great tutorial! i admittedly do have a bit of a bias against the center tear, but if i ever use it it would be within a routine where it makes sense to tear up the billet. for example, having a participant write down a negative feeling or a fear they might have, then tearing it apart and metaphorically getting rid of it (while getting the center tear peek). i love the idea of the center tear because it's so versatile, but it's hard for me to imagine many routines where the tearing of the billet doesnt seem very out of place.
Thanks man! Love the justification for tear it up you suggest. I hear you, you just have to find the right reason for ripping it up and it is all good, I mention a few in the video
I love this series! I was actually looking for uses for this move so I love the drawing duplication! I would also like to learn your effect canvas! 😀😀😀
Reid, thanks so much for teaching me this. I always wondered how it was done and I know that there’s a ton of tutorials out there but for me your teaching style just works. I can’t wait to finally be able to get some lessons from you!!!
Hi Reid, thanks so much for taking the time to do this. I have been performing mentalism professionally for over 50 years. This was one of the best tutorials I have seen. Thank you for all you do! David
I've never used the center tear, and although I've tried to get into it once or twice, I'm not sure I ever will. Besides being strange and unmotivated, it also just doesn't seem very deceptive. I remember someone teaching this on Scam School, and the performance was fine but the spectator basically just figured it out. That being said, I watched this whole video haha, still always get something useful. Looking forward to more tutorials! Would love to know some of your go-to billet work when you're out and about performing for people. Great stuff!
Glad you where able to take something away from it! I understand your concerns but I’ve found with the motivations I use and the way I handle it, it can work well. Billet wise I often use billets for one ahead, that’s my main use. Also as an out and fail safe if my propless stuff doesn’t hit. In terms of pure billet effects I like ESPidus Novus by Jason Sobel and my drawing duplication I call Canvas
I liked this! I’m still pretty new to Mentalism, and while I was aware of the CT, (one version is in Corinda I believe) I enjoyed seeing you go through it and liked the drawing duplication idea!
There's only two situations in which the center tear makes sense. In an occult ritual of some sort, where you would burn the pieces in a candle flame, or drop the pieces in some vessel (which is where the center tear actually comes from) or in the act of failing to guess it, tearing it up, and moving onto something else, and using the information later on in the performance. There's literally no other logical justification to have someone write something down and then tear it up. I've seen a lot of other justifications for it and they are always in question.
Phedon Bilek has some incredible work on justifying the centre tear including his blank paper disconnect. Absolutely brilliant stuff I would suggest you look into. There are definitely plenty of ways to justify it, some better than others but again like I’ve talked about plenty of times, you can pretty much justify anything to an audience and long as it seems to have a semblance of a logical premise followed by a logical conclusion. Another example I mention in this video would be to tell them to write it down because as they need to really visualize and burn that word into their mind and then of course, logically we would tear up the paper afterwards to make sure there’s no way that I could just see what they wrote
@@ReidFerry Phedon does have some incredible work. I've never seen a justification for a center tear though. Maybe you can point me in the right direction? Personally, I tend to use a switch, as it allows me to get the peek when the heat is entirely off of me and onto a dummy billet... and then switch it back. I have gotten away with only one switch, by using a candle with a little bit of flash paper, so that their writing seems to disappear, but their first instinct is to think that a switch occurred. And the switch back tends to stengthen the idea that the billet was in view the entire time.
the center tear's a great peek. To my benefit, the drawing just happened to drop in my coin- callused palm. Unfortunately, the tearing flared up some existing nerve damage :(
Hey brother maybe you should make a video on tech mentalism. Revealing information searched on phones. I have them usually search images and take in the images as a reason we are using the phone Having aomeone hold a folded billet in their hands works or your wallet after you load the card they wrote on in it But it would be weird having them hold the phone in their hands So maybe a video about going about revealing information peeked with tech and justifications for using the tech for mentalism Didnt want to say the names of mentalism tech used in this comment but you know what i mean
