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| Jay Sankey |
Revolutionary Coin Magic has been out for over a year now. I?m not prompt but I am at least not punctual. The best thing about watching this DVD, as in the case of the Zarro DVD, is that you learn how to do magic you?ll actually do. I watched the Zarro Shuffle DVD about a thousand times ? I think my DVD laser actually burned a groove into the DVD and made it un-watchable after awhile.
The advertisements for the DVD proclaim that Mr. Sankey offers ?ground breaking routines.? I think that is true. When you watch his DVD, you notice that he seems preoccupied with making the magic real for the audience and not at all concerned that his methods aren?t the difficult type of sleights that finger flickers would crave. These are sleights that serve only one purpose ? to impress the audience that what you have done is magical, not a clever sleight of hand.
The difference between Mr. Sankey?s approach and other magic videos where the amazing sleights are taught is that Mr. Sankey teaches you the effect and then teaches the sleight needed to perform the effect rather than a sleight and then either offer no applicable effects or offer one lame effect.
If you want to learn a sleight for the sake of learning a sleight, go to Bobo?s Coin Magic and ignore the tricks and focus only on the sleights. You and I have both been to conventions where the kids (those younger than me ? so virtually 98 percent of the population of those who attend magic conventions) stay up all night in the hallways, doing sleights with cards or coins but without an effect.
In fact, I was in a bar (go figure) in Colon, Michigan, and a young man ? I think he was 55 years old ? showed me how Jay Sankey taught him to do a double-lift with one hand and shoot the card across the table. He did it about twenty times and almost knocked my drink over with the high-velocity card shot across the table. But there was…
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