Magic Tricks

This was my first Penguin Live lecture, and it was well worth the price. The lecture was advertised as a two hour event, but Ammar ended up providing almost FOUR hours of instruction and discussion.

The effects he teaches are awesome in their simplicity: make a silk visibly pass through a solid object, tear a spectators SIGNED card right in front of them and then restore it whole, pass three coins through a sheer silk before the eyes and in the hands of the audience, and much more.

Ammar isn't just a great magician, he is a superb teacher as well. In addition to the mechanics for each trick, he explains why the tricks work the way they do and how to control spectators in certain tricky situations.

The only reason I gave this 4 stars is because Ammar talks about his typical lecture package at the end (gimicks, notes, and such), but Penguin does not carry this. I think Penguin should try to arrange with lecturers to carry their lecture packages as well.