PROS
1. This course is nearly comprehensive.
2. Zingg seems like a nice
man.
3. There are both performances and explanations of many switches and ideas.
CONS
1. Production. Allen is soft spoken and does not use a microphone. There
is audio feedback in all the explanation and performance videos. On top of this, there is a
constant, annoying, "background" stock music track playing at the same volume of his explanation
videos. Notice I put "background music" in quotes. This music track layered on top of his
explanation videos was poorly executed (the volume of the music should be much lower). It is
tiring, straining to listen to what he's saying under the music.
2. Pacing of
performances too slow. I played the performances and some explanation vids at 1.5x playback speed.
It was much better. This review did not lose any stars for Zingg not being Derren Brown, just
mentioning it.
3. The explanation videos are with Allen facing the camera, holding up a
billet, folding it this way, then once this way, then from top to bottom, then left to right.
Everything is reversed. It would've been more convenient if he had the camera over his shoulder so
I could follow along with breaking my brain.
Lackluster
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