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I want to buy a good DVD (or book) on cups and balls. Currently I'm looking at either Street cups and balls starring Gazzo or Michael Anmar's DVDs.

I don't know anything about Gazzo but I have Volume 1 of Michael Ammars DVD and it is excellent

There are two full reviews of the Gazzo C&B DVD...Check the search function, it's free of charge.

Mike.

and this was NOT a review. Please think about where you make your posts people...

The Gazzo DVD is in my mind a very expensive way to learn one routine, though having said that, it is extremely thorough. The Ammar stuff is good but one that seems to seldom get mentioned is the Eddy Ray 2 DVD set which has a hell of a lot on it. I think Clive at www.cards4magic.co.uk stocks it.

James

Having seen both I liked Ammar better, but I am a amature so that my swing my decision

ive seen both but ive seen gazzo live at the liverpool magic circle pm me for full update on that it was cool. both are as goos as each other some different aspects on the same tricks, worth buying both ammar 1st then gazzo but do get both you would benefit from it.gazzo hasx to deal with a lot of heckling when he performs he has some ace material. not seen ammars stuff for that??? has anyone else?

I don't have either, but after seeing performance clips of Gazzo, I found him to be rude, arrogant and completely unlikeable. I could watch him teaching a C&B routine as much as I could stomach Michael Barrymore telling you how to throw a good party.
He was just rude to spectators which doesn't suprise me he get heckled. If a street entertainer, that I was enjoying, was as rude to me as Gazzo is to his audience, I wouldn't give them some cash, they would receive a dry slap instead.

I have Ammar vol 1, and while I find it a good resource, I would recommend taking a look at Bob White's 'Practical Cups and Balls' dvd. I've still to post a review of this, but it is a fantastic disc, which goes through a fairly basic, yet very entertaining routine in meticuluos (sp?) detail. His incredibly in-depth description of the ball vanish is worth the price of the disc alone. It really is very good. I've forgotten where I got it from (it may have been worldmagicshop.co.uk) but a tiny bit of googling, and you'll be well on the way to cups and balls-ey goodness.

In my opinion, that is.