I’ve watched A LOT of your videos, and I think this one may be my favorite just because it’s great to see you perform for someone other than us :)

The live performance was a great addition! You should do more of them. The live reaction is so much more inspiring.

I've mastered the art of making absolutely sure that the Spectator never spots that the Cross Cut is a force. I simply soak one of my shoes in fuel before each performance, then let my lit cigarette fall from my mouth at a key moment after the force. When the cig ignites the fuel, I find that the flames, the fumes and my screaming dance of searing pain all do a great job of 'misdirection'. It's one of those 'timeless subtleties' that's made me very popular as a magician, and I've generated tonnes of bookings for new gigs, which I'm really looking forward to, once I get out of the Burns Unit and my skin grows back.

Before you touch the cards, you could get them to take the bottom card from the top packet.  That avoids any suggestion that you might have used a sleight to force the card on them.  Once they've removed their card, you can go into the convincer routine, but you can also point out that at no point did you touch the deck until after they chose their card.  You can even get them to keep their hand on their picked card, so that there's no way you could have interfered with their selection.  For the reveal, they can turn their card over too, so you never touched their card throughout the whole routine.

This kills! Thank you Sean for all of your in depth teachings on this principle and so many more!

You can do this without a "marked" deck. it's great trick!!! thank you!

Great video. And I am very impressed that you mention all the sources, which rarely anyone does these days. Keep up the great work. Best wishes from Düsseldorf, Germany.

I like the casual face down dealing of the force card immediately followed by the convincer!  Nice addition to this classic force.

I saw the headline, “the best force of all time,“ and I said to myself, “that’s gotta be the cross cut force.”

I also agree with you on the cross cut force being the best force of all time

I agree. The best force by far. Natural, self working, hands off.

And more live performances are a must for future videos😊

For such a simple trick it is so so impactful. Thank you!

Great, well-constructed routine. The handling, subtleties and convincers really make it. Clearly you put a lot of thought into it. And I got to be the 500th like.

Great video Sean, and I couldn't agree more. I think it's a shame this gets taught in every beginner book because it's worth so much more than that.

..The FORCE is strong with this one lol I love the nonsensical questions (could literally see the question mark over her head). Where can I get my "marked cards" design printed onto a deck - my own custom design..??!

This is actually Lee Asher's Fart Box force from his 1992 lecture.

It's really cool! Thank you so much! Keep up the great work 😊

I used only once this force during a kind of ambitious card routine, the spectator's reaction was almost like "OH MY GOD"

This is a very cool example of how a week one of doing card magic method could fool a week one magician simply because of the way it’s structured

What i got from this was be a top dom,very confident and assertive 😂😂😂😂😂😂