Magic Tricks

Dan is a great magic teacher. He always explains everything so clearly. He takes his time with demonstrating all the steps of each trick. Anything with Dan is going to be good... even silk and rope penetrations.

To be honest, even though Dan intelligently puts a more modern spin on this, which I appreciate, the subject is still kinda meh to me. For me personally, the false knots seem really obvious. Now, perhaps most people aren't born with this topographical analytical ability... so for most, I suppose these can be quite mind blowing. To me though, it just seems really obvious.

I see these tricks as perhaps filler between other tricks or just something cute to show some kids. Again, maybe it's just me. It's just my opinion. Silks and ropes are just not my thing I guess.

I definitely don't want to penalize the product just because it's not my favorite thing. After all, when it comes to silks and ropes, perhaps this is a dream come true. Because of that, I'm giving the lesson an overall score of 4. Dan usually earns a 5 in my book for his succinct teaching. Personally, I want to give this subject a 2 or 3 because I'm totally bored with it. But again, I don't think it's right to penalize the product just because it's "not my thing". So, objectively, if I wanted to learn silks and ropes, I'm sure I would enjoy this one as a beginner.

Dan, keep it up on the Tarbell project! You're taking some old stuff and making it new again and I appreciate that. It certainly must be a tedious marathon at times... keep up the good work and thank you for being an awesome teacher.