Card Magic DVD's

Undoubtedly the most versatile set of trick cards in existence, the Svengali Deck makes difficult sleight of hand ever so easy! What takes profssional magicians years of practice and study can be mastered quickly and easily with the aid of this DVD and a Svengali Deck.

Your Svengali Deck makes hundreds of tricks possible. The following are a sample of those explained on this DVD:

Force someone to choose a card you already know!
Cut to the spectator's selected card - while blindfolded!
Impale the selected card on the blade of a knife!
The entire deck visibly tranforms into duplicates of the spectator's selection, then changes back!
And much, much more.

Armed with an ordinary deck of cards and the information on this DVD, you'll gain a reputation as a master magician in no time. This broadcast quality program teaches you how to perform incredible feats any time, and anywhere - with any deck. And best of all, no complicated sleight of hand is involved.

This DVD will teach you how to:

See into the future by naming the card a spectator will select!
Discover the identity of a chosen card by simply feeling a spectator's pulse!
Predict which hour of the day someone will name by making a clock dial out of cards!
Repeatedly deal yourself a winning poker hand and then a Royal Flush in Spades!
And much, much more.

Your complete introduction to card magic! 15 easy card tricks anyone can do! Even if you've never held a deck of cards before, you'll be amazing people in minutes.

The Ambitious Card is one of those rare things in magic - a "perfect" effect. It is quick and easy to understand, yet has variations limited only by your imagination. The performance transcends all language barriers and can be as simple or as complicated as you wish. Freestyle routining makes this effect a little like playing jazz - once you have mastered the basic theme, you can weave in and out of it to create a unique and personalized rendition for each performance.
Here, you have the chance to witness the live performance of Daryl's entire gold medal-winning F.I.S.M. routine. Daryl also demonstrates and explains dozens of additional tips and subtleties he has created and refined overmany years to allow you to be thew best you can be! And, for the first time ever, Daryl reveals the real work on the most amazing finale to this routine - Daryl's Ultimate Ambition

Jeff McBride, renowned performer and one of the finest card manipulators of our time, teaches you the inside secrets of professional card manipulation. Routines, sleights, productions and flourishes are clearly taught and demonstrated, along with sample routines and the seasoned advice that only a working professional can provide. Many of these sleights and techniques have been closely guarded for years - never published, but only passed on from one professional to another. These can only be found exclusively on this set of studio - quality DVDs. Jeff leads you through each and every item, while giving you the little tips that make learning easier and performing more entertaining.

Never has video instruction been more valuable. You see how the sleights should look, precisely how they are timed and how they are performed in the real world. Now with the help of Jeff McBride, you can learn the baffling and sophisticated card manipulations you have always dreamed of performing!

Volume One

Thumb Fan and Closing a Fan; Pressure Fan; Charlier Cut; One Handed Fan - S Fan; Wink Change; Springing the Cards; Waterfall Shuffle; Cards from the Mouth; Riffle Palm; Blank Fan; Window Change; Ed Marlo Snap Change; Ken Brooke Single Production; Perfect Production; Snap Production; Back Palm Productions; Pivot; Le Paul Spread; Hip - Hop Pop - Out; Ribbon Spread and Turnover; Twin Peaks; D'Amico Multiple Shift; Roy Benson Move; Steve Beam's Auto - Magic Aces; Goldston's Card Flower.

Volume Two

Back - Palming - Single Production; Thurston Five - Card Vanish and Reproduction; Preparing the Cards - Best Cards to Use; Split Fan Productions; Front Hand Split; Cards From the Silk; Gloves and Cards; Body Loads and Steals - Clips - Vesting; Acquitments - Reverse Benson Move; Flying Cards; Arm Spreads and Turnover Spread and Catch; Cardini's Bluff Spring - Waterfall Fan; Color Fanning - Color Changing Fan; Bluff Spread - Fanning Decks; Double Fan - Splitting the Fans; Rising Sun Fan; One - Hand Circular Fan; Windshield Wipers - Slow Motion Fans; 4 Ways to Fan a Fanning Deck; Double Tier Fan (Giant Fan)Wheel of Cards; Ganson's Glued Deck Version; Challenge Card Fan Production - Garcia.

