Catching Cigarettes in your mouth
Trent
I apologize in advance for the slightly off-topic post. I'm a juggler and
magician, and a lurker here and I thought that all you jugglers might have
an answer for a question I've been pondering for a while.
I would like to learn to toss a cigarette from my hand into my mouth in a
flashy super-cool-guy kind of way. I've actually never seen it done, but it
seems like it should't be too hard. I've been trying for a week now though,
and I still can't get it. I got it once actually, flipping the cigarette
about a foot from my hand to my mouth, but I can't seem to find any way to
be more consistent. Has anybody ever heard of this, or know where I might
find some more information?
Feel free to reply privately if you dont want to muddle up the newsgroup
with cancer-stick questions. Thanks in advance!
-Christopher
bfahs
> I used to do a pair of cigarette-to-mouth tricks: a flip-up and a
> throw-in. For the flip-up trick, I threw above my head (about a foot),
> and caught it coming down. Less spin is definitely easier for this
> trick; throw singles. For the throw-in trick, just sort of snap your
> wrist and aim the thing directly into your mouth. Be careful with this
> one; if you throw too hard or don't close your mouth in time you could
> choke.
>
This is actually a fairly famous Bobby May trick as I recal.
Currently Mark Faye (Is that last name spelled right?) out of Chicago
perfoms this. He uses the behind the back toss. The more impressive
thing however is the followup of lighting a match, throwing that behind
the
back, to the mouth and lighting the cigarette from the match.
I've seen him do this a several different midwest conventions. Very
impressive.
I believe what he has at least joked about was that he learned this by
telling himself that he could not have a cigarette unless it was lit in
this
manner. There's motivation.
Brian Fahs
Aurora, IL (Although currently in Fairfax VA)
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time.
Dave
Jimbren1
>wrist and aim the thing directly into your mouth.
We did this trick with the addition of slapping our other palm straight down
onto the wrist of the 'throw-in' hand before the throw. This added some more
movement and sound to the trick, capitalizing the effect. The setup was laying
the cig filter-up on the line where the middle and ring finger are
side-by-side. With a quick POP it was suddenly in the mouth.
I also remember lighter tricks, but none can compare to the Zippo site's
videos.
http://www.zippotricks.com/index.html
Later,
Jim
Unkle Steve
unfiltered cigarettes are the best way to go, but I use Camel Lights.
Of course, I suck pretty hard compared to most people.
There is an old book of nothing but cigarette manipulation that I
bought from Juggling Arts a few years back. It got jacked out of my
bag at the Primm Festival, but it had some great stuff in it. I
believe it was written in the 20s...the author was Keith Clark, I
think. It's working tracking down...I think I paid about $40 for it,
and didn't feel robbed at all.
Past that, just keep huckin 'em until you can catch them all the time.
S
Gerald Martin
or something very similar. It really is encyclopedic in its coverage, too.
-J.M.
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Mal
it from behind his back, over shoulder and into mouth. Very neat.
Mal
Greg Phillips
> The book Unkle S. refers to is called "The Encyclopedia of Cigarette Magic",
> or something very similar. It really is encyclopedic in its coverage, too.
>
>>There is an old book of nothing but cigarette manipulation that I
>>bought from Juggling Arts a few years back. It got jacked out of my
>>bag at the Primm Festival, but it had some great stuff in it. I
>>believe it was written in the 20s...the author was Keith Clark, I
>>think.
Keith Clark. /Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks/. "Truly a labor of a
lifetime. 318 pages, 120,000 words of text, 300 actual photos. 30 pages
of routines. All gimmicks revealed. Equal to personal instructions."
Available from...
http://www.daytonamagic.com/Books/BK068.htm (US$12)
http://www.trickshop.com/cigarettes.html (US$22)
http://www.browsersden.com/catalogue/books/pg153.htm (CDN$21)
...and a host of other places. Just Google the title.
>>It's working tracking down...I think I paid about $40 for it,
>>and didn't feel robbed at all.
If you paid $40, you was robbed. But isn't it nice to know you can
replace it for $12?
