This isn't the worst product I've reviewed, but it ain't the best either. First of all, despite his claim that these illusions are easy and that no matter what your body build is you can do them, you're going to find that if you're bigger (like me) or older and have stiffer joints (like me), these effects are basically impossible.

Basic Overview

If you're young, thing, spry and flexible, then you'll likely be able to do these. I physically could not put my arms in the position required for the arms through body, arms through neck, wrists through leg or the sleeveless arm twisting effect. That's the first four out of the six effects that I can't do. Unless you're particularly limber and somewhat slim, you may struggle with these as well.

Of the remaining two illusions, one gets thrown out because it looks like crap in my opinion. That's the impromptu jacket levitation - and even if it did look good, I still can't contort my body into the right position to do it. So that leaves us with the final "bonus" effect. This one fortunately does not require a limber body. It's a mentalism effect that has a decent hook centered around the concept that there are different kinds of hugs (e.g., you would hug your wife differently from the way you would hug your brother). I like the hook and the routine has potential. I also think that for anyone over 30, it'll be the most likely effect to be performed out of the six.

Production Quality

For $45, to get no gimmicks, no props and only 6 effects (five of which many won't be able to do), you'd think that at least the production quality would be good. But you'd be wrong. It's poorly lit, and poorly mic'd. It's still good enough to learn the effects, and Nefesch does a good job explaining them and their nuances.

Points to Ponder

Just because I can't do the effects, doesn't mean their doable. The problem is that you can't really see them in the demo, and explaining them in enough detail that you'd get the effect would be tedious. I'll say this . . . the hands through neck and arm twist illusions don't look that great. They weren't very convincing. The jacket levitation, as already pointed out, looks bad. So it's down to the arms through body and wrists through leg. I think the wrists through leg looks pretty good, but it's best for a one on one thing. Finally, the arms through body: We are shown several performances of it on the DVD. The very first one shown looked really good. The rest of them, however, weren't as clean or as smooth as the first one.

Even before knowing how the effect worked, it was pretty easy to deduce on the other performances, and it wasn't because I had already seen it. It was because they weren't performed as well. So even though the first performance was very good, the others weren't. My point is that even the creator of this effect struggled a bit with the timing and the angles.

Final Thoughts

Typically at the end of a review, I'll say something like, "if you like the effect, you'll be happy." Or maybe I'll say, "if you like the effect, you'll be disappointed with the method." However, in this case, you don't know if you like the effect because you haven't seen them. Unfortunately these are the kind of effects that you need to see to appreciate. So I guess you'll have to take my word for it. Really only 2 of the 5 illusions look ok or good. All five of them are hard to do and not for the larger folk amongst us, regardless of Nefesch claims. So basically you're left with 2 ok-ish looking effects and one pretty decent mentalism effect. You know what that means . . .

Final Verdict:
2 Stars with a Stone Status of Grubble (a little teeny bit of gem amongst a whole lot of rubble)