Volume Three

One Handed Shuffle; Triple Cut; Paul Draylin Cut; Butterfly Cut; Curly - Q Move; Auto Cut - Rolo - Deck; Boomerang Card; Card Spinning; Garcia's Eclipse Production; Card Production; Japanese Card Production; Del Rosso Buffo; Garcia's Million Dollar Production; Cardini's Cards and Silk with Tenkai Palm; Packet Vanish; Single Card Production; Squeeze Production; Card Production Routine; Euro Edge - Palm Production; Tenkai Toss Vanish and Transfer; McBluff Production; Mercury Card Production; Diminishing Cards; Interlock Production; History of Playing Cards.

FLICKS, NICKS & OTHER COOL TRICKS WITH CARDS by Rick Smith Jr

Question: What do you get when you cross a 92 m.p.h. fastball with a young man from Ohio who harbors an intense love of card magic?

Answer: The Guinness World Record for throwing a playing card further than anyone else in history. The young man is Rick Smith, Jr. and on March 21, 2002, he obliterated the world record for card throwing with a laser beam toss of 216' 4" eclipsing the previous longstanding mark by over 15'!
Learn How To:

Throw cards for speed, distance & Accuracy!
Slice vegetables with a single playing card!
Topple a pyramid of soda cans with a flick of the wrist!
Perform eye-popping stunts & flourishes with playing cards!

On this fascinating DVD, Rick teaches you how to spice up your magic by throwing cards for distance, speed and accuracy - slicing vegetables and even toppling a metal pyramid of soda cans. In addition to comprehensive instruction on his card throwing prowess, Rick also demonstrates and teaches numerous card flourishes and stunts, including eye-popping displays of card spinning, flicking and kicking. Complete contents include:

Card Throwing - Speed, distance and accuracy; throwing techniques, grips, stances, warm-ups and multiple card throws.
Card Throwing Stunts - Slicing celery and knocking down soda cans.
Card Flourishes & Stunts - Flick & catch behind the back; flick & catch in the center of the deck; flicking cards from the top and center of the deck; rapid fire flicking; thumb shooting; finger shooting; overhand shooting; flick tricks; fire flicking; back flicks; flick productions; card kicking; boomeranging cards; pop-up card productions; cross-over cards and much, much more!

Martin Nash, "The Charming Cheat", is one of the top cardmen in the world and was twice named the "Close-Up Magician of the Year" by the "Magic Castle". Using his carefully cultivated image of a gambler and a cheat, Martin has fooled and entertained audiences all over the world. In this three-volume set each trick, routine, and sleight is explained in minute detail. Each video is approximately 90 minutes.

Vol. 1
Kings Incognito, Palm Unseen, Soft Shuffles, The Pull Through Shuffle, In the Nick of Time, Limited Ambitions, Ovation (Martin's complete 16 minute card act that has been the climax to to his shows for many years.

Vol. 2
Down the Garden Path, A Problem with Fulves, The Fastest Card in the West, Peek Control Effect, Top Stock Controls, Jacks or Better (A complete 13 minute card act).

Vol. 3
Blackjack Demonstration, Dunbury Delusion, The Computer Card Trick, Vernash Aces, Celestial Aces #2, Mental Topper, Overkill, Incomplete Masterpiece, Poker Opener, Colors on the Match (a masterpiece of false dealing)

Vol. 4

Any Way You Want It - A masterpiece of Center Dealing
The Slug - You amazingly cut to any number of cards from the top, bottom and center of the deck, and find the selection!
Weighted - You can tell how many cards are cut, just from the weight!
Tabled Faro Shuffle - Detailed instructions on how to make this simple sleight practical.
4 Way - The spectator cuts to a card that locates their selection!
Infinity Control - Convince an audience that a selection is truly lost in the deck!
Run-Ups - Stack the aces to fall anywhere within up to seven hands.
Beat the Cheat Poker - The spectators have every opportunity to make themselves a great poker hand, yet the performer always prevails! "Colors On The March", a masterpiece of false dealing.

Vol. 5

Omni Twist - A true showpiece of card magic. Martin has featured this blockbuster effect in his act for many years!
Bottom, Second and Center Deals - Martin's detailed instruction on these illusive deals.
Multiple Shifts - Control multiple cards to the top or the bottom of the deck.
False Shuffles - Expert instruction on making the audience sure that the deck has been thoroughly shuffled.
The Show-Off- A brand-new, never-before released effect that completely convinces the audience you're the ultimate card shark!

