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Ripped & Restored DVD - by Yves Doumergue
Available from eMagictricks.co.uk - http://www.emagictricks.co.uk/product_i ... ts_id=4372

Cost: £29.95 Format: DVD, 40 mins, chaptered

The Effect-as described by eMagictricks
Three Outstanding Torn & Restored Card Routines

Yves Doumergue has stunned many knowledgeable magicians with his Ripped & Restored Card. If you ever wanted to do a torn and restored card routine with a one piece at a time restoration this video will teach you Yves' creative new methods which have been embraced by many professional magicians. Yves performs and teaches three outstanding routines, all clever, relatively easy to perform and with visual restorations that look completely impossible.

Routines Performed and Explained:
Ripped & Restored: An outstanding new handling for the torn and restored card. A freely selected and signed card is torn into four pieces. The four pieces are visibly fused together one piece at a time until the entire signed card is restored. Everything is examinable and the restored card can be given as a souvenir.
Puzzle Card: A freely selected and signed picture card is torn into four pieces and restored in the strangest way. After two of the pieces are fused together you magically restore the card in a 'mismade' condition where two of the corners are in the wrong places. Instantly and visually the card is restored in its entirety.
Blended: A variation of Ripped & Restored where all four corners of the card are signed prior to the tearing. The restoration is made by making each of the signed pieces fuse together until the entire card is restored.

Difficulty: a very reasonable 4
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)

Review
I've been doing 'torn & restored' card routines for years. I love them. In fact, they're amongst the first tricks I remember doing, when my age was still in single figures.

There's an unmistakable strangeness the first time your spectator sees you ruining a playing card. Firstly, it's something they're not expecting. Sure, they don't bat an eyelid when you deface and ruin them by signing them - but when they see you rip a card up in front of their eyes - they're expression changes, and you know they are expecting something magical.

My previous attempts were the pretty 'normal' sign a card, rip it into quarters, wave of the hands and unfold it - whole.

Brent Braun came along and did 'torched and restored' - which I love dearly, which involves the torn, signed card being visibly 'fused' back together with a cigarette lighter - awesome.

But what we have here, from Yves, is one of the most visual and mind-bending routines available (well, 3 in fact).

A card is FREELY selected, no forces, and signed by the spectator. Without even a pause for though (or swap!) the card is VISIBLY torn right in front of their eyes. They can even see their signature!

Once the card is in quarters - you join first just two pieces back together, and show it to be restored.

Then, another quarter is added to the bizarre card-jigsaw. Finally, and spectacularly - the final piece is added. You show both sides of the card and hand it out immediately for inspection. It's also a lasting souvenir!!!

The other two routines utilise exactly the same principle - one of them being a version which allows the signed face of the card to be visible at all times (which is a bit more advanced a handling), and a variation which can be added as a bolt-on to the end of the torn and restored, which allows the card to be 'mis-made' with the wrong pieces being fused together, but then instantly restored and handed out again! Genius!

Everything is taught thoroughly - and I do mean thoroughly. Each move, each twist, each turn - all there. Nothing to the imagination. You'll be reaching for the cards quicker than you can spell 'Yves Doumergue'.

The only small (and I mean SMALL) criticism is, due to Yves's grasp of English not being what it should (he's a young French-speaking bloke), he's accompanied the whole way through by his buddy - who interrupts, butts in, and basically takes over most of the time. This does become a minor irritation - but you'd be lost without him - so you'll live with it.

Overall
On all counts, 10/10. Stunning. Watch the demo video at www.penguinmagic.com - you'll be totally baffled - especially when I tell you that the card is not gaffed in any way whatsoever - it's just a freely selected regular bike card.

I can't recommend this highly enough - but be warned, it's not easy...

Is only one card used? I know that sounds strange becuase of ow the card is fully restored but PH's effect is an signed , torna dn restored effect using one card. If it is...I might just have to buy this DVD.

I assume you're talking about Paul Harris when you say PH - and I assume also that you're talking about 'Ultimate Rip Off', the card effect in which a card is torn and restored, except for one corner???

Well, this card is TORN INTO FOUR PIECES in full view. Then it is RESTORED INTO A WHOLE CARD in full view.

The Harris effect is never a full restoration - which is why it is flawed in my opinion - even though it's a one-card effect.

Kerplunk - we can't give you explicit information about effects until you get into the Magicians Only area, I'm afraid - so can't really answer your question.

But if it's any help, I used to use the Harris method as an impromptu one - and now I'd use this instead. Definately.

Seige how hard is this in reality. Id the DVD good enuff so that even a muppet like my self can do it?

Cheers

J