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Sankey’s Gratest Hits (3 DVD set)

This set of DVDs includes a number of tricks (35 to be exact) so after the name of each of the main tricks I have given a very short discription (card / coin and so on).

The Effects

Disc One
Collect Me Not (card trick for more then one spec)
Stirring Silver (ring and spoon trick)
No Jacket Required (coin trick)
Colour Blind (mental colour prediction) (one of my favs)
Mexican Jumping Coins (coin trick)
Carbon Paper (card trick)
Identifying Features (paper money trick)
Fragile Harbor (card trick) (one of my favs)
Three Time Lucky (mental card magic)
Please Don’t Feed The Playing Cards (nice comedy card magic) (one of my favs)
Belly Of The Beat (torn and restored with a difference)
Smuggler Aces (powerfull aces trick)
Forgery (signed card trick) (one of my favs)
Joking Around (card location and vanish)
V.I.P (mental card prediction) (one of my favs)
Ups & Downs (solid through solid penetration) (coin through table)
Missing Evidence (signed card restoration) (one of my favs)
X (mental card prediction)
Tracking Device (card / button vanish reappear trick) (one of my favs)
Messiah Vanish (powerful coin vanish)
Perfect Timing (paper clock prediction)
Hotlink (linking hearts on cards)
Stapled! (card and stapler trick)
Fade Away (deck colour change (well sort of))
Mr. Clean Coins Across (coin trick)

Disc Two
Explanations of tricks of disc one

Disc Three
Bonus Effects
State Of The Union
Rolling Thunder
Mountebank Aces
Extended Credit
Boxing Ring
Spark It Up!
Hit & Run
Transient
Case Of Mistaken Identity
Nowhere Coins

Cost
£49.99 (but price varies depending on site!)
http://www.magictricks.co.uk/prodshow.asp?code=567
http://www.magicshop.co.uk/product_info ... 5de7d14882

Difficulty
3=Some sleights used
4=Advanced sleights used

Review
Nice DVD set. I imagin if you have Sankey DVDs some of the tricks may be repeated but as this was my first Sankey DVD I found it amazing. I tended to avoid Sankey for quite a while and I don't really know why but after seeing this DVD I have become a big fan. I found him interesting to watch, easy to understand, good pace to explanations and it was nice to have the first DVD being totally tricks and the second DVD being the explations.
The third DVD of the bonus effects is also very nice and some very good tricks.
Also included in the DVD are archive bits taken from Sankey's magical life over the past 25 years and he has had some interesting hair styles!
The only but I can say a bad word about is when he is performing on DVD 1 his camera man moves about a lot and seems to be using a hand held camera so its a bit of a bumpy viewing but nothing major.

Overall
9 out of 10. Lost the mark for the bumpy filming as it gave me a bit of a head ache but thats all.

A nice good review, thanks for that. I have some of Sankey's stuff but not this DVD collection...

CURSE THIS C.U.P.S. of mine!

I have this but prefer 'The Very Best of Jay Sankey' 3 dvd set. it shows you jay performing these tricks for a real audience and gives u insight into misdirection and patter. It includes many of the tricks on this dvd

I love all of Sankey's work. Nice review. Ooh...CUPS...uh-oh...

Thanks for the good review.

I find Sankey interesting to watch but just like Robin Williams I can only deal with him in small doses !

I am interested in getting some of Jay Sankey's dvds. Which ones would you recommend?

Since he puts the same effect (or small variations) on more than one disc sometimes it's hard to avoid paying for duplicates of some material if you buy several Sankey discs.
My favourites are the Very Best of set (better than Greatest Hits), Front Row, and I also like a lot of what's on the Secret Files discs although the material is more rough.
If you get Greatest Hits you will notice a lot of the same effects appear on VB and SF.
I'm not into coins very much, but a lot of people like Rev Coin Magic (but it's not for beginners).

I definitely wouldn't buy Rev Card Magic again.