Crazy Man's Split, Homer Liwag: Comments On Comments #47.

Hello, welcome to Real Magic Review. My name's Steve Faulkner. Am I bright and red and stuff? Have I put the saturation up too much? Anyway, let me know. I'm gonna say to you... Do you know what happened? I realised I hadn't got my comments up just before I started, so I just got them all up and got all befuddled and then realised I had a load of detritus here because I was playing with Schoolcraft coins just before. That's what I was playing with. Just started playing with that again thanks to Homerly Wag. Boom, starting to justify the purchase. Right, so like and subscribe. I'll make sure I press the right button. Have a look... So professional. Have a look at onlinemagic.co. That's my online magic school. Many of you here are in it. Gary, Tom, Stuart, we're all here, aren't we? And you're gonna have an hour of... Well, Dave's running the session tonight pretty much with the memdex stuff in an hour, but anyway, you get 700 plus videos, live sessions every week on the course. And I've just uploaded two more actually on ring and string moves. So I've just done that, which a lot of you won't know. You actually bought some magic. Well, I'll tell you what, Gary, I did try and get some Schoolcraft things to review, but they weren't having none of it, quite rightly so for that price. I mean, they need my input. So yeah, I've been playing with them. So anyway, go to onlinemagic.co after this. That'd be great. And now like and subscribe if you haven't done that already. So Matthew, how are you? I'm good, thanks. Gary, Tom, good to see you all pop up. Stuart and two Garys there. All right, nice to see you. So I haven't got much planned. Well, I don't have eye on these comments and comments, but I have got some news. No, don't get excited. It's not news really. It's just a thing. But crazy man split I did at the last two gigs as part of the thing. And I've done crazy man's handcuffs forever. And I'm opening with that. And it felt really weird to go into it in a different way. But the responses are so good. That bit where they hold it. And then you just cut it in half. It's great. And again, even a couple of times because a bit nervous doing a gig I didn't do very well. And it's still it's still to them. It was great. So again, you're going to $12 download and finishing. I am finishing with the bit at the end. So the bit at the end where you do the split, boom, crazy man's handcuffs. There's a couple of questions actually. Well, one question I'll answer on that in a minute. And then you go into the vanishing thing when you go into one band. And I was like in practice, I could just get into that position straight away with the one band to finish off with. But in performance, first couple of times I was getting all confused. I completely forgot. I was all nervous. And when they were basically chatting to him, getting into position and trying about six times to get into position, finally got it, did it and it completely floored him. So there you go. Great finish, beginning, middle of end and an end to a lovely routine. And I have also been playing with crazy Sam's handcuffs and I have performed it. I just kind of it's one of those things that you can just kind of put in at the end if you fancy it. And if they don't, if it doesn't go well, you just pretend you're playing. Do you know what I mean? I just did it and it was OK. Good. That's what I did. It was OK. I did it with the bands. I thought that was probably a stronger way to do it rather than just without. And and it kind of went well. But it's a moment now, isn't it? I'm trying to kind of build it in and get it a bit more smooth. It's one of those. It's a bit like the Lincoln cigarettes and the Lincoln matches and all that kind of stuff. It's a way it's kind of easy, but but you kind of you've got to work on it. And I'm not quite there yet, but that's worth a look. I'll be reviewing that as well because I think it's great. And yes, I'm doing a couple of things I've added to my repertoire because people always say, which ones do you add to your review, which which I added for a while. I think I might mention this was the mystery blocks, not just the normal mystery box, which I do want to do. John Allen's got a great one, which I'm going to review. I have it. But mystery blocks, which is the Lego one, I never really found a way of doing it. I think I mentioned this before, but I've been doing that lots now with a with a I've got a presentation on it. So it's a really nice, really lovely routine. And I knew and then it fell apart. It didn't fall apart. I broke it the other day because I was manhandling it. I got mixed up with which bit was the gimmick bit. So I've got to fix that. But that's a that's a really nice routine. And I did three gigs where I just thought I'm going to try all the stuff I haven't done for a while. So back to watch stealing and pickpocket and read all because of the Hector Mancher book. It made me realize, why? Why have you lost your bottle? It doesn't matter if you get caught. So I've got a lovely watch the other day and I did it. I find that some people do a watch deal when you do the, you know, you put a coin in their hand and it's going to leave your hand. It hasn't left your hand and you steal it then. I've been doing it with crazy man's handcuffs and it feels really bold because when they're holding the band, you're unholding their wrist and I do this gag and I go, if you aim it just right, you'll get that bloke over there and they laugh. And as I'm doing it and it's their faces there and I'm taking a watch here. I'm sure it's going to say that here, isn't it? Um, cause that's, you