Talkmagic.co.uk

CumQuaT · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:33 am Post subject: 40 Ways to Force a Card

Hello, second review. I recently purchased the DVD of "40 Ways to Force a Card" with Gerry Griffin. The product is available from Magic Makers Inc.

This DVD seriously is a must-have for all budding magicians. Rather than teaching you direct tricks and how to do them, it goes deep into different methods you can use to incorporate into your own tricks. Things like how to shuffle a deck overhand, hindu or riffle and still retain the top stock. How to make your viewer lodge a card randomly in a deck and have it turn up magically between the two black aces. How to accurately predict two randomly chosen cards from a freshly shuffled and cut deck. The list goes on and on. There are in fact more than 40 items on the DVD. Actually closer to 50. Most of the tricks don't require preparations or gimmicks, either, so these are things that can be done with any deck, which is always a favourite feature of mine in a trick. Great for impromptu work.

Gerry Griffin's visual style is very easy to follow. It is slow-paced and you can sit in front of your TV with a deck and do the things as he does them.

Very much worth purchasing if you're into card magic and sleight!

pAdDed ceLL · Junior Member Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 10

All very good to know. You've just sold me. Forcing cards is my focus in study, as well. This will be awesome! Thanks

CumQuaT · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:32 am Post subject:

You won't be dissappointed! It's excellent. Glad to know it was helpful!

americanwit · New User Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 2

I always say, why pay when you can get the info for free (Text deleted by Mods)

This is exactly the kind of thing we don't do on TM and there have been endless discussions on why many freebiee are just plain theft so we aren't going to debate it all over again. Please don't post such links again.

pAdDed ceLL · Junior Member Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 10

Once again, great review. Your assessment was flawless. I purchased "40 Ways to Force a Card" as I said I would and have watched it at least 10 times. There's so much information, and yet with the menus, all you have to do is watch it all the way through a couple times and then pick certain forces to look further into and review with.

I'm really glad you reviewed this product, otherwise who knows when I would have heard of it.

p.s. I never have used the 'criss-cross force' before this DVD. I always thought it was too easy to catch on. But thanks to this video, I decided to give it a try. And just like the guy says, if you're confident and casual, no ever catches it. You have to know the secret for it to seem simple I guess. Well.... that didn't really make sense, but anyway...

It was nice to see so many forces I had never heard of before. Still can't get the 'classic force' to go right with ppl, but I consider this tool to be the most valuable in my collection so far.

Strike · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject:

I knew there was a reason I was avoiding the reviews areas of this forum, now I have to go and buy this dvd. But if your raves are anything to go by it will clearly be well worth it.

David The Cryptic · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

Besides the fact that its a MM product, it isnt a MUST HAVE. As I am sure many many of the methods taught in the DVD are from books. So I will instead pick up a couple of books with many forces and other great information. I know more than 40 forces, I dont need but 5 myself.
So I dont see it as a must have.

Trickyfied · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: more money!

Thanks for the review! More money Shocked

my wife is gonna kill me!LOL I consider it a MUST HAVE for me personally as I struggle with reading books, I must prefer learning from demonstration such as dvd. Considering there are 3 learning styles audio, kinesthetic and visual you will find that people have there own preferd way of learning. I learn some of my tricks by watching others perform them badly. Laughing

crozboz · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject:

I agree with david. Why the hell would you need 40 forces? 1 or 2 ussually does me if your table hopping. As a rule, i tend not to buy books that advertise quantity of tricks. I can do my 5 forces well, whereas if i got the book, i would have 40 that i would never use.

Tomo · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

Mandrake · . Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 19332 Location: UK (62:AH)

Sometimes a little variety helps keep things fresh for the performer as well as the audiences.

crozboz · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject:

yeah, i can see your point, but i do mostly table hopping, so all i need are about 5 forces. I never do more than 4 tricks per table. And only 1/2 would need forcing.

David The Cryptic · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 2:35 am Post subject:

bananafish · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:28 am Post subject:

Mandrake · . Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 19332 Location: UK (62:AH)

Just to stir the pot a little, don't forget that Theo Annemann released a book of 202 Methods of Forcing!