by Lord Freddie » Dec 28th, '07, 00:52
Just been watching this for the first time and although the material on here is excellent and D&D are first class card manipulators, I have to say I'm rather disapponted with the teaching, or lack of, on two of the discs.
It seems more like a performance DVD as I thought the main objective of teaching something is explaining it clearly.
The silence thing, for material as complicated as this, is just not on and reeks of laziness and only fuels the pro-book side in the books vs DVD's argument.
I should imagine after watching this, you'd be inclined to purchase the books to get the full description and those that have their books will purchase the DVD's to see the moves in action. Hmm. Good marketing? Or Am I just too cynical?
The first disc is fine, the tricks are explained well and they are great tricks. They actually bother to speak on this disc meaning you pick up all subtleties needed when learning new material.
Considering the price, I think the teaching on the two 'silent' discs is far too ambiguous. I learnt the back palm from the Tarbell books and it was easy to follow each steps, as along with the diagrams, the positioning was explained. After watching the 'teaching' of it on here, I don't think I would have picked it up as quick.
It's a double learning curve here, first you have to work out what the hell is going on and then you practice it. The first part is uneccessary really and a bit more effort from the Bucks would have been appreciated.
Some of the teaching comes across as arrogant, look at me do it fast, now look at me do it slower, which is not a great way to pick something up.
The silent thing worked for David Stone as the angling was just right and he emphasised what you needed to do, often with captions on screen, but this doesn't work and makes the material a labourious task to learn.
It's great material, but I just wish they weren't such a pair of lazy Bucks!
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