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The Greatest Beginner Magic DVD Ever featuring Oz Pearlman and Jessie Geneva (DVD)


The perfect place to start. Powerful tricks with beautiful secrets. Fun and easy to perform. Highly recommended!
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Magic is one of the best hobbies on the planet. Being a magician means you always have something to share with the people you meet. You always have something fascinating. You always have something fun. You always have something to give.

Getting into magic can be difficult or even intimidating. There are thousands of tricks in a great magic shop. But, if you start in the wrong place, you can spend a lot of money on tricks you're not ready to perform.

This DVD is designed to be the perfect place to start. We surveyed over 3,000 professional caliber tricks and selected just the tricks we think are best for you as a serious beginner. These are tricks professional magicians respect and love, but they're easy enough a new magician can truly master them.

You'll Learn

  • Ultimate Pick a Card - The spectator's card JUMPS out of the center of the deck!
  • Ghost Match - A match mysteriously vanishes and ends up inside the matchbook... attached! One of the best bar/restaurant tricks on the planet.
  • French Drop - Vanish a coin and produce it from your spectator's ear! There's a reason people talk about this trick years later... it's that good!
  • One Coin Routine - A magical combination you can do anytime! This one will give you the confidence to really feel like a magician anywhere you are!
  • The Great Shoelace Escape - One of the most visual and entertaining escapes there is!
  • Force and Reveal - Have complete control of your spectator's choices!
  • Best Friend Prediction - Divine a spectator's best friend's name or predict who they're going to marry!
  • Magician's Choice - This may be the single biggest reason magician are the happiest people on earth! They always get their way!
  • Linking Paper Clips - A great little trick you can teach your friends if they want to learn a trick... without giving away any of the powerful secrets you've been fooling them with the whole time!
  • Jumping Rubber Band - An eye-popping trick where a rubber band jumps through your fingers!
  • Coin to Napkin - A coin vanishes and ends up in an impossible place!
  • Salt Shaker Thru Table - The ultimate dinner table trick!
No prior knowledge of magic is required for this DVD. All you need is a desire to learn, and a commitment to use the secrets contained herein--passed down from magician to magician over generations--to give wonder to the world.

We're excited to be a part of your introduction to magic. Lets get started.

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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 4th, 2010
this is a great dvd for someone curious about magic. having said that it isnt very useful for anyone who has any experience. but if you need a dvd to introduce someone to the basics...then without question this is tthe right choice!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 3rd, 2010
The trick selection on the DVD looked very basic. I was very disappointed. I mean, Magician's Force? Come on, that's not even a trick, it's a method. Force and Reveal? Coin From Ear? Pretty lame tricks.

However, I thoroughly enjoyed the DVD. Without a doubt, a lot of this material will be used by me. The routines are effective and the performance video's prove it. It really reminded me how these simple effects can be so effective with the right routine.

I would say the format is trick, explanation, street/restaurant performance, and short essays. The first essay is "What is Magic?" There is one on over coming nervousness, how to handle "touchy" spectators and how to handle a heckler. Oz explains what magic is and what it is not. Perlman goes over what can go wrong and how to recover, angles, exposed views, patter, timing, misdirection and a lot more.

To say there are 12 tricks is short-selling the material. There are multiple presentations for many of the effects including advanced handling sections. You're getting a lot of really good routines and a lot of additional information. Sure some of these effects are in Mark Wilson's Complete Course In Magic (MWCCIM) but the level of detail is superior (in my opinion) than in MWCCIM. You get to see a real magician, perform the effect to real spectators. In MWCCIM, not so much.

Does MWCCIM have more material? No comparison, of course it does. But this is a great magic primer with really good material. I don't think a beginner (or anyone) could go wrong. And at the price of "free" I had a great time watching it.
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on October 19th, 2014
Have experienced this difficulty with other downloads. With this download, it will not permit moving backward or forward in the program. So if you wish to focus on a specific effect, you must watch the entore program until you reach the effect you wish to practice. This is very irritating and a failure with downloads. It is best to provide the effects on DVD whereby you can move backward or forward in the program or provide the effect in print whereby you can easily turn pages to review certain movments.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 3rd, 2010
This DVD is not only for beginners. it features material suitable for the working pro as well. Also includes tips on practicing, and other important aspects that add up to the actual performance. A great item for any performer, young od old, seasoned or new.

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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 8th, 2010
Though it is for beginners, there are a lot of useful stuff for all levels. His tips on how to do magicianĀ“s choice is worth the price of the dvd alone.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 5th, 2010
This is the best beginner DVD alright, I got it not too long ago so it wasn't really for me as the material is quite basic but if a beginner asked me what would be the best first DVD for them self I would defiantly recommend this! The material is great because it focuses on magic with different props and the effects are strong so when you get those good reactions it gives you a boost of confidence as well!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 2nd, 2010
ok now to begin i will tell you that i got this dvd when it was on promotion for free. now knowing that info here are my thoughts. first its taught by oz so you know its top notch in tha respect. although i enjoyed this dvd and the effects since im not a true beginner i already knew most of the effects but like i said for a beginner this will give you a great base of tricks to build off of. i also recomend born to perform by oz pearlman. both are great beginner dvds.
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 31st, 2011
It came included in some other things I purchased, so I watched it, and I'm pretty impressed. It's certainly a beginner DVD, but then that's what it was meant to be. I especially like the concept of teaching Jessie to do the effects, as it's a good method of relaying the information to the type of beginner for whom this DVD was meant.

If you're new, or know someone who is, I would definitely recommend this DVD. I think of it as a video companion to most beginner magic books such as Joshua Jay's "Magic". It would go well with that type of illustration.

I would have given it 5 stars, except I tend to believe that beginner's should be subjected to a bit more hard-hitting material than is usually included in beginner type literature and instruction. There are some very strong effects out there that never make it into beginner instruction, even though they are extremely simple to perform well.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 3rd, 2010
i got this as a bonus for my 8 year old brother. he can do the tricks nicely, but i think i use these tricks more then him! simple tricks hitting hard. thats all i could say.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 2nd, 2010
This DVD really does live up to it's name.

I have got to say this DVD is perfect! Even someone like me who has been performing magic for 6 years or more can learn something new.

This DVD taught me things I never knew, plus it's a great tool to give to those younger magicians who want to know how to do tricks.
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