Why is it so no it didn’t go apart I was so happy I love finding good magic tricks as you’re a kid is a very higher rate and then it’s lower and lower and lower and then I actually was so into it. I studied at magic and some other things if you can do with cards all the lawyer absolute freaking mind the way they can cut the deck so perfectly like there’s a person that can literally take a brand new Jack that’s an order and he can do it very very quickly shuffle the deck in five different ways very very quickly, and then Hanyu, the deck, and the deck will be all back in the exact same order as when you open that originally. there’s another guy that knows how to do a shuffling truck with a brand new deck so they’re all in order a shuffle is it like four times and all of a sudden all the leases are on top. It’s not magic it’s just insane control of the cards I’ve seen guys do weird things or they set the card up in the air 10 feet and I had to come back down in their hand in a fan note card display and send out cards. He catches the spinning part of it he just flung in the air from the deck is really remarkable it’s more than magic in the appointments aspect at spectacle. I know a lot a little lighter load magic I know every check I see I have a guess about what kind of way they would’ve won about it and watching the show on usually pretty good but everyone’s in a while when you’re completely fooled it’s a cool feeling when you’re like wow that was 10 out of 10 unfortunately I’ve seen a couple of 10 to 10 words just what I just said a word purely sleight-of-hand and just very very good control and manipulation I want to like Street performers. Circus acts were there doing absolutely amazing things that need mastered if the hundred and thousand times it’s only three or four tracks but the practice so much that nobody else can do them and if they were to start practising for a couple weeks they would not be able to do it all the way every single time again, I am basketball players and basketball players not playing for six months, his 99 out of 100 score a problem going down to 8Nine.
yeah, you fooled me too. i was like certain that this is a gimmick. and i would also applaud if that ring was a gimmick, because it would be a REALLY solid tech and also still a VERY solid slight of hand performance. but its not the ring. so... honstely, i have no clue.
ugh every time a magician fools them, my eyes well up. so annoying i can't not get emotional lol but I just enjoy seeing people be rewarded for incredible work.
The only thing i can think of is that he had the full ring for show and a half ring to simulate the passing. And the fact they meshed together seamlessly is pure magic.
awestruck that there is exactly one single frame at 4:48 where you can see how the final removal from the pinky is done, and even more awestruck that the method is just "take the ring off your finger really fucking fast"
and it's odd, but i think it really is just a trick of the light that the ring briefly appears to have a small gap in it as it slides down onto his finger at 3:08. there would be no need for such a gap: the trick immediately prior using teller's finger is done by placing the half-ring around the audience-facing side of the finger whilst holding the outside of the true ring against the finger's opposite side to convince teller via sense of touch that his finger is fully encircled by metal (as someone else pointed out, this positioning setup for this is fully visible very briefly at 2:45)
He has two rings. One is real the other is the trick ring. The real sleight of hand is switching off between those rings. If you slow down the video and go frame by frame you can see the ring comes apart. He always has his thumb on a specific point on the back, he twists the ring and then slides it to the next finger and puts it back together with a twisting down motion. The movements are very consistent and he always keeps the thumb on the back of the ring or he's holding it tightly together with his fingers, except for when he switches it off to the real ring. Pretty sure he can also dislocate his fingers which allows him a greater range of motion to get the ring off and conceal it.
Incredible trick! The guy is an artist. Usually I don’t believe in trying to figure out how a trick was done I just like to relish the effect, but this is Fool Us and he won… at 3:08 there are several frames where he does a flourish and you can clearly see a break in the ring…. I’ve often wondered how they can just trust the performer when Penn asks if they used a certain method and they deny it. Magicians are sleazy liars and tricksters by profession and it seems like an easy fib to simply deny that they figured it out… this one may have been some clever wording but it seems as if Penn called out the correct method and simply trusted him when he said otherwise…
After rewatching the video AND reading the OP pinned comment, I can safely say that he uses one normal ring and one identical half ring. While doing the trick he constantly switches between those two. As for how he hid the other ring, it's purely sleight of hand. Try rewatching the video and you'll understand what I mean :)
I wanted to come up with a way in which I would replicate this illusion. I think I came up with a very reasonable way, and rewatching the trick I'm pretty confident I stumbled uppon the actual solution. IF what I think is correct, I agree P&T were wrong and this does not involve a ring that comes appart, and its done purely with sleight of hand. It does require a gimmicked ring, but definitely not in the way they were thinking. Great trick, and amazing slight of hand, eeven for Teller not to catch it! Edit 1: the best part in the trick to me is that clap when he says "you can check it out". If I'm right then this makes sense. Edit 2: I just realized I watched this video 3 years ago and left a comment saying how I was left with my mouth open. I'm kind of proud for figuring it out this time around.
Ok im throwing out my solution. There is a full ring and a half ring. The real sleight of hand is how he was able to always hide one of them. Every time the ring was on a finger you can tell he had a hard time holding it in place because it was only a half.
