Bean Bags For Sale And A Word About Utility Props.

-three new utility props for magicians.

The Bean Bag Starter Kit.

They are $100 + shipping and handling.

You can buy them here

Today we will be announcing the sale of The Bean Bag Starter Kits, and talking about what utility props are, what they do, how to use them, and how to make them.

I’m hoping to open Magician minds today to a new revolutionary prop system, that will change the lives of both the indoor performer and more importantly the outdoor performer.

In the video below you will notice I’m not using the traditional one inch balls, I’m using bean bags like they do in eastern traditions.

You see the for years the western outdoor performer has been using utility props that were designed for indoor use with pristine conditions, but when using these same utility props outdoors they simply become an obstacle course.

A utility prop, is a prop that can be used for more than one trick alone. It is a prop that is more like a tool than a trick.

Things like the cups, sponge balls, flash paper, billard balls, thumb tips, invisible thread, crimped cards, are all utility props designed to do multiple effects.

In our case today, the clasp Coin Juggling Purse, The Flat Wand, and The Bean Bags, are all utility props and when used in conjunction, are down right dangerous.

For instance the coin purse could be holding four small objects like coins or bean bags and when dumped in a closed hand, three of the objects can be put on the table while holding back one for palming.

Or the purse could be holding only three objects and dumped on the table showing only three, but as the magician goes to put the purse in his pocket he could come out with duplicate palmed object from the pocket. No Coin Shell necessary.

Clean up is a breeze simply throw any secret extras in the purse with the rest and put it in your pocket, done and done.

It's perfect for Coin Juggling and can be used for predictions, card mercury fold productions, and several other magic classics.

Most importantly the purse creates curiosity, character, and atmosphere.

The purse I tediously hand sewed and constructed is for the bean bags and coin juggling and can easily hold ten silver dollars. It makes a ton of noise when you shake the coins.

When filled, it has a loud stable bounce when you drop it on the table, due to its heavy vegan leather.

The mouth opens wide for midair catching and can hold ten bean bags.

Due to several requests, I have hand made a small stock of these kits for sale.

For those of you familiar with my work, you have been seeing me use these props in videos online and teaching all the techniques to paid subscribers in the newsletter tutorials.

You can check that tutorial out HERE.

If you are new to our newsletter and don’t know about the bean bags you can find out what they do HERE.

You can also browse the tutorial section of this site and see them all in action HERE.

And you can learn how I make the bean bags HERE.

The link above shows how I hand sew each one.

The bean bags are most popular for outdoor performers who do the Cups and Balls Trick. They use them instead of the standard balls. They fall in a dead drop, don’t roll, or blow off the table in wind.

When a Magician goes to the street he always has to alter his props and handling to handle weather conditions, unlevel ground, rain, and unruly hecklers with grabby hands.

Traditional 15” round wands slip and roll against the body when doing manipulation tricks, or roll off the table in crucial moments during the cups and balls.

Sponge balls roll off the table, or blow away, or jump out of the spectators hands and scatter in the wind.

Cards wear out and warp from humidity, or blow away.

Coins talk when you don’t want them to, and are hard to handle in extreme cold, rain, humidity or even extreme arid climate.

The one inch crochet balls or leather base balls used for the Cups and balls trick, constantly roll off the table, or bounce when you don’t want them to. Palming one or more of these, with a traditional round wand, is awkward and sometimes obvious to the spectator.

Your hand begins to look and feel deformed.

Silicone billard balls, if fumbled and dropped, hit the ground and shoot down the street, and you go running after them looking like an amateur and loosing spectators.

I could go on listing all the props a street magician needs to alter before he goes outside to work, but needless to say, the flat wand and bean bags do all the same effects and use the same or similar handling, indoors or outdoors, without the problems, no alteration necessary.

Having problems with coins or balls outside?

Do the same trick with the bean bags instead.

Best yet bean bag moves and sleights are ten times easier than the props listed above. This is why they can be used in bitter cold or extreme heat or humidity. They have a tendency to cling and mold to your hands. Even if your hands are cold and stiff or hot and sweaty.

This advantage gives you crucial time and space to think about what’s going on in your show, instead of putting all your focus on the problems with the props and slieghts.

The flat wand and the bean bags may just revolutionize magic.

The short nine inch flat wand doesn’t roll and is easier to handle when doing manipulation tricks, the bean bags can do many of the same tricks as other standard magician props without all the problems, because they compress and don’t roll off a table.

The compression is like a built in gimmick out in the open that the layman would have no reason to suspect. This means you are always clean and everything can be examined the whole time.

When two or more are thrown briskly from one hand to the other it is impossible to detect how many are traveling together in mid air to the other hand, or even to a cup for cup tricks.

when one or more are being finger palmed while holding a flat wand there is no bulk or awkwardness, as there is with a solid one inch ball made for the Cups and balls.

Lastly The Flat Wand, is hand made without power tools from a hickory drum stick, I use a hand saw and hand file it flat and into shape.

This Flat Wand is in no way the caliber of wand that Makoto makes, you can get one of those HERE.

Makoto's wand is far far superior.

The reason I am offering a flat wand, is the same reason I am offering the coin purse, because I believe if you could get these props affordably at first in your hands you will not only, up your game in magic, but make a ton more money and see the reason to up grade to things like a Makoto Wand.

Busking nowadays is hard enough as it is, why not make it easier?

I worked hard for you, many tedious hours of manual labor with no power tools or a sewing machine.

So that you could see why it was worth it to me for so many years on the road to make my own.

I did this, because there simply isn’t anyone else making these particular things with the specifications for what I’m proposing out there.

In the kit you will get nine bean bags made to specific size, weight and material.

You get nine, to be able to do all the tricks in my tutorials or just break them down for cups and balls and have plenty of spares.

You get the short 9” flat wand to feel the luxury of palming a bean bag with it, and the confidence of working without your wand rolling of the table, and the joy and easy of creating and performing surrounded new wand sleights impossible with traditional round wands.

You get the coin juggling purse to store all nine of your bean bags and to create unlimited effects with.

Here’s a video showing the use of the purse, for stealing ploys, sleights, and utility in an actual routine I’ve used many years on the street. I made this video awhile ago when my health wasn’t good, so I hope you’ll excuse the low energy and quality.

I hope you can see how these props can be used separately or in unison to build shows and help create stories and plots.

The products are all made and ready for sale, I just have to set up the sales page.

I will be doing that ASAP.

Your Pal Jimmy.

If you’d like to make a donation for all the hard work I’ve been going through, for the past two weeks, you can do that Here.