I'm not an expert cardician, but I can tell when a move is being done. Allan Ackerman does moveless
magic!
How about a non-gaff oil and water routine where the spectator also riffle shuffles
the deck and at the end the reds and blacks are separated?
Passes and shifts that look
moveless, with them burning the deck ( and won't take years to perfect ).
He filled the
lecture with card handling subtleties from Dai vernon, Charlie Miller and Ed Marlo that will improve
the look of sleights you do know ( slip cuts, false displays, etc. ).
Allan Ackerman's
Penguin lecture is a must have for anyone that performs card magic and wants to take it to higher
levels by just adding some simple subtleties to make their card magic look moveless!
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Some may say some of the moves look natural, but only if you know how they are done. His
improvements to slights look cleaner then the original. I picked up a few moves that I know I will
be using for years to come. I also seen a few moves that I though would never work when I read about
them, but they flew right by me.
There are a lot of routines and tricks it was non stop
trick then reveal for 3 hours. Which makes his lecture style different then what people are use to.
Sure the patter for the tricks may not have been polished, but the lecture was about the moves and
showing what type of trick uses them.
I found a few moves and some improvements on tricks
that I already do. The poker trick with the spectator cutting and shuffling and getting a straight
flush is great. A number of his additions to the tricks made the trick more hands on by the
spectators which is great especially when it comes to oil and water.
Over all I enjoyed the
lecture and it gave me a few ideas for tricks of my own and how to finish up or start tricks I have
been working on.
5 of 5 magicians found this helpful.
From the side of the effects I enjoyed the lecture a lot.
Unfortunately the explanations were
one of the worst I've ever seen. Especially if it was about the moves. Allan didn't put much effort
into really showing the moves SLOWLY or from different angles. So even with several replays it is
hard to work some of them out.
Sorry but this wasn't worth the money and the time.
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I could write a pretty long testimonial on this lecture but one word really does sum up the quality
of what Allan Ackerman covered in this lecture. Superb! Any serious card worker should not miss
out on the material he presented. It was practical and useable. For me the work on the reverse
spread technology alone was worth the price of the lecture.
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This man and his technique is the best. I have old VHS films with him and I think his is one of the
best in all times
1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
If you like card magic that is deceptive and every move is well thought out, you are in for a treat.
I have been learning from Allan Ackerman for years, he is one of the greatest magical thinkers of
our time.
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Ackermann show a you all the magic you've ever missed. You will spend hours watching and
re-watching. The slights arent, but they are so invisible it's hard learn from just looking. Penguin
seriously needs to get an over the shoulder cam.
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moveless and deceptive aren't enough adjetives to depict Allan's deftness. INCREDIBLE!
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Allan is a real master of sleight of hand and teaches great and fooling stuff
Having heard Allan Ackerman's name many times over the years I was expecting a very high caliber
lecture. How disappointed I was. Although it's true that Ackerman's moves are deceptive, they do not
look natural or motivated, indeed at times it's as if he's gone out of his way to make his actions
look unnatural. Add to this presentations that are dull, poorly constructed, badly worded, dated,
and at one point arguably homophobic, and teaching that was seriously rushed and frequently hard to
follow, and you have a bloated confusing mess of a lecture that only really serves to illustrate why
so many laypeople hate card magic. Anyone considering this should get something else. I'd give it 0
stars if I could.
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I've never seen non-gaff card magic this entertaining and powerful!
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Good stuff, bad explanation
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Profoundly awful
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