Strange Move­ments

Someone pos­ted this clip from the MagiFest 2016 on Face­book and I just could­n’t stop watch­ing and won­der­ing about it:

Well, cer­tainly the guys do ser­i­ous, advanced moves and pos­sess skill. Cer­tainly they worked hard and a long time on these moves. But then – watch care­fully and con­cen­trate on the very spe­cial way they handle the coins. It looks really, really strange to me.

Seems we magi­cians have some­how for­got­ten how nor­mal people handle objects, in this case coins. We are appar­ently com­pletely in love with our ‘hand­ling’ and the moves, diving into our own world of dreams. We lost the abil­ity to see things how they are. We lost the view of a layper­son. I think a nor­mal per­son see­ing this might think: “What’s wrong with this guy? Very strange way he handles the coin …”

I nev­er saw these strange move­ments with Kaps, Gos­h­man, Slydini, Ver­non, Ram­sey, just to name a few. I miss these truly nat­ur­al and nor­mal coin hand­ling. What we seem to have these days is a very strange pat­tern of move­ments in coin magic.