Flying Spots – Lubor Fiedler

Before Lubor became really famous in the magic scene he was manufacturing a line of smaller items and sold them mostly at his lectures or thru mail order.

“Flying Spots” is a paddle trick and Lubor’s basic handling was to place two small wooden paddles on the table. Both paddles were empty.The first paddle is lifted and shown on both sides. Then the paddle is touched to a spectators ear (or your own) and suddenly a large black dot appears on the paddle. This is repeated and suddenly there is a large dot on both sides of the paddle.
Now the second paddle is lifted and shown on both sides to be empty. Suddenly, the two dots from the first paddle jump to the second. There are now two dots on one side. Quickly touching the ear twice you have two spots on the second. If you wanted to all spots could next disappear from both paddles.

The instructions reproduce Lubor’s one page German instruction for historical purposes and then provide my own largely expanded English instructions with a bonus element where the audience is only aware of one paddle being used.

Lubor manufactured the paddles from wood and then stained them in a yellowish orange which makes the large black dots very visible.

The performance is not difficult if you perform the paddle move, which you should learn anyways. Here is your change to own a piece of magic history made by Lubor Fiedler many years ago.