Dani Daortiz is a great Showman and a superb thinker. This effect fooled me when I saw the
performance. But that’s because the “staging” and “routining” completely hides the method…. It’s not
easy to backtrack.
The instruction is top notch, with Danni offering tips and ideas for the
effect he’s teaching and transferable tips for the psychological management of spectators.
Some
of you will be pleased to know that this effect is not hard but it will need the confidence that
comes with thought and practice. The effect deserves that
A great performance and well
explained method makes this a download well worth the money.
Remember too that this effect
can be performed with a borrowed, shuffled deck!
Great stuff!
Alan /|\
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What a great trick. Dani built an experience with this one.
First off, let's get to the
meat of it. The primary reveal? Excellent. It's clean, it's direct, it hits the mark. But then, just
when you think you've seen the whole show, Dani delivers an unbelievable kicker ending that'll leave
your audience staring, slack-jawed and silent, trying to figure out how the hell that just happened.
They won't see it coming, even for a moment.
Even better, Dani teaches you two versions in
this course. You got your longer cut, the director's edition, with more involvement from your
spectators – they're shuffling, they're dealing, they're basically digging their own delightful,
impossible hole out of which you'll spring your wondrous closing.
Then there's the more
direct, punchy version, which asks for a little bit of memorization on your part.
Both are
deceptively easy to do. That's the beauty of it. But for my money, I'll lean on that first, longer
version. Why? Because the more your audience feels like they're doing the trick, the more their
hands are on the cards, the more truly miraculous the whole thing seems when the impossible happens.
And like I said, this will really seem like a miracle.
And for all the purists out there,
the sweet cream in your coffee: this is not only a trick with a borrowed deck, but is ALSO an
impromptu effect with zero gimmicks, nothing you could call sleight of hand, and no quirky business
with fishing for information or trusting the audience will reply exactly as you need them to. This
is rock solid. You take a deck that's been in their pocket all night, they mash it up, and you still
pull off something truly baffling.
If you're looking for something that hits hard, leaves a
lasting impression, and makes folks wonder if you've got some kind of pact with the unseen forces of
the universe, this is it. It's magic that lingers.
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Dani does it again; it is always nice to see old methods put to new use. For me it is worth the 10
bucks just to watch the performance and hear how he thinks. Here he gives us more than just a nice
trick and a nice performance. He is teaching us how to rethink some of what we already know or learn
what we should know. Once again, hats off to my friend Dani DaOrtiz.
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Dani never ceases to amaze me with his magic. As an amateur who has been studying magic for over 50
years he continually blows me away. This trick needs no sleight of hand. Not to say you don't have
to practice. You do so you can do it smoothly and with confidence. I will perform this, so happy I
bought it
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When I first saw this trick it seemed like the perfect card effect. The randomness of the setup is
proof positive that the cards are not being controlled. Then, the timing of the ending and the
ending itself is stunning. In total, it is immediately something very special. True to Dani's style
this is poetry and ballet all at once with cards in your hands. There is a combination of interlaced
action going on that is genius level. Just learning how this effect is done is a trip inside card
handling that is amazing on its own.
One of the asides to this collection of moves is how
flexible it is. It's also easy to learn. In another teaching session, Dani says it is hard for him
to teach his effects in real time because there are so many things going on all at once. This trick
is just like that. There is a lot going on all the time, but after you learn the individual parts,
hooking them all together is easier than I would have imagined. You can detour at will and still
come back to the ending intact.
You can see Juan Tamariz in this work in addition to
Dani's. I'm proud to be able to know how to pass on this piece of Magic History and Skill to those I
can show it to ...
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This is incredible, fun with a real punch then another punch. Like all great tricks it takes
practice, but the results are well worth the work. No gaff or gimmicks here, sequence, methods and
skill are what makes this work. You can get several people involved in the interaction. It is a
winner.
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I cannot recommend this effect too highly. It is wonderful! Easy to perform and gob-smackingly
amazing.
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I had the privilege of sitting right beside Juan Tamariz at a small midnight session at FISM in 2009
when he performed this effect as his closer. Since then, whenever anyone has asked me what the best
trick I've ever seen was, I've described this one as best as I could remember it. For 26 years it
has baffled me, so imagine my delight when I saw Dani Daortiz has released this video. Having
watched it, I would not have come up with the ingenious method in a million years. Like several of
Dani's other releases in this series, it takes a very clear head and plenty of practice to pull off
with his apparent effortlessness, but I'm going to put in the work because this is an effect
audiences will never forget. Bravo.
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It’s a trick by Dani Daortiz. Need I say more?
I just performed Australian Chaos for my first time and by the reactions I can say "this trick is a
keeper"!
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What a great (sneaky) trick
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