Josh spends most of the instruction video justifying how it's not so bad that the gimmick is easily
spotted when you hand the band out for examination. That's because the gimmick is easily spotted
when you hand the band out for examination.
This can be a nice quick effect with a
delightful giveaway. These are things I personally like. However, as Josh points out, several times
in the video, each time you do it there's a very good chance the spectator will be waving around the
band showing everyone around enough of the gimmick to explain to the crowd how it was done. That's
something I don't like so much.
He also provides ways to justify what was discovered to the
now unruly mob. To my mind needing to do that kind of explaining is like having to explain a joke
and is perhaps an indication of a joke or trick that shouldn't have been performed to begin with.
My hope was that I would be paying for a technique allowing me to make the obvious gimmick
invisible and certainly less obvious than what you wind up making. Maybe it will work out better for
you?
Ideally, we would be in a position where I performed the trick for you and allowed you to handle the gimmick yourself before teaching the method to you. Try making the gimmick and performing it for someone.
I can promise you that there is no better gaffing method than Hondo's with rubber bands. It is used by all of the greats out there.
The gimmick is not easily spotted most of the time but it would be an incomplete download if I didn't address the possibility.
Here's my brother-in-law, one of my harshest critics and one of the most skeptical spectators I know reacting to the trick for the first time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeG3Yg3l64c&feature=youtu.be
I had watched the trailer and knew the method, and thought it might be risky handing out a band that was prepared in the way I suspected. After reading that this was using a new preparation method from Hondo, I thought maybe there was something new here, and that the preparation would be harder to detect. Although the Hondo tips would help in preparing the bands, they are still just as easy to spot as the method I already knew. Sending someone home with one of these as a souvenir would not seem to be a good idea. The video was well done, and Josh was likeable and informative, but there was no new information here for someone who already knew how to prepare a band like this.
I have this but haven't gotten the required items to make the bands. Still, a thought occurred to me. What if after you link the bands back together, you move the joint to a point inside the knot? Perhaps the spectators won't actually or couldn't actually look there. There is also the added benefit of having the rubber band break apart as they try to untie it, in which case they ripped tore the band themselves so problem solved.
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Not as good as I hoped
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