This re-released gimmick, now marketed as: 'X-Ball', is a true blessing to see on the magic market
again - after so many long decades of being wholly unavailable to Manipulators - and, this ball is
exceptionally well-made!
The basic concept behind this precision gimmicked ball for
approximately 1.75"/45mm sized Billiard Ball sets goes as far back in time as Professor Hoffmann's:
'Modern Magic', and, the basic concept can also be found documented in Dunninger's 'Complete
Encyclopedia of Magic' - though utilizing a different "modus operandi" - and, as a product of modern
engineering, this gimmick was originally only available to magicians as a European-made product of
the 1960s; and, had been become hopelessly unavailable - except through the private collectors'
market, fetching hundreds of dollars, IF someone had one for sale - after the German-made 'Durania'
balls became unavailable sometime during the mid-late 1980s.
To truly understand the unique
utility and massive potential which the re-titled: 'X-Ball', can bring to your own Multiplying
Billiard Ball routines, you must watch the Richard Ross, Greater Magic Library DVD, #27 - which is
available at popular Penguin Magic discount prices! - in which, World-Champion, Richard Ross,
personally demonstrates and teaches you his exact handling of this specialty gimmicked Billiard
Ball.
Get both the new-version 'X-Ball' and the Richard Ross GML-DVD #27, and you just
might take your routine to the FISM-winner level... and, be thankful you didn't have to wait 35+
years to finally get one of these amazing precision balls into your hands... and then, work it like
a master.
If I could give 10 Stars to 'X-Ball', I would!