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I thought I knew the Cups and Balls. After watching this I realized I know nothing.

We sure miss you, Dean. Thanks for all the great magic.

Masterpiece

Unbelievable!

2:28 Your honor Arrest

Even without patter this is so clean and magical. Burn the witch!!

My OCD went off hard when he revealed the big pea in the middle of the questionmark, I wish he produced it so it was the big dot at the bottom of the questionmark

This made me so happy. Is that Inspektor Eberhardt?

alll riiiight!!!

And girls are very nice also!!!<3

nice! I know how it works but a magician do not talk about!

lmaooooooooooooooooooooo

For some reason Google put this music on here, I'll change it...

Do you want me to expose any of this routine? I think we should post how he does the sleights and the final loads.

Trolling with much audacity. I like it! Keep it up and you'll achieve great things!

This damn Indian "music" SUCKS !!!

someone said Fred Kaps cups and balls routine but God Damn that was fuckin amazing. I'm trippin right now on how clean that was, this is by far the best version of this i've ever seen

Better "Misty" with intro patter ("This is a wooden stick!") than no patter and this unrelated Indian music.

Beautiful stuff here, he's the greatest of the greatest.

Is there a version of this video with the original audio on youtube?

Muchas gracias por esta buena musica !

Nice Muppet. Got a name for him?

A LEGEND AT WORK!

@californiamagician That's because Pete's a stud!

Pete actually burned his left hand on the flash paper (fire0 when he ignited it, and kept performing for the TV cameras! you would never know was in pain thru the routine tho!

He does this perfectly. I do magic myself, and I know every move this guy does. But I can't see at all when he does them. They look perfectly natural.

He's fast no doubt

@papagersh If you can't work out this routine just by watching it a few times, you don't deserve to be performing it! Why would you need notes if you've any experience in magic!

@javimirage You are mistaken sir. This was not very good and the plinky plonky piano music was dreadful. If you watch artists such as Paul Daniels, Chris Angel and David Blaine you will see they are much better.

Trés trés belle routine de cups & balls par ce grand maitre de la magie qu'était Fred Kaps, une routine qui se démarque de beaucoup dans l'approche du travail de manipulation par rapport à d'autres routines plus classique .Du grand art et qu'elle maitrise de la belle et grande MAGIE .

@pixelslinger no i mean how like does it use a magnet?

@MMinecrafTT Really well.

how does it works?

@RS1963 I think I meant to write Ramsey subtlety. Either way, it looks really good.

@stobysorrento I agree, the orginal patter was needed. This so-called "music" was HORRIBLE and lost its way in random notes. It was a SIN to remove the commentary of Mr Bongers, even though some of the routine was a bit naff.

@RS1963 Yes, thanks for agreeing with me. This CRAP music totally ruined this clip. It wasn't even played on an in tune piano.

Paul is so clean and fluent with this.. This is also another amazing performance of the same trick.. unbelievably smooth: /watch?v=o7oY9G_PXUQ

I knew the famous Kaps Subtlety was good, but I never thought how good until I saw him use it so brazenly just now.

@GaryOuellet The music is TERRIBLE. It sounds out of tune and stops and starts, really slows down and loses its way in random notes etc. It RUINED the routine, I would have preferred to hear Bram Bongers patter.

@MsPwninG Yes you are right, he just did a ball vanish into his left hand, and really had the ball in his right. He then brazenly turns a cup mouth up and drops the ball in there, you can see it! This is not magic at all it's terrible! All these people saying this guy is brilliant are quite wrong. Also, I HATE that music on the plonky planky old piano. I'd get a sledgehammer and SMASH the piano to shut the music up, HAHA.

@pixelslinger I looked it up and didn't find anything. I guess I really wasn't incompetent LOL If you get it from him, it would be great. I've been using the Raven and Gecko for a while, but this routine looks cleaner

@killazerg1 Strangely enough, it's not on the site. I'll give him a yell to see what's up.

@pixelslinger Link?

5:17 his right hand !!

check 5:17 his right hand ;)

SHEER PERFECTION FROM THE GREATEST PERFORMER IN MAGICAL HISTORY! How 2 people have given this clip the thumbs down defies belief. Yes of course Fred would normally have pattered to this effect but it's aimed at magicians - hence there's quite a bit of 'jazzing' within the routine. I perform/prefer Ken Brooke's routine - but words cannot convey Fred Kaps ability demonstrating this magical classic.

@stobysorrento I'd lay the same criticism on Latimer's routine. It's not always obvious where the ball is *supposed* to be or what is supposed to be happening. FISM competition is judged by judges who are magicians themselves. They judge on 6 categories only one of which is entertainment value. Since they are not lay people they can't judge even that from a layman stance. The only thing that matters from an audience perspective is entertainment. Technique/originality etc is irrelevant,

@pbug If you want me to explain any part of the routine for you, feel free to ask! Actually I don't think this is a brilliant routine as set to music. The finals were slick but telegraphed, & in the initial phases, with no patter, it's not always possible to understand clearly or remember where the ball is "supposed to be" especially from a lay perspective. So when it turns up somewhere else, the wow factor is dampened. The routine requires more concentration than modern day audiences will give.

@pbug Yes I am a member of the IBM actually ... British Ring 25. But I'm a member just for business purposes. Some parts of the organisation are very old fashioned.

@heelfan1234 experienced at what? I bet it isn't 'tact and diplomacy'. Wonder if you are a member of IBM either? Hmmmmm.....