Learn the classics from the great card manipulator who brought you "CapCuts", Capaso Casino. From a simple table spread to a one-handed weave shuffle with a full bridge finish, get it all here. In flourishing even the slightest finger placement can make all the difference in the world. Finally you'll learn the correct way to do it, so everyone from be-ginner to expert has something to learn with each viewing.

Do you remember seeing that magician in vegas who could do a perfect one hand fan in the blink of an eye? How about a perfect S-fan? The crazy one that could throw a playing card onto the roof of the hotel. Well enough practice mixed with Cap Casino's clear, technically correct teaching style you can get to that level faster than you could have ever imagined. Many of these techniques have only been taught in book form... until now. Flourishes need to be SEEN to LEARN correctly. Let's get to the good stuff.
Volume 1
Finger Flexing, Twirl False, Grips, Thumb Fan, Swing Cut, 1 Hand Fan, Swivel Cut, 1 Hand Reverse Fan, Charier Cut, Sequencing, Twirl Cut

Volume 2
Pressure Fan, Springing the Cards, S Fan, Perfect Table Spread, Faro Shuffle, Faro Waterfall, Giant Fan, 1 Hand Shuffle, Giant Fan Transition, Boomerang Card, Le Paul Spread, Throwing Cards

Why buy ten tapes and watch lots of moves you'll never use? Buy this one tape and learn exactly what you need. Let Richard Kaufman, an Academy of Magical Arts Literary Fellowship winner, teaches you the basic card sleights you need to perform most of the good card magic published in the last 100 years:

The Proper Way to Hold the Deck, How to Obtain And Hold Breaks, Double Undercut, Double Lift (2 methods),False Cut (2 methods), Force (3 methods), Overhand Shuffle (Injogs and Outjogs), Hindu Shuffle,Faro Shuffle, Zarrow Shuffle, Elmsley Count, Jordan Count, Hamman Count, Secret Addition (2 methods), False Cut (2 methods), Multiple Shift (2 methods), Glimpse (2 methods), Top Change (2 methods),Multiple Top Change, Spectator Peek, Side Steal, Bottom Palm, Top Palm

Many of the demonstrations open with a wash-riffle-riffle-strip-riffle and a cut or with a cut card placed on the bottom. Then the bottoms begin. You can now get around the cut card!

In this two-DVD set Richard (A Master Fifth Degree Black Belt) uses his 35 years of martial arts footage to talk about discipline and focus. He addresses the many speculations about his super, bat-like vision, questions like, "Is it true that he blocks with his head to protect his hands?"

The DVD concludes with the LA Times story describing how he took on ten fighters for his first black belt.

But the meat and potatoes are the hours in-between where this DVD will include Turner’s See Saw Bottom Deal with his Clip Take. The See-Saw will be shown with cards face-up on the bottom. Close-up dealing top bottom top bottom with Turner’s hand resting dead still on the table... from above dealing the bottoms opening the hand before each deal to show the deck does not need to be framed… and from under a glass table to clearly see the below finger work.

You will also learn:

Gambler’s Palm from a Riffle Shuffle
Sailing the Bottom
Sailing the Stud
Turner’s Off Beat Bottom
Palming While Riffle Shuffling
Upper Corner Stud Bottom
Turner’s Dead Top Bottom
Turner’s One Hand Bottom
Vernon’s Open Hand Bottom (Marlo’s Vernon story told by Turner as he demonstrates the deal)
Turner’s Open Hand Stud
Turner’s Diagonal Down
4 Beats a Full
A Double Duke for Hold’em
Double Duke Stud
Only With a Bottom
Four Magic Effects Using the Bottom
Four to One
Dead Man’s Hand
Aces 2 and Card Finds the Card
Turner’s Cut Card Palm
Turner’s Cut Card Shifts TCCS Five Ways (Using TCCS you can now get around the cut card and freely use your bottom deals)
Other Gambling Effects using the TCCS
Looks Like a Greek
Looks Like a Greek Stud
Bottom Greek
Hold’em Sucker
Must Be a Center
Black Jack Every Time

Running Time Approximately 240min

Peter's card magic is extremely visual, and guaranteed to have a powerful impact on any audience. If you are into card magic, then this is definitely something for you. Simple, strong and visual magic!

