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- Yo, what's going on, Chris Ramsay here, welcome back.
It's Monday, so you know what that means.
Monday is time for another tutorial and today
I have something very special for you.
It's something that I've sort of done in my lectures
and I performed a few times.
It really fools magicians mainly so if you're looking
to fool your magician friends, this is a go to
for good reason because it kind of leaves you with no,
you can't really reconstruct what the heck just happened.
Basically, you're going to be able to produce a small
object at the tip of your fingers.
This also may lack a little bit of justification
on your behalf so it's up to you to find that justification.
This is just a move, it's a cool little thing
and it's kind of interesting.
So before we get into this, the inspiration for this
comes from Bobo's coin magic.
This used to be done also in Bobo's and I'll get into
that but in a different way with a coin,
then adapted by Brandon Wolf, a good friend of mine,
excellent coin magician done with a Sharpie as well.
And then Pete McKinnon also did something similar
but used a ring and now I've combined all of that
and come up with a different routine using it
so let's get into it right now, thanks for watching.
Alright, so for this, you're going to need a few objects
if you like, it all depends on what
you want to perform this with.
I prefer doing with a ring so if you don't have a ring,
get yourself one of these bad boys.
This here is a walking Liberty half dollar
which was crushed into a ring which is super magical
in itself so if you a half dollar, you can do like,
woo, the karate coin using a coin ring which is kinda cool.
I picked these up online, I'll drop a link below
where you can shop these yourself.
They're not that expensive and they're perfect for magic.
Any type of ring magic that I do, this is what I use.
It's an interesting conversation piece.
If I ask them to examine it, they immediately say,
"What is this," and I tell them about it
which is super interesting.
So it's a fun thing, I've lost like three of these
performing so I don't really care,
'cause I'll just buy another one.
They're not that expensive, they're pretty abundant.
But if you don't have this, use a different type of ring.
The thing is you're going to need a ring
that has a little bit of width to it, a little bit
of thickness but that doesn't have one side bigger
than the other like a bit like this one.
This one wouldn't work really.
Wedding band, that type of thing.
If you don't have that, don't fret.
You can also do this with a lighter, a folded card,
a matchbook or any small item that you want to produce.
Alright, let's get into the technique.
Alright guys, so the whole secret to this thing
relies heavily on one particular sneaky little pocket
which is not actually a pocket.
And what you're going to do is you're going to take
your ring or whatever small object it is, you're going
to put it just above your kneecap, and you're going to fold
it in to the crease, pushing it up like that, using all
my fingers to create this really long crease
that is going to hold the ring there if my leg is straight.
Now once that's done, I can't walk around much,
I can't jig, but I can stand here.
Now, note that the tighter your pants, so if you're
wearing skinny jeans, this'll definitely work a lot better
but as you can see, my pants are pretty loose
and it still works, I can still end up producing
the ring right here.
Now there's a little bit of physics happening right here
which is kinda cool.
As the ring is placed here in the fold,
alright, I can do this while I'm sitting,
then I can go stand up and I'm good.
As soon as my knee lifts up, this fold will fold back
and you will start to see that ring.
Watch this here it might fall because my hands not there
to catch it but I'm gonna sort of let it do it by itself.
See as it pops out.
So basically, all you have to do is lift your leg.
Once that's in there, like I said, you can make this crease.
Don't make the crease too high.
If you make the crease too high, it's going to get stuck.
It will not come out.
You need it to be right above the kneecap
is where you place the ring, fold it over
and then you can get it like this line here, right?
Once you give it that line, you're good to stand.
This moves up over your hand, and you can give it
a little bit of a rub, and it'll appear on you kneecap.
So that's the basic foundation of this.
Now, let me turn the camera up for a second.
This particular thing basically was taught in Bobo
but Bobo, they did the opposite way.
It was, because they wore dress pants back then
and not skinny jeans, they wouldn't hold as much
and so the fold was done this way and you had sort
of like an impromptu pocket which is cool
and he would produce it out of his fake pocket
and then he would pretend to put it back and steal it out.
(metallic bang)
And also with a ring, because it's a lot thicker,
it'll hold nicely.
A coin is thinner so you couldn't do this with a coin
because it would slip out.
That's why they did it this way and kind of had
this little pocket here and just kinda held there
and they would pull at the fiber like this
which is kinda cool but for this demonstration,
we flip it under.
There's different ways to produce this.
One way is to simply, I like to grab an invisible ring
or if you want to do it with a lighter,
you could do that, you grab it with the ring,
you move from hand to hand.
The only reason why I'm moving it from hand to hand
like this invisibly without the ring,
so while the ring is here and I'm doing this and playing
around, because I want to show that my hands are empty
without going, look, my hands are empty, right?
You can do that, but I mean, you want to make it
a bit more magical, you could kind of just like,
you guys see this ring, you know?
