I also recommend Scarne on Card Tricks, as well as Karl Fulves' Self Working Card Tricks/My Best Self Working Card Tricks. Really amazing self-working card tricks and will get you started on the right path. Woddy Aragon's A Book in English - The Find Your Other Half and Poker Deal routines are great.Ĭan definitely echo the suggestions for Giobbi's Light/Lighter/Lightest series. Tamariz's Verbal Magic - More than cards, but I love his Paradise Recovered routine. The books contain a lot of other "strangely self working" effects beyond cards. The Magician that Fools Himself is one of my favorite effects. Some of other books with "self-working" effects are: Karl Fulves's Self-Working Books (although you have to go through alot of bad effects to find the good ones)īannon's Destination Zero (again, a couple of good really good ones and a lot that all seem to be the same effect) Scarne on Card Tricks (best investment in any book ever)Įncyclopedia of Card Tricks (more so for the use of gaffs and gimmicks) To find other "self working" effects you would have to start listing effects within books. They have a lot of books and products they have recently released trailers for that are relatively self working. They aren't all magic tricks (some puzzles, scams, riddles, etc.), and some use some basic sleight of hand, but they are pretty cool (similar to the YouTube Channel if you are familiar with it).īy the way, check out Murphy's Magic's YouTube Channel. Not a lot of the tricks are super sleight intensive.Īlso, check out the Scam School Books. It is not self working tricks, but they are very simple sleights (except for the palming and the pass sections. You can also look into buying the Royal Road to Card Magic (if you don't have it already). You should go watch them, absolutely amazing. He teaches you stuff like forcing and controlling without major sleights, even a deck switch and false shuffle.ītw, this info is all directly from the 3 trailers penguin magic put together for each book (w/ Dan Harlan and Roberto Giobbi). ![]() He then has a chapter on "Sleightless sleight of hand". ![]() It's on my buy list).Ĭard College Lightest - has 21 different tricks that you can easily mix and match or use to your hearts content. (He may have meant 21 different tricks, but I do not know. You can pick up all 3, but if you want one first (and buy the others later), here is a break down of the differences.Ĭard College Light - has 7 separate routines, each with 3 tricks each (an opener, a middle trick, and a closer), along with a short chapter on performing (or maybe he goes over it as he explains each trick)Ĭard College Lighter - has 21 different short routines (7 opening, 7 middle, 7 closing), along with a chapter on building your own sort of routine/set (programming as Roberto refers to it). Yes, Roberto Giobbi's Card College Light trilogy (the "Professional Card Tricks without Sleight of Hand" Trilogy is great.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |