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Right. My card work is coming along nicely and im saving up for card college. I have some othe effects that are what you might describe as micellaneous tricks but my coin work is really annoying me.
The material i have with coins in is On the Spot, Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic and Bobo's book, Bobo's book is good but i find it a little out dated (for a 15 year old). Also, when i see a card trick i have enough knowledge now to have some idea how it is done. Coins, i don't. There are vanishes where both hands are shown, short sleeved - then the coin is reproduced.

I am planning to buy Revolutionary Coin Magic. I was wondering, is ther a sort of card college equivilent for coins?

Cheers,

Pitto

The books by Richard Kaufmann and David Roth are supposed to be excellent.
Although Bobo is the nearest you'll get to a Coin Bible.

And if you get "Revolutionary Coin Magic" you'll have enough material to work on for the next decade at least!!

Yeah Bobo is great but i don't like sleeving and im not keen on/cant afford gimmiks and a fare amount is comprised of those two

Pitto

Serriously, take another look though Bobo's. Forse yourself to learn a few effects. There is a ton of valuably information in there that doesn't involve gimmicks or sleaving.

saxmad wrote:The books by Richard Kaufmann and David Roth are supposed to be excellent.
Although Bobo is the nearest you'll get to a Coin Bible.

I was just about to say the exact same thing. I have all three and they are all excellent. The Roth and Kaufmann books are newer and may be easier to read.

At first glance it does appear as though a lot of the tricks in Bobo involve sleeving or gimmicks, but there is plenty of strong material that doesn't. Also, much of the sleeving is done to give a cleaner effect so with some thought to the routine you can get around it.

Definitley get Revolutionary Coin Magic as well it's a masterpiece. The better you get with coins the more you'll get out of it as there's such a range of material, just like Bobo.

bronz wrote:At first glance it does appear as though a lot of the tricks in Bobo involve sleeving or gimmicks

A lot of coin magic involves sleaving or gimmicks. Also, lapping and coin boxes are popular (i.e. Okito). You can do quite a bit without boxes, sleaving or gimmicks (I only use those so I will know about them, I do not perform with them).

if you need a bit of encouragement to the tricks in bobos this is a good website with quite a few videos.

http://kavalsky.net:3834/OpenBobo/