The Kit Kat part is so good for magicians because they see the indent in his pocket and assume it's another deck he will swap at some point. He's performing in front of a group of magicians so imagine their surprise when they pegged another deck in his pocket and he pulls out a candy bar.
The bumbling, disorganized schtick is so impressive. This guy is on a whole different level from other magicians. Absolutely brilliant in technique and showmanship.
When I first watched this, I could not understand why it was so great. It seems so unimpressive. The past 3 days though, the layers upon layers upon layers of the most pure magical genius are being slowly revealed to me. THANK YOU SO MUCH! It is by far the single most masterful performance I've ever seen, well done Sir.
This guy started from the bottom to achieve this level, he was doing Magic trick in all parcs of my city for a bit of money or food and now seeing that he went that far is astounding Really great guy, round of applause for him
Je suis vraiment super impressionnée Je l'ai vu il y a quelques années où je trouvais ses tours cools et je m'étais abonnée Je viens de voir qu'il était champion du monde Incroyable 🎉
I was watching extremely closely and it was like trying to watch individual droplets in a stream of water. If you slow it down it's still a stream of water damnit
@icestem Exactly, I was surprised no one point it out. It is clear that this man has deeply studied Lennart Green and Dani Daortiz, and technically he has solved all the problems in the routine, but what gives you this performance? Honestly, it seems like an attempt to be as funny and messy as Dani Daortiz or Lennart Green and failing in both, mainly lacking originality and stage presence.
@@jorgedavid2568 Sometimes it is a joy when someone with such a take is clearly in the minority. And since performance art is mainly subjective, the fact that most (yes most) people disagree with you means that by applying your own metric you are wrong. That must be embarrassing for you, to accidentally defeat your own argument. Cheers.
Everything here is so brilliant and calculated that it hurts. This is so incredible, I'm mad at you. Markobi... sir.. you're already like..5 steps a head of everyone before you even set foot on stage. The handling.... the freaking handling... and you just.. right in front of everyone. This was beautiful to watch and experience. Bravo, sir... This is a tour-de-force in misdirection and card handling.
What a bs. Srsly. He is funny but that's all. Marked cards, let's them fall so cheaply, prepares his cards he is going to pick so easily. Just distracts u with cheap Jokes. But the accent is nice
Catching the "move" on the final queen, only to have him completely stun you when he reveals his hand is just utter brilliance knowing who he is performing in front of. The roar of the crowd when he shows both his hands before the final queen is something that must have sent chills up his spine knowing how long he has practiced this routine. As an amateur card magician, just awesome to watch!
Just absolutely spectacular. Lennart Green must have been such an inspiration. Awesome to see his chaotic style of magic continue in a young magician with the same skill and showmanship. Very well done.
Indeed! I too was reminded of Lennart Green. Always loved Lennart's performances. So happy to see new talent pursuing a similar path. Congratulations on your win @Markobi
He said there wasn't a thing that lennart green did that he does in his routine. Just that it's both messy. He said from a technical point he learned the most from Dani DaOrtiz
What I love about this, as a non-magician, nor magic appreciative, is the absolute positivy of the comments section. I enjoyed watching it, but this is one of those situations where not having knowledge of the thing you are watching reduces your a appreciation of how difficult it is. Reading your comments about how fantastic and difficult this is made me enjoy it more. So even though this was Markobi's masterclass, you should all take a bow for how brilliantly supportive and positive you are as a community.
Tbh, I didn't enjoy the performance, although I can appreciate the difficulty... I just think it lacks class. I think the acting was a bit redundant, too. It's funny to open your show by acting like a newbie with no control over what's happening, but after the first reveal it quickly becomes tiring. I find that the whole "I'm too bored to care, and I don't have time for this" attitude is exhausting too. I think he could have balanced his clumsy act by sprinkling in a few flashy moves, that would have made an eye-catching contrast.
Well said. He deserves every bit of praise. Some of the moments were so incredibly brave that I’m just not sure how he convinced himself to perform them here in front of a room full of magicians.
