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| Paul Green Teaching in Optional Session |
When we left our running account of John Luka’s Motor City Close-Up Convention this weekend, we began our observation of Paul Green’s lecture en medius rex.
We entered the lecture room mid-way through his explanation of a paddle trick.
The effect was clever. On a white paddle upon which he wrote the volunteer’s name. Despite our concern that we had vastly over-rated Mr. Green’s abilities and the value of his lecture, we decided to wait out this one segment before leaving.
We remained in the lecture room for most of the day and evening.
Mr. Green, we learned, had an unique talent for hooking both laymen and magicians. As in the case of the paddle trick, he showed us not only a new routine and refined handling, but a clever way of leaving an audience member with a souvenir of the close-up routine. The white paddle ends with the spectator’s name on one side and the word “magic” on the opposite.
It was an unexpected twist and clever as all get out.
We liked Mr. Green’s style, substance and durability. He not only gave the morning lecture, he also held a special afternoon “workshop” for some of us for a very reasonable additional charge.
The morning lecture used many effects we all have purchased over the years but perhaps have not used or considered even finding.
Consider the venerable Magician’s Insurance Policy.
If aliens were to suddenly land on our planet to abduct all those who currently possess the Magician’s Insurance Policy for probing experiments, there would be only mimes available for kids’ parties. We’d be willing to bet our current Visa cash-advance credit limit we’d be feeling special — either “good special” or “bad special” in some space ship.
Mr. Green’s routine makes use of the Insurance Policy along the way but it is only one-third of the finale. In fact, it is not even the final revelation of the chosen card. His thinking on the effect was like a woosh of fresh air into a previously boarded home. It flung things around in our spider-web covered mental attic, and for the first time in a long time, we noticed things previously covered with dust.
Okay, maybe that’s overstating it. Still, it was a great routine and we did go so far as to buy a new policy from Mr. Green as well as the other prop for his three-part finale.
Mr. Green is known for his incredible mastery of The Classic Force. Later, during the evening close-up show, we watched as he successfully used The Classic Force five times in a row on the same person. He missed on his sixth attempt but hit it on the seventh.
He gave some instruction in the general lecture but his teaching during the workshop session was more in-depth and tailored to our individual needs.
We can count the number of sleights we believe we have mastered on one hand. And if we counted the same one twice, we’d still have two fingers and a thumb left. …
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