Magic Tricks

alright so originally I was very excited about this looking at the line up. I have to say that the content that was shared, was pretty good, but very disappointed on things he didn't share which i will get to in a second...

PROS: he opened with some ring tricks which I really liked along with coin ring thing, which actually was explained somewhat briefly although you'll get the idea. the first half of the lecture overall was pretty good. had some good ideas. redline was nice and easy as well. overall my two favorite things were the ring tricks and rubber thru hand which was a very nice and visual effect. basically the rubber band melts through one finger at a time. totally impromptu which was a plus as well. the strike vanish/change was really nice, but the better version did require a gimmick, and unless you know how to do the original strike vanish, you may have a little trouble with the technique as it wasnt explained very well. some of the card ideas were cool, but just about all the card tricks he performed were gimmicked. not that I'm above gimmicks, but would have liked to see more impromptu stuff. in my opinion, the effects weren't nearly strong enough for me to add any gimmicks to my deck. I know a bunch of impromptu tricks that are way stronger and require little or no set up. cool ideas, but probably won't use it. oh and sleeping queens was a pretty cute trick. overall there are a few things that I did enjoy and will use, BUT I will explain why I was disappointed...

CONS: alright for one, probably 90% of this stuff uses gimmicks, some of which u can't just make so you'd have to buy a few things. but that's not my major complaint. I don't mind gimmicks, certain gimmicks make mind blowing and impossible effects possible. most of these gimmicks however, were not those kind... anyway my major complaints are that for one, he did not teach flow. YOU MUST ALREADY HAVE FLOW TO PERFORM FLOW 2.0. the description was a bit misleading on that. but what really pissed me off was half of the effects I was excited for THEY DIDN'T EVEN SHOW!! NO ANIMATED DECK VANISH, NO STONED, NO PORTABLE HOLE!!! slight correction, he explained stoned for literally like 2 seconds at the very end. he's like, "oh yeah and btw, for stoned u do this and that and that's the idea". the animated deck vanish was not even mentioned let alone taught. also the excuse for portable hole was someone else had a similar effect and I felt like it wouldn't do it justice. seriously?? then why advertise it? I could deal with the sloppy performances as he is more of a creator instead of performer, but to leave out tricks that were part of the reason I bought this in the first place really pissed me off and I feel like I've been partially ripped off. 3 stars over all, just because of the few things that I will actually use. but if you were looking forward to stoned, animated deck vanish and portable hole, prepare to be disappointed...