I have always found mentalism to be boring, but I had heard such amazing stuff about Osterlind and I
wanted to find a few powerful mentalism effects to do. Saw this video got great rating, I guess I
just don't get mentalism. After watching him, I continue to be turned off by mentalism. Was hoping
this "master" would have blown me away with material and performance. It was typical stuff,nothing
mind-shattering.
his performance: ok
his explanation: so long-winded and ineffective
use of time, reminds me of Micheal Close
his material: classic mentalism effects, nothing that
made me fall out of my chair.
Although his opening effect was great and I will use it. For
that effect alone, it was worth the money but this 3hr 15min video could have easily been cut down
significantly. He spent about 30minute alone on the performance and explanation of the first effect,
way too long.
Effects he did:
1. 5 envelope prediction, one with $100 inside( I thought
it was great)
2. spectator grabs a stack of cards and he reads off the cards that spectator has
in his hands. pretty standard
3. bent Penny, no explanation though if I remember correctly
4. spectator writes time on piece of paper, he tears it up, uses watch to predict time that was
written
5. prediction of spectator birthday written on small piece of paper held between his
fingers and thumb. standard
6. Spoon bending
7. digital root of #9 effect, ie think of #
and add digit together and then subtract from original # ....
8. Coin prediction. Give spectator
some coins and you make a prediction come true. I actually thought this was a clever routine
9.
using a gimmick blackboard with 6 square on it. No explanation
Well, its true that Richard is a bit of a bore when performing, which isn’t the best type of magician you want specializing in Mentalism, but his Ideas are great and while I haven’t purchased this exact video, I know from watching other videos of his that if your resourceful enough, you can make his boring routines not so boring, his Ideas and your pizzaz will make an incredible magic show!
Its why i skip most of these. I own his mystery set and easy to master set. It sounds like he did alot of stuff from his tapes . teaching a crowd the breakthru system.thats something i think isnt for a lecture.but thats me. I doubt 1 person could grasp it from a short lecture. But i dont think Richard is anything like mike close.but i dont own this one. His dvds i have he explains clear and to the point. And he is done. Michael close expalins 1 thing and takes 15 minutes on the subtlety of a few things lol
First, yes, he did a "gimmicked blackboard with no explanation". He does a great explanation on his "Without a Net" DVD. But he probably left off the details here because it is a prop that all (I think I'm safe in saying that) mentalists know as it has been around so long and was a staple item of mentalists for years.
He probably did not explain it because he thought everyone would be familiar with the prop.
As for RO being a boring performer - NEVER! He has a personable personality, an audience friendly approach, and heavy impact effects.
The comment of "boring" sounds like it comes from a magician without an appreciation for mentalism.
I have practically all his DVDs and still found this download a valuable education in performing mentalism.
Some of the effects are the same but his added comment, not given on the other DVDs, makes the download well worth it.
I've been working my way through Richard's many DVD sets. I've done the 7 Mind Mysteries series, the 3 Live Without a Net DVDs, the 3 No Camera Tricks DVDs, and the first 2 of his Corinda's 13 Steps. Plus I have 6 of the Penguin/Osterlind 13 Steps. I still have more to go (finish the Corinda 13 Steps DVDs and the 6 Annemann ones). Anyway, the reason I say for two reasons. First, I'm amazed at the wide range of effects on all of these DVDs, but there is, indeed, a fair amount of overlap across them. Second, based upon the reviewer's list of effects and the teaser video, the effects in this lecture seem to be covered in his other DVDs. Perhaps someone could use this lecture for a handful of good effects if they don't want to watch all those other DVDs. But if you have the DVDs.
Ouch! Disregard the previous one with typos!
I've been working my way through Richard's many DVD sets. I've done the 7 Mind Mysteries series, the 3 Live Without a Net DVDs, the 3 No Camera Tricks DVDs, and the first 2 of his Corinda's 13 Steps. Plus I have 6 of the Penguin/Osterlind 13 Steps. I still have more to go (finish the Corinda 13 Steps DVDs and the 6 Annemann ones). Anyway, I say all of this for two reasons. First, I'm amazed at the wide range of effects on all of these DVDs, but there is, indeed, a fair amount of overlap across them. Second, based upon the reviewer's list of effects and the teaser video, the effects in this lecture seem to be covered in his other DVDs. Perhaps someone could use this lecture for a handful of good effects if they don't want to watch all those other DVDs. But if you have the DVDs, you don't need this.
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