Magic Tricks

This is a nice instructional DVD. Smith goes to great lengths to teach his technique and some effects built around it. Multiple explanations, camera angles, etc. The instruction is of high quality. The technique itself is interesting. It's easy to overdo the hand washing, though, and the performer can quickly seem to have OCD or to be trying too hard to prove something. Smith's full technique involves five sweeps, which is one more than Ammar's "Wiped Clean". (It can involve just four, but then one doesn't return to original position.) The DVD also contains a number of routines: most will be familiar to coin workers, but it's nice to have them collected and explained so clearly.