Learn to Force ANY Object - The Equivoque Masterclass

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3 жыл бұрын

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🧢 Check out the rfsleights merch: www.rfsleights.com/shop Hey guys! This video covers all things equivoque in extreme detail. I cover the what, why and how of equivoque and teach you how to create your own logical equivoque plots. I also teach an amazing verbal suit force and a clean 4 object force. I spent a long time on this project and I hope you guys enjoy! I really appreciate you taking some time to watch this tutorial. It’s filled with details because it needs to be. There is so much that goes into convincing sleight of hand and deception. I implore you to watch it all as even if you’re more experienced, there will be something for you to take away from this. Enjoy!
What is equivoque and how does it work: 2:19
Why does it work: 3:27
When to use equivoque: 4:28
How to use equivoque: 7:16
The verbal suit force: 13:23
The 4 object force: 21:32
How to build your own equivoque questions: 27:12
Decks used in this video: Pink Advocate Playing Cards by Daniel Madison
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Intro music by: @rari458
Disclaimer: I try my best to credit and acknowledge everything that I have taken from and been inspired by with my magic and sleights. Any ideas that I claim as my own are simply ideas that have come to me independently, but I do not claim that they are completely original. If you have any information on similar work/ideas or acknowledgements that I have missed, please let me know.
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@paulhamj6175 3 жыл бұрын

By the way, I recently discovered Sean and then watched your collab, panoramic shift vid today and subbed immediately. You two are refreshing in online magic. Sick of egos and idiots. Hehe! My thoughts on this subject..I realised one day that if I craft a question that gS seemingly both answers in it already, I can make it seem like whichever answer they say is going along with how they expected me to go. For example, "OK, I need to get rid of a card here so choose one." You see what Im saying? I am offering that I want to ditch a card but then also offering that I want them to choose one, which can be misconstrued as meaning choose one to ditch or choose one to keep. This flies in the face of what you said about the word 'choose' but it really matters not about the word you are using, as long as they have both possible options in the question. We will have to agree to disagree on using the word choose. (Choose, select, take, indicate they mean the same thing, it isnt the important factor dude.!) As long as you offer BOTH answers in your question then the spectator thinks you didn't go against them if you switch the direction on them. I keep testing this and it really does work every time 😃😃😃 I just realised: if the question is crafted differently, like when you said about having an invisible deck in your hand and asking them to say which colour you took from the box?, well in that case the word CHOOSE would definitely be a no no. So words are important but they depend on each other. If you use certain phrasing then you also must use certain wording. Make that the equivoque rule 😉

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Wow man I’m genuinely impressed, I hadn’t though of the idea of including both answers in the question but I must say it’s brilliant! I think you hit it right on, “choose” wouldn’t matter in that case. I was referring to the way I phrase the questions which has always been to make it seem like there’s only one possible answer even though there are two. With your way your almost setting the scenario up for a sort of “miscommunication” or “confusion” but that won’t raise any suspicion which I think is brilliant. I think both strategies have their strong suits and I’m definitely going to start playing with your phrasing! SOO good!😁 Thanks Paul!🤘🏻

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Also thanks so much for the kind words, really means a lot! I was also thinking you could easily change “choose” to “take” or something else in your phrasing. I might opt for that simply because for me, when you say choose people sometimes tend to subconsciously think choose means “the one I want”. So just to avoid that confusion I would personally avoid that word. I’m sure you don’t have to and maybe I’m thinking into it too much but I have experienced it. Just a thought 🤔

@jackAndrews666 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this video. Some interesting ideas here. I, however, am of the belief that statements like: that leaves us with, we are left with etc are weak and should be avoided. To an intelligent person these statements are delays that give us the time to change the plot. Take for example the option of forcing a knife from a spoon, fork and knife. The knife is in the center. Start with”with your right hand reach for one…” If they reach for the knife say “and pick it up.” You are done. If they reach for the spoon or the fork continue with “and pick it up and then with your other hand, pick up another object.” if they are holding a spoon in the fork and nonstop flow of words continue with, “and placed on them aside.” You have forced the knife. If on the other hand, they are holding the spoon and a knife, you simply say (ala Max Maven) “ now pick one for me. (emphasizing the word me). This phrase is genius. If they select the spoon, you keep that and they are holding the knife. After all, you asked them to pick one for you. It makes sense that the other one is for them to keep. This also allows you to give them the opportunity to switch. This, of course, is very powerful. Either way, they end up with the selected item.

