VISUAL, FAST, & SMOOTH...
The AXIS color change by Parth Dalal fulfills all of the requirements a serious performer would appreciate in an effective, ultra-visual, high-impact color change. It's one fluid motion that produces a result.
The performer holds the deck, face up, in his left (or right) hand in mechanic's grip. Without moving a muscle, he simply waves his other hand (empty) over the cards, and the top card visually, smoothly changes into a completely different card.
Your eyes won't believe your hands, and you'll fool yourself watching it in the mirror. Designed for an intermediate level performer (ability level 5 out of 10), the change is remarkably simple in technique and absolutely effective in performance.
Created by up-and-coming close-up performer Parth Dalal, this is a color change that you will love to learn and actually USE on a daily basis.
Taught in 12 minutes of detailed instruction by the creator himself, you'll learn everything you need to know to begin practicing and performing AXIS soon.
The Axis Color Change is a new and very fast color change created by Parth Dalal.* The instructional video (available in download only as far as I know) is short at only 12 minutes, but still contains good instruction of the move itself, getting into it, getting out of it and how to use the move as a force or as a part of an ambitious card routine.
When done well the change really is very fast and smooth, so taking the time to really practice it will pay off. In theory I really like the change a lot. In practice though, I think there are two main problems with the change.
The first problem is the angle sensitivity. I really wish it worked with a wider range of angles because the change is very good. Maybe with some more practice I'll get better at controlling the angles.
The second problem is cleaning it up. The video offers three different methods for getting out of it, none of which I found particularly good.
Overall I'd give it a 5/10. It's a great idea but I think it suffers from some real world issues that lower the rating a lot for me.
* Though Dalal created this version of the change, names like August Roterberg and Edward Marlo are mentioned in the video as having used a similar idea in the past.
