Price$9.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedAug 06, 2006
10 Ways To Force A Card DVD
Dex Poinjestra
(Based on 1 review)
Forces Included:
* Criss Cross Force
* Hindu Shuffle Force
* Cut Deeper Force
* 10 to 20 Force
* Riffle Force
* Countdown Force
* Dribble Force
* Peek Force
* Slip Cut Force
* Classic Force
Reviews
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This DVD is exactly what it purports to be, but far from what it should be. If you’re going to release a treatise on different ways to execute a single move, particularly a move that isn’t yours, you are obligated to choose between compiling an encyclopedic collection OR researching extensively, then presenting (in this case) the ten best techniques.
This DVD does neither. You DO get ten ways to force a card. Four are virtually self-working - "The Criss-Cross Force," "The Cut Deeper Force," "The 10 to 20 Force" and "The Countdown Force" - but each of these is plagued by varying degrees of contrivance.
Three are relatively easy and quite convincing - "The Hindu Shuffle Force," "The Riffle Force" and "The Slip Cut Force." However, the technique demonstrated here for the “Slip Cut Force” (which should actually be called “The Slip Force”) is precisely the wrong way to do it, and results not only in a noticeable flash, but also an audible “tell.” If you’re going to set off two of your spectator’s senses anyway, you may as well touch him, throw a piece of chocolate in his mouth and fart when you do the move too.
Two of the remaining forces are moderately more difficult - “The Dribble Force” and “The Peek Force” - but both are excellent techniques and worth the effort to learn. However, neither is demonstrated particularly well here, and the Peek Force should be executed with the right first or second finger riffling up the outer right corner of the pack, not the outer narrow end near the corner.
Finally, we come to the Classic Force, arguably the finest way to force a card, and perhaps the most difficult, if not from a technical stand-point, at least to carry out convincingly and consistently. However, Mr. Poinjestra teaches the move in precisely 61 seconds. What does that mean? It means you can’t possibly learn how to Classic Force a card from this DVD. The method is certainly exposed, but hardly taught.
In addition, I can think of three forces off the top of my head that are better than several among these, and not particularly difficult to execute – The Hofzinser Spread Force, Gary Ouellet’s “Touch Force” and Lee Asher’s “May The Force Be With You.” And my knowledge of card forces is far from encyclopedic.
I know that the target market for this DVD is beginners. All the more reason to get them started on the right foot, instead of putting them in a position where they’re going to have to unlearn what they know before they can learn to do it properly.
David Acer
This DVD does neither. You DO get ten ways to force a card. Four are virtually self-working - "The Criss-Cross Force," "The Cut Deeper Force," "The 10 to 20 Force" and "The Countdown Force" - but each of these is plagued by varying degrees of contrivance.
Three are relatively easy and quite convincing - "The Hindu Shuffle Force," "The Riffle Force" and "The Slip Cut Force." However, the technique demonstrated here for the “Slip Cut Force” (which should actually be called “The Slip Force”) is precisely the wrong way to do it, and results not only in a noticeable flash, but also an audible “tell.” If you’re going to set off two of your spectator’s senses anyway, you may as well touch him, throw a piece of chocolate in his mouth and fart when you do the move too.
Two of the remaining forces are moderately more difficult - “The Dribble Force” and “The Peek Force” - but both are excellent techniques and worth the effort to learn. However, neither is demonstrated particularly well here, and the Peek Force should be executed with the right first or second finger riffling up the outer right corner of the pack, not the outer narrow end near the corner.
Finally, we come to the Classic Force, arguably the finest way to force a card, and perhaps the most difficult, if not from a technical stand-point, at least to carry out convincingly and consistently. However, Mr. Poinjestra teaches the move in precisely 61 seconds. What does that mean? It means you can’t possibly learn how to Classic Force a card from this DVD. The method is certainly exposed, but hardly taught.
In addition, I can think of three forces off the top of my head that are better than several among these, and not particularly difficult to execute – The Hofzinser Spread Force, Gary Ouellet’s “Touch Force” and Lee Asher’s “May The Force Be With You.” And my knowledge of card forces is far from encyclopedic.
I know that the target market for this DVD is beginners. All the more reason to get them started on the right foot, instead of putting them in a position where they’re going to have to unlearn what they know before they can learn to do it properly.
David Acer