Magic Tricks

I had high expectations from the Paul Harris Presents project, and my expectations were exceded! Yaya is an ingenious idea and an incredibly brilliant, yet simple holdout! It's tailored to work with sharpie caps but with slight modifications it will work with just about any small object.

There are a few effects taught:

Basic Cap Vanish: Simple and great. A sharpie cap disappears from your clenched fist and reappears in your other hand. Great effect to do while someone is signing a card. 8/10

Visual Cap Vanish: Another great effect to do while a card is being signed. A marker cap is visually snorted up the nose and coughed back up! not the best angles, but a really fun and fooling effect. 9/10

Chewed Cap: This is a pretty clever idea. An orange sharpie cap transforms into a baby carrot. The cap is then produced in a visual and awesome way. Cute. 7/10

Yaya Phone: A neat idea. The magician "traps" a dollar in his phone. The dollar is the dumped out of the phone. I really like this. 8/10

Visual Yaya Phone: Similar to the previous effect bone done visually. However, I really do not like it because the moves look awkward. 5/10

Torn and Restored Bill: Awesome. This was my trick of the dvd. A super visual torn and restored bill done with a borrowed bill and a great built in presentation. I've used this, and it kills! 10/10

YAYA Coin: While most of the teaching is done by Joe Russell, Jesse himself teaches how to encorparate Yaya with coins. It looks a little awkward, but it's pretty cool. Bonus points for allowing you to do the easiest invisible retention vanish. 7.5/10


Poker Chip Vanish:

The DVD comes with two custom poker chips. One is slightly gimmicked and it allows you to encorparate Yaya with it. This is basically the same thing as the basic cap vanish but done with a poker chip. I like this quite a bit. 8/10

Yaya Transpo: Another killer effect! This utilizes the poker chip. Basically, a poker chips visually transforms into a quarter. While the effect is beautiful, it doesn't really make sense. However, I've done some work on this routine and made into great showpiece in my act! 9/10


From this Dvd, I've added two effects to my repitoire (T&R Bill and Yaya transpo) and I am thinking about doing the Visual Yaya cap vanish while a card is being signed. This is a great Dvd and there is truly something for everyone!