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4F’s – Teach a Trick

April 22nd, 2010 by Shawn Farquhar

Every year Steve Beam searches out some of  the best tricks from the members of 4F and ask them to explain the working behind the magic.  This year Steve changed things just a bit, for the better.  He is now selecting the effects a year in advance and has the effects published as .pdf file for us to download from his site (www.stevebeam.com).  The booklet however is only for 4F members and the PDF is password protected.

Steve started off the Teach a Trick with his own effect he called “Bigger Testicles Card Trick”.  No, I’m not making that up.  It was an excellent effect that had you one step ahead of the audience for the entire routine.

Rod Chow was up next to offer a routine using business cards and after explaining his discovery and creation he went further to explain several practical applications for presentation.

Marc DeSouza offered us a coins across routine inspired by Mike Gallo that has you at some points as much as two coins ahead! A really well though out routine that many will be doing in the future.

Professor Rem is always challenging us with his puzzles and this time showed us two new puzzles and several magical applications to start us all thinking.

Scott Robinson presented “The Willies” as opposed to his original title “Two Willies in my pocket”.  It was a a vanishing card to pocket, followed by two jacks to two different pockets.  It was a well though out and effective routine.

Dan Garrett showed us some work with an iPhone using the “toxic” principle and the Google app and some trivia from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Tom Craven, one of the few folks to have attended all 40 of the 4F conventions, shared a card at any number effect that used the keeper and straddle faro to place the card in the correct position.  A lot of work with math but an effective piece that Steve Beam said was his favorite piece of magic from Tom.

David Corsaro had a real treat to share that was my personal highlight.  Using a stack of napkins with girls phone numbers and deck of cards that were “boxed”.  The selected girls phone number was discovered by the revelation to be the only face up cards in the deck after having been “mixed shuffled” by the spectator.  It was obvious to me he had done the routine for quite sometime.

Closing the session was Card Corner editor of the Linking Ring magazine, Michael Powers.  He used the Si Stebbins stack to present a very clean a straight forward card prediction that was easy and effective.

The afternoon was a great example of how 4F’ers help each other.  Steve Beam and his wickedly good sense of humor made the time fly by .  Up next the first show of the convention … the KICK OFF show …

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