@ReidFerry Жыл бұрын

Thanks man! This is a great script! And I agree there are certain sentences that should be avoided with equivoque but there are plenty that can work very well with the proper linguistics and delivery, even to the most keen of spectators

@SeanDevine 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best tools a magician can have! This video is very insightful! Excellent work.

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed Sean, thanks so much!! 🤘🏻

@s.balasubramanianbalu3330 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, No words to appreciate. This is what I was searching for. Really excellent. Thank you so much for the subject and the way you explained. Waiting for the next video. Thank you.

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that really means a lot! Thank you so much for the kind words 😁🙌🏻

@pagmatic Жыл бұрын

Hi Reid. As a semi-honest person; Mentalism is a challenge. it's not my nature to appear "deceptive". My character, however, is a mind reading conjurer. This is a great tutorial.

@ReidFerry Жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Sounds like a very interesting character

@luciensomposhako4276 7 ай бұрын

you're damn right 🧐

@jackAndrews666 Жыл бұрын

I suggest that you take a look at the video multiplicity by Max Maven, which shows how you could combine equivoque with multiple outs. I also suggest you watch the performance of inferno by Joshua Jay. Another good effect to watch is max performing positive-negative.

@jackAndrews666 Жыл бұрын

One final thought and that is to NOT think of one choice as the best case scenario. This can lead to a tell, when the spectator chooses anything, than what you determine to be the best possible outcome. I cannot count how many times the spectator has chosen something other than what the the performer believes to be the best choice. For a microsecond, the performer, then has a defeated book on his face. If you think that the spectator doesn’t notice this, you are wrong.

@ReidFerry Жыл бұрын

I think there always will be a best case scenario of course but yes good point, we should not act as if one is better than the other. This is of course if we are using multiple outs as well. Otherwise with proper equivoque we will always arrive at the desired outcome

@mattym4451 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! You and Jorge asked for ideas on other battles. I would love to see you guys each do an ACR and show off your favorite controls! I'm going to tell this to Jorge too. Whatever you guys do, I'm sure it will be fun!

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Great idea man, love it thanks!!🔥

@exploringspace5640 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best technique in magic and you explained it very clearly and detaily. Thank you dude🤘🏻😍. Awesome video dude. I have an idea dude. In the 4 object force, when we have final two objects, we can say" It's time for elimination. point one " when they touch the force object, we can say that,"oh, it's time to eliminate. you choose this, we eliminate the other one"or they touch other object,we can say,"I said this is a time to eliminate, you touch this,we eliminate this object". This is my idea dude😁🤘🏻. Thanks dude. Looking forward for more videos 🥳🤘🏻

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot ES! That’s a nice idea, I’ll play around with it🤘🏻

@exploringspace5640 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReidFerry Thank you dude🤘🏻

@pagmatic 8 ай бұрын

Hi Reid. Back when you recorded this you had 430 subscribers. Now it's 5K. Congrats!

@ReidFerry 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike! Almost 6k

@SevenTheJester 5 ай бұрын

I've always loved this idea. It's actually how I figured out the first effect I ever solved on my own. The magician forced a card, and then separated the deck into stacks and had the spectator pointing at the stacks. When I realized that half the time he was leaving their stack and half the time he was taking it away, it kinda clicked that he already knew which card it was. I was probably around 10 years old, and I felt like a god. 😂

@ReidFerry 5 ай бұрын

Haha that pretty awesome!

