Cone and Ball Deluxe by Ignacio Lopez. 20 Years of a Trick I Can't Let Go

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Right relatively a little thing about the cone and ball all right the cone and ball is something I've been fascinated with I'm going to put that aside for a second for a very very long time and I've been trying to think of why it's one of those routines that doesn't seem to make sense the prop is unlike anything that exists really I mean obviously it's a cone shape but it's a cone in the ball of it and a lot of people said in my journey with this and it has been a journey you know that oh it doesn't mean anything it's and I went through a period again yeah the audience I'm going to relate to it what is it but I just it doesn't go away and I keep going back to it so briefly more than 20 years ago I got the Diavone and Book of Magic and on the front of that is the cone and ball and that was my first interest in it really because everything else on there I recognised but what was this thing how can you do magic with that and that always interests me and I think that's important to remember that with an audience member I know we say we shouldn't use anything that doesn't make sense but to be honest if someone sees something and doesn't know what it is their initial question is going to be what is it what's he going to do with it and that has to live up to some sort of expectation of course anything with like billiard balls is always fascinating me and juggling balls that are white there's a there's an aesthetic to that going back to Broadville you know I used to watch a juggler called Bobby May not when he was not live it was but I hadn't seen anybody do it and then I saw Fred Capps the scene is believed in the Fred Capps documentary okay and that's when I thought that like there's something about it that looks beautiful and I wanted to learn it and then I saw George Millwood he was putting out a DVD and you could buy a cone from I think it's Denny's and there was some very old footage then I saw a Vernon doing it really really quick bit I bought different cones and they were all fine they kind of did the job and I learned with one of those things like a big bobbin thing you get in a kind of um industrial size kind of wall girls around it is that what like a ball or anyway for sewing machines anyway that and from then the next bit was trying to learn it and when I learned it I realized how difficult and I found this really difficult way back in the day I found some footage the other day of me practicing it and I and I was flashing I was constantly flashing and I even for a day taped my fingers together just to stop flashing and even now I do if I don't think about it it's for some reason I found it incredibly difficult which again appealed to me right I've sort of invested time now and then I performed it a few times and I can never really quite feel comfortable with it and the last time I did it was probably a couple of years ago now in my show where I finally started getting it to a place I wanted to get it to which was kind of a juggling routine with the cone and ball going into a multiplying ball routine but then I started thinking about the Vernon routine again and went back into looking at what was available and the world had changed you know it was it was probably 20 years later for when I bought the first ones and then you know Ignacio Lopez I found was making this cone and ball I watched it the YouTube video of him performing it and of making it and just went that was what I was looking for back in the day now I will say I did get some made relatively recently over the next couple of years that were nice but they weren't made by a magician I thought they were perfect until I saw this it's not that the prop the pretty prop is going to make the act better or the thing or me better at it but because I've invested so many years of my life thinking about it obsessing over it the fact that this now is here is for me rather important just to interrupt you for a minute so we can keep doing this here is a word from our very very lovely sponsor it took so long to arrive because it's got a border force and I was gutted because it's meant to be five days it was like three weeks or something like that and I would do nothing of staying in the moment not being desperate for the camera you don't want it to build it up that much but I have it and I don't know the state of it you know like it did they open it all up um here we go let's see if border force is completely knackered I think all right I know I will okay so straight away and I have seen this on the trailer in a right old mess so I know some people say oh you know packaging isn't everything but when you know it's something that is it's it's a for me it's a piece of art um it's got the lovely I don't want to open it I kind of I don't want to I kind of want to ball cone and handkerchief which is what it is written up as and this is you know made for that routine I think there you go so here go I do not want to rip that look at this wow once you get I didn't I'd forgotten it was going to be like a proper wooden box I'm gonna stop for a minute and tidy up a bit so we have uh this beautiful what I've given as instructions or a note the bag which is again now when you get a bag with a small set of cups and balls or something usually and I generally have never not I didn't want to look at all the videos again and ruin it but a lot of time when you get a bag with a set of cups and balls it's you know it's going to kind of fall apart at some point this is clearly a very well-made thing and those of you that have this kind of thing with different pots will know what I mean you know a couple of years and it starts fraying and falling apart it feels a lot more substantial it actually makes it it would be quite nice to um do the and I have the the handkerchief which is beautifully folded which I've just completely nosed up I'll pop that I do suggest checking out thin air as well and the cone and the balls themselves are wrapped so I should just be awful if after all this I don't know what it is I don't what's interesting I thought this was going to be just a snooker ball it feels lighter something so beautiful about just a sphere you know it's and again maybe it is a snooker ball but it's it's definitely lighter than a lot of them I'm surprised I can actually roll it yeah um sorry I didn't think of I cannot stop playing with it soon so this is what you're getting it again the original routine is oh I will mention Tom Stone as well so the other thing that really and I have there's a move from it I don't know if I do it right but Tom Stone in his book Vortex and it was published as a one a standalone pdf before that has a great stuff on the cone and ball so I think it's fascinated a lot of people but let's have a oh gosh it's really I haven't tried this for a long time it's really nice and I all right so I did this with fakinis um they're sort of the silicon bouncy balls which meant this sort of move that I just did was very difficult there's a way you can do it but I don't know I'm flashing now and again I should be standing for this really but yeah so there you go it's lovely so I'll try and play with it and get a little bit of footage it's stunning and a lot of the cones I bought when you stood them out they would be a kind of they'd be a bit all over the place which is fine but I but I also like this I also like the fact that yeah I didn't I wasn't sure that was going to be able to happen either because I like that's where I was flashing all the time I was actually there um you just can't I cannot help playing with this stuff so sorry so there you go there's the Ignacio Lopez um I think it's called Conan Ball Deluxe and everything about it is just a joy and it's lovely to have something that's been so well made that looks so good and I'm going to use it I'm super excited I'm going to get to work um and thanks Ignacio for making beautiful things uh and I haven't done it for a long time so let the journey continue and my commitment to you is that I'm going to perform it on stage because you get much terrified, don't you?