And he even offers the switch. Which Penn at a different show took, but the outcome was still the same. I for one plainly don't understand what's going on. Awesome 😂
Not when all the face down cards on the table are the queen with his scribble on it. Any card she touched would be the card. Which is why it worked on Penn and Teller fool us when Penn switched his choice.
@@lennon1252 The only thing I noticed in the Fool Us routine (thanks to the magic of video) was that the card originally signed was not the one that showed up later.
There's more than one "signed" queen. But to be able to keep track of them and manipulate the deck like that is absolutely incredible. Understanding a tiny bit more about how the trick is done doesn't spoil it at all. If anything, I find that the more I learn about how the tricks are done, the more that I am impressed by how skilled the best magicians in the world are. And to be able to do all this with the word play and stage persona to top it off is incredible. They can't just be quiet and focus on the trick. They have to talk to the audience the whole time.
I remember seeing Lennart Green doing this type routine 30 years ago and I'm still blown away. It's unlike anything else. The brilliance in the chaos is breathtaking!
Guess who is "his uncle" but "not realy his uncle" that told him how "tonfind lady" 🎉🎉🎉 😂🤣😂 His act his full of references to other masters, the judges must have got the hints clear and loud 🥂
Designed intentionally to be messy, scatter-brained, non-linear, anti-climactic, casually irreverent, grunge-style magic - that turns out to be SHEER BRILLIANCE, and a performance displaying skills that the great Richard Turner would be proud of no doubt 👏👏👏 Excellent performance!! 👍☺️🏆
the fake palm is insane, and the acting is so well done, the way he looks at the person sitting on his right, it's like "I know you saw it, but what did you really see" right? Everybody knows he is too good to pull such a childish move but I bet very few thought he will show a simple empty hand as first move to the grand finale. It's very well put together.
The highest praise I can give is to say Markobi is like the Columbo of Magic, he bumbles through the routine and you think he's not getting anywhere..... then BAM, he's got you exactly where he wants you.
I was very blessed to share a dinner with this extremely humble and really down to earth guy. He showed me some incredible routine and wow he is a genius and the best part of the evening, was not discovering that he is a great magician, but that what you see is his true person. So so great
The fake palming at the end and the gotcha and the final reveal... The crowd went wild. I rewatched this part twice and I'm going to rewatch it again Bravo à toi
@@stefanosantini196 at the very end of the routine, he's cupping his hand near his face after doing something sort of fishy with the cards. This was intentional, and leads anybody expecting such things to believe that he's hiding a card in that hand. Then he waits a minute and points with his hand open essentially telling anybody who thought he was palming a card that they are wrong. That was a gift for The magicians in the audience which for that performance was everyone.
I watched that last bit multiple times and every-time it didn’t even look like he took a card, I was wondering why the crowd went wild when it was seemingly so obvious?
Actually it was not a fake. If you watch the pick up at 0.25 speed until he opens his hand you may see something very interesting with his mouth. What I find extreme was the "technical part"😂
The seeming chaos of this performance is so obviously, elegantly designed and deployed, I'm beyond words. Like Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, it tastes a true master to perform an act in an amateurish way professionally. Beautiful work. Ps noticed the no name chips, Canada represent 🤭
The reaction of the magicians in the crowd key you in on when the final move is done. It's the most beautiful pass I've ever (not) seen and absolutely earned him the title.
The crowd we assume being at FISM did not react to his obviously over the top palm being fake but the fact he did move with his other hand that was out in the open yet still invisible. Not versed enough in Green to know the transposes but I would bet you will find it in his works since this is a clear tribute.
You can go frame by frame when the spectator puts the card in his hand. It looks _very_ much like the signed queen of clubs. Or are you talking about something else?
