Trilogy For The Almost Beginner

[Manitoba-Amateur]

Let me just say the trilogy is the best magic related purchase I've ever made. I got in to magic when I was thirteen and for what ever reason I abandoned it....shame on me. Now I'm in my 20's and I got back in to cards this past summer. I've got royal road, expert at the card table and card manipulations and I found they are quite difficult to learn from. I bought an Ammar dvd (easy to master vol 2) and found that, for me, dvd's are the way to go. After Ammar I bought the trilogy and even though I didn't think I'd be ready for it I have found that the teaching is superb and yes the beginner to intermediate card guy/gal will be able to pick it up (with much practice of course) if they have a few sleights already under their belt. I've been around this site for a while now (this is my first post) and find it's an excellent resource. If there are any magicians near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba please let me know! I'm aware this post was somewhat of a review and I know it's long but I have to rave to somebody.

 

[vipermagic]

Great to here you are getting so much out of the DVD. It does have some difficult stuff but that can be fixed with practice. If you want to really get your chops up get Chris Kenner's Totally Out of Control.


Luis

 

[SHANE BLACK]

I use to find watching DVD's easier to learn from comparably to books but here was my dilema. A DVD is great but for the price I never felt there was a fair enough material to choose from for the price atleast until I started digging deeper for better DVD's. I found there was so much more from books and that they had better explainations then a DVD does but I was still trying to figure out how I was going to adapt myself to learning from books better. Speaking I'm a man and males are visual people.

Here's the system I composed. I find an effect want to learn out of a book that was the first step. Second I read all there was in that chapter first before physically doing anything. Then I go back with whatever materials I will need and section it off into paragraphs. And I do that move and so on. Then I sit down and think to myself a vision of how I would like to see that effect to look. Then I stand in front of the mirror and practice to make that vision happen.

Watching someone else perform can lead to you shadowing someone else's style and becoming more like them instead of putting a bit of yourself into the effect. When you read from a book it forces you to design the routine out of your own imagination. So I would recommend contining down the road of book reading. Your performances will show a difference.

Hope this helps you with your comeback into magic. Good luck!

Shane

 

[Johnlawl]

The trilogy is my BEST purchase in magic , too.