It was summer 2002 and the West was filled with brawls, bordellos and treachery. A motley crew of would-be train robbers packed a local saloon (strangely resembling the IBM convention) and called themselves “magicians”. Cards flew and coins changed hands, but it all stopped when sheriff Curtis Kam walked in. They could tell he was a professional who did miracles. But before they could thank him, he and the money were gone. Here’s what they saw:
Volume 1:
No, you’re not seeing double, Dean Dill has been extremely busy over the past four years… so busy, they had to put him on two DVDs! For two decades, Dean has been entertaining and teaching some of the finest coin magic around.
Not only is he a superb close-up artist, Dean is also a highly sought after teacher, consultant and lecturer. He has taught such people as David Copperfield and Johnny Carson.
I have a weird obsession with stealing coins out from my own hands, so I came up with numerous ways of doing that.
Retention Z: Revisited is a compilation of 8 of my retention vanishes related techniques and 2 coin-thru-hand effects.
After watching almost an hour of me talking and doing variations of retention vanishes, you will not only find your new favorite way of stealing coins but also will never look at sleight of hands the same way ever again.
ONE COIN is a groundbreaking new series from The Impossible Co., where various masters of coin magic present their own one coin routine, each focusing on a different set of sleights, principles or other ideas. Since they all use the same simple prop, you can take elements from each to form your own personal routine.
In part three of the series, FISM winner Sho Takashige introduces a wonderful sequence full of elegant, impossible-looking coin magic. It starts with a very devious barehanded coin production, follows with a cleverly-constructed series of vanishes and appearances, before ending just as clean as you started.
ONE COIN is a groundbreaking new series from The Impossible Co., where various masters of coin magic present their own one coin routine, each focusing on a different set of sleights, principles or other ideas. Since they all use the same simple prop, you can take elements from each to form your own personal routine.
When we approached Mario Lopez with the concept, we were keen to see what the Spanish wizard would come up with. He absolutely blew our expectations out of the water. His routine “One Fly” has everything you could want from a routine: a fun, original presentation, an easy-to-follow structure, and some moments of complete impossibility.
ONE COIN is a groundbreaking new series from The Impossible Co., where various masters of coin magic present their own one coin routine, each focusing on a different set of sleights, principles or other ideas. Since they all use the same simple prop, you can take elements from each to form your own personal routine.
In part one of the series, Ponta will show you an elegant, fooling routine that is smooth as silk, yet is achieved with nothing more than finger palm. But more important than the routine itself is the thinking behind it. The central idea here is Ponta’s concept of “flow”. Every movement, every vanish and every appearance seems to flow effortlessly into the next. Yet this is not by mere accident,
three coins magically appear, then one by one it changes to a poker chip, at the end a surprise occurs, everything was an illusion and the poker chips are coins again.
Note: the gimmick used in this effect is the same one used in the “Perfect Switch” DVD.
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