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The Effect
Beginner to pro with sponge balls! Package includes everything you need to add a worldclass sponge ball routine to your act.


Cost
About 20 dollards on penguinmagic.com


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)
I woul'd say 3 cause this is something that uses alot of slieghts but actualy they are not verry hard to lear. For some people it could be 4.


Review
As i was browsing the interweb about magic i was thinking to myself 'hmm, what coul'd i do that's fun and fast without preperation and gimmicks and the whole rimram. I even past a fiew dvd's on sponge balls but wasn't realy interested in it at first. I honestly tought it was a bit childish. But then i stumbeld on this dvd and i just watched the trailer. The reactions of people were crazy. The next day I asked my girlfriend about what here opinion was about those red balls. She told me a story on how a guy once magicaly put an extra ball in her hand. She said it was the best trick she'd ever seen.

Enough about the background. I ordered the dvd and about a week later, there it was. On the website they promissed me there would be 4 sponge balls included but i couldn't find them. Then i opened the dvd cover and 4 red funny balls popped out. I was like 'were they all in there?'
After putting the dvd in my laptop and watching it once and trying evertything Jay tried to learn me i already coul'd do most of them. So i tested the balls on a few people and it worked. Altough a few people saw how it worked.
I wanted to watch the dvd again. There was a bonus section with Darwin. He learns you a few verry nice tips and tricks. The part with Darwin is worth the price of the dvd by itself. It's realy realy realy helpfull.
Honeslty i think this dvd is more for the beginner to get good at these things, but not to get pro. I learned alot, and i use them every day. But i feel like i can learn alot more.


Overall
I am verry pleased with my dvd and if you are a beginner, or you never touched sponge balls in your life. You should buy it. It realy is worth the money, aspecially the part with Darwin.

I would give the presentation 8/10. The amount of stuff on the dvd 9/10.

Greetings from belgium

cool, not even a reaction like 'good review dude' !!!

greetings from belgium

Give it time, many members would be offline over the weekend....

good review dude

After a proper introduction to magic my magic dealer frequently advised me to try this DVD. I thought of spongeballs as childish as well... I bought the DVD a few months later and must say that I liked it too.
The basics are explained clearly (though Jay is not the best teacher in my opinion). And like you said - this one is not for the performer who already uses spongeballs.

At the moment I don't use them anymore (I've had great reactions with them though) because I'm exploring the fields of mentalism these days.

Famuus wrote:cool, not even a reaction like 'good review dude' !!!

Possibly because it was reviewed over a year ago by lozey: http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic23176.php

Thanks for taking the time to write the review, especially as you have quite a different view from lozey. It's good to get someone else's opinion.

However, just to keep things tidy, if you want to review something, please do a search (there's even a review index that Replicant maintains) to see if it's been covered before. If it has, please add your review to existing threads.

Hope that's not out of line, moderators.

Part-Timer wrote:

Famuus wrote:cool, not even a reaction like 'good review dude' !!!

Possibly because it was reviewed over a year ago by lozey: http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic23176.php

Thanks for taking the time to write the review, especially as you have quite a different view from lozey. It's good to get someone else's opinion.

However, just to keep things tidy, if you want to review something, please do a search (there's even a review index that Replicant maintains) to see if it's been covered before. If it has, please add your review to existing threads.

Hope that's not out of line, moderators.

Sorry about that, i tought the dvd was released like a few monts ago. Just trying to contribute

Greetings from Belgium

Famuus wrote:Just trying to contribute

Understood, and appreciated!