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appl3tard New user 14 Posts |
Are there any tricks which revolve heavily around the use of Tenkai?
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts |
How can you use a magician Tenkai Ishida, or you mean Tenkai Palm?
In the latter case, 'Card production From Arm Spread' is one of best tricks using Tenkai Palm I know. Dai Vernon's 'Jumping Jack' is also good. BTW, Tenkai used Tenkai Palm for stage performances. Hideo Kato |
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Jay Mahon Special user 983 Posts |
There is a lot of beautiful tenkai palm work but those that know about it rarely talk about it. Ross Bertram's book Bertram on Sleight of Hand has the most extensive description to my knowledge.
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The Burnaby Kid Inner circle St. John's, Canada 3158 Posts |
I'm personally quite fond of the "disappearing thumb" effect with the Tenkai...
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Chappo Special user Bris Vegas 754 Posts |
Stacks of tricks... but fewer magicians who can pull them off. I will not pretend that I am one of them. In my opinion, any trick that relies heavily on the Tenkai palm requires complete mastery of sight-lines, body language and timing.
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MickeyPainless Inner circle California 6065 Posts |
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On 2009-04-04 21:03, Chappo wrote: I agree and I have seen some of those masters that do not suffer from "Disappearing Thumb"! I think I may revisit "Jumpin Jack"! Cool trick and excellent workout for the use of Tenkai Palm! MMc |
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Nick Pudar Veteran user 369 Posts |
"Practical Impossibilities" by Rick Johnsson (1976) is essentially dedicated to some killer material based on the Tenkai Palm. Really great stuff.
Nick
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appl3tard New user 14 Posts |
Lol at Hideo Kato, of course I meant tenkai palm. Thanks for replying anyway.
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liampower Regular user 189 Posts |
How about Thunderbird by Lee Asher, now that is a production I wish I could do
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chronica Loyal user France 94 Vitry s/s 246 Posts |
Have a look at 'Helicopter Card' by Slydini, but it's so hard to get the same result that no-one do it ...
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appl3tard New user 14 Posts |
Wow so many tenkai post. I wonder if someone could do a compilation of them?
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MueCard Inner circle 2964 Posts |
Here a clipping from an Escorial manuscript:
"John Northern Hilliard: Greater Magic, Minneapolis 1947,p.202: Palming One Card. Tenkai’s Method (In placing top half of the deck with right hand on bottom half in left hand the top card of the bottom half is “angle jogged” with right little finger tip. This card is wedged between left little finger tip at upper right corner and the base of left thumb at lower left corner). pp. 212 – 213: The Tenkai Color Change ( this move resembles the Tenkai Palm closely!) Lewis Ganson: Dai Vernon Book of Magic, London 1957:pp. 73- 80 “Application of the Tenkai Palm” The Tenkai Palm was popularized by this publication in 1957. Ganson: “...he (Dai Vernon) highly praised the performances of TENKAI and remarked on the excellent ideas that this clever has made available to the magical fraterny. He was particularly enthusiastic about the unorthodox method for palming a card that Tenkai has evolved...” Subjects regarding Tenkai Palm treated in the Dai Vernon Book of Magic are - Tenkai Palm (“...thumb, which is extended along the short edge of the card, one top corner of the card being against the pad of the thumb and the opposite top corner against the flesh of palm of the hand immediately below the thumb... card is right angles to the hand...”) - Svengali Colour Change - Stealing a card form the pack into the Tenkai Palm Position - To Exchange a card - The Jumping Jack (transposition routine, one card standing against a glass, the other one is held in hand). A particularly noteworthy detailed description of the Tenkai Palm is found in: Masatoshi Furota: The Thoughts Of Tenkai – A Collection of His Superb Tricks, Tokyo 1971: “Tenkai Palm”, pp. 51 – 58." |
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Jay Mahon Special user 983 Posts |
Andrew,
I'm sorry you've never see the palm used well. Not all of us lose a thumb for such a long period of time. Perhaps with practice you will get your thumb back... J |
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MacIrish Regular user 142 Posts |
Many years ago, Steve Beam released a booklet dealing with Tenkai, I think it was "Changing of the Cards".
Try his web site. |
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Or are you thinking of the Tenkai Pinch?
The Tenkai pennies...
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appl3tard New user 14 Posts |
Of course tenkai palm. lets not digress.
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JohnWells Inner circle The Southern Wild 1791 Posts |
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On 2009-04-05 09:16, chronica wrote: That would be a lateral palm, moreso than a Tenkai palm. |
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magicfish Inner circle 7006 Posts |
For an in depth study of the Longitudinal Tenkai Palm, read Roger's Thesaurus by Roger Crosthwaite and Justin Higham.
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alibaba Loyal user Hawaii 280 Posts |
Ross Bertram's book "Bertram on Sleight of Hand" has a wonderful section on the Tenkai Palm. I worked on this palm for a long time and the two things that helped me the most were first, a comment Dai Vernon made on the Vernon Tapes about "keep(ing) the card level and they'll never see it" and secondly, mirror practice is not useful, as the angles involved at watching one's self in the mirror aren't the same as "real-world" angles, which can be all over the map (subject sitting, standing, etc.).
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Jay Mahon Special user 983 Posts |
Mirror work is crucial. The key is to not stare at yourself head on only...
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