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A little bit of magic, please, Maestro!
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
11/9/2007 5:52 AM |
It’s odd how just a little misdirection and a flair for razzle-dazzle can cause someone else to totally misinterpret what you’re doing to the extent that they are completely baffled. A buddy of mine way back in the fifth grade in grammar school once showed me the secret of a trick he used to do with a rubber band. The effect is this: You show your closed hand, in a fist configuration, to your about-to-be startled spectators. A rubber band is wrapped tightly around the index and ring fingers. Then you quickly open your fist and the rubber band “magically” jumps from the index and middle fingers to the ring and small fingers, apparently “teleporting” itself instantaneously through the first two fingers.
It’s a very simple trick, one you can probably figure out for yourself if you play around with a rubber band for a few moments, but it’s amazing just how many people have been wowed by that simple little maneuver when I’ve showed it to them over the past 57 years or so! Sometimes, the element of mystery seems to enthrall onlookers and suspend their sense of reality, leaving them almost helpless to figure out logically whatever it is they’ve just witnessed.
There’s another simple little trick that is accomplished with a couple of dollar bills. Or you use a $1 and $5 to make it a little easier to follow. You place one bill on a table, then place the second bill on top of the first. You then roll them up, still on the table, then unroll them, as the onlooker discovers that the bill formerly on the top is now on the bottom. It’s a little unnoticed maneuver in the presentation that does the “magic,” but it’s quite subtle and difficult to follow unless you know exactly what is happening. I have shown this trick to some people over and over again, and they still don’t seem to catch on to how it’s done. You can also mix it up a bit by not making the bills seem to switch places, in case someone thinks they’re got it all figured out.
It’s almost embarrassing to realize just how amazing what you do can seem after reading one cheap little book on magic tricks! Give it a try. Kids will love you for it!
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