Twisting arm illusion
-DescriptionA long sleeve shirt , everything else impromptu.
-Secret move
On the table, have your fingers pointing towards your body. This may seem a bit uncomfortable, but the effect is well worth it, now, you should have your fingers pointing to the left, now turn your palm up (still having the fingers pointing left) but keep turning the hand over the same way until it is face down again.
With a long sleeve shirt, it looks as if your hand is just turned sideways to the left (in reality, it’s twisted 270 degrees to the right).
-Method
Hand on the table (or sidewalk… wherever you want to perform). Tell him to do exactly what you’re doing and start slowly twisting your arm COUNTERCLOCKWISE. When your fingers start to point to the left, distract him from what you’re doing and say something like “you’re doing it wrong; do exactly what I’m doing!” or “maybe you should back up a bit to get a better view of my directions.”
What that, point to his hand or push him away a bit with your other hand, and do the secret move while his eyes are concentrated on himself. When you have the secret move done, it’s a simple matter of him trying to do what you’re doing again. But little does he know you’re simply un-twisting your arm instead of twisting it like him-self.
By putting a plastic cup or hard cellophane tucked under your armpit, you can make a bone crunching noise by pressing gently as you twist your arm to add to the effect.
Cigarette through the coin trick
David Blaine again used this impressive trick where he pushed a cigarette through a quarter.
This trick is uses a very clever gimmicked coin where the middle temporarily opens to let the cigarette through and later close so hole is virtually invisible to the spectator.
This coin is available through good magic suppliers, and often on ebay.
Psycho kinetic time
-Effect
David Blaine did this trick on second national TV special. A watch is borrowed; the magician does not carry anything! After showing the watch to those nearby who notice the current time, you place the watch face down in the spectator’s hand. His hand is closed over the watch. The magician does not touch the watch again. The magician then asks the spectator to name a number and then to concentrate on that number and the watch. He opens his hand, turns over the watch and sees that the hands of the hands of the watch have moved that many minutes! This trick does not require any gimmicks.
-Props
Someone wearing an analogue watch ( a watch with an long stem that’s easy to manipulate quickly).
-Preparation
You need to wear a watch of your own with the wrong time.
-Method
Ask your victim for his watch with an excuse like, “I think my time is wrong can I see yours for a second.”
Borrow the watch for a minute and examine it look at it, state what the time it has, and say, “is this the right time, I need to know.”
Now glance at the time on your watch, and draw attention to it by setting its time. While them looking at you, set the time on your watch. Your other hand is moving their stem so THEIR time moved forward 25 minutes. Now have them sandwich their between their hands, and ask them to pick a number from 10 through 30. Most people will pick 25 If they pick 20, they won’t notice it’s off by five minutes when you reveal that the hands of their watch have moved forward in time….if they pick something below that number, tell them to make it harder, and pick a higher number. It gets them every time… just remember to give a great patter when doing this trick.
-Tips
I recommend trying to do this on nervous or shy people so they don’t know what you’re doing. The key to this trick is misdirection, but it’s very easy to get caught.
Card trough window
-Effect
The performer asks the spectator to pick a card without him seeing the face and replace it in the pack. The pack is then shuffled and the performer is apparently unsuccessful in locating the card. After few attempts, the cards are thrown against a window in a fit rage, on looking at the window; the chosen card is seen to be sticking to it, even more surprising is the fact that the card is on of the window.
-Preparation
You will need two identical packs of cards and a willing helper.
-Method
This trick should be performed in an area with a large window nearby and with the spectator facing away from the window. The spectator is asked to choose a card form a pack, memories it an without showing you, replace the card in the pack. The pack is then shuffled and a couple of attempts “is this your card” tried followed by a look of disbelief when the spectator tells you that it is not their card (this is all part of the act as you don’t and don’t even need to know the card).after a few attempts you fake an angry outburst and making sure the cards are squared up, throw the pack broadside at the window, where they will hit the window and fall to the ground except the chosen card, which is sticking to the window. Your helper was already positioned behind window and spectator and had an identical pack of cards. He was able to see the chosen card and took the duplicate form his pack. A small piece looped sticky tape or magicians wax was attached to the duplicate card and it was stuck to the inside of the window. This trick creates a real surprise but it is important to pick up the fallen cards quickly and to pocket the original chosen card.
Ace shakes
This trick was performed in David Blaine’s second special where he made the spectator sign a card, the card was put back in the pack and was made to appear from between two aces.
-Secret
Give the spectator, the two red aces and tell them to hold them. Fan out the deck spectator to touch a card. Square the deck up leaving their card stuck out to be signed and shown. This is because you secretly put into” palm position” when you square up the deck so you can easily palm the card when you want to. It must stick out of the lower corner of the pack meeting your inner thumb. Let them sign the card and hand them the deck, secretly palming their card. After they are convinced that the card is well lost in the deck, ask for the two aces and sandwich the face down palmed card between the aces, showing only the aces face up. Tell them to hold the deck openly and start to shake the aces over the pack, tell them to watch their card rise from deck into the two aces, shake a little more loosely and the card will appear to their amazement.
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