That was absolutely BANANAS! Funniest, most entertaining and most magical card performance I've seen in a LONG time, mad respect! Greets from Germany! :) Matthias
I'm not a magician, but a big fan of card tricks & sleight of hand. Watching a few seasons of Penn & Tellar, I have picked up a very small amount of cues and what to focus on when tricks are being performed. I would again like to reiterate that I am in no way a showman, magician or have any skills in sleight of hand... but even after 10 times of watching the final affect, I have zero idea how this was done... and I love that! I appreciate there will be a lot of people who watch this and can figure moves, manipulation and probably some kind of suggestion, but everything here was amazing!
I know nothing about how magic is done other than incredible hand control, manipulation, practice, etc but I can honestly say watching this has just left me in awe. So unreal.
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when the crowd laughed at the blatant palm, screamed in excitement that it wasnt there, and roared at the final reveal i screamed right along with them
It was obvious because of the tone that he was messing with the audience. It was funny because of the tongue in cheek of "you know I want to look like a dummy but I'm messing with you". Not because it was really looking like a bad palm
Magnificent performance and magic Markobi! Wow!! Every single magicien on this planet, except maybe for the Professor, is inspired by previous masters and, after Dani Daortiz, you are the only one I know who masters and uses with suitability the legendary Lennart Green’s Chaos. All this with your own personality and style. This is the very magic I was expecting since a long time (since Daortiz actually). Cannot wait to see more works of yours and to see you on stage as almost everyday watching your FISM performance with my height years old son make our days more magical. And this is what we all expect from an artist. From Paris, bravo l’artiste!
One of the best magical performances of any type I have ever seen. Next level Lennart Green!! Literally jaw dropping, like literarily my jaw dropped many times + absolutely hilarious. Thank you for your amazing artistry and inspiration.
Please, please, PLEASE get on Penn and Teller Fool Us! You deserve the exposure it could bring you. This performance, YOU, you made my heart smile. Thank you
Merci @Markobi de nous faire rêver et rire. Vous avez un mélange de nonchalance, maladresse feinte, absence d'émotions devant la réussite de vos tours et évidemment un talent incroyable !
@@QuickMadeUpName he got 1 card under his palm and changes it when the woman put the card on his hand (i guess lol - it's so quick) sry for my bad english
@@LuizCarlosLirio Yeah at @9:07 something is definitely going on with the card she puts in his hand, he does some kind of manouver and it appears for a moment there are two cards in his hand. But you can see his open palm beforehand--what do you mean when you say he has something under his palm? There's nothing apparently there. I start thinking gimmicked cards but that seems outside the spirit of the illusion. I even start thinking like... some kind of really amazing fake skin on his hand but again... that feels disappointing if it's the trick and usually when I find out how a really good trick is done I'm not disappointed.
@@krisrhodes5180 I don't know how it's done, but if you go frame-by-frame at 9:10, you can see the underside of the card very quickly and it has a black Q and the queen's head, while she's still holding on to it. She put the right card in his hand.
@@poika22 I think the important part of the last trick happens early on when he scribbles all over the signature, so that the signature gets lost making the card very hard to tell apart from another queen with scribbles on. Maybe all the cards with the back side up in the end is queens with scribble on?
Others have blasé commented how he steals from Lennart Green (and I suppose they could also include Tommy Cooper), but this single performance will go down in history. One-hundred years from now, people will still be laughing and cheering at it.
For half a second he wanted to interrupt her (..."but..") because he saw she was aiming for the revealed or quite far card. When she took one of the washed cards he stops and just says "yes yes"...
@@LeOssiTrollterrible not all of them, but the signed card was a messy scribble. So while we are assuming he had a normal deck, it's likely that all of the face down cards that were close enough for her to reach were that same card with a big scribble on it. His base deck was very likely heavily stacked with queens that he used his messy shuffling to hide. you strategically see a couple of non queens that he leaves visible.
That's a great act! Part of his act reminds me of Lennert Green. His jokes are really funny, particulary taking out food for his participants. And, the ending was fantastic.
