How To Produce Multiple Items From An Empty Tea Cup. -Tutorial.

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Again we are going to be talking about, how old classics can be revamped for the outdoor worker.

This trick has traditionally been done with small objects like sponge balls or crochet balls, dice, or even coins, but with bean bags the operator is now able to have all the advantages of the old props, but more, without the props talking or blowing away, or any other limitations.

Here’s a clip of what we are going to be talking about today. The name and the plot of this trick is, They’re Friends…

For those of you Magicians that do Sponge Ball Magic, you may have noticed quite a few of the same methods applied here.

The difference here, is that this trick was designed for Buskers to do outside on the street in extreme weather conditions.

For all practical purposes, the bean bags can replace the sponge balls for outdoor use, due to their ability to compress and expand like the sponge balls do.

The bean bags are more durable over time and abuse, and they don't roll off the table, or blow away in the wind.

They are the Street Magician's friend.

The bean bags can be used with all the same moves and handling as sponge balls, because they compress and expand when needed.

In fact, many of the fazes in the beginning of the trick, shown in the video today, could have been done in the spectators hands just like it's done with the standard sponge ball routine, because the spectator cannot judge how many bean bags they are holding due to the compression, its just like the sponge balls.

Unfortunately the bean bags do not compress and expand as well or as extreme as the sponge balls do. For instance the spectator could tell the difference if they were holding one bean bag, or nine.

Nine is to many.

But even with this disadvantage, the good outweighs the bad.

In the effect we are going to be talking about today, there are two basic principles at play here.

First of all, unlike the standard cups and balls routine one normally sees done ad nauseam, instead of the cup being face down on the table, here the cup is always upright the way people are used to seeing it. If tilted slightly towards yourself, they can't see inside the bottom of the cup.

Even with this disadvantage to the spectator, it seems like you couldn't be any more honest and out in the open with what you are doing, since the cup isn't upside down, and constantly insinuating that something can be hidden underneath it. The spectator will want to assume that the cup must be empty when you want him to think it is.

Secondly, because the bean bags compress and stick together, if you toss one or more of the bean bags into a hand, or cup, it is very difficult to judge how many are in mid air as the package sails to its destination.

I have written extensively on this subject and even written a free article on how to make your own bean bags.

You can read about them HERE.

Or you can see how to make them HERE.

Or you can just wait, because I will be selling them here in the newsletter soon.

Due to overwhelming requests for me to make and sell bean bags to our students here, I have just yesterday went and bought the materials to make and produce said bean bags.

If you’ve read how I make them, you know its time consuming to make a bunch of them to put out on the market, so please be patient with, it may be a long minute, but I’m committed to it, and I’ll let y’all know.

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If you are only a Free Subscriber to this newsletter I hope I have given you food for thought, but if you are a Paid Subscriber, buckle up, because we have turned the traditional handling on it's head, as we shall see in this tutorial video below.