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The Effect

A Dvd boxset, which is 5 dvds, which teach everything, plus and minus a few bits from the RRTCM book.

VOLUME 1

Introduction
Overhand Shuffle Hand Position
Execution
Controlling the Top Card
Controlling the Bottom Card
Top Card to Next to Bottom and Back
The Run
Injog
Double Undercut
Control
Retaining Top Stock
Full Deck False Shuffle
Topsy-Turvy Cards
Poker Player's Nightmare
Pocket Discovery
Telepathy Plus
Thought Stealer
Pinkie Does It
A Card and a Number
Riffle Shuffle Intro
Refinement
Retaining the Top Card
Retaining the Bottom Card
In the Air
An Instinct for Cards
Ultra Card Divination
Flourishes Intro
Ruffle
Spread and Turnover
Springing the Cards
Waterfall Shuffle
The Fan
One Hand Fan
One Thumb Fan Bonus Material




VOLUME 2
The Glide Intro
The Glide
Glide Refinement
Design for Laughter
Observation Test
Glimpse Intro & The Bottom Card Glimpse
The Top Card Glimpse #1
Gray's Spelling Trick
Key Card / Undercut / Card Under
Do As I Do
The Three Piles
The Twenty-Sixth Card
Meeting of the Minds
Non Poker Voice
Sliding Key Card
Bonus Material


VOLUME 3

Palm Intro
Top Palm 1
Holding Card / Holding Deck
Multiple Top Palm
Palm Glimpse
Replacing Top Card
Refinement
Card in Pocket
Now You See It
Gathering of the Clan
Spring Catch
Piano Trick
Back Slip Intro
Back Slip
Lightning Card
The Tantalizer
Under Your Hat
Overhand Shuffle 2 Intro
Overhand Break Control
Overhand Lift Shuffle
Lift Shuffle Force
Spread & Break
Holding a Break
Spread & Break Control
Refinement
Obliging Aces
Leapfrog
Spectator's Card
Poker Puzzle
False Shuffles and Cuts Intro
Optical Shuffle
Charlier Shuffle
False Cuts
Palm Cut
An Incomprehensible Divination
Circus Card Trick
Blackjack Detective
Bonus Material


VOLUME 4

DL and Turnover
Refinement
DL Glimpse
Reverse
Rapid Transit
Ambitious Card
Throughth and Consequences
Insidious Dr. Fu Lui Tu
The Pass Intro
Pass Technique
Refinement
Roy Walton's Pass at Red
Kangaroo Card
Righting a Wrong
Blindfold Pack
Double Speller
Color Change
The Changing Card
Self Cutting Deck
A Pretty Cut
Pop-Up Card
Charlier Cut
Acrobatic Aces
Reverses Intro
First Method
Second Method
Third Method
Fourth Method
Reversed Location
Tipsy Turvy
Double Reverse
Mentalivity
Mountebank Miracle
Bonus Material

VOLUME 5

Hindu Shuffle Control
Hindu Force
Hindu Glimpse
The Step
Natural Injog
All Change Here
Classic Force Intro
Now You See It
One Hand Force
Bottom Force
Two Card Force
Riffle Break Force
Sliding Key Force
DL Force
Cut Force
Justice Card Trick
Fours of a Kind
Pulse Trick
Top & Bottom Changes Intro
Top Change
Refinement
The Changeling
Bottom Change
Arrangements
Jacks Wild
Think Stop
Reds & Blacks
Matching the Cards
Platform Intro
3 Cards Across
Ladies Looking Glass
Paul's Tips
Bonus Materia

Thats alot of materials the running time is around 8 hours.

Cost

£50-60

The dvds can be brought at most online magic shops including:

NothingUpMySleeve magic tricks online (NUMS)
www.magictricks.co.uk
www.magicshop.co.uk
www.emagictricks.co.uk

Thats just no name a few




Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)

Obiously it ranges from sleights and tricks with a difficulty of 1- and probably goes upto 3 or 4.

Review

Well, i only got it at about 9oclock this morning, and have only gone throurgh volume 1, but from just watching volume 1, i can tell you that its brilliant, the teaching from Park Wilson is brilliant, he goes into detail about everything, no stone is left unturned, even the simple things like and overhand shuffle he goes into detail, it recommends that you combine your teaching with the RRTCM book aswell.

He explains in the beginning of the dvd that some stuff has been left out, which is the poor tricks as he says, and only the gem tricks are included, which is very good, so you dont have to skip thorought what you dont want to watch.