You show them here and it shows that your hands are empty
so you don't have to justify that fact.
After that's done, boom, you've got it.
(snaps tongue) Produce it on the knee, (whistles)
here you go, it's an impossible appearance.
So that variation there is a very simply, very easy
to execute but what I like to add
to this is the vanishing of a pen.
So if I put this back into the fold, I borrow
or produce or grab a Sharpie.
What you can do here is you can do the Sharpie vanish
which is taught in my other Sharpie video.
You guys can go and check that out, let me focus here.
So grab the Sharpie and as you vanish it,
your knees going to pop up and if you do it quick enough,
the ring will fly into the air or the object.
It'll tend to fly towards this side, so towards the inside.
So if I do it here, boom, and it produces here,
so it just comes off and meanwhile, I have the Sharpie
here so I've just done the flip stick vanish,
as this appears, now this move itself looks a lot like
what Rick Merrill does.
So Rick Merrill is a fantastic slight of hand magician
who does a lot of slight of hand with ordinary objects
such as coins, Sharpies, you know, that type of thing
and he's actually won Phism.
It's an incredible video to watch his slight of hand
at work, I'll actually leave the link below
'cause it's an interesting watch for you guys.
But he does sort of this move as well
only Rick does it, you know, through slight of hand
so he doesn't have that crease there,
he does it in a different way, which I'm not gonna get into.
It's very interesting, so this is basically like a take
on what Rick Merrill did but instead, you're already set up,
you're already ready so you can grab a marker off the table,
boom and then produce a ring or a lighter whatever.
So let's say you are using a lighter.
Same thing with a lighter, right above the kneecap,
you're gonna fold it under, you're just gonna leave it there
so as long as your leg's straight, that's it.
Skinny jeans obviously help but if you don't 'em,
it's not that bad either, really isn't.
Jeans is a good fabric because it's textured
and sort of rugged and has some friction
but that'll hold there.
And so now, if I want, I can change the Sharpie
into a lighter and just (snaps tongue) like that.
Right, and obviously, I've concealed the Sharpie over here.
Now remember to learn more about that Sharpie vanish,
check out the other video I did
and it'll teach you that there.
If you're at a bar or a restaurant or something,
you're just standing outside and somebody, you're
in the smoking section, somebody wants a lighter,
you can do this old trick.
(clicks tongue repeatedly) So all I'm doing with my mouth
is going (click tongue), that's this.
Kinda like you're calling a cat. (click tongue)
If you can do that sound with this, the audible illusion
creates the illusion that you have a lighter
so if you go up to somebody who said,
"Do you have a lighter?"
You say, yeah. (click tongue)
Oh, I'm sorry, and then they're like, "Ahahaha, whatever."
You're like, "Oh no, here we go.
"I've got one right on my knee here."
Now that is an amazing magical moment,
where they did not expect magic.
And I talk about this a lot, I talk about impromptu magic,
you know the sort of magic that if they don't know
you're a magician or if they do know you're a magician,
'cause there's two types of impromptu magic,
the type that they don't know you're a magician
is really powerful, so that comes off as a gag.
This whole (clicks tongue) thing, right?
Looks like you have a lighter and then it disappears
so they thought you had a lighter, you're just making
a sound or whatever, and now your hands are empty
because you've shown them that you don't have a lighter.
So you're already justified, you don't have to explain,
and then you can just boom, produce it on your leg
and hand over that lighter which is super magical
so that's a lot of fun too.
You can also do it with a folded card.
Friend of my, Blake Vogt has a card basically
a freely named card called the invisible card
and it is their card they freely chose,
so a single card is shown and if you have that gimmick,
it's available at Theory 11, you can have that produce
on the end of your knee and Blake showed me that
when I showed that to him, that little appearance,
he showed me that right away and I was like,
"That's great, that's a great use for it."
It's up to you to really play around with this.
Sort of come up with whatever you want to come up with.
You can have small objects, maybe let me know
down in the comments below, which objects would
you produce out of thin air and why would you produce them?
What is the justification for it 'cause I think
that's one of the main struggles with this effect
is I like the lighter part but still the knee,
you're coming to the knee, like what is that?
Alright, why are you coming to the knee,
there's gotta be a justification for that.
The Sharpie gives it a good justification
because it's kind of a magical action that's happening
but maybe you guys could figure out what type
of small object you would produce
and why you would produce it?
Like which effect would you use it for,
which effect would you string in together.
These are all types of things that I think about
maybe you guys have some good ideas
you could hit me up with.
So I think that's about it.
Alright guys, thanks so much for watching this video.
I hope you enjoyed it, this is one of my favorite
productions, one of my favorite magical appearances
of an object, especially of a ring.
It leaves people really without any explanation.
It looks really magical and it's great to perform,
you could do this surrounded, you can do this for anybody
really so have fun with that
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We'll see you later this week with some more videos.
(gasps) Peace, ah.