Je suis d‘Allemagne alors je ne sais pas parler français très bien mais je trouve ça exceptionnellment génial et j‘aime la façon dont tu te présentes!!!😊 Si j'avais plus de 15 ans et que j'avais plus d'argent, je paierais n'importe quoi pour voir ton spectacle! Continuez comme ça et tout le meilleur pour devenir champion du monde!!!!!🎉🎉
Tu parles très bien français, et surtout tu ne fait aucune faute, ce qui est très rare même chez ceux dont c'est la langue maternelle ! Et je suis d'accord, ce tour est incroyable.
sleight of hand magic is my favorite thing in the whole world, and after seeing so much of it, i feel it has impact when i say how blown away i was and how much i love the presentation. brilliance. i was yelling and clapping while watching by myself lol.
I love seeing just a WHISPER of a smile right before the crowd cheers at the end. I love acts that make it look like the effect was done by accident, and the fake palm at the end before opening his hand to the crowd is just beautiful.
Fier de toi Mon ami Marc Magnifique prestation je m’en rappelle encore des forçages que tu m’avais fait lors de la conférence de John Gustaferro. Chez climax !! y’a pas à dire tu es un champion bravo ça me fait vraiment plaisir de te voir champion du monde tu as bossé dur c’est bien mérité je te félicite Surtout reste comme tu es ! ne change pas reste le Markobi que je connais 👏👏👏❤️👍
Incroyable Markobi ! Je t'avais vu il y a quelques années au flor en scène c'était fou ! Vraiment cool de te voir reussir et atteindre des sommets ! Respect
@@vick7848 actually, the offer to change is not what made the audience go crazy, it's the fact that when he put his hand to his chin, the "cheap" trick for beginner magicians is to hide a card in their hand, so that's why people laughed when he did that, but a few seconds later when he offers to change and, more importantly, reveals that there is nothing in his hand, that's when the audience realizes he is just next level ! :)
I'm in the camp of understanding a trick doesn't break it - it makes it even more inspiring to see what skill was required. I watched the damn finale frame by frame and didn't see how tf Markobi pulled it off. Truly magnificent.
The method in the finale is much simpler than it appears, utilising the same technique as the transposition that occurs at 00:03:03. This act, indebted as it is to Lennart Green, is more about the overall performance and structure of the routine than it is about any particular sleight-of-hand or technical trickery.
@@arspistorica562 I believe you are incorrect. the card that he reveals at the end is the same card the spectator picks up from the table. it’s not a top shot or some other transposition. i think the deck is swapped and it’s just a shit ton of marked queens awxcspt for a couple which he leaves fave up
@@nealcaffrey3030 Perhaps you misunderstood my comment. A transposition is simply a type of effect, like a vanish or a production, regardless of the method used (duplicates, e.g.), and the transposition probably uses the same method as the finale. Haven't re-watched the routine, but I don't think there's a deck switch involved. I remember thinking it's likely just a retained slug of "duplicates" used throughout the routine.
@@arspistorica562 there actually is a deck switch when he does the deck to pocket thing. I only know this because another comment pointed it out, I’ve watched the routine many times and never realised it!!
Bravo, félicitations...c’est plus que grandement mérité. J’adore cette routine, ce fouillis plus que maîtrisé ... je n’avais pas revu ce style depuis Lennart Green. Respect ✊. Ont peu voir qu’il y a des heures de travail pour ce résultat. Merci pour ce beau moment de belle magie. Je ne me lasse pas de regarder.
N'étant pas magicien, mais adorant comprendre les tricks, j'avoue que le finish m'a éblouie tout autant que la rapidité des cartes "sautillantes" du début... et tout le long je me suis dit, mais comment a t il pu être champion du monde ? La fin est superbe, l'effet drôle et la routine employée en même temps... Belle maîtrise en effet. Chapeau bas !
Vos réalisations dans le domaine de la magie sont exceptionnelles. Nous tenons à vous remercier, vous et votre équipe, pour votre travail acharné et l'élévation que vous avez accordée à l'art. un mystérieux étranger voyagera loin pour honorer la profession. nous espérons que votre maquillage se retrouvera dans le chapeau !
