Psychological Touches?

[MagiMage]

Does anybody have Psychological Touches by Banachek? I am a strictly close-up performer, and I need to know whether this requires gimmicks or assistants.

The effect is here:
http://www.magictricks.co.uk/shopexd.asp?code=4430

[Randi Rain]

No and no.
No gimmicks or assistants.
But does require some bravery.
Meaning... there is some boldness there that you have to get yourself to believe that you can actually pull it off.
Kind of like a lot of Banachek's stuff.

Randi

[MagiMage]

Can I do this on stage, with people watching?

[Randi Rain]

Oh yea...
Don't get me wrong... it's cool.
Very stage worthy.

But does require you to be very bold.

Kind of like silverware bending.
You have to get over the thought of...
"I can't believe that this actually works and no one ses this."

Randi

[gaafman]

I have seen Banachek doing this at a lecture. It looks quite easy, but metalbending also ;-). It isn't that easy. You need to know eactly what you are doing/saying in the routine. I would say this is more for the advanced worker. Randy is right, you need to be bold. I have recently bought Lior Manor's invisible touch dvd which uses a completely different method for the same effect. I could only see it half since the dvd and cover were damaged during shipment. (would send me a new one, great service) so I can't review it. Although this method might be easier, I would start by watching some of the PK touch perfomances. If you like the effect I would first buy Banachek's way to low priced PK touches booklet and grow for there.

Maybe someone can write an addition to this, so far I never actually learned the routine so I cannot speak out of experience.

[FigaroTheParrot]

Seems to me that often, the most difficult routines are the easiest physically. 

I think I might just pick this up. I've had my eye on it for a while now, and I only hear good things.

[Andrew]

This can be done in quite a variety of settings. Not only can it be done on stage, but Banachek also includes instructions for performing it on television. However, there is some angle management to deal with. You wouldn't be able to do it surrounded.

Randi is correct. It isn't difficult, but it does take guts. If you've never performed mentalism before, this might not be the best effect to start with. If that's the case you may want to start with Banachek's Psi Series DVDs. They include a ton of amazing and simple effects that work great in a close up setting.

[AnthonyH]

I think if someone like me can get away with the PK Touch, anyone can. Mind you, I can't do it on stage or surrounded, being wheelchair bound has it's difficulties (as you can imagine). I ONLY do this when there are four or less people in a room, usually a living room. And I had to come up with some slight alteration of the performance.

As far as metal bending, that was a Blast for the kids at Halloween. They're so easily misdirected. The classic pass in a ACR was Very simple to pull off for them also. My patter was "Watch for the secret move!", and every time I'd say that, they would look straight into my eyes.

I mentioned the Halloween stuff because of the misdirection methods. You could come up with all kinds of things to get your audience to look somewhere besides where you're doing your thing. And planting misdirection into the minds of the volunteers can be very simple, as long as you know where and when to do it.

Rambling on is now turned off.

AnthonyH