The most practice!

[Brett H]

It's no secret that all Tenyo have varying degrees of practice that can go into them. Some can work for you right out of the box. Some take quite a few hours--even days of practice to get right.

So here's my questions:

1) Of the Tenyo you have, what trick took the most practice to get right?

2) Of all the Tenyo you have, what have you put the most time into practicing?


For me:
1) Magical Burger: 'Happy Burger'. I created a way to do away with part of the method, in turn, it ended up as sort of a bizarre 'pneumonica stack'. Took me about 2 weeks to figure out in my own with zero experience in pneumonica stacking or 'mind palaces'.
This was all because John Mazza told me that it was a bit tough, and I totally clamped onto that notion. I MADE it harder. I'm a determined nutjob.

2) I placed about a months worth of work into Impossible Pen and I still don't have it down to a science. I am convinced that part of its 'inconsistency' is due to my handling. But I'm still working on making a 'Pen handling that cuts down on the 'failure rate' dramatically. It's the handling with the handkerchief instead of the props, and it's tougher to work with. But man, it looks so much cleaner.

[SimonC]

Yep, with you on the impossible pen, I'm still working on it!
Bare bones has a lot of steps to remember and if I leave it longer than a week I totally forget.
I have a similar problem with eclipse too.
My magic works pyramid is a bit glitchy but I suppose that's not a practice issue. It's a shame as its one of. Y favourite mechanisms, I laughed out loud as I saw it first activate

[Brett H]

Yep, with you on the impossible pen, I'm still working on it!
Bare bones has a lot of steps to remember and if I leave it longer than a week I totally forget.
I have a similar problem with eclipse too.
My magic works pyramid is a bit glitchy but I suppose that's not a practice issue. It's a shame as its one of. Y favourite mechanisms, I laughed out loud as I saw it first activate

I also have the Magic Works pyramid. It's neat, but it's too unreliable for me. It's awkward to pack, it's noisy, the 'eye' is hard for me to determine what I'm looking at. Oi vey.

[SimonC]

oi vey indeed.

[Elliot W.]

For me I would have to say Squeeze Play. A great trick but needed a lot of practice to get the "squeeze" down so that it works every time.

[SimonC]

I have the opposite with squeeze play, it's one of the tricks I can happily pluck out at any time. my advice is give it a little bias to the left as you squeeze for a nano-second

[BluBob]

I spent many hours with FORTUNE DONUT.
I posted my thoughts, tips, and improved moves oh here not too long ago.

I agree with IMPOSSIBLE PEN. It's seems very difficult to reach 100 percent assiduity.

[SimonC]

I think the clues in the name with impossible pen

[David DeTenyo]

As I once wrote on my website, I found out that oiling the plates of Squeeze Play make it a lot more reliable due to less friction. Just put one tiny (!) drop of oil on a soft cloth and wrap it gently on both plates. You'll noitce it works a lot more fluently!