This is a great lesson on the paddle move, expertly taught. It inspired me to buy a new hot rod.
However, I don’t think some of the presentation makes sense. Just before sleeving, for
example, he mentions (for no good reason) magical sleeves. Then, the moment when he shows both sides
by rotating it in his hands he tells us some people can’t take in what’s going on, they can’t work
it out… Nonsense! It might bewilder a bee for half a second, but any creature higher up on the
evolutionary scale will see he’s just showing both sides of the rod.
Other than those two
issues I have nothing to complain about, and I would recommend the download to anyone learning the
paddle move.
Hi Chris! I speak about things shooting OUT of my sleeves as justification to roll them up so they know I am not using them or thinking about objects ENTERING the sleeves. Also, I based my comment about the rotation on hundreds (if not thousands) of performances where people were absolutely shocked at seeing both the force color and the rainbow color sides one right after the other. I am sure they understood to a certain degree that the stick was just flipping over, but MANY MANY MANY people express surprise at the action. Thank you for your kind words!
I’m reminded of a ton of comments in LAX’s Marked Cards that are ringing similar here and not a single person can convince me that the cards aren’t worth buying, and the compliments that Lax receives for them are earned.
The, “magic” of magic is the presentation… you’re always going to have someone say something like, “all he did was sneak the ball under the cup when I wasn’t looking”, “he just had another bill in his hand and when he folded it, he switched them” or “the card he wanted me to pick was on the top the whole time and he somehow kept it there when he was shuffling the deck”.
These quotes are part of the Zeitgeist. But let’s look at them closer shall we?
“All the guy did was throw the ball as hard as he could right over home plate.”
“She just pressed the keys on the piano the sheet music told her to press.”
“Wait… he just cut off a piece of plastic under my kitchen sink and replaced it with a new one and now I owe him $175?”
All of the quotes live in the same Rolodex space…
Let them think what they want.
What’s MOST important in the end is that the performer feels comfortable saying what they’re saying while doing what they’re doing. If a card sharp says, “I’m going to cut the cards and place your selected card back into the middle of the bottom packet (ad nauseam)…” I’m actually quite fine with it WHEN the expert is at the card table.
And Eric has earned the right to say, “all I do is flip it so fast you can’t see it” and there would be a new seed sewn in their minds making the spectator say things like, “they never tell you how it’s done… so how the hell did he do it?, must have been some expensive gimmick… that the only explanation.”
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Nice handling, some minor flaws
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