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Very highly-recommended reading, Sam, especially if you're in any way interested in propless mentalism (rumour has it that he's got his NM volumes on sale at half-price at the moment, too )

oooooohhhhh Rob you are a wicked man saying things like "half-price at the moment" to a man with no money in the world (COME ON PAY DAY!!!!)
I will deffo be looking into those nice offers, thanks ha ha lovely

sammy_789 wrote:la la la ..... this is me running away now!!

why what will Mr Tompson say? iv never read his books thou iv heard good things!

Well, he might say that they're not lectures that seem to be trying to put people off mentalism, or massive reading lists that seem to be trying to put people off mentalism, or even free exposures of cold reading. He might say that they contain sentiments like: "Go on, pick up the phone. Call a friend. Ask him to go to a random book or magazine. Ask him to select a word. Tell him what it is and then laugh when you hear his shocked response."

i must say im more excited for payday by the second! (24th)

thou i must ask Tomo, iv never been super practiced in the ways of psychological forcing
will these books still be ok for me? if so consider them bought!!!!

sammy_789 wrote:i must say im more excited for payday by the second! (24th)

thou i must ask Tomo, iv never been super practiced in the ways of psychological forcing
will these books still be ok for me? if so consider them bought!!!!

Yes. I had a lot of input from serious full time performers for the first one to help fill it full of subtleties.

I use Naked book test and it is excellent.

thanks, i think it would be a good idea to put just a few mentalsm style effects with magic effects in my show

I use ideas from Jon's books all the time, it does take a little bit of practice to use psy forces, to understand how to phrase things and the intonation to use when forcing but Jon does cover most of this and its a great fun learning experience.

Slipping back to the o.p for a second, the only real difference between stage mentalism, and any other kind of mentalism, is the scale of the reveal.
Anylize any of Derrens grand closing routines, and you will quickly see that they are just scalled up close up effects.
The other thing that seems to be popular at the moment, is the way spectators are chosen, by throwing assorted junk out for somebody to catch.
Ive never been a huge fan of this. But many are.

A guy at Blackpool took the mickey out of that idea by throwing out a styrofoam boomerang!