> Pathways to Mastery Lesson 1: The Shuffle System by Aaron Fisher

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For a student to learn a dexterity skill efficiently, he/she needs to be focused on the task at hand. Aaron does not use economy of words. The learning process becomes slowed and tedious. If you can learn past that obstacle then the teaching of the technique is solid. This is where details can be a good thing.

Please respect my time, more doesn't always mean better value. He also tends to be overly expressive or dramatic which doesn't make this anymore interesting. Acting 101, relax your face, breath, talk to me like you talk to your friends. I feel like I'm watching someone who's amped up ;) You may create tension in some viewer, which is not helping the learning when we mirror you.

He doesn't pick up the deck until 13 minutes into it. That's 25% of the video. What can you possible have to say about shuffling as an intro that takes 13 minutes of someone life, that will make a difference to shuffling? For example, after he picks up the cards, it's almost another 1 minute to tell us - "all the finger positions are important don't skip any". Why don't you just say that and move on arg!!

I want to take a few more of his lesson's but I'm cringing. Over all it's worth it, but can we get the readers digest version as a summary note, somewhere to reinforce the learning, at a pace that is more appropriate, if you real must talk so much? I can't believe I spent all this time on that annoying point for my review, that should tell you something.

He's really good at what he does, teaching the technique, but you're killing me slowly!

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