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  • does anybody know from which tape is this? thanks...

  • larry jennings is a legend... a true master... RIP LARRY.....

  • @heelfan1234 Nope.

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  • @heelfan1234 Where is your Magic then. Motor Mouth?

  • Have to laugh at the idiots saying it was a sloppy performance. I thought it was brilliant. Yes, I also could see what he was doing but i am A magician so I know what to look for. The performance was great. Its also easier to spot things on you tube. Not so easy in a live performance when the magician can use mis-direction. Come on then lets see you do better.

  • That was smoooooooooth sleight of hand!!

  • what song is this? it's great

  • Brilliant!

  • I love youtube commenters.

    If Michel Angelo had videod himself painting the sistine chapel you would have loads of 13 year old twattards posting how much better they are and how they can do it all etc.

    Guys, this is LARRY JENNINGS. Saying you are better is, at best wrong and at worst, more wrong than the wrongest thing ever in the history of wrongness.

    To those claiming to be miles better, please post your vids of your versions. I could do with a laugh.

  • @damianjennings I agree with you completely. If these guys posting negative comments can do better than an old master like Jennings, I suggest they try to get a spot on TalkWithThePros*com. I have a feeling the magician who owns that site wouldn't give them the time of day. Magic is losing her old masters. Mr. Jennings was a true master of the art. Now we have many lazy wannabes who refuse to out in the hours of necessary practice. Most of these losers suck, so then they expose the methods. Sad.

  • @damianjennings Just because your name is Jennings too, no need to heap false praise on this video. A lot of the work was very sloppy. I don't know if you are an expert like me, but I could probably point out a few things about this routine for you.

  • @heelfan1234 So your video doing it better is where exactly?

    Really, Youtube seems to attract people that make the posters at the magic cafe seems really intelligent.

  • @damianjennings Check at 1:26 he loads the ball under a cup but the cup rim actually rests on the mouth of the ball, He has to straighten it all up quickly. It's obvious there is a secretly loaded ball under there.

    I don't have to post a video of my own to prove the work at 1:26 is sloppy. Check out THIS video please. Are you on drugs or something?!

  • I love how natural and relaxed his right hand is

  • I'd say prove it by posting a vid. If you really outdo him, I'll help spread the word

  • Fair enough, I might just do that. On the other hand a few people in the magic world might recognise me and they go mental about "exposure" so I have to live a double life!

    But you have to admit some of this work here is pretty sloppy. I mean it vaguely passes as magic but there's a lot better available

  • @heelfan1234 youre obviously not a magician

  • @heelfan1234 Idiots such as yourself have never learned how or when to just STFU have they?

  • @RS1963 Do you want me to produce an exposure of the whole effect for you. I know you were an expert on some of Wonder's routines, but if you are just starting with the cups I can help you with this one. I would say though that probably Larry Jennings is not a good magician to study re the cups. His work in this video for example was very sloppy, but I can help point out for you the nuances of the routine if you like.

  • @heelfan1234 If I needed to be taught this routine I would just watch the instructional video I have of Larry teaching this very routine If I didn't have that resource I certainly wouldn't go in search of someone without any real knowledge of magic nor a talentless one either.

  • @RS1963 OK fair enough, if you have some of the background on it. I wouldn't recommend starting with Larry though, it's not his best. I'd definitely go for Ammar C and B especially volume 2. As a more experienced magician, that will suit you better as it has some more advanced stuff on routining and working in dramatic final loads. It also has some great work on basic sleights as well as things like the wand spin and vanish.

  • great video!

    what song is played in this please?

  • the only part of his routine i dont get is the final dissaperance of the cup

  • I'm pretty sure he just slides it off the table when he puts his hand under the cloth, because you can see that the cloth is covering the table to the edge of the table so you wouldn't see it fall off.

  • yeah thats what i thought too im thinking he uses his knee to prop it aginst the table and uses his thumb to grab it to appear and the opposite of that to make it dissapear

  • Nice video, a bit obvious how he is doing it and just for the record this is the Chop Cup, not the cups and balls. The difference is that the Chop Cup is only one cup while the cups and balls is three cups (traditionally)

  • its not a chop cup. but good try

  • No, it isn't. Chop Cup is gimmicked. This is all sleight of hand.

