Tiananmen Square - For his final blow, Kam added a coin purse to Fingertip Wildcoin, punishing the audience with a standing handling of Roth's classic �Purse and Glass� that goes way off the deep end, ending with 13 Chinese coins covering the tabletop in a dazzling display of mysterious metals.Įast met West as 2 masters of the unusual stepped upto the mats.The Goblet allows the elements of Beijing Coins Across to be re-sequenced for greater killing efficiency. The Goblet - Six coins transpose, transform and transport in, over, and around a stemmed metal goblet as Kam's pioneering techniques turn this under-used prop into a dangerous weapon.The final stroke of oriental deviousness is the production of a coin larger than the purse frame, from the purse frame. Imagine the copper/silver transposition warped through a purse frame, by way of a Jedi mind trick. Coercive Purse - Cited by Tommy Wonder for its construction, this routine uses psychological warfare to beat skeptics into submission.
This opening attack from Curtis Kam's formal parlor show is the showpiece for his signature "Fingertip Wildcoin" sequence. They change singly back to silver, and visibly flash back to brass. Beijing Coins Across - Three silver coins shimmer into mirage-like existence, dance from hand to hand, then suddenly transform into ancient brass Chinese coins.In the wee hours of the morning, video cameras captured the most dramatic moments of what westerners call a "session" and escaped alive with the only known footage of these bizarre and mysterious rituals. In the summer of 2002, three masters of Coin-Fu met at a secluded monastery (strangely resembling the site of the IBM convention) for the sole purpose of bashing their audiences senseless.