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just getting onto these (mostly being a cardie)...most impressed by a multi -sponge ball production;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6R5aFqbnrA

but how workable is this? Making 7-8 balls appear in the specs hand? Is there anyone out there that does this regularly? I also imagine that letting your balls run away can also be problematic....

Hi there i do some spongeball magic to and this is easily to do but i recommend the super soft balls... and make sure u start out with this trick... when u do a 1 ball to 2 balls routine in there hand they will have the feel of the balls.. and got something to compare... if u start out with the 1 to 8 they wont be able to guess if thats the right volume... the hardest part is to get them like 1 in to his/her hand..

That's why I love sponge balls, great for multiple specs. Just routine it so that they can't compare the feeling too easily.

I still reckon sponge bunnies is one of the best effects out there for entertaining normal people...

Yeas I do it regularly as the climax to my sponge ball routine. It is best to leave it to the very end of your set as otherwise you are crawling under the table collecting all the balls back up between tricks. It always gets a great reaction from the spectators so I think is a good guaranteed effect to do at the end. To produce a lot of ball in the spectators hand you need to use super soft sponge balls as the normal sponge balls fill the hand much more with less balls. You need to produce the number of balls that you can conceal in your hand - this will depend on how big your hands are and the size of your sponge balls. It gets a bit too darn obvious for the spectator if it feels alot like you've handed them a massive amount of balls. You will learn with practice what is the correct amount for the final load.
Also an important thing to remember is that the ideal sponge ball size for you is the size of ball that you can do a natural palm with easily without it looking like there is something palmed in your hand.

Sponge balls always get a supurb reaction and are brilliant for any audiences, children and adults. Steve Dacri's Sponge Ball Tool Kit and the L&L Worlds Greatest Sponge Ball DVD are good places to get started. You might find that you'll need to try out different balls, I can't stand the super soft ones but I know that other people love them.

Sponge balls as have been suggested by many a professional, are to be treated as silly and fun. I mean where have you ever seen such things except in use by a magician? This makes them suspect and even when the spectators handle the balls (no pun intended) it's advantageous to make light of them.

One way to kind of legitimize them is to use things other than the balls. Clown noses for instance, or perhaps cat toys. You may also want to consider the Goshman rabbits? All of these things not only helps to have the items make sense in the minds of the spectators, but also lead to some interesting story ideas.

The biggest secret n magic is not the trick, but it's presentation and by the time you've learned how to use these things yu'll want to give them up for rolled up napkins and the like.

Till then have fun and your audience will to.

Why would you not use sponge balls? Audiences don't care if it's a sponge ball or a napkin. They like to see unusual objects, they like to make jokes about them and mess around. Sponge balls are so simple that in the audiences mind they can't be gimmicked anyway. Plus they get fantastic reations.

jdmagic357 wrote: are to be treated as silly and fun. I mean where have you ever seen such things except in use by a magician? This makes them suspect and even when the spectators handle the balls (no pun intended) it's advantageous to make light of them.

One way to kind of legitimize them is to use things other than the balls. Clown noses for instance, or perhaps cat toys. You may also want to consider the Goshman rabbits? All of these things not only helps to have the items make sense in the minds of the spectators, but also lead to some interesting story ideas.

The biggest secret n magic is not the trick, but it's presentation and by the time you've learned how to use these things yu'll want to give them up for rolled up napkins and the like.

It is pointless trying to apply any logic to the audience's fascination with sponge balls and the great reactions they get. A magician may assume that nobody is dumb enough to fall for a trick as simple and silly as the sponge balls, but once you start performing the sponge balls you realize that any doubts you had about the audience seeing right through the trick were wrong. Audiences love them despite them being so simple and silly and you always get great reactions from them always.

jdmagic357 wrote:Sponge balls as have been suggested by many a professional, are to be treated as silly and fun. I mean where have you ever seen such things except in use by a magician? This makes them suspect and even when the spectators handle the balls (no pun intended) it's advantageous to make light of them.

One way to kind of legitimize them is to use things other than the balls. Clown noses for instance, or perhaps cat toys. You may also want to consider the Goshman rabbits? All of these things not only helps to have the items make sense in the minds of the spectators, but also lead to some interesting story ideas.

The biggest secret n magic is not the trick, but it's presentation and by the time you've learned how to use these things you'll want to give them up for rolled up napkins and the like.

Till then have fun and your audience will to.

That's one opinion. I don't have a huge problem with magical props, there's nothing wrong with people associating your props with magicians, especially if you're a magician...Obviously there are exceptions, but in this case, they're just balls of sponge...

I reckon they're less 'suspect' to your average spec than a crisp, clean deck of bikes...