Fred Kaps performing card magic

[monkey505boy]

That gabby interrupting guy is at every one of my shows.

[PabloBristly]

I guess this is where Jay Sankey got the idea for paperclipped. Same technique, the only thing diiferent was the control and the revelation

[xRNEx]

It's funny to see that Kaps preformes this trick so well that even the people who think they know how it's done are wrong. Great trick, great preformer.

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@xRNEx I know how it's done - see my other post, it explains it for you. There is a dupe card already folded and glued inside the box and he pretends to dump it out onto the palmed folded card, closing the box at the same time.

[pelaroql]

Amazing!!

Fred Kaps is a genius!

[icantfite]

omg confusing!!!

[davidstewartmagic]

is it like a gaffed box and he puts it in from the bottom? thats what it looks like anyway, amazing control though!

[mikekennedy1000]

@davidstewartmagic  No, the box is not accessed from the bottom!

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@mikekennedy1000 Yes correct, he already has the card folded and palmed in his left hand, and a dupe card folded and stuck in the box. He pretends to dump out the card in the box and he closes the box at the same time. Bit like a shuttle pass.

[DaiTryon]

The guy he's performing for is Bro. John Hamman.

[kitanimboy]

Oh yeah... Well spotted... I know the moves he's making and the crux of the trick. But he doe's it well and slick.... I have Hamman's book and it's superb.... Nice to watch..

[kramerdc9]

legend

[pin5033]

I just can't understand it :) Any help?

[GhostOfRory]

It's not that hard to work out.

Buy Card College 5, a similar routine is explained.

[Acardician]

Actually is tremendously hard to work out ;)...very few performers are able to repeat the effect along with Kaps' timing and construction. So direct and clever.

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@Acardician Yeah this is easy. He gets it to the top using a pass. 2:28 to 2:32 you can see him fiddling around folding it up. 2:34 he holds it folded up behind the deck. 2:42 he palms it in his left hand. Then there is a card already folded up in the box & he pretends to dump it out in his left hand, revealing the folded card, but he closes the box at the same time hiding the other card. That's why he didn't want the spec taking the card out of the box & he moved it away from him. Lame trick!

[Acardician]

@CaraBrimleyRules

I know very well how it "works"...this version and at least 10 others.

I still believe that "very few performers are able to repeat the effect along with Kaps' timing and construction".

Looking at the last posts, I also believe that the discussion isn't following what I consider to be the magical paths and streams of reflection.

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@Acardician How would you like the discussion to develop then? Discussing the art of the routining without directly referring to methods. Or maybe looking at alternative concepts, or just praising how good Kaps was without getting technical at all.

As I see it, many young student magicians come to You Tube and we owe it to them to break down the effects to give them an idea what is involved should they decide to study the effect in question,

[Acardician]

@CaraBrimleyRules

Briefly, I believe that "methods" are nothing more then final solutions to problems. Problems are gaps in between the ideal magic situation (es: "signed card in the box, before being selected and signed") and what happens in the internal reality of the magician. The problems can be grappled at first by identifying them; then by studying/conveying our character, our pacing, rhythm, our persona,etc.; and finally, identifying scripts,presentation and the most pertinent techniques

[TheBradTobin]

@Acardician The effect was done beautifuly but i feel the plot is weak, it seems to contradict itself, its a magical effect with a prediction patter, realy its a card to impossible location but i feel that in any card to impossible location the location it ends up in must have some importance, when would anyone ever need to get a card into a small box, it amazing and impossible but not useful in anyway, not saying their are no solutions for this effect i just think the plot is weak.

[dimabbq]

Kaps is truly one of the masters. He can do everything...coins, cards, silks, cigarettes and is an amazing entertainer.

A real legend.

[vardo5]

The stuff legends are made of!!Smooth and natural!!

[spiritmeeting]

anyone know where to get one of these ring boxes? gracias

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@spiritmeeting The box isn't gimmicked especially. It's a normal ring box with a card folded into 4 and glued inside.

[fatmanshrinking]

You got it second time? Took me 4 goes to suss his control and even now I'm not sure! Or perhaps he's just, ahem, bluffing. Utterly terrific!

[Polishjazzman]

Kaps performing for Brother John, that's like Elton John singing Happy Birthday for Mick Jagger. This is the routine that started it all. Kaps, father of Kennedy, Sankey, Close, Swiss, and Wonder; bravo maestro!

[spiritmeeting]

WOW... got it on second watching too.. incredibly smooth and slick performance...

now, where can i source one of those boxes... lol

[GhostOfRory]

Kaps used normal ring boxes. He gimmicked the himself.

[vardo5]

whuh he's just so awesome!

[PeyokWarrow]

xD

I got it at seeing twice....

Very difficult !!!!

Kaps is my favorite

[markyeager]

Fred kaps is performing for Brother John

[EssexBoy696969]

Faultless............a Master at work - Kaps was (in my view) the best magician to have ever graced this planet.

[ForeverMAGIC1]

Thats where Jay Sankey got the idea for Papperclipped!