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Keith Mitchell Special user 799 Posts |
I just ordered a custom Magical Wand, and I am going to need to know how to twirl it. It now is easy for me to do the coin knuckle roll, so now it's twirling the wand.
Where can I find information on this? Thanks Keith |
elgranmago Veteran user 371 Posts |
Your best resource:
Michael Ammar's DVD "The Complete Cups & Balls", Volume 2: Advanced Wand Vanishes: Through the Fist; Through the Hand # 2; The Mora/Vernon Wand Spin; the Striking Vanish(David Williamson) and the Drummer´s Spin. Besides all that, you have on the DVD a treasure chest of techniques for the Cups and Balls. Good luck. José
"It´s kind of fun to do the impossible". Walt Disney
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Keith Mitchell Special user 799 Posts |
I just placed an order for the Micheal Ammar C&B Vol. 2 and some sponge balls. Hopefully they will all arrive on the same day that I get my new Wand.
Here is a web site for Pen spinning (pentrix.com). Pen spinning looks cool, but hard to do. I tried with pencil in my dry hands and the pencil kept slipping out of my hand. Also, while twirling the pencil I would always come to the end of the pencil which looked like I did not have a clue as to what I was doing. The video on this web site shows a lot of fancy fast stuff, makes me wonder if I will ever get there. Thanks for all the help |
gillesA4 Special user Brussels, Belgium 593 Posts |
I learned pen spinning with Pentrix. In the beginning I don't fully agree with their explanations but it helped a lot. It took me three months exactly to master it, I mean doing it ten times in a row without having to crawl under the table to get my pen back, working exactly 10 minutes a day, with a timer, five days a week.
The good news is, once your brain has made the connections it needs to perform this kind of move (nine months for me) , it goes a hundred times faster to get the next move. Last month , I was able, (within a couple of hours) to find a way to twirl my wand the "coin walk" way, and to execute it ten times without dropping it...
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (A. Einstein)
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
If you can coin roll, you are going to pick up the wand spin in about 2 minutes! Don't worry! The procedure is more difficult to explain than to actually do...
Also, there are about a million different ways to spin a wand. It's more of a Knack than a Move, if you get my meaning. Just play with your wand till it does what you want it to do
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Stanyon Inner circle Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago 3433 Posts |
Stand with your feet shoulder width, hands on your hips, flex your legs and....
(Oops! Wrong one!!!!) Cheers!
Stanyon
aka Steve Taylor "Every move a move!" "If you've enjoyed my performance half as much as I've enjoyed performing for you, then you've enjoyed it twice as much as me!" |
gillesA4 Special user Brussels, Belgium 593 Posts |
Gaddy, two minutes? I envy you! How long have you been involved in magic? For me it's about nine months... But I'm pretty sure I'm not gifted!
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (A. Einstein)
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
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On 2008-01-07 11:17, gillesA4 wrote: haha- quicker than that if my "audience" is particularly attractive... Actually I was referring to someone who can already do a coin roll. I doubt spinning a wand will take much time for them to master. It took me a good couple of months to be able to do a wand spin item production too... I started doing magic as a kid, and got back into it 2 years ago after taking a 20 year break... Now I wonder why I ever got out of it in the first place!
*due to the editorial policies here, words on this site attributed to me cannot necessarily be held to be my own.*
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sdorshan New user 16 Posts |
I think he's referring not to a wand spin as in a vernon wand spin, but as in a flourish. Like pen spinning. Being able to roll a coin doesn't help much with that.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
Not true. A typical drummer's spin is very much like a coin roll over the knuckles- and also, there is a wand cascade roll that, essentially *is* a coin roll.
The production I refer to is taken from Cellini's "The Royal Touch" book, not Vernon's Cups and Balls. Vernon's thing is more like a majorette's baton twirl, anyhow.
*due to the editorial policies here, words on this site attributed to me cannot necessarily be held to be my own.*
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