By Forces Unseen

[UnknownMagician93]

I recently posted a thread about wether I should by Ray Kosby's Impossible Card Magic or By Forces Unseen by Ernest Earick. Most people said to go with BFU so I have a few questions about it.

1- Whats the teaching like? Does Stephen Minch go into good detail about how the effects are done?

2- Does the book have pictures?

3- Are there any effects that are very hard and will take a while to get performable?

4- Are the routines good for real world situations?

5- If I am a fast learner, how long until I have the effects performable?

Thank to all who responded to my last thread and thank you in advance to any who reply to this one.

 

[copperfield 14]

I recently posted a thread about wether I should by Ray Kosby's Impossible Card Magic or By Forces Unseen by Ernest Earick. Most people said to go with BFU so I have a few questions about it.

1- Whats the teaching like? Does Stephen Minch go into good detail about how the effects are done?

2- Does the book have pictures?

3- Are there any effects that are very hard and will take a while to get performable?

4- Are the routines good for real world situations?

5- If I am a fast learner, how long until I have the effects performable?

Thank to all who responded to my last thread and thank you in advance to any who reply to this one.

1. Every trick and sleight are taught in great detail.

2. Yes the book has pictures

3.The tricks there are quite difficult to master and like any trick will take a while to perfect it for performances

4. In my opinion the tricks won't work too well in the real world unless you do them for a one on one type performance. The tricks are very angle sensitive but some of the sleights taught are very useful.

5. It will take a while to get the tricks to performance speed no matter who you are.