"The Dice Stacking Book" by Todd Strong

Todd Strong is a juggler who has taught at the Die Etage, a performing arts school in Berlin, and the National Circus School of France. A while back I reviewed his excellent dice stacking video. The Dice Stacking Book is a companion volume that provides the would-be dice stacker with a ton of information.

Todd discusses the necessary props, the basic stacking move, stacking variations, aerial moves, decapitating moves, and stacking items other than dice. He is thorough, and his explanations are clear. One very cool aspect of the book is that there are two "flip pictures" located on the bottom corners of each page. Flip the pages of the book in one direction and you see a mini-movie of Todd stacking four dice. Flip the pages the other way and you see him "decapitating" and stacking four dice. This is a clever idea, for it allows you to see the stacking motion in action.

Above review (by Michael Close) originally appeared in the August 1999 issue of MAGIC magazine. Reprinted with permission of the author and publisher.