Clutch by Oz Pearlman (DVD) - Simple. Powerful. Easy to perform. A high-stakes card routine straight from Oz's show. Plays as big for 2 or 3 people as it does for two or three hundred!
Clutch is featured in Oz Pearlman's off-broadway show, The Unseen. While Clutch is simple to perform and can be done any time with a borrowed deck, it is presented here with the professional performer in mind. This is a card routine that bridges the gap between close-up and stage as it plays for the entire audience. We hope you'll add Clutch to your show.
The deck is borrowed. Fair.
The spectator shuffles, picks a card, and returns it to the deck. Fair.
The cards are put in the card box. Fair.
The box is closed. Fair.
The spectator puts the deck in his/her own pocket. Fair.
The spectator confirms there's nothing else in his/her pocket... just a deck inside a CLOSED box! Fair.
You show your hands COMPLETELY empty. You show them slowly and from all angles. Your sleeves are rolled up. Fair. Fair. Fair.
You explain exactly what you're gonna do. This is as fair as it gets!
You reach into the spectator's pocket and INSTANTLY pull out the chosen card. Your hand darts in at lightning speed and BOOM, a card appears at your finger tips. This happens in the blink of an eye... literally less than a second!
You ask the spectator to check the box of cards. The box is still closed!
Top 5 reasons we love Clutch:
It's extremely fooling--laypeople don't have a chance!
It's dramatic--you set up an impossible challenge for yourself.
It's visual--you instantly pluck the card from your spectator's pocket.
It plays huge in multiple environments--close-up, street, stand-up, and stage.
It can be done with a borrowed deck without ANY preparation. Perform clutch anytime, anywhere... everytime, everywhere!
Manufacturer Says Special thanks to Noblezada and everyone who was at NX08. We stopped by the event with cameras in hand and had a blast.
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Teaching: Standard Oz Pearlman teaching, Oz goes over the entire routine and explains the TWO moves you will use for this trick. 10/10
Quality of materials(if it is a gimmik etc): No gimmicks needed this can be used with your deck or even a borrowed deck.
Difficulty: Requiring no sleights (with the exception of two moves that barely qualify) Clutch is simplicity at its best. 8/10
Applications: Perfect for restaurant magic and strolling/walkaround magic. This could also be used for a stand-up or even a stage show. As Oz says in the DVD rarely do you get a card trick that you can do for Hundreds of people.
Additional Thoughts: Oz explains that you should do this to a man (because the deck is placed in a shirt pocket) but there are many other applications to this. I have performed it for some friends using a backpack, a hoodie, and a jean jacket. Of course I would not recommend going up to a random spectator and ask to shove you hand into her hoodie pocket (I only did this because I was requested to). One slight issue with this 9though odds are it won't be a problem) is that Oz uses a deck of cards that doesn't have the sticker on it anymore (The USPCC Seal), this is part of the trick that makes it so devious. I have yet to try it with a deck that still has the seal on but I doubt it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Clutch is amazing and a real worker, you don't need any gimmicks, sleeves, palmed cards, duplicates, or anything else you can think of... all you need is a deck of cards. Also for those of you who like having cards signed you can easily do this in Clutch.
Overall Rating: Clutch is by far one of the cleverest tricks I have seen Oz do and I would easily recommend it. 9/10
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Very good on the spot stage card trick
by Joe Goslin from lethbrige canada on 04/02/2010 23:22:38
This words well for large crowds and I like that, some car tricks do not. It uses a spector and lets the magic happen with them. Again this is very good.
I love this trick Add to cart.
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Good Trick, Bad Product
by Jeff Stone from Salt Lake City, Utah on 04/02/2010 18:56:36
When I was a young laddie, we didn't have one-trick DVDs. As a magic creator/seller myself, I've struggled with this concept. I've come to the conclusion that in order for a one-trick DVD to have any value, it really needs to be a "product" that "comes with" an "instructional" DVD. For example, Smashed by Jay Sankey. For $30.00 you get the "gimmick" you need and rather than a booklet for instructions, you get a DVD... That makes sense to me.
"Clutch" sold as a single trick DVD, just makes no sense to me. Even at the relatively reasonable price of $20.00, it's still a bit of a mystery why people would rather by one trick for $20.00 when they could have 10 to 15 tricks for only a few dollars more.
Putting aside my own bias about the method of delivery here, let's look at the trick itself. This trick is all about over-proving how fair you are. The entire presentation by Oz Pearlman (who is a very talented magician) is basically, look how fair I am. I won't touch the deck. Look at my hands; they're empty. Look; nothing up my sleeves, etc.
He talks, in the explanation, about how over-the-top the reactions are from audiences, but in the live performances, I just didn't see those types of reactions. The effect is that the spectator picks a card, shuffles the deck, puts it in the box, puts the box in his shirt pocket. The magic reaches in a plucks out the selection out of the closed box in the pocket of the spectator.
This is nothing new in concept. Oz has taken a couple of basic card moves/techniques that we all know and turned it into a presentation piece. This is certainly the kind of thing that plays well close up or on stage, and it is a good trick, and it might even be worth $20.00 bucks if you end up adding it to your act, but even so, it's not like this trick is suddenly going to put you on the map and allow you to increase your fee. The DVD does cover the effect and various moves in depth, but it's almost as if they thought, "hey we'd better add this section and that section to make this DVD look like it has a lot of material."
It's a simple routine that can be done with a borrowed deck, and it plays bigger than it is for sure, but not worthy of a single DVD release. We're this one of many routines in a book or DVD, I would be talking about how clever this trick is and how it's one of many clever (hopefully) ideas on the DVD/Book.
As it stands, there are plenty of better ways to spend $20.00 bucks. You could go to McDonald's 4 times, for example.
The trick is good. No question there. But the product loses points for overall value. Effect: Gem. Product: Rubble.
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My new number 1 trick
by Jordan Vo from Vancouver BC on 02/24/2010 06:06:45
Literally, you can take anyone's deck and perform completely surrounded,confidently, and easily.
The mechanics are pretty much nothing, at least compared to most magic tricks. There is one sleight, but it's incredibly easy, and it barely counts as a sleight anyways. 95% of the entire trick happens in their hands.
Great effect, I highly recommend it.
(I'm currently performing it at the Olympics, in that huge crowd)
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Wow!
by Darshwood the Conjuror from Louisville, KY on 12/20/2008 00:23:10
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