Price$59.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedOct 12, 2004
Revolutionary Card Magic
Jay Sankey
Sankey Magic
(Based on 1 review)
That's right, over 5 hours of killer card magic on 2 DVDs!
You'll learn 28 brand new routines and 17 lethal sleights. REVOLUTIONARY CARD MAGIC is the ultimate companion to Jay's close-up classic REVOLUTIONARY COIN MAGIC. Here are just a few of the astounding effects you will learn...
- Assault with a Deadly Weapon: The selection appears in a borrowed salt shaker!
- Tracking Device: A shirt button vanishes and is found SEWN to the face of the selection!
- Missing Evidence: Without a doubt, one of the strongest torn and restored cards ever!
- Threadbare Rise: Cause as many cards as you want to rise out of an examined deck without threads, magnets, or rubber bands!
- Blaze of Glory: The signed card appears in a ball of fire! (Beat that!)
- Ubercharge: A card changes even though it bares the spectator's initials on its face! (Read that again.)
- Fort Knox: The signed card is found inside a folded envelope resting inside the card case!
- In Captivity: Two cards change places despite one of the cards being wrapped in electrical tape!
- Nosferatu: A vampire card impaled with a 5-inch nail remains unharmed!
- Chain Gang: A selected card escapes under lock and key!
- Cardivores: Jay's insanely clean version of Roy Walton's "Cannibal Cards."
- Paper Cut: The "torn and restored transpo" Jay closes shows with!
This is a completely self-contained program and all sleights are explained in exhaustive detail. You'll learn the "real work" and nitty gritty details of the Hypocrite Force, Slap Vanish, Burst Production, AFTUS, Mercury Card Fold, One Hand Top Palm, Twirl Change, Tenkai Card Palm, Hapa Force, Tilt, Starfish Change, Wichita Slip, Double Erdnase Change, Shanghai Change and so much more! Many of these items are appearing on DVD for the first time!
Reviews
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I feel that the title of Jay's latest DVD release is a bit misleading. Unlike his Revolutionary Coin Magic DVD, this is not a collection of Jay's best work in the genre, but rather a lecture DVD featuring 28 new routines. That's not to say that these aren't good routines, but "revolutionary" is a word best left to history.
Were Jay to have followed the format he established on Revolutionary Coin Magic, we might have seen a kind of Greatest Hits - "Airtight," "Forgery" and "Cardboard Contortionists" from Sankey Panky (Kaufman, 1986); "Wild Thing" "A Fold In Time" and "#*@!" (a.k.a. "Paper Clipped") from 100% Sankey (Kaufman, 1990); "Back in Time," "Seven" and "Fragile Harbor" from Sankey Unleashed (Racherbaumer, 2004), not to mention his excellent independent releases, "The Big Finish" (Elmwood Magic) and "Measle Deck" (Hampton Ridge). But alas, this was not to be.
There are, however, at least two tricks on these DVDs that I would put in the same category: "Helter Skelter" is a wonderfully motivated transposition/Triumph effect, and one of Jay's best card tricks in years. And "Leech" is a hugely engaging signature-transpo-type routine with a little black leech drawn on the back of a card.
Other highlights include "Missing Evidence," a uniquely Sankeyan torn-and-restored card in which the restoration is actually the climax of a trick that was going in a completely different direction; "In Captivity," a two-card transposition in which one of the cards is bound with electric tape; "Threadbare Rise," a new method for causing a selection to rise from the middle of the pack; "Fort Knox," an interesting signed-card-to-small-envelope-in-a-closed-card-case (Jay's title is better...); and "Chain Gang," a clever vanish of a chosen card from a packet of cards that were locked together.
Along the way, Jay also explains dozens of sleights, including his own Topper Tack (from When Creators Collide), Wichita Slip (from Sankey Unleashed) and The Shanghai Change (from Sankey Unleashed).
In addition, there are gag tricks that appear to be genuine lecture items until they become so ridiculous that even people who like Reba will realize Jay is kidding.
Regardless of whether or not you're a hardcore Sankey fan, I think you'll find plenty of interesting, original ideas on these DVDs.
David Acer
Were Jay to have followed the format he established on Revolutionary Coin Magic, we might have seen a kind of Greatest Hits - "Airtight," "Forgery" and "Cardboard Contortionists" from Sankey Panky (Kaufman, 1986); "Wild Thing" "A Fold In Time" and "#*@!" (a.k.a. "Paper Clipped") from 100% Sankey (Kaufman, 1990); "Back in Time," "Seven" and "Fragile Harbor" from Sankey Unleashed (Racherbaumer, 2004), not to mention his excellent independent releases, "The Big Finish" (Elmwood Magic) and "Measle Deck" (Hampton Ridge). But alas, this was not to be.
There are, however, at least two tricks on these DVDs that I would put in the same category: "Helter Skelter" is a wonderfully motivated transposition/Triumph effect, and one of Jay's best card tricks in years. And "Leech" is a hugely engaging signature-transpo-type routine with a little black leech drawn on the back of a card.
Other highlights include "Missing Evidence," a uniquely Sankeyan torn-and-restored card in which the restoration is actually the climax of a trick that was going in a completely different direction; "In Captivity," a two-card transposition in which one of the cards is bound with electric tape; "Threadbare Rise," a new method for causing a selection to rise from the middle of the pack; "Fort Knox," an interesting signed-card-to-small-envelope-in-a-closed-card-case (Jay's title is better...); and "Chain Gang," a clever vanish of a chosen card from a packet of cards that were locked together.
Along the way, Jay also explains dozens of sleights, including his own Topper Tack (from When Creators Collide), Wichita Slip (from Sankey Unleashed) and The Shanghai Change (from Sankey Unleashed).
In addition, there are gag tricks that appear to be genuine lecture items until they become so ridiculous that even people who like Reba will realize Jay is kidding.
Regardless of whether or not you're a hardcore Sankey fan, I think you'll find plenty of interesting, original ideas on these DVDs.
David Acer