The Effect A spectator picks any card from a deck, you place it on the back of your palm and just by running your fingers above it, not touching the card at all, it begins to bend right in front of there eyes.
Cost
16.95 download
18.95 dvd
Difficulty 2
(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)
Review
I bought this effect and a few others about 3 days ago, I have mastered most of them. When I seen the video for mind bender I was amazed. I bought and I was not dissapointed. The downloaded video was very high quality, and explained everything perfectly. My only gripe with the video is at the beginning when Brad Christian is rambling on about the effect, telling u how its done and preforming it but doing it so you can't follow along. This goes for like 5 or 10 minutes before the real instruction happens. It seems totally pointless to me.
The actual instruction part is very well done. Some part seemed a lil un-coordinated, but overall very nice. And the technique bit at the end is very useful to.
As for the actuall effect i was kicking myself it was so easy, but it is VERY visual. I had it mastered in a hour. As on the dvd it said not to preform it in the beginning of a routine, because of how powerful the effect is, it can make your other tricks seem weak. I developed a mix of stigmata followed by mind bender using some patter to link the two together, like how when the spectator picks a card, there is power infused in them that allows the magician to find the cards or do other magical things..(thats at the end of stigmata) then I say, ill demonstrate this and launch into mindbender. The reactions ive gotten so far have been total silence and shock, to swearing, to leaving to the room, etc. Not bad for just re-starting magic again
The effect is also very versatile, with a little practice you can make it bend on a spectators hand, that is even more amazing in my opinion.
Overall
It was was totally worth the money and i definatley recomend this to anyone who wants a extremley powerful reaction at the end of a routine
I never seen a review for this on here so i hope i did it ok
And i hope it was informative for you guys.