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Yesterday Theory11 holded a Saturday Night Contest in which you had to create a flourish within 3 hours.

I loved Andrei’s “Bam bam boom boom” using Bone Ho’s “Angel” spin move with a Joey Burton’s Skater Cut display look.

He obviously won and here is the video for you to enjoy.

“You start to love yourself when Andrei Jikh tags his videos with your name.”

-Alejandro Portela

I’d like to thank the ppl that allowed me to use their moves, Bone Ho, Daren Yeow and Jaspas Deck.

List of moves in order of appearance:

Double Lepaul - Bone Ho and Paul lepaul
Smear Fan - Classic
Mockingbird - Daren Yeow
Pressure Fan - Classic
Double One Handed Fan - Unknown Creator
Armspread - Classic
Kryptonite Variation - Cerberus and D&D
F.O.T.F. - Cerberus (inspired by Jonas Haglund)
Deck Twirls - Jerry Cestkowski
Fan Twirl - Jerry Cestkowski
Upside Down Spring - Jerry
Deck Flip - T.G. Murphy
SSS Triangle - De’vo
Broken Triangle - Bone Ho
One Handed Cuts (L-cuts, Charlier, Thumb Cuts) - Jerry Cestkowski
Fan Display - Dan and Dave Buck
Jaspas Cut - Jaspas
Index Angel Spin - Cerberus
Carnahan Fan - Dan and Dave Buck
360 Fan - Naoki Ogi

The real story of Bone Ho’s past was rebuilt in 2005 while the video Furious Angels was being made.

An oldschool video of Bone Ho from the site Cheaterscheater.com.

Hi guys,

I guess most of you have noticed the Interviews tab on the top navbar of the blog, or at least have seen a couple of them either here or at my youtube channel.

I started this initiative because I thought our art lacked personality, i mean, we knew each other for our avatar and signatures in the forums and our perfect manicure (which i didn’t ever have) from the videos.

First I thought of trying to interview the big names only so that we could demistify themselves and put them closer to us poor average card guys, but then, after a while i thought it would be interesting to interview anyone that was in the “spotlight” or had anything interesting to say about our art.

The easier method i though of was sending them some questions in a text file that they should answer whenever they had some spare time.

This way i got a few interesting ones but then i got to ask my friend Jordan Lapping and he came up with the idea of doing the interview in front of his webcam, thus making it even more personal and impromptu.

I loved it and then I started asking many people to do that for the community.

The responses were priceless, and this was what made this blog be what it is now, so I feel like I have to thank you for building up this whole thing with your videos, articles, card gossip and constructive comments.

There are some great interviews for you to watch if you didn’t already and some other scheduled for the future, here is the list of the names that we’ve got so far so select one, sit back and enjoy and after that mind leaving a comment or asking them a question.

TheCuso interviews Kent
TheCuso interviews Chris Hestnes
TheCuso interviews Kate
TheCuso interviews Vincent Dark
TheCuso interviews Jaspas
TheCuso interviews Ineski (taken down temporary)
TheCuso interviews Mattgic and MaXim
TheCuso Interviews Adam
TheCuso interviews Pierre Tran
TheCuso interviews David Blanch
TheCuso interviews Bone Ho
TheCuso interviews Jordan Lapping
TheCuso interviews Daren Yeow
TheCuso interviews Jonas Haglund

There are some great interviews coming up like Kevin Ho’s,that he might film this weekend, Cardshark88’s (co-founder of The3C and youtube top subscribed card guru), Justflourish staff (Sebastian, Tical…), Luka, Brendan Conner, Justin Kelly, Scenacle french guys, Scott and Sean, Allan Hagen, Ling and many more.

So i would like to hear from you about what do you think about this whole initiative and how could it be improved, who would you like to be interviewed in the future or what other ideas do you have to bring the artist closer.

Leave a comment and chose your favourite interview.

- Alejandro Portela

This is an old video, made in Late 2005 - Early 2006 by my friend Scott, the brother of Sean. Yeah, Scott and Sean.
However, this is just Scott’s entry to a contest on 21Ace, which he won, becoming “a Card Trick Champion”. How weird that sounds lol.

Credits to Andrei Jikh, Bone ho, Dan and Dave, Jonas Haglund, Sean, De’vo and Jerry Cestkowski.

Enjoy, you better do.

Bone Ho started a treasure hunt kind of game like t11 ones with some hidden links to his videos at www.BoneHo.com scattered all around the site.

I watched two of them, the first one is called Xemchoi Trailer and it shows a flourishing routine with his live performance in a crowded pub and some reactions of the people. There are also some questions made by the spectators but they are in Viet so i couldn’t undersand them, but i promise it’s totally worthwatching.

Bone Ho performed for XemChoi Community at famous rock Bar of Saigon ACOUSTIC. He’s made an amazing prediction following with Flourish Routine. Unbelievable Reactions!

The other one shows a signed card to sealed bottle inside a 6 bottles pack in a girls birthday party (i wish i had Bone Ho for my b-day party last Thursday…)

I found it absolutely magical.

The people who witnessed this effect could not believe in their very eyes. The shocking thing just happened in front of them, the card they signed in the middle of the deck has now completely disappeared!

Go to his site and start jacking the source code and if you find more hidden links feel free to post them.

Just one little clue: User and Pass are the same word. It’s very easy!

What do you think about them?

Bone Ho was born in the Southern part of Vietnam and grew up in a small family. Being motherless at only 4 months old, gave Bone Ho the strength to strive and to never stop at what he sets his mind on. Starting performing magic when he was 10 years old, the first trick that Bone Ho ever learnt was a penetration effect with 2 matchsticks. Bone Ho travelled abroad in 2001 and lived for 5 years in Singapore. Since then, he has met and performed to many artists all around the world, an experience that gave him the inspiration to forever stay with the art.

Bone Ho always has a dream to bring his magic closer to the people in the country of his own - Vietnam.
To make his dream come true, in 2007, Bone Ho went back to Vietnam and started traveling throughout the country, fulfilling his first chapter of a lifetime project called “I’mpossible”.

The Legendary Bone Ho is releasing his very own website on 15th of April.
BoneHo.com will not be a forum and he will NOT sell any DVD yet.
However there are some goodies for us card lovers to celebrate the release…

-HOTSTONES Tutorial and TOP Tutorial taught and performed by the evil vampire himself.

-10 Hot high quality Wallpapers for download.

-10 Trailers with live performances of his shows and some other stuff that he doesn’t want to reveal yet.

There will also be a forum apart of the site called Bonehofanclub.com for you guys to discuss and talk to him.
Will this be the next cheaterscheater? is up to you.

If you can’t wait to know more about Bone you can check the interview we made a while back. TheCuso interviews Bone Ho

Stay tunned for more updates and subscribe to the feed or the email newsletter if you didn’t already.

“While there is now much dispute in regards to their quality, the fact remains that the Black Tiger Decks put out by Ellusionist in 2004 caused a huge sensation in the magic/flourishing community.

Knowing of his skill and presence in the online community, the creators of the deck contacted the one and only Bone Ho to do this short promo, which they then proceeded to feature on the site.”

-cardclassics