@SevenTheJester 5 ай бұрын

@@ReidFerry I'm working on my handling and patter for Hurrikings. That's either gonna be today's video or tomorrow's, depending on how long it takes me to get it down. ✌️

@ReidFerry 5 ай бұрын

@SevenTheJester sweet let me know so I can check it out

@SevenTheJester 5 ай бұрын

@@ReidFerry It'll have to be tomorrow. It got to be after 11:00 and I still couldn't get the cull well enough, which is the only part I struggle with. Since it's the last day of the first month, though, as a kind of celebration, I posted the first 100% original routine I've ever posted. It's pretty damned good too, if I can say so myself. Definitely worth the 2 minutes. 😂🤷‍♂️✌️

@MikeStedman 2 жыл бұрын

So I was hoping you were going to instruct how to whittle down from the single suit to a single card. Is that possible or is that just too many selections to be made. (from Hearts to 9 of Hearts for example).

@ReidFerry 2 жыл бұрын

Yea man you definitely can! I’d start by eliminating them down to a value and then doing the suit force as the values won’t be quite as clean. But there’s lots of options, easiest would be to force one of the picture cards. Simply use equivoque to force the picture cards then you could do the “male” vs “female” cards and the jack vs King if needed. If you want to do number cards you could eliminate them by evens and odds, numbers higher/lower then 5 etc. Just keep dividing the options into 50/50 choices and you can force anything. Look at how I structured the 4 object force and try to mimic some of those sentences for the scenario you chose. Just make sure each sentence/option is slightly different and logical and you can use equivoque the whole way.

@danielkelley7548 2 жыл бұрын

It's called "EquicoKAY". You're correct.

@ReidFerry 2 жыл бұрын

Technically I believe it’s equiVOKE according to the proper English pronunciation but I agree equivoKAY is much better so I’ll keep calling it that😂

@11298049 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Great teaching style and content

@ReidFerry 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Peter!🤘🏻

@danielkelley7548 2 жыл бұрын

Define Equivoque in a Legal terms? "Objection, your Honor. He's leading the Witness!"

@mattym4451 3 жыл бұрын

Great job! You've got a skill for explaining your ideas in an easily understandable coherent manner. I've been tinkering with "real" mentalism a little bit. I'm fascinated by the micro tells people instinctively give off in a "which hand" routine. The fact that their eyes twitch to the hand they're hiding the object in really blew my mind. I wouldn't have even believed it worked if I hadn't seen and tested it myself. If anyone reading this is one of the lucky people to have purchased one of the 500 books from Timon Krause regarding this, hit me up. I'll pay or trade generously for it.

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Matty! I agree, mentalism is fascinating and there are some incredible principles. I love propless and what feels like “real” mentalism

@mattym4451 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReidFerry I've got a bit I do table side that I think is hilarious. I ask to borrow two revolvers from the specs... when they laugh and say they don't have any I tell them no worries, any two pistols will do... your sock gun, appendix carry gun, small of the back, shoulder holster... just any two guns. They laugh and say they don't have any so I make this big scene of not believing them because every American has guns. I finally go, "FINE. Since you weirdos don't have any guns, let's raise the stakes considerably. Instead of our lives we'll be playing for this dollar" and I take out a buck and these two toy cap guns I rigged that only I can fire. We do a Russian roulette thing with the toy guns and I deliberately lose, and give them the buck and suggest they include it back in the generous tip they're going to give me 😂. Anyways, I write this whole big story because one, it's fun to talk magic, and two, I'm trying to work on a method where I can influence which toy gun they select through language and sliding one of the guns closer to them. I'm convinced this is something that can actually be done. I'm pretty sure Timon Krause did it in the last selection in his Fool Us appearance. Have you seen his performance?

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

@@mattym4451 Very cool plot! it definitely can be done, why not use equivoque? It would have the exact same effect to the spectator. I’ll check out his performance

@mattym4451 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReidFerry I KNOW how powerful equivoke is... I really do, but I get an awful feeling in my gut when I do it that takes the fun out of performing. When I was just a little kid, I had equivoke done to me at a magic shop and I knew exactly what was going on and called the counter guy on it 🤣 I know not everyone has a weird analytical brain like me, but when I'm trying to do it, I just feel in my gut the spec knows exactly what's happening even though in reality they have no idea. Now that I'm starting to go out and hustle a bit I'm going to have to get over that.

