Alright, this is something you could do with any elastic band but just check out the elastic band and make sure it is okay, that is all it is. Now, what I need you to do is just hold your thumb up like that, keep your thumb straight up. Now, if I put that over that, there is obviously a few ways I could get that off, the oldest ones I could lift it off here? Or, when it is on narrow cut she snaps the bond and breaks it off. Now watch, this is really strange Daniel, for this I just go like this and press, I am not going to lift it off, I am pressing on that here and look, it comes off.
Over the top, then lift it up and then break it off. Suddenly do not lift it off, keep the pressure there yeah, and yeah it comes off. Okay we have been joined by Rose for the explanation for the band penetration. I got a spectator to hold that thumb up like so and I explain to them that the only way to take that band off is by either lifting it off or breaking it off. But somehow, the band comes off, even though you do not lift it off and you do not break it off.
Anther thing is with the band penetration you have to overcomplicate the moves because the actual secret is quite simple indeed. You start with getting them hold their thumb up. I always get them to use their thumb, I used to get them to use other fingers but they do not keep them in a stiff position as well as the thumb. They are used to holding the thumb in this position, if you use any of the fingers they might not be comfortable with you pressing on the top there.
They are used to this position, it is quite comfortable. It is very important at the start that you set the trick up by explaining the only way to take that band off is by either lifting it off or breaking it off. Obviously that is not true, there is another way, it is the way I am going to teach you. But by setting this up explaining these are the only two ways, you are going to make the effect stronger in the end.
Basically, if I went like this now, that would just be rubbish, there will be no point to this whatsoever. It is obvious, you know you are just putting your finger underneath and you are just taking that band off. But in essence that is what I am going to do, I am just going to overcomplicate this process and these are the moves that you need to learn to actually overcomplicate it. If you just took your hands slightly that way, so it gets a good view of the band that is great.
We start in this position with the first finger hooking the band and obviously the other end of the band is over the spectator’s thumb. You then reach out with the first finger of in my case the left hand, the other hand and you pull it over the top of the band on the other side and kind of like make it triangle-like so. Now the second finger of the hand holding the band then reaches over and takes these two parts of the band and pulls them down out of the way, leaving you space then just pivot it over and put that first finger on top of the spectator’s thumb.
Now, do not twist it when you do this or the trick will not work. Make sure that you just go straight over and put it in position. Now you will explain to them that you have not lifted it off, you have not broken it off, and yet it comes off and it just literally comes off and you must stay in this position for a few seconds, these actually freezes the moments of magic and it is absolutely impossible at this point because this link here is impenetrable, there is no way, anything could go through that and yet you are displaying the band that has actually come off.
So just take you through that one more time, from this position hooking the band, the first finger comes over, pulls up the band into a small triangle, the second finger comes over pulls the band is down and the first finger of the other hand goes straight over the top on top of the spectator’s thumb. Now by releasing the whole thing, it will just come off and remain on that first finger at the end.
Try this a few times on family or friends. A good tip as well, is to actually practice on the top of a wine bottle or a milk bottle and you can actually treat that just like the spectator’s thumb and you can actually practice the routine with the wine bottle just stood up in between your knees and you can practice it as many times as you like. It seems simple, try it on spectator you will absolutely blow them way, they will never be able to figure out the band penetration.
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