know, I haven't got that off anybody. That's just where I thought it would work well. Um, and it does and it works better there than it does, um, anywhere else for me. So that was, I was chuffed with that. So that was thanks to Hector Mancher. Any questions let me know. Are you still going to review Schoolcraft coins? Can you show them now? Yeah, I can show them. I can't, I'm not allowed to show the gimmick, but I can just show you what they look. I'm not allowed to do the thing. So, um, let's check. I've got everything set up. Yeah. So they're my Schoolcraft coins. Um, that's the one that, so these are the, uh, Morgan dollars and these are the Kennedy halves. And the good thing is you've got to look at what one it is. Yeah. So that's the one and they're just great. You can see that's the one by the thing I just shown, which was, um, uh, wrong of course. So, I mean, I love 64 half dollars anyway. Um, and the idea is of course you can, uh, that's not obviously routine. I do, but just so you can see, um, that's the, the Morgan half just there and there's a horrible sound at the moment, but that wouldn't be obviously very important not to do that and cover those things. But yeah, so they're, they're the, so these are the Dean's set. Um, I might do a, a number of video on this. This is Dean set 65. So I've got these way over 10 years ago. I actually, if I've got them now, I'd buy the walking liberties. I really like them. I'm kind of gut. I haven't got these, but I've got them, but these are a long time ago. And these are the, uh, the Morgan's, which I absolutely adore. I've got six of them with one. I've got a flipper for each as well, which I haven't used yet, but you know, I had a bit of a lockdown spend back in the old days when I actually had some money before my mortgage doubled. Um, good job. I bought a mink. I won't be buying them now. Uh, so, uh, that's that, there you go. Let's look at them. Um, you still need to, where can I get that download? Oh, what the crazy it's, um, just Google it. Crazy man split Henry Harrius. Yeah. Really worth doing. And, um, if you buy the download, you know, get in touch Gary and I'll kind of, but you'll, you'll get it. It's a, it's not a difficult thing, really. It's kind of the beginning. It feels icky, but, uh, but it's very cool. Where's my mouse? There it is. Um, so, uh, Dale T. Hey Steve, I've never done rubber band magic outside of Lincoln bands by Joe Dixon, which is great. Isn't it? Uh, what resources would you recommend for someone wanting to start a routine around crazy man's handcuffs? Well, I think that the thing is you don't want to do too much. I mean, the lovely thing about the Henry Harrius thing, and I'm not affiliated. It sounds like, um, you know, the fact that I've taken that and put it into my, um, my work in and I've always said, I don't want to do anything with crazy man's handcuffs. I don't want to put a ring in there and none of that, but it just works so well as a beginning, middle of an end. And Henry does perform it, you know, that's his thing. So, um, I recommend that because you've got two other things you've gotten in and out. Other than that, I am, I've just ordered, um, I'm ordering, I think the, cause I'm starting to research rubber band magic for my course. I've, I've been looking at loads of different stuff. Um, the, Oh, what is it? Oh, obviously Joe Reinfleisch. I'm terrible pronouncing that. I'm sorry, Joe. Um, the, Oh, what's touch? Um, Oh, touch DVD. It's great. Eric. No, it's not Eric Chen is it? Oh, someone help me. Um, touch is the elastic band DVD. It's got a lovely couple of moves on it. It will come, will come to me in a minute because he's just, it's just, he's put out the crazy Sam's handcuffs as well. Um, so have a look at that. Uh, there's loads of stuff. Russell Lee's banding around. I haven't seen it, but that's some people have talked about that. There's just loads and loads, but Dan Harlan's got the free DVD set and that's that we have loads on it, but you don't need that much. That's the thing, you know, you, you don't want to be doing loads and loads of it, but it's, I do love it. You can carry it around. It's like I've got one on me on my wrist now. Um, so penguin magic has to download. There you go. Muppet on meds. Uh, do you go to London? Did I go to the London magic convention? No, I was good. I was going to go and I had got a gig and I wasn't going to take a gig. I was going to go, but then again, my mortgage was near enough doubled because of the interest rates at the moment. So I couldn't afford not to do a gig. So I used the gig to do all my new stuff. Um, afternoon, Terry from South Carolina. Hanson Chen. There you go. Sorry. Always. Yeah. So, uh, thank you. Magic, magic man. So, uh, that's Hanson Chen touch. And he's also put out his company also put out crazy Sam's handcuffs. So do check that out. But crazy Sam's handcuffs is, is in addition to crazy man's handcuffs. I don't think it's a separate thing, but saying that there are people that have been doing things with it. So I think it's a good concept to learn. Very enjoyable to play with it. I'm really enjoying it. So, um, here's some comments. Uh, Oh God, blimey. I've lost you. I know you're, um, it is from Mike's. It's similar to what I've just been saying. I've been thinking about trying some elastic band tricks. Are there any particular makes type sizes that you found good? I've looked at some sources, Joe Sankey, et cetera. And they talk about American sizing, which isn't much help. No, it doesn't matter. So you, you, you'll see nineteens. Well saying that it was always for me, it was always number nineteens, normal elastic bands for crazy