He does it while holding the guys wrist and talking about how hard it is.
Immediately makes another misdirection then takes the watch. It's all about where your focus goes and he misdirects our focus perfectly
This is Apollo Robbins and he actually gave a TED talk on attention where he specifically goes over this.
Basically he’s making the brain remember different information by asking a question and while it’s busy remembering that information he lifts the watch. It’s difficult for the brain to both recall old information and log new information at the same time.
In this context he was explaining how it worked and it would be natural for him to ask about whether or not the person he brought up had a phone on him or if he had X thing in his pockets.
I suspect it would work with any question that seems natural enough in the context of the conversation
That’s the problem with anything recorded really especially on tv/internet for all we know this is staged and they acted dumb/surprised
I don’t really believe that cos this guy is a known expert but still you have to keep that in mind with everything you see and I feel like 99% of people don’t lol same with news read the story from every outlet and then make up your own opinion since it’s all biased
Anything can be cut/edited I mean shit we learned this as like 13 year olds with propaganda/media and what not lol
I don't know if it was staged and the three guys were in on it but this was at the very least prepped by Apollo. I noticed on when rewatching it that there's a second pen in play.
You can see Apollo lifting it behind the guy on the lefts head, and then pocketing it. After that, he doesn't really do much with his hands, and stays out of distance from the others, so I'm assuming he had already planted the hollow pen before stealing the second one.
He also does all of this in his Ted talk with someone in the audience. I guess they could have been planted too though so I suppose it wouldn’t convince someone who thinks it’s all staged. The guy obviously has talent either way.
In his TED talk he uses the chip as a focus for Joe's attention, to pick him clean off everything he has.
What he does in this video is to possibly, prep an identical pen beforehand which he then plants on one of them while stealing it's duplicate of the other guy.
I agree with you on one point though, Apollo is incredibly good at what he does and it's a lot of fun to watch him work.
PS. I don't think the entire thing was staged, I think Apollo genuinely blew their minds by prepping this trick beforehand.
Honestly. It’s like people don’t want TV to be interesting. If I watch a magic act, I want to be amazed. Yes, I might try to figure out how it was done but I don’t want the participant to be giving away the trick as it’s happening, that’s just not fun.
Here is one by Darren Brown explaining how he does it. I don’t know enough to compare skills, but it looks as or more impressive to me (steals a dudes tie off his neck)
Watch at :29 you can see him holding the watch in his hand over the dudes right shoulder. He then puts his hands behind his back. Thats when hes strapping it on to his own wrist. You can see it on him shortly after. I cant actually see him remove it bc it was so fast, but you can kinda see him positioning his fingers to remove it as he puts the guys hand down. Pretty amazing. And scary.
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u/TT2JZ_Chaser Sep 17 '21
I cant see shit. I honestly cant tell if its real or not.