Magic Tricks

My favorite part of the video might be the performances. The performances give you a great sense of how much humor and personality you can put in to your act. Audience management skills are a plus, but your ability to joke, cajole, respond, and so on to your audience will go a long way to making this "your" effect.

I like effects where the performer has the possibility of making an effect "their own." This is just that sort of thing, as you will be interacting with your audience a great deal.

A m***** deck is taught, but more of a back up than a necessity.

My big complaint? I'm primarily a card performer. How many great effects do we learn that rely on something that requires a performance to be good for only one effect? Signed cards, torn cards, etc. basically require you to move on to a different effect or a different deck. Same here. This effect uses a c****** card to get going, and I always feel stuck in just one effect.

Maybe it's just me, but these sorts of things always stop me cold. It ends up being a prepared deck to some degree, and you can't then easily move on to your next card effect. (Admittedly, it depends on the different effects in your arsenal.)

All that said, the video is great, the teaching is spot on, and the method is solid. If you like what you see, you won't be disappointed. Especially when it comes to your own ability to put your personality in to a performance.