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alibaba Loyal user Hawaii 280 Posts |
I'm constantly amazed by what people DON'T see. I once was doing Anderson's newspaper tear for a bunch of people and the big, wire-wrapped packet dropped out of the paper as I was tearing tearing away. I picked it up, put it back and went on with the routine. Afterward, some folks said some nice things about the paper tear and I said something like, "Thanks, but I kinda messed it up a little. I wish things like that didn't have to happen." They didn't know what I was talking about, it was as if it never happened.
And Mr. Christenson, there is at least one possible recovery from the old ploy of bending down, pretending to pick up a dropped coin but instead shooting it under one's shoe. I saw a guy pretend to pick up a dropped coin, look at his hand as if her were holding it and say to the audience, "Watch this." He proceeded to "rub" it into the top of his head, then lifted his foot and showed that the coin had descended through his body and come out of his shoe.
I'm as real as you think I am
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MarvinWang Loyal user 274 Posts |
Is that your money, sir?...
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rottenmagic New user 51 Posts |
I really like that "vanished the coin last week" line from manreb. Awesome! I think that there has been a lot of good advice given, especially about being prepared for a screw-up. The reality is that everyone drops a coin now and then. The people that say they never do, are lying (not trying to start a fight). Pretty much every good book and dvd on coins covers recovering from a drop. Must be a reason for that. Even some of the greats have admitted to dropping coins on occasion. In "the amateur magicians handbook" henry hay tells a story about meeting and spending time with T. Nelson Downes (probably the wrong spelling) and complaining about dropping the coins. Downes said to him " I've been doing this for thirty years and I still drop the coins". If one of the greatest coin workers of all time drops them, then it's a pretty safe bet that everyone drops them. What seperates a pro from an amateur is how you handle the inevitable screw-up.
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TonyPorter Regular user 180 Posts |
A quick side story -
Years ago a few mischievous guys in the front row of a Carl Cloutier lecture, dropped coins on the ground as he was doing his routine. Quite unnerving for him! :) PS No, I wasn't one of them. |
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BanzaiMagic Inner circle 1339 Posts |
Of course, if what you dropped was a Lassen coin, you will be too busy crying to remember the "outs" you previously prepared.
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