Hi, everyone. My name is David Cassel and today I am going to teach you how to do the Cut and Restore Rope Trick. This is a classic of magic, a magician have been doing this for a very long time. First I am going to show you the performance. You show a regular solid piece of rope, take and place the ends together just like that. It is important that you find in the middle, you bring the middle up to the top and you take and cut it just like that.
Now next what the magician does is of course brings the ends down just like so. So you have two pieces, take and tie the top too together and you get a nice tight knot, okay. Now if you just blow on the knot you can actually take and move it just like magic off the rope and your back restarted with the solid piece of rope.
Now for the tutorial, there is only one secret move you have to learn, okay. All you need is a regular piece of rope about that wide in diameter and a pair of scissors, okay. Now, you start by showing the rope this solid, okay next you take the two ends and you put them together, okay so the rope is in half two pieces just like that but it is in half.
Now here is the secret move at the bottom you find in the middle, okay. I take him put my hand in here like this everything about my thumb. Now the secret moves are little tricky, you putting all this up now when you get to your point where your other hand is, okay you are coming in here you lay this piece against here. You cover this so people cannot see and you putting this piece up just like so okay so there is a switch that takes place.
Once again, this is what the rope looks like, okay you grab the bottom at the middle you bring it up is you are coming up remember they do not see this, this is from the backstage area. You come in like this, you leave this piece here, okay you bring the piece underneath that up quickly and that creates solution that you are bringing up the same piece, okay this will the piece that is cut.
One more time, find a pair put on the piece up leave it there, the piece on the right underneath it comes up and creates that loop, okay. Once you get in this position we have this piece updating that was the original piece you just take and cut it, okay and you can have them feel this it is really cut. Now carefully bring down the two ends, okay. You do not have to bring down this gimmick or this piece of rope that makes the knot, the fake knot and then you want to bring down this one carefully, okay.
Now you carefully hold this in your hand because if you did not hold on to it tight this could slide down and the whole trick would be ruined. So you will hold this tight this little rope piece right here because it creates illusion that yes two pieces coming down.
Now you take and you carefully tie a knot with these two pieces without them saying of course this piece under here you tie a knot just like that. Now from here you have done all the hard stuff you can let them pull the knot off, you can go back and forth and I do not know how you doing that because when you think about it, it should be impossible and eventually you take that knot off the rope. You can let them keep this as a souvenir and you can show that the rope is solid.
This is a great illusion. I hope this video helps you, practice it in front of the mirror before you go out and perform it but this is one method of how magicians do the cut and restore rope.
The classic of magic go out and have some fun with that and amaze some people. Have a great day.
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