Magic Tricks

Fork bending is definitely one of the more impressive tricks you can do, because, you know, they're forks. They're strong. Even if normal people try to bend forks at home, they usually take their high-quality, thick silverware at home, and fial miserably.

There are a couple of different bends in this DVD. 3 of them, you can do with no prior preparation at all. The other two are also really impressive, but you may need to switch the forks.

Generally, I would say the easiest bend is the Pivot bend (where you rub it with your entire hand), and I usually follow it up with the bend where the spectator gently rubs the (already bent) fork in your hand, bending it even further.
I heard the tine bend should be easy, but everything here in Denmark is so high quality (curse you, Denmark!) coming across forks that are both overall thin and easy to bend AND does not have wide tines, is quite hard. So no sucess with the tine bend yet.
This does not make bending forks less impressive, though.

At the beginning, you need thin forks. Not the high quality one's in your parent's drawer, but cheap and thin ones. Personally, I got forks from the cafeteria at my dad's work, which they were going to throw out either way.
If you're using thin forks, it is very important that when you get the spectator to check it, do NOT say "try and bend it". I once said this to a six year old, he bend it (slightly) with his hands. Just say "check and see that it is a real fork. Not rubber or anything" works best, and I have never failed with this. Just be sure not to over-prove, it seems weak and suspicious.

I hear people complain about Gerry in the DVD, I even heard one go as far as to say he learned NOTHING because of Gerry, but really, I don't see it.
I mean, yes, sometimes he interrupts to say something that doesn't even matter, but personally, I didn't find it distracting at all. It wasn't very often, and they usually carried on rather quickly.

All in all, this is a great DVD for anyone interested in fork bending.