  • @jezarius This isn't a chop cup. Yes Larry did have a Chop cup routine. But the cup he is using here is not a chop cup.

  • @RS1963 Correct. No chop cup here. But some of it is really sloppy. Check at 1:26 he loads the ball under a cup but the cup rim actually rests on the mouth of the ball, He has to straighten it all up quickly.

  • @RS1963 1:54 he steals the ball with his right hand from under the cup, moves his hand onto the edge of the table and rather obviously laps the ball with a big waggle. Exceptionally sloppy work there, which really exposes some of the workings to laymen.

  • was this the cups n balls routine that was published after his passing?

  • Hi could someone email telling me where to find this routine i like it. i only do martin sandersons chop cup routine getting boring now . thanks

  • In a book called "The classic magic of Larry Jenninigs" by Mike maxwell, A must for any student of the art. hope that helps.

  • This is found in "The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings."

    The book.

  • Actually, it was meant ironically and in fact I hate that people on youtube are explaining beautiful tricks from great, hardworking magicians. They have spent years and years of their life practicing and making up new moves.

    Please go and find something else to do.

    Snorre

    (and oh, as for the tutorial thing, the answer is no)

  • Does anyone want me to post the sleights and a breakdown of how this routine is done? I think it would help students of the effect.

  • dont expose magic

  • No. There are private forums where that discussion would be appropriate. But not here on Youtube.

  • I'm not fond of private magic forums. I've been a member of a a few. And some of them have rules on exposure which are designed to maximise the profit from greedy people selling old magical principles to new people when magical education should be free. Added to that there's plenty of petty squabbling over who originated what effect. Also newer magicians are often exluded

  • A.) No one with any credibility has ever claimed that "magic education should be free. B.) I'm a member of three magic forums, two of which are very helpful to newbies and none of them have anything to do with "maximizing profit". Even if they did....so what? If the forum is an extension of their business, I don't expect them to hide the fact that they sell magic resources. C.) The issue of "who originated an effect" is a matter of integrity. Squabbling aside, credit should be given.

  • hhhahahah does he have a fake watch? just gold with no face on it? haha awesome

  • Did you notice the right hand load at 1.27-1.28?

    Really really clumsy

  • At  0.18 you can see how his right thumb slips under the table to obtain and load the cup as he folds the handkerchief round it in 0.19-0.20 - a pretty clumsy move.

  • agreed, spotted first time, then all the palms with the balls lol

  • awesome.

  • He entertains us with one freakin' cup! I'm blown away. Of course, this is Larry Jennings, a true master of magic.

  • Nicely performed. He´s great!

  • At 0.18 you can see how his right thumb slips under the table to obtain and load the cup as he folds the handkerchief round it in 0.19-0.20 - a pretty clumsy move.

  • GREAT! So glad you posted this footage. Larry was so polished.

  • omg it 's a good routine in close up but when you watch the video u can see all secrets this routine has to be showed only in close up

  • What is the name of the song and artist? I love the music and would love to hear more of it.

    Routine was fun to watch.

  • Wow, that was pure gold!

  • Hey Mr. Funnel Cake with a dead mouse in the brakes, I'm watching people performing magial tricks, and there's always some "I know it well than you" guy that tries to be clever spotting the errors in other's performances. THAT is just annoying, at best. Who asked you first, I must say, to spoil a trick? Why don't you watch some Handsy-pantsy documentary about midgets with abusive telephone habits with a bottle of Galliano? And spot the errors in that one, please. What the f-k is PBS by the way?

  • Magic Tutorials:

    1. Double lift - You lift two cards as one

    2. The Pass - Secretly transpose the halves of the deck. Gets their card to the top

    3. Chop Cup - Magnet inside the cup. Makes magnetic ball disappear

    4. The force - Magician forces you to chose an object when you think you can chose any one

    5. Invisible thread (IT) - Thin nylon thread used to levitate and move small objects

    6. Greedy Magician - Someone who sells minor changes to old magic principles claiming they are his "copyright"

  • Thank's alot for exposing the secrets of magic, heelfan...

  • No problem :-)

    I'm not really exposing, just helping new magicians with some facts and tips mini tutorials. Only magicians and magic students read these comment threads anyway.