man's handcuffs. You know, I used to see people, the yellow ones in a Joe ring flesh, them, uh, the ones that you buy the bright colors. And I was thinking, no, I want normal ones. I've changed my mind on that a little bit. Now you, no one's absolutely fine. Get yourself some normal elastic bands. Don't start spending money on loads and get yourself some sixteens. If you want to learn, um, Henry's routine, cause it doesn't work with nineteens. It's too, they're too, they're too big, right? Well, obviously it's done with sixteens and it works. It doesn't work for nineteens and it works for sixteens. It's going to be because of that in it, but you just can't really do the move unless you got massive hands and then you might be able to, um, but get yourself some, if you're just going to do crazy man's handcuffs, but I'd get yourself some nineteens and some sixteens as well. And I have started to go back to sixteens for crazy man's handcuffs now because it fits it with Henry's routine. So it feels a little bit tighter, but you can still do it totally fine. And it's great. And also they say you should use nineteens with crazy Sam's handcuffs, but actually it works fine with sixteens. You just got to stretch them a bit more. So get them, get normal ones. You can get them online. Don't spend loads of money. And, um, and if you get into it, then get yourself the other ones. Now, the reason I like the other ones is because they are brighter. So if you're doing gigs in dimly lit places, you can get the yellow ones. Uh, they do apparently last a bit longer. I don't know if that's true. They seem to last well, but then certainly the other ones. So, um, and there is something about the different, there's some tricks that are good with different colors. So I got the kind of variety pack with, which, you know, there's like a different color named after each magician is quite cool and they're not over expensive. So we get a big bag of them, but the yellow ones are the ones they think are the best for gigs, I suppose, because they're more, they're closer to the normal ones, but they're really bright and they, they kind of pop in the light a little bit. Um, so that's that, um, moves types of sources. As I said, I think, you know, the main ones are, who was it that, Oh, that was a great trick. Who was it that I reviewed to download from? I'm having a mental block. I can't do names even if I know them really well. Oh, I did a download of, um, of I popped it. I know him, you know, I mean, it's nightmare, but he, he had a, if I've come to it, I'll put it in the, put it in the, um, comments below way, quite a long way back in my reviews. Um, I nearly came to me and then it just popped in and went out again, but yeah, so, but you'll find sort of scattered stuff, but I think those that I've mentioned before will be fine. Um, but yeah, glad you got a Gary and like, yeah, yeah. Got you into rubber band magic as me. I've been loving it. Uh, I love the new take on and Sam's as well from Chris. Um, these three tricks make crazy man handcuffs and even better thing. I think the out back to one band is the best bit purity and always make, yeah, if we, it is really lovely and it's lovely how Henry teaches how to do that in the best way possible. When you perform it, you realize you've got loads of time, but just to that lovely feeling, the feeling when you're completely clean and there's all that subtleties to bring up to your face and melt it away is really, really magical. A lot of people say, oh, you know, lastly, bad magic doesn't mean anything. It doesn't matter, does it? Don't have to. That's why magic's good. If it doesn't, um, if it doesn't, the course is going up then people. Oh yeah, no, I'm not going to put the price up. So yeah, to buy me, to buy me, uh, walking liberties. My clan man noted 19s in his book and lectures for crazy man's handcuffs. Well, that's where I learned crazy man's handcuffs and actually it's brilliant. Now I'm going to do my usual thing and spending 10 minutes looking for a book to show you where I don't really need to, I could just tell you, but there you go. So you can't get this, which is annoying, but his essay in here on the crazy man's handcuffs is brilliant, but you will be able to get it somewhere. I'm sure. I think it was probably published before it was in this book. Um, but that there is quite a lot of, you know, the timing is so important. You see people mess that trick up a lot. They're rushing through it and putting it apart really slow. And I rush it sometimes as well. Um, so that's, that is what other ones we got. Let me, Oh, my voice is going to pop up in a minute because I've just opened my chat and I'm just going to go there. Well, I only posted a homily wag one yesterday, but there's, uh, there was kind of one comment that was actually quite interesting. Let me just open that. Do check that out. You know, it's an interesting thing in it. I think Homer's Homer's masterclass is amazing, but it's interesting. I'm not, I'm not saying that I mind, but, but the views I get for that compared to when I review a trick, you know, that it's, for me, this is a gold, you know, the tricks are great, but when you get the, you know, when you listen to Homer's expertise, I really think that's what people should be spending their money on. And again, I'm no affiliation. Um, Homer's class from Terry who's here now is what all online lectures should aspire to. Yeah. It's really good in there. It's just so good. Um, I loved it. I'm really looking forward to the second one and going back to Chris Canada as well. Uh, the table, right. So this is interesting from magic magic man, who I know you're watching