> AIR (Gimmicks and online instruction) by Alain Simonov & Shin Lim

Severely disappointed. Wow. Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on September 4th, 2020
I am giving this two stars because I at least appreciate some of the routines and thinking here, and I actually think these guys could make this into an awesome product. However, in this product's first iteration, this is seriously lacking and I'm highly disappointed.

First off, your $20 is buying you part of what you need to perform the routines in the trailer, but part of what you need to perform some of those effects isn't even included in the package. Most of the routines being performed in the trailer are using two methods at the same time. You are supplied with what you need to do ONE of the two methods, but NOT the other method. And, the one thing they do provide you, you only get a very small amount of it. As for the supply that isn't even in this package, they don't actually tell you where to get it or recommendations, they just brush on it in the video. If someone was entirely new to this type of effect, they'd have no idea where to go or what to get. So upon opening the box, I'm already hugely disappointed.

Then, I start to watch the download. It's 36 minutes long total. They touch up on the materials early on, and then they LITERALLY NEVER TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE THE GIMMICK. They go over what they use to build it, and where it should be built in your hand, but they never actually show you how to make it. Maybe they thought it was "self explanatory", but you have to assume people that spend money on your product don't know anything about how to do it. Then, it gets worse. In the "teaching" section (and I say teaching with borderline sarcasm), Alain shows clips of him doing the routines at exposed angles, to music, and never actually talks or teaches you how to set up the trick or how to execute it. Seriously, his "teaching" is just him doing the tricks, maybe at a slightly slower speed, with 0 dialogue, at an exposed angle. He flies through them, too. He barely stops, you have about 10 seconds of footage of instruction for each vanish or appearance or transposition. It's nearly impossible to actually learn from. It would have taken him 1 minute to teach "this is the Air move that we will do on every trick" or something like that, but he never does it.

Shin Lim's section has more actual teaching, but he's focusing on just one routine with the sucker punch coins.

To summarize: 36 minutes of crappy instruction and half of what you actually need to pull off most the routines. That's what you get here for $20. It isn't practical for most situations either, but I somewhat expected that going into this and still bought it because I wanted to know Alain's and Shin's thinking and learn some stuff from them. I was disappointed in that front. This could have been so much better had they included the other material you need (and charged a little more for the product to do so), and then had a more in-depth download. I want my money back, but now that I've watched the download I feel like it's too late for that. 2/5

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Curatolo4life
Sep 05th 2020 7:11am
I agree 100% with your review.

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rainbowsitter7
Sep 23rd 2020 1:01am
YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WHERE SCAMED

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jbravo
Dec 11th 2020 7:43pm
This download has been updated and they DO show how to construct the gimmick. I guess they read your comments! :)

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ira242
Apr 11th 2021 5:09am
The latest video indeed shows how to build the gimmick, but still completely fails to explain the moves: just a few seconds of performance, then exposed view, exposed slightly slowed down, and NO words. For example, he could explain what he’s doing, his angles, the crucial movements needed to perform the moves. Really, really lazy tutorial here. Nice utility though. Disappointing.

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