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The Burnaby Kid Inner circle St. John's, Canada 3158 Posts |
I hang out with a small circle of guys in Vancouver, one of whom is a street magician who does an ungimmicked phone book tear. Hand him a phone book, and he tears it. He's not a Café member, so I'm posting this question on his behalf. If somebody wanted to learn all the work on the Phone Book tear effect (gimmicked and ungimmicked), what things should he research?
To be clear: I've got no personal interest in learning any secrets or performing this myself, so I'm not asking for people to share the specifics of methods or whatnot. I'm not secret-hunting. Any information posted here would be going straight to him.
JACK, the Jolly Almanac of Card Knavery, a free card magic resource for beginners.
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Paddy Inner circle Milford OH 1571 Posts |
From what you said, he already knows how to do it. Google "strong man stunts."
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Doruk Ãœlgen Elite user 466 Posts |
That's an old stunt which has been published in many books, I don't remember any name but if you search you will find for sure..
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
There was a book called Strong Man Stunts. This is very easy to do. When I was in college, there wasn't a phone book within a 1/4 mile radius of the music department that I had not torn in half.
I won a lot of beer with that trick.
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The Burnaby Kid Inner circle St. John's, Canada 3158 Posts |
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On 2008-08-21 08:13, Paddy wrote: He can do it with phone books up to a given size (1200 pages or so?), but not beyond. He's gotten admirably far by self-teaching (doesn't have to doctor the books, doesn't have to tear through the spine) but I wanted to see if there was more info out there so that he could really establish a reputation with this one, so that he can be the guy who tears any phone book in half. Bill, is the book Ottley Coulter's "How to Perform Strong Man Stunts"?
JACK, the Jolly Almanac of Card Knavery, a free card magic resource for beginners.
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
Our friends don't have to agree with me about everything and some that I hold very dear don't have to agree about anything, except where we are going to meet them for dinner.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Bob Newhart did it once as the punchline on his show. It didn't look like it was faked, but what do I know?
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Robin Z New user 79 Posts |
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On 2008-08-21 18:12, Tom Bartlett wrote: Thanks, that's really interesting. I might even try to incorporate some of this into my show. |
fallingblood New user North Dakota 98 Posts |
Charles MacMahon has a book on the subject as well. It's called Feats of Strength and Dexterity. A very good book. It has a lot of information in it that he could use to make a whole show out of strong man feats.
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harris Inner circle Harris Deutsch 8812 Posts |
Tearing from the binder side is a lot easier than the page size.
Would you agree? Just saw the later done by a group from the Extreme Team who came through KC. They also did the water bottle blow up, brick breaking and twisting a ball bat in two... now where is my can of spinach... Harris
Harris Deutsch aka dr laugh
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fallingblood New user North Dakota 98 Posts |
I've always found breaking a phone book at the binder side easier. Mainly because I can break it along my leg and have that momentum to continue the tear. I actually adapted my method after seeing the Extreme Team (or maybe the Power Team, I get them confused).
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harris Inner circle Harris Deutsch 8812 Posts |
The binder side is much easier.
I haven't tried the top side yet. Harris
Harris Deutsch aka dr laugh
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