You really need to buy this in conjunction with the 2nd volume as well and the Essentials predecessor.

An incredibly thorough treatment of the routine. Exhaustive detail masterfully told and engaging to listen to. The video is long, but it seems to fly buy due to Daryl's engaging and entertaining delivery.

A MUST HAVE for any fan of magic and anyone looking to master this old classic and it's variations. (And to come up with your own!)

Its so Nice, he Shows many moves, slowly and easy to follow. I love the way he presents it. More than 5 stars

Daryl's Master Course is fantastic. Thorough, almost exhaustive, discussion of the material, history, equipment and delivery. If you have "Essentials of Magic - The Essential Cup & Ball", you will hear much of the same material but at a much deeper level with greater detail and context to performance.

I have both volumes (and you WILL want both in orser to truly see it all and learn the 3 routines) and CANNOT say enough good things about what this series, and the Essentials DVD before it gives - right down to some dog-fone snappy patter! Daryl is so engaging that the hour+ lecture is over before you know it... and you are left energized and eager to get your hands on the cups and start practicing.

The C&B is now a critical part of my routine and will always be. Live thus. Buy it. You will NOT regret It! (BUT GET BOTH!!! And Essentials if you can afford it...)

Despite the title of a "Master Class," this is actually a basic tutorial in C & B work, and it's excellent.

Daryl covers everything from the props -- different cups, various balls, the magic wand -- to most of the basic sleights and moves. The camera work is good, you can see exactly what you need to see, and everything is explained very well. For $15, it's an excellent value.

The only thing missing are some routines, but those are included in Volume 2, which is a good companion to this DVD and completes the set. The Michael Ammar C & B book or his 2-volume DVD set is a more detailed C & B course, but it's also more expensive and sometimes difficult to obtain. Daryl's DVD's (or downloads) are fine and would be more than sufficient for someone starting on their C & B journey.

Excellent material as always from Daryl! Crystal-clear instructions and very informative historical insights. If you're looking to master the Cups and Balls this is for you...

This Daryl cups and balls video (and the vol 2) might be great, but I couldn’t tell you because the video keeps erroring out. It will play for like 10 minutes and then an error will appear that persists for hours.

I reported these errors with detail and screenshots. Penguin has not responded. I understand that it is the weekend, but I work in website development and support, and when it comes to delivering a reliable website experience, weekends are not a thing. Heck, sleep is barely a thing. This is just one example of the degradation of the quality of the website here. Others include a very limited mobile experience where you can’t even navigate to your cart without switching to the desktop version, a lack of responsive website design, a server error on the mobile version of the cool box page, no “sort by” options (an e-commerce standard), and having to trudge through hundreds of out-of-stock items every time you perform a search or browse. These technical shortcomings may have been understandable in the early 2000’s, but certainly not in 2021. Penguin has been my exclusive magic supplier for over 15 years, but I’m really starting to wonder if it’s time to look elsewhere. When the entire product IS the video content, there needs to be a website support mechanism in place to ensure uptime. When I receive a report of a functional error on one of my client’s sites, I drop everything and resolve it immediately. Someone at Penguin is asleep at the wheel.