Greg
Will Murray
Circomedia. There is a slight trick to it, which may be obvious, but
if you aren't already doing it it will certainly help: Like with ping
pong balls, if you just open your mouth, the cigarette will likely hit
your teeth and bounce out. Instead, stick your tongue out and down so
the cigarette will hit it and stick to it and you can pull it in. Do
this quickly so the audience doesn't notice and the cigarette doesn't
fall off your tongue.
It will still take tons of practice. Good luck!
Will
Myron Fairweather
http://www.derbyjuggling.co.uk/archive.htm
You'll be wanting the photo from 7th November.
You could probably have worked that out for yourself.
Myron
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Trent
This isn't really a response to one post in particular, but my news handler
makes it difficult to reply to the whole thing this late in the thread.
Thanks to everyone for their help! I figured that this was one of those
things that would just take oodles of practise but that there might be some
little tricks that would help, and you've all come through marvelously in
helping me find them.
To the person who mentioned that it's difficult to look like a super-cool
guy while putting a carcinogen in your mouth, I whole heartedly agree. The
reason I'm trying to learn this is that I'm working on a routine for my
magic act that is all about bubbles; The Soap kind. The effect starts with
blowing some soap bubbles and 'catching' one in the air, whereupon it
instantly becomes a solid little clear ball, you're probably all pretty
familiar with this. And of course, the next logical step, after suddly
making a small clear ball appear, is a full-blown hardcore contact juggling
routine. From there I'm going to do some manipulation Carl Cloutier style.
I dunno how many of you care to delve into the world of magic, I wouldn't
balme you if you stay away. But if I can make one suggestion, I think all
jugglers might have some fun with Carl Cloutier's work, so it come highly
reccomended.
Anyhow, during the soap bubbles part of the routine I'm doing lots of soap
bubble tricks, (bubbles within bubbles and the like) and so that's where the
cigarettes come in. It's helpful to use smoke so that the bubbles can be
seen from the audience. I myself am an ex-smoker, and I smoke herbal
cigarettes on stage. I make a point of telling the entire audince that
smoking is certainly not cool.
Anyhow, enough of my rambling. Thanks again for all your help! This is one
of the few newsgroup I find that is still true to it's purpose and where
people have civilised discussions. You've all been a great help, which is
exactly what this internet thing is for. Thanks again!
-Christopher
ComedyShoez
funny plus it led up to his big trick that he no longer does.
Charlie
Brian D Milner
>Magician Tom Mullica used to throw cigarettes in his mouth all the time,
>very funny plus it led up to his big trick that he no longer does.
Let me guess - he'd backcross a match into his mouth and light the
cigarette with it? Please tell us what this big trick was :-)
--
Vaya con Dios.
Brian Milner, The Computer Centre,
Brunel University, West London,
UK.
Gerald Martin
Milner" <ccu...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
> ComedyShoez <comed...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Magician Tom Mullica used to throw cigarettes in his mouth all the time,
>> very funny plus it led up to his big trick that he no longer does.
>
> Let me guess - he'd backcross a match into his mouth and light the
> cigarette with it? Please tell us what this big trick was :-)
His standard was to toss four *lit* cigarettes, one by one, from about belly
level, straight into his mouth. Not merely to his lips, but completely
*into* his mouth, whereupon he'd act like he was chewing and swallowing
them. He'd pop them out to his lips, puff them a couple of times, pull them
back inside his mouth, and repeat with four more lit ciggies (tossed
individually into his mouth, mime chewing, then bring them forward for
puffing, and pull them back in. Depending on the gig, he'd pull four out in
his left hand, four out in his right hand, and ask, "Is it hot in here, or
is it just me?" He'd then toss them all back in, and do it one more time,
for a total of 12 lit cigarettes *in* the mouth. He ended by ostensibly
eating some facial tissues, and washing it all down with a glass of water.
He didn't actually swallow the cigarettes - or the tissues - but he once
lost a major international competition because the judges were fooled into
thinking that that's just what he'd done.
A remarkable performer, and a gentle man of intelligence and culture. I
believe he's finally quit smoking...
-Jerry M.