The Vault - Ultra Crazy Man's Handcuffs

finally a decent teaching of TCMH. Very clear instruction and completely natural handling. A small easy gem to accomplish.

I bought this because I wanted to learn something new although I knew the basic secret before. Yes, you might learn something new but to me I was a kind of disappointed. I had appreciated if he would also share some background information of the origins of this effect, who invented it, who popularized it, when and why he performs this pocket miracle.

The trick is fine and a classic. This is an old video so I think the weaknesses of it are more symptomatic of the time it was created rather than the efforts of it's creators. It's so blurry!!! In the beginning you're going to be panicking because you can't see what the presenter is talking about. He's using flesh colored bands with his flesh colored fingers and it's far away and blurry. I spent so much more time than was necessary trying to guess what he was talking about because as with most tricks, there's only so much you can convey with words. You have to try and mess it up and then think , OH that's what he was talking about... That's much harder when you can't see what the magician is doing to begin with. Fast foward towards the end and you can get some close ups from multiple angles. That helped very much. Still blurry though. Also, the lame music loop is enough to make you crazy.

Great video - well worth the money. If you are not already doing this impromptu illusion, buy this video immediately. It is a nice little piece of magic that is easy enough for beginners but still impressive when performed by more seasoned magicians. Like many of us, I had already been performing a version of "Crazyman's Handcuffs." This video taught some nuances to the slight that I think any performer would find valuable. Combine this with Henry Harrius' "Crazyman's Split" and/or Cashan Wallace's "Melting Point" and/or anything by Joe Rindfleisch and/or Cyril Thomas and you can have a really nice little three- or four-phase routine.

The explanation of this trick is well done and the alternative ending (the ending snap-through move) is a nice addition to the original trick. There's one major downside though, the video quality could be better, sometimes you can't see exactly what was done due to the quality of the recording. It would have helped to use different colored rubber bands with a lot of contrast like yellow and blue.
Because of the recording quality and the need to watch the instructions more than once to see I'll give this a 4 out of 5 stars.