    If you like you can help me do a tutorial on Jennings routine here. I'm going to explain the sleights used and where they occur for the viewers :)

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  • Heelfan, your posts seem to be completely directed toward boosting your own ego by trying to explain things that are not meant for laymen.

    Just enjoy the video and smile to yourself when you think you know how something is done.

  • I don't think I know Tony, I do know. I do the cups and balls myself. The first time I watched this routine I pretty well picked up exactly what was happening in about 90% of it.

  • Heel, you've proven my point for me. Thank you. Magicians who are actually confident and not lacking in self-esteem would never come to YouTube and expose magic. So you "picked up what was happening about 90% of it" -- join the club. The point is that the rest of us didn't feel compelled to try to boost our egos through exposing the methods.

  • Giving help with magic has nothing to do with my self esteem, ego, or otherwise. It's simply a service to developing magicians. I have had many many people PM to thank for some tips. The only people who read and post in these type of threads are magicians or magic students anyway. Lay people are just not interested in the technicalities of loads, steals or misdirection.

    If you want to go to a good magic forum, go to somfv3. SOMF has always given the best lowdown on methods.

  • Well, "as a service to developing magicians", you should know that there is an appropriate place for everything and YouTube isn't it. The fact that this has to be explained to you by so many people is the best evidence that you apparently have no regard for the art of magic.

    For every PM you receive thanking you, there's probably 100 people who had no business seeing your expose'. I'm done.

  • The fact that people explain something is not evidence of anything. It's evidence of vested interest in this case.

    For example you have a vested interest in explaining to people that Network Marketing is not MLM. MLM scam artists have a vested interest in explaining MLM is not like a pyramid scheme.

    People who recycle magic have a vested interest in claiming the effects as "their own". It's all about greed. Personal development should transcend greed. You should be espousing that principle.

  • 7. idiots - the people who buy those effects ps your an asshole

  • No, you're not excused for "breathing", you're not supposed to reveal magic tricks, that's just annoying, and you're obnoxious. Nobody cares if you're so clever. And nobody wants things demystified. Go watch some Educational Channel special edition, instead.

  • why would i have wanted it ti be demystifies?

  • you are a fucking moron!!! So damn ignorant you need to have your hands chopped off for your previous comment.

  • Chop? Chop-cup you meant to say, I sure, El Porko!

    I think your fat hands need some chopping by the look of the way you perform.

    Keep eating, Whale-boy!

  • If you weren't so stupidly funny in your comments, I would say you're pleasurable as a pencil stuck up the .....waaaaah....

  • By the way, magic is a matter of presentation and when you have the balls to film yourself, get into an outfit that at least hides your deficiencies, so that your audience members are not exposed to the performers stank appearance. That is the final comment I'll make and hope you dress up for the part of being "magical". You are a magician, are you not?

    Then "act" like one!!!

  • Larry, you da man

  • Beautiful. Jennings is in the same class as Cardini or Richard Ross.

  • HARDLY! The under-table load is obvious. The angle of the cup toward his body is unnaturally angled. There is no comparison to Ross who is flawless, elegant and sense of timing is immaculate.

    Jennings is a technician without magical presentation.

    Cardini is bombastic and original, something again that Jennings does not have.

  • I would have to agree here. There is no debating Jennings credentials in magic, but as far as cup(s) and balls routines go, this one seems lacking...I do love the originality of the opening though; making the cup appear magically is a great idea (it's just too bad that the execution was off). Personally I feel that Jenning's presentation needs patter.

  • what is the name of the song?

  • the man!

  • fantastic. If you only have comments about how many balls thier are etc, just learn the trick youself. UNtil then sit back and enjoy!

  • WOW!! that's beutiful. Michael Ammar talks about why he wants the balls to appear magically, but this is the first time I've seen the CUP appear magically. :-)

  • Michael Ammar uses some of the same MD's.

  • All magician's use the same techniques one way or the other.

    It's the way you present the routine, comedy, mystical, or otherwise, and special additions which fundamentally is "imitation" of the original creators.

    Michael Ammar is a great teacher and that is something unique as is David Roth.

  • do u know who larry jennings is? u noob...

  • I've been performing the cups and balls for a long time in mt professional career as a magician , and I must say that larry jenning's routine in absolutely brilliant !!!!

  • The music is a fine addition to LJ's beautiful routine. Gracias

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