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If you've seen Alex's recent two-part Living Room Lecture on the Cups & Balls, then you know it was the most helpful, informative, and inspiring workshop ever delivered on the oldest and most beloved effect in magic. The Cups and Balls is an astonishing trick, and as anyone who has truly studied it will tell you, simply getting this miracle "up on its feet" is a significant task.
At CC Club, our mission is to arm our members with every tool, tactic, and shortcut they can use to take a great trick and start PERFORMING IT. No trick benefits more from "quickstart" strategies than the Cups and Balls.
Enter the Cups & Balls Quickstart Bonus Lecture. In this special Living Room Lecture, Alex teaches you not one, but three of the easiest quick-start routines you can use to start amazing your audiences with the Cups and Balls in record time. You'll discover:
The Chop Cup: Alex demonstrates how to use the classic gaffed cup and ball apparatus, known as the Chop Cup, to perform a full professional routine with no sleight of hand. With this routine, and a lemon or two in your pocket, you can achieve 80% of the classic cups and balls impact with a fraction of the effort.
The One Cup Routine: For the "purists" out there, The One Cup Routine is the easiest possible version of the Cups and Balls, using one ordinary cup and any small, ordinary object like a grape, cherry tomato, or olive!
The Impromptu Cups and Balls: Finally, you'll discover the anytime, anywhere impromptu Cups and Balls Routine, developed over 40 years ago by Midwest sleight-of-hand expert John Mendoza!
Timestamps by James Marshall
## Magic Masters Quick Start Cups & Balls 2025-07-23 ##
0:00:35 - intro
0:01:35 - performance of chop cup routine
0:04:02 - props
0:06:45 - Q&A and chat
0:11:34 - more about props
0:14:21 - explanation of chop cup routine
0:25:48 - chat
0:27:10 - performance of one cup routine
0:29:50 - chat
0:30:10 - making aluminum foil balls
0:32:30 - explanation of one cup routine
0:40:00 - chat
0:45:38 - Q&A/chat
0:51:08 - performance of impromptu three cup routine
0:53:35 - props
0:55:12 - explanation of impromptu three cup routine
1:13:25 - an additional detail
1:15:15 - chat
1:22:00 - closing
