Chinese magician performs world’s best magic trick

Eric Chien, based in Beijing and raised in the US, has won an International Federation of Magic Societies' world championship title. The 26-year-old performed his magic trick “Ribbon”, mesmerizing the audience and judges with the illusion. The contest runs every three years and is considered the “Olympics for magicians”. The 2018 edition was held in Busan, South Korea in July. Competing in the close-up award category, Chen is the first Asian magician to win a top prize in the contest.
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JiggaJonsonsays...

LPT if you use the , (comma) and the . (period) keys on your keyboard, you can go frame by frame in youtube videos.

That said, sometime in the middle of the 31 second mark is where those white card things appear in front of him. Happens in less than 1 frame.

Before you cry "VOODOO!!!" though, you can slow watch his vest being sucked away into his ?pocket? his ?pants? idk, but it's being rolled away like a window shade.


All that being said. If I saw this live I would NEVER have caught any of that and this is still an amazingly skillful magician.
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SFOGuysays...

Physical effects. Slow it down in replay to 0.25 speed in HD (1080P) and you can see things ripplingly away...You'd never see it in real time; it's too fast--but slowed down, you can see the vest change, the cards inward towards him to "disappear" and so on.

Still really cool

lucky760said:

What the--

No.

Just no.

This has to involve CGI.

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lucky760says...

And how did the rectangles just appear on the table across from him?

And the card get cut into a sliver by being passed over by the tape?

I'd have thunk it some of that mystical ultimate black material like Shin Lim uses, but you can see the felt surface of the table.

moonsammysays...

Look at the rectangles' middles (across the wide dimension) when they're on the table - you can see a fold in the table fabric. I assume there are hidden wires connected which can make the flap open or close extremely quickly.

lucky760said:

And how did the rectangles just appear on the table across from him?

And the card get cut into a sliver by being passed over by the tape?

I'd have thunk it some of that mystical ultimate black material like Shin Lim uses, but you can see the felt surface of the table.

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