if ya bad with cards like i am, and still am really
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go look greg wilsons dvds up like :-
the DoubleTake ( a real must have ) , as u dont need to know florishes, or anything flashy, heres the review :-
Gregory Wilson's Double Take puts the world's greatest double lifts at your fingertips. ..even if you're all thumbs. This step-by-step instructional DVD is packed with more than 90 minutes of dynamic material you can perform anytime, anywhere, with any deck.
For nearly two decades Gregory has been teaching his unique style of magic, as well as performing for many Fortune 500 companies. And as your personal coach, Gregory will teach you the nuances of more than 25 different double lifts ~ choose your favorites: from the top of the deck, from the bottom, from the middle, from a fan, from the table, to the table, and even doubles that flip through the air from hand-to-hand!
If you're a beginner, or have never even picked up a deck of cards, you can easily perform miracles in minutes with Greg's Quick Start-Up Section. The more advanced will enjoy studying the techniques of the masters, including Dai Vernon, Ed Mario, Martin Nash, and many others.
Included are seven powerful routines:
Phoenix Aces - Produce the four aces from mid-air ... ...really!
Weighted Aces - A variation of the legendary Doc Daley's Last Trick.
Two Wrongs DO Make A Right - A visual stunner that looks like trick cards.
Four Card Trick - Darwin Ortiz's Jumping Gemini, with an added killer climax.
Plus:
Three more stunners, and a live performance of Greg's own personal Ambitious Card Routine. Master card magic's most often used move - the DL. Consider this DVD a historical artifact of sorts, as it was Gregory Wilson's debut to the world. It's 2 hours of action-packed, non-stop Wilson wiggle!
if not cards, try to use coins, or something else like sponge balls, as theres plenty of other tricks that aint to fiddley
gregs on the spot is good, heres a review :-
The Effect
An On-The-Street Video Set of Routined Impromptu Magic
On the Spot is a guerilla course in performing impromptu magic. The material is so strong, you could show up at your next gig with no magic on you and still entertain the daylights out of them. It's that good.
Get ready to experience Greg's outta-sight insights for real people with real off the cuff fun! With these simple but stunning routines, you'll be able to turn everyday objects into weapons of deception.
* Ticker Taker - A super-simple and perfectly motivated watch steal that doesn't take tons of testosterone to perform. Learn how to repeat steal a spectator's watch up to 4 times in a row.
* Quick Silver - A quarter disappears and reappears three times - in your eye socket (like a monocle), on the spectator's shoulder, and finally under their watch. All you need is a quarter.
* Sponge Napkins - The impact of a sponge ball routine with ordinary cocktail napkins. Greg's gone beyond the ordinary spongeball moves and has them reappearing in surprising places. Greg also introduces a new concealment that will fool you and your spectators. + Across - A clean and slick impromptu Coins Across. All you need are 3 borrowed quarters. Better start doing your Pinky-Pushups for this incredibly fair handling.
* Head Trip - A Paper Balls over the Head routine with anything - and everything. Gregory grabs glasses, plates, and saltshakers - anything he can get his mitts on!! This routine alone is a postgraduate course in misdirection.
* Glossy Finish - A smear of borrowed lipstick penetrates a spectator's tightly clenched fist. This is perhaps the most motivated and natural routine in the series! Even if you're familiar with the method, you'll still be fooled watching the performance!
* Toll Free - A Close-up miser's dream that ends with a jumbo production! Multiple methods ensure that spectators never see the same move twice.
* 99 Cent Trick - Multiple coin vanishes topped off with a dizzying transposition. That's all I'm telling you.
* Florida Keys - Ordinary keys and their key ring become a mini Linking Ring routine.
* Ring Fright - You toss a borrowed wedding band into the air and then stab it with your finger!
* Questionable Trick - A very convincing copper/silver transposition with the spare change in your pocket - a penny and a dime. Now you can perform Scotch and Soda anywhere, at any time. Playful Pickpocketing - Rob your spectators blind - they'll love your for it. Greg demonstrates how Close-up Pickpocketing can transform the audience's definition of you as an entertainer and erase the lines between performer and audience.
* ReCap Revisited - Gregory's classic, as you've never seen it. Greg's added new subtleties, moves and brilliant new ending where the pen is pulled from the pencap!
Plus More!
These aren't just abbreviated quickies. They're complete routines that are so strong, they can be used at any professional performance
and also try :- Greg Wilson - In Action - Volumes 1=3
Volume 1 Contents:
The Backstage Pass - This has been Greg's secret weapon for fooling the very best magicians all over the world. No flash. No noise. No detection.
Body Piercing - A coin penetrates your hand and then the spectator's hand in a very surprising way. You have to experience this “first hand!”
Weighted Aces - Greg's logically routined version of Doc Daley's Last Trick. Since it happens in the spectator's hand, it has the impact of sponge balls!
The Tell - A peeked card with a compelling "poker tell" presentation.
Pitch & Ditch - Toss any coin and it morphs into another coin in mid-air.
Plus:
Jumping Gemini
Coin in Watch
Band Thru Wrist
Fistful of Dollars
Reset with a Hook
Box Spring
Card to Pocket
Hundy 500 (performance only)
Volume 2 Contents:
Kissing Up - If you must resort to using magic to meet women, this is it! Admittedly, Greg has used this successfully and shamelessly for many years.
Vanish 5000 - The contents of a sugar packet cleanly and cleverly vanish without a trace—and without a TT! The author of Magic for Dummies praises this as the very best trick in his book!
Off Base - A broken and restored wine glass. Perfect for restaurant workers.
Flat-Out Monte - Greg's five-phased 3 Card Monte routine he's been using for over 20 years and chose to debut at the latest MAGIC Live! convention.
Vernon's Boat Trick - Performance only, in the freezing winter waters of Lake Tahoe. But well worth watching Wilson almost get hypothermia!
Plus:
Head Trip
Coin thru Table / Credit Card thru Table
Coin from Head
Multi-Color Pen
Blind Date
Learner’s Permit to Thrill
Recap
Dishonest Abe
Sticks and Stones (performance only)
Volume 3 Contents:
Time Card - A tidy technique for telling time with a deck of cards.
The Slot Machine Scam - A secret way to scam, sham and flim-flam a real slot machine for a real jackpot! You'll immediately book the next flight to Vegas after watching this.
Chip on Shoulder - An appearing and disappearing casino chip—with a very surprising Apollo Robbins finish. See title.
Cut Throat - An impressive demonstration to find all four Aces with a casino cut card.Greg has used this on a number of TV talk shows.
Foreign Affair - Each time you fold a one dollar bill, it changes into another country's currency—from a Pound to a Euro to a Ruble to a Yen—and finally into a perfectly examinable hundred dollar bill!
Plus:
Garret Thomas’ The Ring Thing
Son of a Switch
Stunt Double
Bounce No-Bounce
King-Size Travelers
AND bonus footage of Greg's 20-minute (performance-only) stand-up comedy magic show from a top casino-resort in Lake Tahoe
all this stuff can be learned very easily, and i also recommend :-
Gerry Griffin's Lucky Sevens,
card tricks without the shuffles, but if u wanna learn cards get Ellusionist Crash Course 1 and 2
dunno maybe im wrong, even jay sankey is good for no card trick stuff, daryls fooler doolers, another fav of mine, even get a TT, no 1 has to do card trick, find something u like thats enjoyable to u
if not i could always send u The Art of Dove Magic by Ian Adair
hope this helps
wot do u all think???
by Stephen Ward » Sep 8th, '05, 16:41 