Peter welcomes you aboard on the R.M.S Titanic, where he performs some of his most devastating card routines, in front of live passengers.

Invisible Reality - A spectator's signed selection becomes invisible, changes colour and reappears between two Jokers! An eye-popping "sandwich" routine with a fresh and exciting approach!
Knock Out - Three signed cards are revealed in the most unbelievable manner. This is eye candy of the highest calibre! "Knock Out" will hit them like the proverbial freight train!
B-Sandwiched - A new take on the classic Sandwich card plot. The "Wrong" card appears between two Jokers. Visually and Magically, the "wrong" card changes into the spectators signed selection! Seeing is (not) believing!
Lucky Card - The magician introduces his "Lucky Card": the only red-backed card in the deck, with the words "Lucky Card" written on it. A spectator selects any card from the deck, and signs it across the face. Magically, the "Lucky Card" vanishes from within the deck. The spectator's card is flipped over, and it appears to be the one and only "Lucky Card"!
Matchbook Odyssey - This is Peter's handling for the card-in-matchbook routine where a signed card appears folded inside a matchbook.A truly devastating routine which uses a very clever method. Squeaky clean and very practical!
Key Card - "Key Card" is Peter's answer to the classic "Travelling hole" plot. A routine that really makes sense, thanks to Peter's unique presentational hook.
Bonus Material - Ace Oddity, Touched by an angel

This DVD includes two routines: Blind Luck which is an excellent two-deck routine where a selected card matches your prediction and turns out to be the prediction.
The second routine Pure Skill also uses two decks where a selected card in one deck appears at a named number in the second deck. Dan also gives a brief description on how to do a Zarrow Shuffle.

Born To Perform
by Oz Pearlman

Learning card magic is like building a house. Everything starts with a strong foundation of basic building blocks.

This DVD will start you at the beginning of card magic and take you to a working professional's level. You'll progress faster than ever before by focusing on the most powerful moves. This is a complete course in card magic without the filler. There's no reason to spend hundreds of dollars buying a set of 3 or 8 or 10 DVDs when you can learn the core skills (the ones that get used over and over again in thousands of tricks) on one DVD. This is that DVD.

By the time you're finished you'll have learned 4 full-length routines--including the Ambitious Card. You'll have mastered the fundamentals, learned seven of the most powerful and practical controls (including the Classic Pass), developed two high-powered forces and picked up eight ultra-visual flourishes.

This isn't an encyclopedia... it's an arsenal. All of the most powerful weapons of card magic are included.

Once you've mastered these key moves you'll be able to perform anytime, anywhere, with just a regular deck of cards. Imagine how it's going to feel to have that power to entertain. This is a technology that changes you. It's like riding a bike, learning a new language, or flying an airplane. It's freedom... with a deck of cards.

Fundamentals:

Mechanic's Grip
Biddle Grip
Pinky Break
Thumb Break
Dribble to Secure a Break
Swing Cut
Swivel Cut
Double Lift
Top Palm

Routines:

Ultimate Transpo
Two Card Monte
Biddle Trick
Ambitious Card

Controls:

Classic Pass
Hindu Shuffle Pass
Double Undercut
One Handed Top Palm
Elmsley Count
Spread Cull
Swing Swivel Cut

Forces:

Hindu Shuffle
Riffle Shuffle

Flourishes:

2 Handed Thumb Fan
Le Paul Spread
Springing the Cards
Erdnase Color Change
One Handed Thumb Fan
Hot Shot Cut - Daryl
Pendulum Cut - Hooser
Trinary Cut - Acer

Running Time Approximately 104min

Brainstorm - The Creative Card Magic of John Guastaferro, features some of John's finest card creations, highlighting a unique blend of creative presentations, diabolical methods and maximum entertainment value. Most of these effects can be done strolling, without the need for tables or lengthy set up, and are within the reach of the average magician. See for yourself how well this magic plays and discover the carefully-constructed methods and routining behind the effects, all designed to captivate and floor audiences.