The only bad side to the DVD collection is the box itself, paying that sort of price £51 for me, the box is a bit lightweight, i would have expected it to come in a more sturdyer long lasting box, but never mind, still briliant dvds.

I hope this hasnt been reviewed before i tried looking for it and couldnt find it so i thourght i would do one mysefl



Overall

Overall i would give this a 9.5/10

It looses 0.5 becuase of the box, but still it is a quality dvd and although it is expensive, it is fairly priced, and well worth the money, and card magician just starting out, or that wants to get the basics down to a fine art, this is defently one to add to your collection.[/url]

(Not to be confused with http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic9617.p ... =royal+dvd !)

Oh yes i got redirected from the DVD set, and was told it wasnt a very good DVD set.

And i was THAT person who told you to avoid the other one get the L&L publising 5 DVD set only

Yup you were

Yeah, this is an excellent companion to the book - and it's about time!
Much, much better than the other, 4-disc, set.

Thanks for the review.

YOU HAVE IT ALL COMPLETELY WRONG!


(The fact that the box isn't good, I think the box is awesome, everything else is spot on though...)

I've had this for a while and have now watched all but about the last twenty minutes of the last DVD. I agree that it's a very good set - and, when compared to the £30 asking price of many single DVDs, it's impressively cheap too.

Wilson not only teaches the moves and tricks from the book well, but several times he also corrects the errors that are in it (though, see http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic13050.php for my assessment of one particular trick). If I were a vile hound and insisted on finding a niggle, I'd say that the audience reactions to many of the performances are a little, let's say, 'flat'. But then, even with the slight variations, imagine sitting there and having most of the RRTCM performed at you, relentlessly. They were probably plain 'awed out' after a while and could manage nothing more than a bit of a nod. That's being picky, however: this set is a teaching aid, not a show, and, as such, it's excellent.

I have to admit the bloke that is there in the small audience i really annoying, and thats a down side that i hate that bloke.

cordenadam wrote:I have to admit the bloke that is there in the small audience i really annoying, and thats a down side that i hate that bloke.

This is drifting off topic, and really tells us nothing except that I probably have some kind of fissure in my brain, but I find myself very often speculating about members of the audience in instructional magic DVDs/videos. There are some knowns/regulars, of course - Michael Ammar's wife, for example. But there are many others I look at and try to imagine where on earth they came from, how on earth they got to be sitting there, and what in God's name is going on in their heads. Even if they aren't actually worrying, they're frequently intriguing. I mean, take that women with the teeth who always sits on Wilson's left in the RRTCM DVD performances. When asked to run through the numbers of the cards out loud she says, 'deuce,' rather than, 'two.' This, you'd think, indicates someone who's very familiar with cards/card players. Yet she then struggles to name the four suits. Twice. This woman fascinates me.

I'm curious, is it worth purchasing both the book and DVD, or can you benefit from just the DVD?

If the book has mistaken information, and the DVD covers everything on there -- should I be looking into the book as well?

Thanks in advance.

The main reason is that the DVD set costs £60 and the book less than £10...

If price is no object, though, you might prefer the DVD.

Kati

Afraid that if you listen to Paul the dvd is only an adjunct to the book, and is set up to be a study guide.

ie you study the book, practice, then fine tune using the DVD.

Bits have been left out for the student to study alone.....so the only true options are book on its own or book and dvd together. Both are a really great way to learn card magic, though if you can afford the book and dvd, another option presents its self!!! Card College For me this would be the perfect way to learn (I cut my teeth on RRTCM and ECT).

So set your budgets and take your choice, (to be fair if you get hooked on cards you will eventually buy them all anyway )

Cheers
John

£50 actually lol

john1960uk wrote:the only true options are book on its own or book and dvd together.

Though Wilson constantly stresses the need to have the book as well, I don't think it's remotely vital. You might miss out on a few things (actually, there are a - very - few tricks on the DVD that a 'performance only' so, to do them yourself, you need either the book, or to figure them out with the power of your brain), but you'd get the bulk of RRTCM. If I had to choose one, and everything else was equal, I'd choose the DVD: it's far better to see a move than to have it described in text (with, perhaps, a few drawings). Not only is it simply easier to understand - we all know that 'easy to show, but a nightmare to write down' thing - but you get view of the 'feel' too.

However, as has been said, the book is so cheap that, if you can afford the DVD, you'd be a dolt not to get the book too. It will provide extra bits and bobs, and it's also much, much easier than the DVD to study in the bath.