Magic Tricks

There seems to be a lot of praise for some of Justin's magic products, so when I heard that this lecture was going to be mentalism only I was a little apprehensive.

I would not recommend this lecture for a professional mentalist, or even suggest it to someone just looking into mentalism.

Justin comes off as arrogant. He constantly makes fun of a young audience member throughout the lecture. His methods to make things look less like "magic" are awful.

The Bad:
- F.A.T.E. claims to be not a force; except to get to the predicted outcome you have to force the situation to get there.
- Envy claims to be a routine where you never touch the envelopes; and although that's technically true, if you want to present it in the same way as Justin you're going to have to get hands on and slap the envelopes out of someone hands. The method was fine, however the presentation rubbed me the wrong way.
- Mental-Drop has the worst equivoque I've ever seen in a magic trick. I say magic trick because this is one of Justin's tricks where he tried to give a mentalism spin to it. Personally, just do C-Drop as the presentation doesn't add anything to it.
- Pure thought has a nice ending up until the very end. Someone thinks of a card, the mentalist reads their mind to work out what it is and takes it out of the pack face down. They reveal their card and then show that the other cards in the pack were blank but not only that the card they took out was blank as well. So... uh... what was the point in the cards? Surely, a better trick is that final card matches the one they thought of? Apparently not as Justin claims this is stronger but he's wrong.
- Writing on the wall was confusing and felt like it was glossed over quickly. It was also completely forgettable because I can't even remember what the trick was about.

The OK:
- A peek in time is alright. Justin claimed that it flys by people but I found that what he did was fairly obvious.
- Lie or Truth felt like a standard presentation for a typical mentalism prop and not much had been added by Justin.
- UTOPIA is a nice way to force something, and is perhaps one of Justin's better creations in this lecture.

The Good:
- The one time where an audience member makes a suggestion for one of his tricks which was pretty good. Where's that guy's lecture?

Overall, this lecture was incredibly disappointing, in method, presentation, and teaching. Give this one a miss.