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Male: I notice you got a ring there; can I borrow your ring? Let me try this out, great, how long do you have this?
Female: Three years.
Male: And what is the significance with it.
Female: It is my mom’s ring, she gave it to me.
Male: It is very strange because obviously, it is your ring so, it travels a bit closer to you?
Female: Oh my god.
Male: Quit strange, he jumps he say. Now people say you know, you close your hand over it, I want to actually see it jump and if you watch carefully, and stare at your ring, you will actually see the moment the ring jumps, jump back, jump, jump back.
Female: What?
Male: This is the explanation for a very cool effect, bling fling. Now, you may remember the effects started with me, putting the ring in one hand and it just jumping mysteriously form one hand to the other. This is the effect, you basically got the ring, it goes into your hand and then you can show that it jumped.
This is the lead up to the bling fling finale. It is a little bit of slides of hand, it is going to take you a little bit of practice, this is the move.
Now this move is actually got its roots in thimble magic. Years ago, a magician used to perform manipulation acts on stage and he is used to use thimbles. And this is actually a move that was used with them thimbles but I have actually utilized it now with a borrowed lady’s finger ring and the nice thing about that, it tends to sit on the end of the finger just like a thimble would.
Now, this is the move, what I am going to do, I am trying to keep my fingers open here, so you can see what actually happens but, it looks like you put the ring into your fist. What really happens is that first finger bends underneath and you keep it in your same hand in the right hand, it bends underneath and using the second finger and thumb, you remove it from the first finger and literally, pull it back into your hand.
Now I tried to do that last so you could see what is actually happening. I will try and give you an even more of an exposed view now so literally it goes into the hand, bends round and the first finger on the thumb, take it and put it into the hand. But obviously by doing this at performance speed, it looks like it goes into the hand and it comes off and they see that this finger is empty.
There is no ring there so when you open your hands and you show that it is now gone from here and it has jumped over to here, that is the jump. So this is the first part you do, this is the leading to the bling fling effect. And obviously when you do it, it is quite a simple move once you have practiced it but you got to get used to actually selling the moment of magic, give a sign for the magic to happen, do not just open your hand straight away, put it in there, give a little move, if you watch, and then reveal that it has actually jumped across.
This is the leading to the bling fling, the very first thing and you say that amazingly, it has actually jumped. But the thing is, when it inside my hand, people get a bit worried, they want to actually see it jump. You would not believe this, now you get into position to perform the final effect. This absolutely blows them away. Because in this position, they see that ring actually jumped, jumped back, jumped back, jumped, jumped back.
Now the reason this works it is because, they are actually focusing on the ring, they do not look at your fingers. In actual facts, the ring does not jumped fingers, it is an optical illusion, you just swap your fingers over and very slowly, I will break it down for you. You put the ring on the second finger, it is going to look like it jumps to the first finger but in actual facts, all you are going to do is move that second finger over to where the first finger starts off.
And replace that second finger with the third finger, it is going to take you a bit of practice guys but it is well worth it, put a timing and get used to actually swapping those fingers over really quickly to there, once, twice, like this.
Now, if there is some reason, if you put something in between like I am using my watch here, for some reason, of you got something in between, the effect looks stronger, it seems to make it look more impossible at separating the two areas but you tell them to stare at the ring and they will actually see it jump, jumped back, jump., jumped back. When you get very good at this, you can speed it right up. Do not make the mistake of doing it too many times so, literally, you perform the first phase of the routine, it jumps from hand to hand, you say but people actually want to see it jump, you pick it up, you get to this position and you say, “If you watch, you will actually see it jump, jumped back, jump, jumped back.” Their mouths will be open wide when you hand them their ring back and that is bling fling.
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