There is a potentially huge payoff for any cardician who wants to put in the work necessary to
master the skills taught in these DVDs. This is the real work. And it will take real work to learn
it.
That said, These DVDs have not been produced to fully show or explain the handlings.
You have to pay careful attention, stop, rewind, and replay many times in order to figure out
exactly what is going on.
The handling is rarely (never, actually, that I recall) shown
from the magician's point of view. You get top views, bottom views, front views, and side views, but
never a straight forward view of what your hands should look like from your POV as the performer.
That is a serious flaw and why I didn't give these DVDs a 5 rating.
Similarly, the
explanations are rarely complete. You have to use outside resources to research the skills you are
unfamiliar with which are referenced but not explained on the DVDs. And you have to experiment quite
a bit to figure out the handlings you saw, but don't seem to be able to duplicate. Fortunately most
of those slights are at least listed by name in references on the DVDs.
A companion
booklet to the DVD would be a great addition if it covered all the slights and gave detailed
descriptions of the handling.
A Treasure Trove For Cardicians
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