Magic Tricks

Rope magic is probably my favorite type of magic – even over cards. It is inherently visual, quite mysterious, and often fairly easy to master. You hardly need any patter, because rope is just so simple and visual. Look at Tabary, who won first place with this routine in a worldwide competition, and he hardly needs to speak at all to blow everyone away.

Tabary's effects are not only mind-blowing, but very neat and tidy for the magician. You typically end up in the same setup as you started, so you're ready to do another effect. All of the effects in the first volume's routine (and many from the second) use the same setup, so it's very easy to string together whatever you'd like, and everything stays clean and perfectly in order.

The routine on the first volume is more than worth the price of the DVD. It's Tabary's first-place rope routine, and it's unbelievable. The DVD has a live performance in front of an audience, and watching Tabary do his stuff leaves your brain hurting.

The other routines are also very good, though not quite as phenomenal, and at the very least provide extra effects to string into whatever routine you create.

The moves Tabary teaches (he claims there are only three, but that's not quite true) are relatively easy. Practice is necessary, of course, but magic that doesn't require practice usually sucks. This does not suck. Rather, it's amazing.

Tabary teaches the tricks nicely, going slowly with different colored ropes. I sometimes wished he spoke a bit more English so he could explain things just a little more (he really only uses a few words), but the visual is generally enough.

In short, I give this DVD a high recommendation.

Ryan
The Amazing Miglavs