This is a great lecture, whether you are a beginner or an advanced card magician.
Michael
Vincent is passionate about good sleight of hand – and about teaching it. This passion shows
throughout the lecture.
While many of the routines have been featured on the DVD sets published
by Alakazam, the instructions and performances here benefit from great camera work and lighting and
comparatively more close-up shots.
Those who own the DVDs will benefit from added new
insights, handling points and routines not taught before. ‘Be Honest – What Is It?’ (‘Two Card
Monte’), for example, is taught here in exceptional detail and the many magicians performing this in
a hurried manner would do good to buy this lecture and heed Michael Vincent’s advice on the use of
gaze and body movement. Victor Farelli’s ‘Up His Sleeve’ (with an additional second phase inspired
by Darwin Ortiz) was performed, but not taught, on one of the DVDs, but is fully taught here. It is
a fabulous routine that would be very suitable for walk around magic. ‘Pasteboard Larceny’ is an
outstanding poker routine starting with a genuinely shuffled deck and appears here for the first
time.
To those who are new to the magic of Michael Vincent, this lecture is a fantastic
introduction and a very handy compendium of some of his strongest pieces, ranging in difficulty from
easy (‘Kismet’) to advanced (‘4Play with Foursome’, one of the most powerful card routines you can
do).
Finally, anyone will benefit from Michael’s views on how to master sleight of hand, which
close the lecture.
Highly recommended.
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