The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

Bouncing Back – 50 New Routines and Presentation Ideas with the Bounce No Bounce Balls

Author/Editor: LaRue, Robert D. and Spangler, Steve

Historical Background
Jay Marshall on the Bounce No Bounce Balls (As told to Dr. Earl Reum)
The Goof Ball (Bev Taylor & J. B. Bobo)
Jimmie Nevison’s Bounce (Jimmie Nevison)
Sobriety Test (Jimmie Nevison)
Paul Diamond’s Routine for the Bounce No Bounce Balls (Paul Diamond)
Goof Ball (Senator Crandall)
The Science of the Bouncing Balls – Even Magicians Wonder Why (Steve Spangler)
The Secret Behind the Bounce
The $64,000 Question – What good is a ball with no bounce
Used as a Sales Tool
The Rolling Ball Race
A Cold Winter’s Day
Does it Float or Sink
How High Can You Go (Steve Spangler)
Ball Sleights
Drop Vanish (Variation) (Dave Neighbors)
Classic Fake Take Vanish
Placement Vanish
Drop Switch (Variation) (Dave Neighbors)
Change Over Switch (Dave Neighbors)
Shuttle Pass Switch
Fake Take Switch
Toss and Catch Vanish or Switch (Ed Marlo & Bob LaRue)
The Captain Queeg Switch (Roll Switch)
Routine
Heavy Suggestion (Bob LaRue)
Kinetic Card Rise (Jim Kawashima)
Steeling the Bounce (Gene Gordon)
The Animal Within (Gene Gordon)
Expansion of Spirit (Curtis Kam)
Spirit Medium (John T. Sheets)
Magician’s Jacks (Curtis Kam)
The Ball Factory (Dave Neighbors)
Slow Motion Vanish (Dave Neighbors)
Poing ! (Bob LaRue)
Bouncing Transposition (Dave Neighbors)
Healing the Bounce (Keven Williams)
Lie Detector (Ken Simmons)
Squeaky Ball (Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
Antigravity Particles (Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
Nailed to the Table (Lamont Ream)
Static Charge (Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
Static Discharge (Brad Montgomery)
Springing Forth (Curtis Kam & Kainoa Harbottle)
Black Jack Surprise (Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
Color Prediction (Mark Strivings, Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
The Witch Test (Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
Microphone Madness (Lamont Ream)
Wind Up (Dave Neighbors)
Count Down (Doc Murdock)
The Unbearable Lightness of Balls (Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
Black Hole (Lamont Ream & Bob LaRue)
Rubber Magnet (Lamont Ream)
Living and Dead Test (Lamont Ream)
Pregnant Balloons (Todd A. Neufled, Bob LaRue, & Larry Mahan)
Pop Up Surprise (Lamont Ream)
Bounce No Bounce Check (Bob Loomis, Bob LaRue, & Lamont Ream)
Infection Inflation (Larry Mahan)
The IQ Test – Laugh Meter (Al Finnegan, Jr. & Peter Marucci)
Drunken Spin-Offs
Breath Tester (Geoff Williams)
Bar Bet (Daryl & John T. Sheets)
No Sleight Drunk Test (Danny Archer)
In the Pink (Bob Friedhoffer)
Sticky Ball (Eric Mead & Lew Wymisner)
Poor Man’s Bounce No Bounce (Jerome C. Dumaine)