Hi....I hope this is the right place to post this....wonder if anyone here performs or enjoys playing with magic involving rings? For example, like u have a necklace or a string (which is in a loop) and a ring, then though touching the string or move the ring towards the string in a throwing motion the ring appears on the string (the string is going through ring)?

Hoping to learn tricks and skills such as these but it seems liek the books only teach card or coin tricks? Can anyone recommend books or DVDs or other alternative methods to learn magic using other props such as rings?

Patrick and Mia have lots of stuff on rings/ropes combination. You can also try Greg Wilson's routine which is really a killer.

Thanks for replying markie...may I know whos Patrick and Mia?
Will look up Greg Wilson on the Net....

Get the Shoot Ogawa's linking ring routine. It rocks. Or you can get the Rope And Ring magic by gicain tan.

I am sorry guys......very confusing....all these names you mention.....are they videos or books? Or real people in singapore performing? Did it have that routine which I mention? The 'throwing' the ring onto a necklace or string?

Paiseh....very blurrz.....

EDIT: Ok can goole for Shoot Ogawa but cannot find Gicain Tan.

Hope I dont offend anyone but I find routines which involes otehr materials really interesting.....you know....like rings....pencils....handphones.....alternative props thats what I meant......somehow not quite into cards....just a personal perference.....dont mind.....

There are a few DVD on ropes and rings.. and their all props selling fro the effect too.. :D

Yeah....saw them online but seems liek they are more of special rings....not your typical finger rings......

What u mentioned sounds like Jay Sankey's "Leaving home" effect routine, except its a key and not a ring. But you could use a ring just as well...its a very nice effect.

Its gimmickless and fully examinable in the end....

You can find it some of the Jay Sankey DVDs.

Hey, Shoot Ogawa's linking ring is very different from what he is saying.

The RING he mentioned is those that people wear on their fingers, not the big ring.

AS for ring magic, there are alot loh, Alexander knows a few, hmm like ring vanishes or ring through metal, ring through ring (Himber ring),

But seriously, rings are quite small, and if u doing borrowed rings magic, it is very hard. First, singapore is not everyone wearing those conventional wedding band type, those fancy fancy, big big rings are singapore type. And u wont want to damage some people's ring, or drop it or what ever when you fail in the effect.

So technically, ring routine are limited due to constraint it have on audience and yourself. Unless you are like me, i wear rings on both my hands.

But if you going to do that, you have to do it now, like wear it everyday until you wont feel the hinder of it, cause when i start to wear rings, my cards always get stuck into the gaps. So prepare yourself for these loh.

But also, most magicians here dun do rings magic also. So it is always a fresh idea to have. Haha, i starting in it also.

Its pretty hard trying to figure out where or what your getting at.

If you wish to perform using borrowed rings, I recommend Bob Miller's relentless ring and string routine. Great for walkarounds.

exo, u mean me?

Yes this is the kind of ring I meant.....those wedding ring or whatever rings on fingers....by the way.....talking about rings.....I just saw a Taiwan variety show ( zhong Yi Da Ge Da by Zhang Fei) where this female perform 3 big rings and they kinda like can go through each other.....

When she was playign with 2 rings and holding one in each hand and swinging them towards the camera to and fro and the two rings seem to be going through each other.....then while still keeping them swinging....she seperated them.....dunno if it was her not performing it well...but its like her swinging the rings (one in each hand) to and fro made it look as though the rings were overlapping while in actual fact they were not...

By the way....I first saw this trick when Andy Lau performed it on Xiao S's show....Kang Xi Lai Le......he asked Xiao S to hold up a necklace (which was closed)......then then he just throw the ring onto the necklace and it went through the necklace......so I am sure it must be something more than just an illusion.....really awesome and it really brought up the interest in magic in me......and also my interest in performing routines which uses alternative props...

That effect is marketed. But dun know the name of that effect.

Maybe Aloy can help on that.

Anyway, the movie show 3 magic effects.

Get Greg Wilson "ring leader". I think its available at penguin magic and many.

Full of routines regarding ring through ropes and ring through spoon. To me its like a bible of these effects using borrowed rings and rope.

Great stuff but u sure need to work on your sleights of hand and plenty of misdirection. <_<

Jay Sankey's leaving home is great too but hell i just couldn;t do it as smooth as he is and he did suggested in that video that if you can;t achieve such a simple thing.. pls get urself out of magic. LOL. yeah Im gona get myself out of this trick.. but not magic. :wacko: