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Generation Extreme with Brian Tudor (DVD) The cutting edge in the development of VISUAL card magic.
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This is a DVD that will take card magicians to the next level. The handling takes a great deal of practice. Beginners and younger magicians with small hands may not be able to perform some of these effects. Expect the practice practice practice in order to make this work.
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Penguin doesn't lie when they say no one can do this!
I've been doing magic for 4 and a half years, and still cant do anything from this DVD, I'm lucky I got it in the 5 for $99 deal. It is amazing to see Brian Tudor perform and go through this stuff, his hands move faster than I can see, even in the explanations! overall, it's just fun to watch the cards being twisted and turned, but it is almost impossible to do this. only buy if you are studying these kind of moves and sleights Did this review help you?
this video isnt bad if u r into xcm or just want to spice up your magic.its not as hard(not all of it)as u might think.some of the stuff i do not want to learn.its super hard so i didnt get hung up on it.i stilled walked away with alot.if u have small hands or havent been doing magic or xcm for a while u might be frustrated with this.he gets a little cocky on the dvd and his teaching style is by far the worst ive seen.he uhhh..talks like..uh..this in this monotone voice the entire time.there are good teachers with personality that you can learn quickly from and then there's...mute this,play your own music and just hit slo-mo and copy him.
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Generation X-tremely sucky
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M. Boudreau - TCM from Vancouver, BC on December 20th, 2006
This dvd, although inundated with magical sleights and fabulous routines, is not for the average user or apprentice in magic. The moves are not explained in any great detail, as one would expect from an instructional video. It is a DVD where Tudor "shows off" his moves and expects you to learn them from quick examples. This video is also poorly edited and recorded, since Tudor continues to explain an effect, when the images viewed do not match his descriptions of them. There is definitly a large delay between his 'scripted' description of the effect, and the video presentation. Tudor's voice also sounds extremely lethargic and leaves no excitement to remain entertaining, as if he was stoned recording his dialoge. His whole teaching style of " you should already know these moves " is uninformative, and dry, especially the "Tudor Cut" description. Therefore I rate this dvd as sucky.
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I love this DVD.
It is not VERY DIFFICULT, you juste have a real FULL DVD. We use to get empty DVD in magic, witch we can work few ours, or one or two days, and it's done. With this DVD you have less work than few mouth, few years :D. This DVD is one of the best in card magic, and in XCM. Watch the démo of showoff in youtube :D. The price is very good, there is BIG WORK on it. Did this review help you?
Not for beginners or people who don't like to practice
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Zack77766 from USA on May 7th, 2010
I would consider myself an intermediate card magician, so I just want to say if you're a beginner or somebody that doesn't like practicing, don't get this DVD.
A lot of these moves/tricks are extremely hard and you should be really good or willing to practice very hard if you want to get those moves down. It doesn't help that the teaching absolutely sucks. This was one of my first purchases, and since then I have other dvds where the teaching is much better. I only gave it 3 stars since I did learn some stuff from the DVD. If you're an advanced card magician that's willing to watch this DVD repeatedly and practice, buy this DVD then. Did this review help you?
Generation Extreme
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christurchinski from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on April 8th, 2010
I rarely give products a bad review but I can't help it with this one. The stuff on this DVD looks really nice but it is very very difficult to do. The teaching is quick so you'll find yourself rewinding quite a bit to get the moves right. On top of that, you will have to use so much of your time practicing. When I tried to practice, I end up giving up. Do yourself a favour and spend your money on something else.
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COVER AND GRAPHICS 4/4
I can tell penguin spent alot of time on this. I have almost all the penguin produced dvds and this one has the best graphics. it must have been made on photoshop or something. The cover art is incredible, and in the dvd and the menus, they actually play the parts of the dvd and the sound and lighting is good. they have excellent music which I think is funny because brian lectured how much he hates the music. and every cut and scene is something different, although I wish each scene was cut into the flourishes. so I give this 4/4 TEACHING 3/4 the teaching made this very hard to understand. I think this is why they say almost nobody can get half of this stuff. and the trailer, was edited. he made it so much faster than he actually performs them. but still good. he teaches really fast too. I guess there was a time limit. but I had to watch it about 3 times to get them down. and usually with penguin dvds, they go over the shoulder, but they only did this once. so it's also very hard visually. and I think he is a little slow since he is saying watch my right hand and hes clearly using his left hand, so that made it weird too. so 3/4. OVERALL 4/4 I gave this an overall of 4/4. I definetlly have to highly recommend it. It's just so entertaining. watching him perform and watching the old clips of him in the bonus section was just fantastic. The music is entertaining and his sleights are up to date and very advanced but still done good. but one thing I need to complain about is becasue he has HUMUNGIOUSLLYLARGETASTIC (VERY big) hands, he naturally teaches them fast and fluid like which makes it harder(I forgot to mention that) but it's still good. And dont worry about the price(I got it free with my 50 buck bonus on penguin) but still, its worth it all the way. I really enjoyed this. WARNING/NOTE: if you can palm cards comfortably without flashing or getting caught, cough up the kizash and buy this dvd. you wont regret it. You will be able to do all of this stuff if you could. That's the problem with a lot of people. They cant palm cards so they can't do this stuff. Thanks for readng my review Did this review help you?
if you want good effects, you have to put up with horrible teaching. its also not very organized. if you want to do one routine, but you need to know how to do a y.t.b.n. cut, then you have to go back to the routine "showoff" which is simply a collection of cuts, fans, and springs then fast forward to the y.t.b.n. cut. if these things dont bother you, then get this dvd. it could keep you busy for years and they wont be years wasted.
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Some of the best flourishes that I do came from this DVD, but a lot of them on here aren't well explained, and they require TONS of views to understand how he's doing it, and then it requires TONS of practice to get the move down. Buy it if you're dedicated.
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