@memorizer4941 3 жыл бұрын

@@mattym4451 don’t worry, I also have a crazy analytical brain! The difference between us, however, is it sounds like you have a fantastic performing style:) whereas I’m terrified to perform for anyone...

@joachimdias232 2 жыл бұрын

Really cool video. The only downside is that with the lightning makes your moutache looks a bit like hitler's - unless it is intentional. Cheers

@ReidFerry 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! LOL what😂 interesting comment, my lighting has come a long way but definitely not intentional

@cristoffL Жыл бұрын

I can’t unsee this now.

@ReidFerry Жыл бұрын

Ahahah😂 great

@Rhewin 2 жыл бұрын

When people would say "eh-kwi-vo-kay" to Max Maven he would say it's a very good "tech-ni-kay." Magicians must just like it sounding vaguely French :P

@ReidFerry 2 жыл бұрын

Haha I do think it sounds better that way but I’m Canadian so 😉

@andrewbaroch2141 Жыл бұрын

Point to one.

@audiemuniz6445 11 ай бұрын

I need your help in mentalist.

@ReidFerry 11 ай бұрын

I’d love to help out, you can sign up for a private lesson on my website. These are the best way for me to help you one on one and teach you some of my best mentalism secrets. Let me know if you have any questions. You can sign up here: www.rfsleights.com/book-online

@audiemuniz6445 11 ай бұрын

@@ReidFerry ok, defenelly,I think magic tricks is good.but mentalist is the tip for the iceberg that I prefer to do especially when I see you do the Midas touch!

@christianaquino5230 3 жыл бұрын

I see you have the pink Daniel Madison's

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir! They’re awesome

@audiemuniz6445 11 ай бұрын

Abice in mentalist.

@ReidFerry 11 ай бұрын

www.rfsleights.com/book-online

@andrewbaroch2141 Жыл бұрын

13:23 color force starts

@paulhamj6175 3 жыл бұрын

No no no it is pronounced exactly the way you are saying it. I felt saddened when you said you were pretty sure that the technically correct way to say it was eck-wi-voke! Cos that's absolutely not the way. The que at the end is French and is a known suffix on many words and is pronounced kay. So keep pronouncing it as you are and keep correcting the people who are clueless! As for Siri...hmmf. OK ok I now openly admit that amongst those 'clueless people' I refer to in this comment there is one called Paul Ham J. Yes, I include myself as one of the clueless... ?.. but not any more! I have seen the light! Eh qwi voke!

@ReidFerry 3 жыл бұрын

Haha I do agree with you as I do speak French and that’s why I say it the way I do. The only problem I have is that literally every dictionary or pronunciation tool says “equivoke”. I feel like they probably just tried to make the word work with English phonetics and that’s why it’s equivoke. But I will continue saying equivokay 😂😁

@paulhamj6175 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReidFerry I dont only get obsessed with magic, I am a grammar nazi too hehehe! I love language and history and hate to see the modern day stamping all over some of our beautiful words! I know, I know, I probably ought to get out more . . .😄

@paulhamj6175 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReidFerry oh do I feel stupid. Not a very good grammar nazi when I cant even get my own pronunciation right when I try hehehe! Apparently, this is NOT pronounced in the French sounding way I said it was. According to many magicians in some threads in some forums(I will leave the names!) they have debated this since the dawning of the age and consequently, folk such as Max Maven concluded that it is pronounced Eh - Qwi - Voke ! So erm, ignore my dumbo first comment about it 😄😃🤣

@luciensomposhako4276 7 ай бұрын

Hi, I'm also a French speaker and I would say that the common way you pronounce it is the English one "equivokay. In French we say "equivoke" which means ambiguity, or things that can have several interpretations, by the way 🤔 You know what, Just say Magician's choice😉