Magic Tricks

This IS an absolutely gorgeous trick. That's undeniable. It is IS difficult as well. It requires the use of some semi-advanced slights, as well as an intense amount of memorization skills. I am highly doubtful that a beginner magician with almost no exposure to magic would be able to pull this off. Thankfully, as an intermediate magician with about a year's experience, I had heard of and practiced most (but not all) of the moves beforehand.

That said, I can't say I'm really all that happy with the instructions. I understood about 95% of what Woody said probably, but missing only 5% can be a real killer. It didn't help that some of the terminology is not explained until the end of the video, so you're left, holding your cards, thinking "what the hell is he talking about?" I think, at the very least, the video should have contained full subtitles.

It is recommended that you have the cards with you. I would recommend not doing that until you have watched the ENTIRE video once. Then watch it again and try to follow along with cards.

This is where the instruction problems came in. There are, literally, about 90 steps to this trick. There is no freakin way you are going to memorize all 90 steps without rewatching the video, stopping, going back, innumerable times. And yes, I ended writing down every single one of them over 3 typed pages. I REALLY think this should have had a PDF companion piece.

I managed to be able to perform this, but it was very painful. Still, the effect is so awesome that I still think it's worth it.