Strange Move­ments

Someone pos­ted this clip from the Magi­Fest 2016 on Face­book and I just could­n’t stop wat­ching and won­de­ring about it:

Well, cer­tainly the guys do serious, advan­ced moves and pos­sess skill. Cer­tainly they worked hard and a long time on these moves. But then — watch carefully and con­cen­trate on the very spe­cial way they handle the coins. It looks really, really strange to me.

Seems we magi­ci­ans have somehow for­got­ten how nor­mal peo­ple handle objects, in this case coins. We are appar­ently com­ple­tely in love with our ‘hand­ling’ and the moves, diving into our own world of dreams. We lost the ability to see things how they are. We lost the view of a lay­per­son. I think a nor­mal per­son see­ing this might think: “What’s wrong with this guy? Very strange way he hand­les the coin …”

I never saw these strange move­ments with Kaps, Gosh­man, Sly­dini, Ver­non, Ram­sey, just to name a few. I miss these truly natu­ral and nor­mal coin hand­ling. What we seem to have these days is a very strange pat­tern of move­ments in coin magic.