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cafeinst Elite user 489 Posts |
It's been a year and a half since I asked this question. I have found since then that the best advantage of sleight of hand is that it hardly ever malfunctions, if one practices. Also, even if it malfunctions, it is possible to correct the malfunction, if one is clever.
Mechanical devices have a greater chance of malfunction and it is usually impossible to correct the malfunction. Since I asked the question, I have added John Mendoza's cups and balls to my show and have had great success with it. The final loading gets great applause. |
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Mb217 Inner circle 9520 Posts |
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On Sep 19, 2013, Mb217 wrote: I remember when you started the thread here, and I still sorta think what I thought then as to it, as I reposted here above. I'm glad you have garnered a deeper appreciation here from all the responses, it was a good topic. To add just a little here...I am happy everyday that I took the time and made the effort to learn good SOH, it has made my magic, my own.
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cafeinst Elite user 489 Posts |
Mb217,
What you posted then is true. The John Mendoza cups and balls routine that I do involves one of the cups being a chop cup, but it's still mostly sleight of hand - the final loadings are definitely sleight of hand and very clever sleight of hand, as the loadings are not all done at the end of the trick. I can't fathom any better routine than this. I have messed up with the Mendoza cups and balls routine and was able to recover through improvisational sleight of hand, getting the loadings in with no problem. |
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vinsmagic Eternal Order sleeping with the fishes... 10957 Posts |
As I stated a gimmick with SOH isd the best of both worlds
example http://youtu.be/lZLl1Z5uaT8 vinny |
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
A visiting magician asked me to sign his copy of "T.U.C. Appreciation" and asked is I had any new effects using the TUC.
He had mentioned that he was afraid that the thumb movement was "kind of obvious" in some effects. So, I did a new effect while he watched my thumbs and fingers closely. He was "blown away" and offered that his concern was meaningless and certainly never observable by a lay spectator. A month later he wrote that he was now performing several new effects without any problem. Only then did I tell him I had not used the TUC in the demo I had done for him. The point is that "never happened" must apply to both the use of a gaff or pure Sleight -- and confidence is a major factor.
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cafeinst Elite user 489 Posts |
One thing I have learned recently is that for all of the sleight of hand that I have learned in the last year or so, I still cannot get a better reaction from pure sleight of hand than the trick that requires essentially no sleight of hand, namely Dan Harlan's Card-toon.
I bought the trick after seeing the reaction it got on Britain's Got Talent. |
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