the table coin routines. They're very nice, but not something you're going to perform very often as a professional magician. How do you split up your practice time? How much time do you spend practicing new things? You know, you'll never perform it again. I, I spend quite a lot actually. And actually I don't, I used to have that thing of, Oh, I'm never going to perform this. But what I've realized now is I've started performing things. I didn't think I would perform at gigs. So, you know, I'm doing a load of table riffle stuff at the moment I'm learning and not to do gigs just to do and to teach, but a lot of people learn it and to know and to talk about, I love, I love it as a subject and it was a big gap in my, in my skill. Um, but actually I've started doing it, you know, when I'm just, it just sort of happens and I'll sort of stack in a couple of aces into position. And when I'm improvising with a deck of cards and that might not go anywhere, or it might just be a quick thing. And, and I think that most things I've practiced, I don't think I'm going to put into a gig. I barely put a whole routine that I learn into a gig, you know, I'm not very good at learning routines and sticking to them, but I'll tend to improvise around it. So excuse me, with coin one, I may well do that. Um, I think it, excuse me, I think it works actually, but it has concepts in it that you could, you, I could see could work, you can mix routines up. So you could do a little bit out of that. And I really, I started learning, well I did learn, um, the Troy Hooser routine as well, which again, I've forgotten the name of it, but the really, the lovely one that is, is a lovely, nice one using the shell again. It'll come to me in a bit, probably when this is finished, someone remind me, but that, but again, that you could do a bit of that and then that could pop over there. And when I was playing earlier, that thing that happens with the cups and balls as well, if you've been doing the cups and balls for years, I wouldn't say you improvise it, but if you get lost, which I do sometimes, you can just, cause you get it, you can just kind of play a little bit. And I think that with these routines, you can take those concepts and you can start doing one of them. Maybe one coin, maybe you just use a deep back clip thing and you go, I'm going to do that bang and that's it. And then you go into another thing. I think I like doing that with magic. I like doing little moments. I put a short on YouTube, uh, today, which is just me playing. It's not a routine, but the reason I did it was because I'm, I'm reviewing the thing that, that bought in the big coin. Um, but I was just playing in it. And I sometimes do that, do that with magic. And it wouldn't work if you're watching it back filming sometimes because don't make much sense. But in the moment, um, I think you can use a load of these concepts and I'm waffling on a lot, but I think it's an important point. Don't just not about just sticking to the routine. Use them as your base, use them as your meditation, your practice drill, and then you'll find that those skills will come into play. So I don't really do, I mean, it's a bit different for me because I don't divide that time because unless I'm working on a show and then it becomes all about that, you know, but I like to, one of the reasons I started the course was to make myself keep learning and then people can ask for things like someone asked for the ring and string moves today. So I spent a load of time with them and I wouldn't have had someone not asked for them. So, and, and I came across a moment today where I thought I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that move into that, which I wouldn't have had I not been learning it because someone had asked for it. You see what I mean? So it's, so I think going with a complete open mind, if you want to practice it, don't think about it, just practice it and see what comes from that. Um, and there's me waffling on. Right. Um, my dog was proper. Oh yeah, he's so funny. Gary sent me a picture of, because I mentioned Herman Lewag's dogs and your dog is fricked up, didn't they? Uh, she's here now watching. Brilliant. Uh, I showed her some magic last night and asked her what she thought. She replied with rough. How rude. How is she not far wrong? Uh, her advice was where to perform. Brilliant. Uh, right. So that's that pretty much, I think. Um, that's been a long time, isn't it? 20 minutes of waffle. Thanks for listening to me and thanks for coming. Uh, do come next week. I'm all over the place. It's getting into kind of November, December, isn't it? So keep an eye out on the, make sure you press the little bell icon when you subscribed and so you get the notifications. I will do some last minute ones as well. I'm going to do some live ones this week, last minute and next week because I've got loads to review and I need to catch up. So I'll just go live at random times. So you might see it pop up. So make sure you hit the bell icon. Go and see online magic.co. Those of you here that are on the course, I'll see you in 40 minutes. Um, and we're going to do some Mendex stuff, which is great because I'm rubbish with the Mendex. I know it. I use it. So that'll be good for me as well. Uh, Oh, hang on. No, there you go. Uh, right. Thanks very much. Everyone take care, be safe, be happy. And any questions, let me know. And I've got to send the orbit. I forgot who won it. Um, Jake wanted something. So Jay, if you're watching this, do send me, uh, Steve at online magic.co send me your address. If you know that you've won thing, but look at the anyway, right. Okay. Go now. See you later. Bye.