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aloric New user 5 Posts |
I just bought some of the old favorites, Cups and Balls, and Professors Nightmare. I have seen many great variation on each, one of my favorites being Dave Regal's Cups and Balls and Cups and Balls. Does any have any variations they would suggest so I can work on these as I bring my skills back up to par?
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koolcracker New user 20 Posts |
I absolutely love the Professor's Nightmare. Not much variation needed with that one. It looks so powerful as is.
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Carrie Sue Veteran user Auburn, MI 332 Posts |
My favorite Prof's Nightmare is Insomnia by Timothy Wenk. With the proper framing, it gets gasps from the audience.
Carrie |
Brad Burt Inner circle 2675 Posts |
I highly recommend learning Dai Vernon's Cups and Balls routine as is. It is in may ways the seminal routine of the genre and is still hard to beat for clarity of effect and elegance of method.
Another classic worthy of work: Dai Vernon's Linking Ring Routine for the reasons stated above. Best,
Brad Burt
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mmreed Inner circle Harrisburg, PA 1432 Posts |
There is a great book by Ron Dayton on The Prof Nightmare.
http://www.shopmagicvault.com/Professors......153.html it gives many handlings and script/patters. If anything, it will stir some creativity. For the C&B, check out the LL Videos on it. They feature so many different views on it.
Mark Reed
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aloric New user 5 Posts |
Oh, I have a great Prof Nightmare routine, you can even get the audience involved in it.
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andre combrinck Special user South Africa 953 Posts |
I aree with Brad, Vernon's routine is classic. One day be sure to checkout Tommy Wonder's Cups..routine.
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Olympic Adam Inner circle 1259 Posts |
Bring the oldies back and make them new, not necessarily make them "street" lol but update them.
Sometimes in my view old style tricks makes for a stale performance. Magic is an art where ANYTHING can appear to happen and we should try to surprise our audiences, if they see some old props come out, they may know exactly what is going to happen and have probably seen it happen the best way it can!
Protection for mind readers and mentalists: http://tricksofthemind.com
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DomKabala Inner circle I've grown old after diggin' holes for 2827 Posts |
And for those who own Combo Cups & Balls, look at John Mendoza...
Cardamagically, Dom
We don't stop playing when we grow old...we grow old when we stop playing.
God is enough, let go, let God. Gal 2:20 "Anything of value is not easily attained and those things which are easily attained are not of lasting value." |
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