Club Obi Wan

Here is a trick I do during the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQbjdP30 ... ture=email

The trick goes like this.
I pick two volunteers, usually one older and one younger.
I place 3 flowers around the taller/older person and have the younger person hold a hat.
I explain that I am going to cut the flowers one-by-one and the last one is the hardest one of all and it's off the top of the head. I then explain that if I miss and hit the person in the back of the head that the whip will create so much force that the person's eyeballs will come shooting out of their head and it' is the responsibility of the person holding the hat to catch the eyes if that happens. It makes for a good laugh.
I cut the first two (one behind their back and the other in their mouth) and the last one I cut with me hitting the flower and sending it into the hat. At least that is the goal.
NOW. I have named the majority of tricks that I do.
I thought it would be fun to have some help coming up with a name for this one.
Some names of other tricks are:
• The All-In- One
• Spank The Baby
• Dead Man's Chest
• The Cut Throat
• The Choir Boy (I'll have this one up on Youtube next)
etc.

Thanks and have fun.
C

The Bouquet Toss! Unbelieveable trick, Chris! WOW!

Shane

Great trick! And I really like the set-up, too

How about:

The Eye-Popper! (making people think you're going for the eye-ball pop)
The Hole-in-One
The Tiger Woods
The Flying Flower
No Flower Left Behind

After those five, I sat here at the computer for another minute, but I guess that's all I got for now.

-Adam

Deflowered ;-)

Hmm, you gotta score three, and there's even a hat involved?

Sounds like a Hat Trick to me!

Or, since there are flowers involved, how about the Daisy Cutter?

Whatever you may call it - that timing is fantastic!
Is this a fix distance between the flower and the hat
or does it depend on how hard you crack the whip?

Robby


www.whip-basics.de

Hey guys, thanks for the ideas.

• Shane, I really like the "bouquet toss". It would be funny if I got a big guy out of the audience and placed a veil on his head. You could make it off-white though to suggest that this isn't his "first time".

• Adam, I'm thinking of something with the "The Flying Flower" but it needs more like ... "The Flying Flower of ...." but I don't know what yet.
Maybe "The Fantastic Flying Flower of Tripoli" or "The Fantastic Flying Flower of Fate" or something goofy like that.

• Whipitgood ... I have often wanted to have t-shirts to give out to female volunteers that said " I GOT DEFLOWERED BY THE WHIP GUY". Classy, don't you think. You've got to be careful where you hand those out though. "Mommy, what's deflowered mean?"

• Robby, Great question and I am still working on the consistency of the trick. (Agent 5 can tell you that I did not make it into the hat a few weeks ago.) Part of the difficulty is having assistance the same SIZE and distance apart. I find it a bit more difficult the taller the person is.
It would be much easier if I actually used an assistant or two in the show with whom I could practice the trick with.
That being said, sometimes I just put the hat on the floor and hope for the best. Even if you don't make it into the hat, you still have the comedy component as the fallback. At least they get a good laugh at the eyeball part.
I also instruct the kid (although I didn't in this clip) to try to catch anything that may come their way. That way they know to make some effort regarding catching the flower. I got lucky this time. The flower overshoots the hat but bounces off of her shoulder. Sometimes it goes right into the hat and sometimes I cut it too short and it winds up landing at the persons feet.

• Hocfutue How about the "Daisy Duke". I get a top hat and explain that I was performing for the crowned heads of Europe and was given this top hat from the Duke of (insert name of duke here) when I whipped a flower from of the head of the duchess' flowery hat and it landed in his top hat.
There could be a really fun back story to this one.
I'm gonna give this some thought.

Thanks,
C

Whipitgood ... I have often wanted to have t-shirts to give out to female volunteers that said " I GOT DEFLOWERED BY THE WHIP GUY". Classy, don't you think. You've got to be careful where you hand those out though. "Mommy, what's deflowered mean?"

Thats a good one!

"Scalp the Flower" to give the connotation of being scalped (especially if you miss).

Flying flower hidden cracker?

Howdy there Chris,

I am going to try and help a little...here we go

How about "the CC hat trick"
"Chris Camp's world famous hat trick".
"The Alley OOP".
"nothin but net" trick.

"still thinking of a name" trick?

"Chris Camp The Whip Guy's World Famous Super Double Duper Alley OOP Hat trick"!!!! I like that one


I hope you havn't already found a name?

Take care!

Nick

www.nickammann.com

Oh wait some of those might not work, I thought that the flower went in the hoop and then into the hat? Darn it

so "nothin but net" might not work?

Maybe "Nothin but Hat" trick

Nick

"Pushing up the Daisy"
"The Daisy Cutter"

Cheers!

Dan

My two favorite suggestions:
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not? (emphasis on the question mark. ok, maybe that's a different trick...)
A Pluck and a Haircut (to the tune of a "shave and a haircut, two bits")

Other random brainstormy ideas:
Stick a Flower in the Hat
Flower Clipping
Pluck it, pluck it good
Daisy Picking
Mow the Flower
Just Don't Jump

Let us know what you decide on.

"Reincarnation".
"The Head Hunter".

Cheers!

Dan

"Where did the flower go?"

No, really, where did it go? lol. Nice whipin', Chris! Great control.