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Hello all,

I recently have seem some of Daryl's encyclopedia and it seemed really good. I learnt how to a technique and as a result have figured out a couple of tricks I've seen other magicians perform(Unfortunately I no longer have access to the video) As a beginner this is quite a breakthrough!

I contacted the local magic club and they recommended the following dvds:

Daryl Encyclopedia of Card Sleights Volumes 1-8
- Michael Ammar Easy To Master Card Miracles Volumes 1-6
- Harry Lorayne Is Probably The Best Teacher of, Entertainer with Close-Up
Card Magic Ever! Volumes 8, 9 and 10
- Richard Kaufman - Basic, Basic Card Technique
- Daryl Card Revelations Vols 1-5 Videos Or DVD's
- Lessons In Magic By Juan Tamariz
- Self Working Card Tricks Video's Vol. 1 & 2 by Mike Maxwell
- Double take

These things always seem quite pricey and I can only afford one or two at the moment. Could somebody tell me which would be a good place to start.

At the moment I'm more interested in tricks that just use normal decks.

Regards,

Sam.

The standard response to that would probably be to start with Michael Ammar, he is an excellent teacher and his dvds are well produced and packed with good stuff.

Daryls dvd's are excellent and though they are not full of tricks they do start from the very beginning ie how to hold the cards / shuffle etc. but it is really down to choice. I say get one of ammars if you've already seen some of daryls and compare there teaching methods, you may prefer one over the other. in time you can always end up with both sets of dvd's as there is plenty of stuff to keep you going if you want to get through all of it.
try buying one a month and working solely on that this will get your technique down a bit better.

I agree - if you can afford them - Michael Ammar's Easy To Master Card Miracles are excellent - if I were going to have one set, this would be them.
I would argue that the Daryl's Encyclopedia is an excellent reference tool, once you are initiated in Card Magic, and want to work on acquiring some more sleights.

Oz Pearlman's Born to Perform is probably the best single dvd to buy, if you don't want to spend a lot of money, but want to learn some kicker tricks to impress your mates, and see if you really want to go down the long (and possibly expensive) road of magic - BEWARE for CUPS - Compulsive Unnecessary Purchase Syndrome - I suffer badly from it.

I actually started my route into magic via the ellusionist ninja series - these are arguably a bit more pricey than Born to Perform, and are slated by a lot of members for not giving enough credit to the inventors/downright stealing other people's ideas. They are however well presented, and I found Brad Christian's teaching style to my liking.

That's that's a summary of the best titles in my collection for your situation.
Bcfaigg

if your a begginer try ellusionist.com they have good begginer stuff and brad chrisian i find is a great teacher. Most products and videos are downloadable so you can watch them right away, plus ellusionist have reduced there prices a very lot past months so now you can get quality videos cheap.

out of your list of dvds i would suggest the daryl card sleight dvds i have all volumes exept 3 and 5, he is a great teacher to.


hope this helped a tiny bit

Ben