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What they say:
The fuse is lit as Ash Marlow, one of the UK's best up and coming magicians, presents 'in your face' impromptu magic like no one has seen before

'Under Pressure' explodes onto the scene showing new and original tricks including easy to follow methods and blistering performances to the general public

You've just got yourself a one-way ticket to blow the minds of anyone, anywhere, anytime. So watch the flames as it's 'gonna' get hot!


The Effect
A dozen or so card, coin, and ring/string routines


Cost
Not sure - I got it for free as part of the recent goodie bag deal at magicshop.co.uk - but I couldn't find it on there


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)

3 - some sleights used


Review
Obviously brought out to take advantage of teenage males who want to learn a few tricks to impress girls. There's nothing here that any half decent magician won't already know, and there's nothing here that you can't find in Bobo, Mark Wilson, and RRTCM

And you will probably need the above books to properly learn these routines. If this is meant to target beginners, there's very little in the way of explanation of sleights. So if you need a real explanation of how to do a DL you'll have to look it up elsewhere

So, there's nothing new or original in there and it's far from well explained. And the performances aren't that good either

So I'm not sure anyone should get this DVD - visual learner or not


2/10 - one point for sheer cheek, the other point for the director actually leaving in a quote from a spec completely blowing the ACR routine and asking what card Marlow was holding

i also got this with a goodie bag offer a few years ago and am so glad that i didnt waste any money on it!

This is truly awful!

dgm

I got this AGES ago -

The DVD itself is well put together, but i dont like it being filmed live i prefer the tricks in a studio otherwise it meeses with the sound an dits hard to hear people...

Good luck to Ash and i'd love to see him 1 day