The Effect
Experience the ultimate collection of showoff moves with coins! From beginner to Showoff Level, You will have it ALL!
Learn over 70 moves, to make you a Showoff with coins!
Level One Beginner
Finger Spin • Axis Spin • Coin Twirl • Coin Flip on Table Edge • Elbow Catch
Flipover Balance • Flat Palm • Flat Spin • Flicking A Card Out from Beneath a Coin on the Fingertip • Forearm Roll From Between Fingers
Jumbo Arm Roll • Horizontal Toss & Catch • Jumbo Flipback • Table Spin (2 Handed)
Table Spin (Spin with First Finger) • Table Spin (One Handed) • Waterfall
Bobo Change • Fake Spellbound • “Penny to Half Dollar” Change
Level Two Intermediate
“Matrix” Heel Slide Change • 3- Coin Roll from Hand-to-Hand • Claw Catch
Coin Flip • Flat Spin to Foot to Hand • Front To Back • Jumbo Coin Rollout
Lazy Steeplechase • Pumpkin Seed Toss • Quarter Bounce & Catch (on edge)
Quarter Bounce (flat) • Quarter Bounce (on edge) • Snap Toss • Surface Roll
T-balance • Spellbound (Vernon) • Thumb Palm to Lying on Fingers • Sweep
Level Three Expert
Arm Pops • Arm Spread & Catch • Coin Fan • Flipback with Stack of Coins
Forearm Roll From Toss • Jumbo Cobra • Over & Under Steeplechase
Stack Shuffle • Steeplechase • Spellbound Change to Jumbo Coin
Fingertip Change to Jumbo Coin
Level Four Master
2 Coin Splits • 4-Coin Roll Down • 4-Coin Roll Down to Coin Star • Coin
Manipulation Routine • Muscle Pass • Table Shower • Two-Handed Steeple
Chase (One Coin) • Two Handed-Steeple Chase (3 coins) • 4-Coin Vertical
Coin Star • ‘Flurious’ Change to Small Coin
Level Five Showoff
10 Coin Roll out • 5-Coin Roll Down to Coin Star • 5-Coin Roll Down
1st Coin in Palm • 5th Coin Between Thumb & Pinky • Cartesian Balance
The Insect • Monocle Catch (Hand – Foot – Eye) • 5- Coin Vertical Coin Star
Cost
40-50$, 19-25£
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)
4 - It does contain certain sleights which are very hard to master, but no prior magic knowledge is necessary.
Review
I bought this DVD with the original intention of giving it to a magician friend, but I decided to keep it and buy him Pyro Perception instead. It came to me that the DVD review wasn't on the forum and it would make a good contribution to those who would want to buy it.
Pro: The quality of the DVD is good, the sleights are well explained, and there is a number of them which would keep one occupied for a long time if he wished to learn them all. The moves are very exotic at times, creating very visual coin flourishing and they are very impressive if performed correctly. The distribution into levels is accurate and each one has a proper descriptive name (5-Coin Roll Down to Coin Star NOT The Viper Slither (reference to a certain website we all know
)).
Con: When learning a sleight, one will have to see the same explanation 5-10-20 times, and rewinding to the beginning of the scene only brings an intro title, then a demonstration and finally the description. skipping to the description directly would be much more practical. Also, many of the moves are repetitive, with slight variations (Lazy Steeplechase vs. Steeplechase) which would lead to the DVD not having as many different moves as advertised. The sleights in the beginner level are very hard to be called "sleights". Most of them we acquire naturally when first touching a coin. Finger Spin is basically just spinning the coin around plainly; not very "showoff".
Overall
Overall, the DVDs contain about 30 sleights which are variated and visually aesthetic that one would expect to learn from a DVD like this - not 70. But the explanations are good, and easy to understand, as well as the quality which is stunning. So if you wish to be able to "showoff" like those cool guys in the movies, sure, go ahead, buy it, I reccomend it.
I would give it a final score of 8.5/10.
