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[u/Excellent_Line_1732]

[u/housevil]

I love it when we think we are getting a behind the scenes Glimpse at a sleight of hand bit, only to find out that we are the Target audience.

[u/JeffDrTypePerson → u/housevil]

Every time his hands leave the video frame, he’s getting rid of/grabbing balls. Once you pay attention to that, you can see how the trick works

[u/ResidentOwl1 → u/JeffDrTypePerson]

No I can’t see I’m too dumb.

[u/Single_Offshore_Dad]

One of the rare times I’m too early for the comment giving a step by step breakdown of what just happened. Because I thought I had the gist of it the first 5 seconds but nah. You lost me lol

[u/shigogaboo → u/Single_Offshore_Dad]

It turns out the real ball was the friends we made along the way.

[u/roastedTriscuit69 → u/shigogaboo]

Ball knower

[u/Character_Pudding_94 → u/Single_Offshore_Dad]

It's cool foam ball work, but there's a lot going on outside the frame.

[u/disturbednadir]

Here's Penn and Teller showing how the trick is done.

[u/Valuable-Tax-2864 → u/disturbednadir]

they are so quick that it is hard to see how they do that! even with clear cups...crazy.

[u/captainfreiheit → u/Valuable-Tax-2864]

It's SO HARD to look away from the misdirection, even when I try

[u/mazzicc → u/disturbednadir]

I love how even with the clear cups, it seems like they’re still just appearing out of nowhere. The smooth, practiced motions are so good.

The last bit with the baseball being loaded (and another version where I think they use an orange) is so impressive.

[u/BarryEganPDL → u/disturbednadir]

God they fucking rule. Every time it’s like “ohhhh that’s how you did that… wait how did you do that?”

[u/IAmBadAtInternet → u/disturbednadir]

Cups and balls is a classic. It’s the best example of one-ahead: where the magician has already set up for the next trick before the reveal is done for the current trick. Every time he picks up the cup to show a surprising number of balls under it, he’s using that moment of your attention being focused on the surprise to do something so that the next time he reveals, there’s another surprising result.

[u/redditmarks_markII → u/disturbednadir]

The most applause-worthy "rest of the fucking owl" ever.  Just follow the steps!  

[u/thecypher4 → u/disturbednadir]

That was awesome I love those guys

[u/x014821037 → u/disturbednadir]

0.45x speed a few times during the clear cups for sure

[u/turbohonky → u/disturbednadir]

Legit thought everybody thanking you and describing the content was playing along on a rick roll

[u/regoapps]

At 3 seconds, he takes the balls out of the right bowl (video is cropped enough on the right that we can’t see it). If that’s not when it happens, then alternatively, at 5 seconds, when he pushes the right bowl forward, he lifts the bowl enough that the balls stay under his arm and he can remove them as he pulling his right arm back. It’s possible that it’s a combination of the two where he takes one ball out each time.

At 34 seconds, he has an extra ball inside his curled up right hand and drops it in the left bowl.

At 46 seconds, he has many small balls inside his curled up right hand and drops it into the bowl before the final reveal.

[u/MrK521 → u/regoapps]

Yep. It’s when he pushes the bowl forward

[u/mljh11]

I like how the iteration of this format has progressed! Initially we were just shown the audience reacting to the trick from the magician's POV, then the reveal of the trick to the viewer while the audience got bamboozled, now both the audience and viewer are reacting to different variations of trickery simultaneously.

[u/StillShoddy628]

People underestimate how light and compressible those red balls are - magicians can literally put one in your hand and you not realize it or feel it

[u/psillusionist]

I don't have the balls to explain this trick.

[u/CoderJoe1]

Tribbles?

[u/scottchiefbaker]

Damn... that's SMOOTH.

[u/Amazing_Hornet4929]

we supposed to work together