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BobGreaves Regular user London, UK 152 Posts |
I am starting to practice sleights with my non-dominant hand, after I have them in a reasonable state with my dominant hand. It seems like a good idea, although I truthfully can't say that I have found any real use.
Does anyone else do this? And, if you do, do you have think it gives you any recognisable benefits? Thanks Bob |
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Jaz Inner circle NJ, U.S. 6111 Posts |
Kainoa use both hands in his "Coins on Edge" book and yes, it can be a benefit.
I do some sleights with both but not many. There are topics here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......;forum=3 http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......forum=41 and here where I see you already posted http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......;forum=3 |
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BobGreaves Regular user London, UK 152 Posts |
Thankyou Jaz, you are more on the ball than I. I had completely forgotten that I had looked at these a while back!
I feel embarrassed now (put it down to a "senior moment"). Perhaps I should practice using both sides of my brain (or even one side). I have been drinking Belgian beer this evening though (apart from its wonderful flavour it's 8%). |
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Jaz Inner circle NJ, U.S. 6111 Posts |
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Jacob Smith Inner circle Columbus, OH 1871 Posts |
LOL!i agree with Jaz it is always good to have a good palm with both hands(you never know when it will come in handy).
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Michael Rubinstein V.I.P. 4665 Posts |
Being able to perform sleights and moves with both hands makes you a more versatile magician. You won't need to manipulate positions of the coins in order to facilitate a move, which makes your magic look that much cleaner.
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BobGreaves Regular user London, UK 152 Posts |
I am also interested in the mental-physical learning process of the manipulative aspects.
I have noticed for years (other physical skills than magic) that if one practises hard then stops for a few days then the skill doesn't stop getting better nor does it decline, but it keeps improving on its own. It's as though, once the momentum has started, the brain-muscle coordination still continues to develop. (You can sometimes notice this when after getting frustrated with something, you put it down. When you pick it up at a later date the task seems easy). I have also noticed that if a sleight is learned with my dominant hand then the speed of learning with the non-dominant hand is much quicker. I am wondering if there might be some reverse improvements: for example if I start to learn a sleight from the beginning with my non-dominant hand, then how much of a speed-up would occur in my dominant hand. Sorry for not being very specific, but I wonder if anyone else has experience comments in this direction? |
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Rob Elliott Elite user Reston VA 487 Posts |
I'm a lefty. Since at least 95% of sleight-of-hand routines are written from a right-handed perspective, we lefties have to reverse-engineer pretty much everything we learn. Now, as simple as it may seem to merely substitute right for left while reading the text, it can actually be very confusing (at least for me. ) So, what I do is learn and practice a routine exactly the way it's written (i.e., with my non-dominant hand) and then, once I've got the overall flow of the movements down, I switch hands and run through it a few times the other way. Only then do I decide which way works better for me. As a result, I've gotten fairly proficient (emphasis on "fairly" ) with many sleights using either hand.
One other point: There are certain moves that I simply will never be able to perform with my right hand as well as my left. No matter how many times I've tried, I just can't back palm a coin in my right hand; and my right classic palm will never be as good as my left. For this reason, I've adopted different methodologies for some moves, depending on which hands hold the coins. For example, my right-to-left shuttle pass is completely different from my left-to-right shuttle pass, etc. I also believe that mixing it up a little makes these sleights look a little less "forced" to our audiences. |
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info2victor Veteran user 337 Posts |
I'm a lefty as well. And yes, most of the time I have to learn the effect substituting the word "right" with "left". I don't know why, but the truth is there are really moves that the non-dominant hand can't do while the dominant one can. Say I can't do a deep back grip with my right but I learnt to do it with my left quickly.
Having said that, I agree with posts above saying practising with both hands is good. There are indeed nice effects requiring both hands doing the same sleights. And the good thing is once your donminant hand get used to the sleight, your non-dominant hand can mirror it, making the learning process faster. Talking about the mental-physical learning process... I guess there is a term called "muscle memory"... ha ha~
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STFC New user 73 Posts |
Another leftie here. I have found that some sleights I will learn and then perfect with a the left and others with the right. funny because I can not do anything else with my right hand but can still do a better click pass with the right??????
ST
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Rob Elliott Elite user Reston VA 487 Posts |
Yep. Me too. That's why I use two different click passes, depending on which hand the coins are in. Roth's "Floperino"-type click pass is great. (It's on his Expert Coin Magic Made Easy series, Volume 2 I think.)
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dominik Regular user Germany 143 Posts |
Classic Palm und Multiple Lower Downs Palm are the only moves I do with both hands.
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Matt Malinas Inner circle Transylvania 1367 Posts |
Classic palm and Goshman Pinch are the ones I do with both hands.
learning the goshman pinch with my non-dominant hand really paid off -Matt
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Brad Burt Inner circle 2675 Posts |
I highly recommend it with coins. The nice thing about getting your chops down with both hands with coins is the technique transfers to Billiard Balls, etc. nicely and thus plays double duty. Best,
Brad Burt
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dave100 New user 11 Posts |
Can I just reccommend joe rindfleisch's extreme coin magic dvd he is a lefty, which might be useful for some of you guys.
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dominik Regular user Germany 143 Posts |
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On 2006-05-14 15:55, dave100 wrote: You may. It is an excellent DVD. |
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
When I wrote my lecture notes I wrote them for a lefty then when I was finished I used the find and replace feature. Left for the characters mesdds then right to left then mesdds to right it worked out great.
So I think I did everything left, for the most part. :0 Joe
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Rob Elliott Elite user Reston VA 487 Posts |
That's almost exactly how I do it, Joe. Great minds think alike, I guess.
Just curious; is there some significance to the characters "mesdds"? |
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sepaternoster New user 62 Posts |
I too am a lefty, and I have also found it confusing to try to swap the instructions. So I learn to do it as written and seldom bother to adapt it later. As a result, my right hand has become my dominant hand for magic. However, the left is always ready and strong when needed (for change-overs, etc.)
Seth
Seth E. Paternoster
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
I use something that will not show up in my document so I don't mess up the document while I do the find/ replace process.
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