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robwar0100 Inner circle Buy me some newspapers.Purchase for me 1 Gazette and 1747 Posts |
It has been a few years since I performed Aldo's Roped In, primarily because I do a three-phase rope routine in my shows: Professor's Nightmare w/a touch of Fiber Optices; followed by a Ring on Rope; followed by a Cut and Restored Rope.
Because of this, I hardly get the chance to perform Aldo's routine. Well, today, I had an outdoor gig, and I was scheduled for two half hour shows over a two-hour period. While I was asked to perform two shows, I knew I should anticipate anything because this event is a carnival-like atmosphere with so many things going on at once. So, in my mind I needed to be prepared to perform a couple of shows, two hours of close up or something in between. It was something in between. In performing Aldo's routine, he starts off by saying, "Have you seen the trick where a magician cuts the rope in half?" While this was not how I practiced and rehearsed the effect, this is how it came out in my performance today: "Have you seen the trick where the magician cuts the rope in half? Yeah, it's a good one." The rope is "cut" and now there is a long rope and a medium rope. "Have you seen the trick where the magician takes three pieces a rope (I add a short rope to the mix), a short, medium and long piece of rope, and he makes them all the same length? Yeah, that's a good one." "Have you seen the trick where the magician takes three pieces of rope all the same length and turns them into one long piece of rope? Yeah, that's a good one." "Have you seen the trick where the magician has a rope with two ends and one middle and then has a rope with three ends and one middle? Yeah, that's a good one." "Have you seen the trick where the magician has a rope with four ends and only one middle? Yeah, that's a good one." "Have you seen the trick where the magician has a rope with four ends and two middles, which means there must be two ropes? Yeah, that's a good one." "Have you seen the trick where the magician has two ropes and ties them together in a knot and then removes the knot and has one rope? Yeah, that's a good one." (Take your bow) Bobby
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murf Loyal user San Antonio, TX 264 Posts |
I sometimes present Roped In as an example of the problems of teaching Professor's Nightmare to kids. I start with the ropes held so as to look like the three PM ropes, then tell about teaching "the stretch" and having the kids get so excited that they don't pay attention to the instruction for the false count --- and then go on with the Roped In routine while talking about things that an audience might suspect if you don't use the false count. It's fun to watch the audience expressions change from "here we go again" to "what in the world just happened?!".
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
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On Aug 10, 2015, murf wrote: ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? You are using technical terms like "false count" in your presentation????????????????????????????????????????????
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murf Loyal user San Antonio, TX 264 Posts |
Did I fail to mention that I do this presentation ONLY for magicians? I wouldn't be using terms like Professor's Nightmare any place other than a magic meeting or convention!
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
Yup! You "failed to mention" etc,
I just thought that I would ask. --I'm glad that I did! It's easy, in a "session" to forget to mention things like that! We get so enthused, that "in the heat of the battle", we don't always mention 'details"! Thanks for explaining. Dick
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robwar0100 Inner circle Buy me some newspapers.Purchase for me 1 Gazette and 1747 Posts |
Dick,
I was hoping that was the case, too. Thanks, Murf, for clearing that up. Bobby
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yachanin Inner circle Cleveland, OH 2105 Posts |
I perform Roped In (around Thanksgiving and Christmas) as a "wish knot." If you pull on the knot and it comes off, you get your wish... kind of like pulling on a wishbone. I tell the children I'll share my wish knot with them and ask them for their holiday wishes. I pull the knot and everyone gets their wish
Regards, Steve
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