Magic Tricks

When I first got this I was skeptical, The gimmick seems it's a lot more obvious then the one Kolle uses in his performance and also the explanation of the trick. I'm in afghanistan with the army and do small shows for the other men and women in uniform. Well eventually I got the okay to perform a large show inside of our "theater" (it's a big tent with a stage inside)I thought the Hawk would be impractical to use in a stage show so while recording myself with the webcam of my laptop (it's my 'mirror') I replayed one of the videos back and the transformation looked quite good on the lower res video as it was impossible to see the gimmick at all. So I decided to re-record the trick, edit the footage a bit add my name and make it my 'poster' for the show. I had the video looped on a screen off to the right of the stage I was performing on. Towards the end of my routine someone during a talking sequence yelled out "Can you do the trick on the screen?" Now I didn't plan on performing the hawk but I did have it mostly ready behind the table. So I picked up the deck of cards and from the stage to the floor the gimmick is pretty well invisible. I simply asked if they were asking about the trick on the screen to my left and with the misdirection of gesturing with my hand towards the screen flicked my hand and the card went from the face of a queen to the red back of a bicycle card, under no cover and instantly. The crowd went pretty crazy and for clean up I simply showed all sides of the deck from the stage and then just tossed the whole deck back behind the table.

This trick certainly has it's uses and simply knowing how it's done is worth the price because the idea is great for creating other tricks. They also include a lot of product to make your own hawk gimmicks which I discovered doing this allows you to mess around and create a much nicer looking gimmick. Don't give up on this, if you're like me and enjoy taking common tricks and making some thing new out of them then this is for you.