VOLUME ONE

Ballet Cut - Learn the real work behind John's versatile in-the-hands false cut that's simply beautiful to watch. Once you learn it, you1ll never want to do without it.
Fairy Tale Frogs - In this charming packet trick, four frog-imprinted cards hop over one at a time, then change into princes after the spectator blows a kiss. Just wait for the final surprise!
Troubleshooter - Quick, someone call "deck" support! Your cards have crashed, leaving nothing but backs on both sides. Here's a fun, all-backs routine with a surprising twist.
Lost & Found - A signed card vanishes from inside a clear plastic wallet, then makes an impossible flight back inside. It uses an extremely clever method that will make you say, "Why didn't I think of that?!"
Color Blind - Demonstrate your expert card handling in this simple, yet powerful Ace-cutting demonstration, which leads into a strong transposition.
Palm Reader - The four Aces make a startling revelation, then change while in the spectator's hand.
Club Sandwich - This is a quick and clever sandwich routine where two selected cards magically change places! Tune in and see for yourself how well it plays.
Double Monte - A three-card monte exhibition ends with an absolutely impossible-looking transposition. This is a perfect follow-up to Club Sandwich.
No Jokers Allowed - Jokers keep popping up, getting in the way of your award-winning card trick. Prove that jokers really are wild in this impromptu, magic-packed routine.
Detour - Take your audience on a whimsical road trip as a card "drives" here and there, finally parking in your wallet. This is a fun, logical card to wallet routine you will use.
Tidal Wave Aces - After expertly cutting to the four Aces in a topsy-turvy shuffled deck, you visibly make the entire deck change color!

VOLUME TWO

Party Animal - Your spectator is the guest of honor at an exclusive party the cards are throwing. Show your audience to a fun time in this thoroughly entertaining in-the-hands Triumph routine.

Clairvoyance - Completely floor your audience with this elegant (and quite eerie) revelation of a thought-of card. Just like real mind reading.

Intuition - In this small-packet Hofsinzer-inspired miracle, the four Queens use their women's intuition to reveal a spectator's card.

Out of the Blue - Absolutely stunning! The four Aces and four Queens not only change places, but change back designs as well. "It is one of the strongest small packet transpositions I have ever seen," says Gordon Bean.

Snowball Aces - In this mesmerizing routine, the ink simply melts away from both sides of the deck, then magically returns. It's so visual and deceptive, you'll swear it uses rough and smooth cards. (It doesn't).

Tailspin - Using a four-of-a-kind of the spectator's choosing, you cause each of the cards to turn face-down, then transform...twice!

Synergy - The cards work as a team in this flashy four-card revelation, where each card helps find the next.

Bizarre Prequel - Just discovered the two-phase prequel to Paul Harris' Bizarre Twist, featuring a clean and clever approach to the Point of Departure plot.

Jazz Fusion - A modern twist to the classic Jazz Aces plot. Here, the four Jacks vanish into a black hole, leaving behind a startling surprise.

Gemini Prediction - This is a true showstopper, featuring an impossible prediction of four randomly-selected cards and an astonishing finale that no one could have predicted!

The Craziest Card Contortions Ever Created

Here it is! Cap Casino's incredible DVD is the fix for your card addicted fingers' flourishing needs. C4: CapCuts contains some of the most eye-boggling card contortions you have ever seen! This is pure sleight-of-hand with cards and cards only.

The cuts you will learn aren't just "show" cuts, these are cuts that you can use in the real world. For example, Cap has used BRS (Blind Rotational Sybil) thousands (at least Cap says it feels that way) of times in his close-up work at restaurants throughout the Washington D.C. area.

Not only will you get to see Capaso perform these amazing cuts, he also teaches each cut step-by-step in great detail. You, too can learn these cuts! But, it doesn't stop there. Mr. Casino also explains how to blend flourishes into your magic without disturbing the flow of the performance, enhancing the card magic you already know. A must for anyone serious about cards.

Imagine being able to make a signed card appear anywhere you wanted. Join James Coats and Harley Davidson model Leticia, as they reveal these fantastic secrets. You will learn the following:

Card in spectator's bra
Card in spectator's underwear
Card through window
Signed card in box
Card to anywhere
Card to wallet
and much more!!!

This DVD also contains 4 different card forces and a card control method that allows you to know your spectator's card at all times.

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