to add a little bit of misdirection and allow you to control the card you wish to use. In it’s most basic explanation, the double lift involves grabbing two cards with your hand but making it appear that you only have one. This allows for some pretty neat magic tricks even for those just getting into magic.

Below we’ve listed 5 easy to learn double lift variations. These tricks do require you to practice before you can safely consider them mastered, but they shouldn’t take you more than a few nights practicing in front of a mirror.

• Center Double Lift - Learn Basic Sleight Of Hand
• Double Lift Aces - Learn Basic Sleight Of Hand
• Basic Double Lift - Learn Basic Sleight Of Hand
• Advanced Double Lift - Learn Basic Sleight Of Hand
• One Handed Double Lift - Learn Basic Sleight Of Hand

Just like the various ways we learned how to shuffle cards before, there are plenty other double lift variations and even better sleight of hand tricks for us to learn. Follow along with all of our new free magic tricks that we post daily by signing up for our RSS Feed today!