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Elrondo New user Germany 42 Posts |
Hiyas
When I pull a rubber band right from my wrist, pinching it between thumb an pointer finger to create the effect of a loop hanging from thumb and finger. How do I avoid wrinkles and turns in the loop showing to the spectator. Sorry for the grammer, I'm missing some special terms, but hope you get what I'm talking about.
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Poof-Daddy Inner circle Considering Stopping At Exactly 5313 Posts |
It is a bit knacky, but you just have to concentrate, when pulling it out, that you keep everything straight. Any twist that gets by you will result in a mess further down the band.
If you are doing something where you are leaving the band on your wrist but pulling a section thru your thumb crotch. Keep it straight to the thumb crotch. Pinch it with the thumb to hold that section and pull the rest out and around as straight as you can. Even if you get a little twist at the thumb, because of the pinch, the whole thing will twist together keeping that section straight.
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Elrondo New user Germany 42 Posts |
Yeah exactly,
this is what I'm talking about. Just pulling a segment and leaving the rest on my wrist. So I keep trying to avoid the little twists coming from the pinch. TY Daddy
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J-Mac Inner circle Ridley Park, PA 5338 Posts |
Pretty sure you are talking about one of Joe Rindfleisch's recent effects. I have the same problem with the band twisting some no matter how careful I am. Also, I cannot seem to get as large a loop as Joe gets.
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Elrondo New user Germany 42 Posts |
Hi Jim
You are right. It's the J.R. effect where he does one turn before pinching it and then stretching to the hanging loop. The length of the loop needs a good quality of rubberbands and I you watch closely the vids you can see he often uses lots of power at the stretching and the pinching. I think it's part of the rubber band effects is to learn how to let it look easy, smooth and not "pysical powerish". Joe offers coated rubber bands and a coating fluid for DIY coating bands. I don't know what it's made of. I'v did a few tests on some rubberbands with silicone spray and glycerine. It's a bit tricky to get just a nice little portion on the surface but I managed it by using some tissue. Both of my liquids helped to get the bands more smooth and the surface ain't sticky anymore. That helps a lot to straighten the bands and loops. For healthy reasons I would keep tring with glycerine because its also used in food and cosmetices and is statet as one of the less allergic substances. So far so good. Got to go now. Keep rubbering... El
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