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Mongolian Pop-Knot By Pop Haydn (Instant Download)


Pop Haydn's classic rope routine.
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This is an all new video featuring Pop Haydn teaching his original routine in step by step fashion, with a live performance on the Magicopolis stage in Santa Monica, California.

This routine was created for the street back in the 1960's, and has been an important part of Pop Haydn's performance repertoire since that time. It can be done surrounded, plays on the biggest stages, and packs small.

If is both entertaining and magically strong.

The routine includes the "Professor's Nightmare" moves as a part of a cut and restored routine. The routine begins and ends with one long piece of rope.

What makes the routine rare among rope routines is that everything is justified and motivated by the patter.

The need to explain, since the routine is framed as a "teaching the audience a trick," justifies the various cuts and the changes in size of the ropes--there is no sense of a series of "and here's another little trick I can do with the rope..."

There is a theme and a line of thought for the audience to follow that carries the routine from beginning to end.

The humor comes from the attempt of the magician to explain or teach the students how to do "magic" not how to do a trick.


The magician seems oblivious to the fact that what he is teaching is totally senseless and ridiculous, and the rope keeps behaving as the magician expects it to, not according to any rules of science or logic that the audience might come up with.

The magician takes the audience's laughter and heckling as a substitute teacher with an unruly class might--the result of the short attention span and obstinancy of the class and not something related to the quality of the instruction itself.

All of the various combinations of cuts and different sized pieces of rope are framed in the memory of the audience, and then the rope is restored into its original one long piece--making it impossible for the spectator to reconstruct the method.

The video is nearly 45 minutes long, and is in mp4 format. It is 374 megs. A copy of the Mongolian Pop Knot booklet in pdf form is also provided with this purchase.

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Great Routine... was exactly what I was looking for! Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 20th, 2018
Great video and teaching. I enjoy performing the Professor Nightmare regularly, but I was looking for a longer routine to go with it and not be the same. I stumbled across this Pop Haydn performance video and had to get this. It's exactly what I was looking for! I won't even attempt to pull it off the same as Pop does as it's impossible! This guy is an awesome performer. I can see me performing this full version for years to come.

Some of the explanation parts of the rope tying/cutting video were a little difficult to see exactly what he was doing, but I was still able to follow along.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 15th, 2023
Great tutorial. Fun to watch, have been practicing but have not performed it yet
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My Favorite Rope Trick! Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 19th, 2022
I love this!!! It has three phases and will keep the audience guessing. Always gets a great reaction.
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Phenomenal Routine by Pop Haydn Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 10th, 2020
I had no ideal that learning the "Mongolian Pop-Knot" routine would also have a beautiful lead into "The Professor's Nightmare" routine. Pop Haydn is not only a master of rope magic but his routine is hilarious!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on March 12th, 2020
After learning Richard Sanders Fiber Optics Extended, it still took me several hours to master this trick, but Doc Haydn's instructions were complete and thorough. It was very helpful to receive both a video download and pdf written instruction. I have now performed it a handful of times in both parlor settings and close up for a dinner party. In each case the audience was completely mystified and delighted. I find I need to practice it occasionally to stay proficient, but it is well worth it. My favorite purchase of 2019.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 18th, 2017
A Great Rope routine... for stage or parlor it has the added benefit of featuring genuine cutting (arguably) being more fooling than many of the more popular routines out there.
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Classic Haydn Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on October 10th, 2016
It will take me a little while to get his routine down but, like all his creations, is well worth the effort if you're serious about your craft
Another winner!
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