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Date AddedJul 31, 2014
At the Table Live Lecture - Shin Lim 8/20/2014 - video DOWNLOAD
Lim, Shin
Murphy's Magic Supplies, Inc.
(Based on 2 reviews)
Sleights:
Shinsplint 2.0: An impromptu 'Twisting the Aces' effect that happens in the most visual way possible. You cleanly hold four aces with just your fingertips and magically, one by one, they invert themselves!
4x4 color change: (This is Shin's favorite way to change four cards out at a time.) Imagine holding four aces and with just a wave of your hand, they immediately change into 4 kings!
Color Changes: Shin Lim is known for his visual eye candy magic. Prepare to witness his favorite original color changes, as well as his take on some classic changes too!
Credit Peak: (Completely impromptu) With a borrowed deck of cards and credit card, imagine being able to predict any selected card in the most fair way possible.
Card Reverse: While springing the cards, imagine being able to easily reverse a selected or thought of card. Think of an impromptu Invisible Deck!
Snap Change: Shin covers his variations on Ed Marlo's Snap Change.
GIMMICKS:
Tactic: This gimmick will allow you to vanish a folded card in a Tic-Tac box. It's clean, easy, and has multiple routines and unlimited possibilities. Shin goes over just some of the ideas and routines that he has thought of.
**An At the Table EXCLUSIVE! Will NOT be taught anywhere else!**
Matrix Reloaded: A very CLEAN way to gaff a playing card to be able to conceal a quarter. This WILL change the way you perform a coin matrix!
ROUTINING: Shin will be performing his FISM act, and will then break down and cover parts of the act.
Reviews
(Top ▲)
Shin Lim is a young guy that has really drummed up a name for himself among the competition circuit or young magicians he has already made a name for himself. During this lecture you learn some of Lim’s classic magic as well as a handful of new ideas.
FISM Act #1: I believe this is Lim’s act titled 52 shades of Red. Later in the lecture he explains most of the act, not play by play but you get the main idea. This act looks nice on camera, which is what it was designed for, but it may have some difficulties when performed close up or live. At one point he uses his SSS smoke gimmick, he does not explain it. Most of the deck is gimmicked in some way and you learn most of the various techniques Lim uses to gimmick it up.
F*** Cards: Shin’s version of this classic gimmick is solid and deceptive on stage. He warns against using this in a close up situation but after you put the work into making the gimmick you have an almost self working color changing card that could be used on stage.
Tips and Tricks on Silent Acts: Lim covers various tips and the theory behind his competition acts. He explains some of the history behind his competition acts as well.
Twirl Change Variation: This is a variation inspired by Kevin Ho on the classic change. It cleans up and fixes some problems with the actual classic version of the change.
Thoughts on B**** A**: This concept has been used on stage by many but Shil Lim has applied this to a closeup performance. He covers a handful of vanishes and appearances using this concept. Some of the moves used here could be applied to an act with a normal deck of cards.
Gimmicked Vanish: Using some very cool technology you are able to make a card vanish cleanly or perform an impossible tabled color change. You will need to perform some heavy duty arts and crafts to make the gimmicks but Lim has some great applications throughout the lecture using this item.
Tic Tac Box: This is a very cool prediction trick, similar in effect to David Regal’s clarity box. A card is folded up in a Tic Tac box from the beginning, a card is chosen signed and vanished. It is then found to be the card in the Tic Tac box. This requires a lot of prep and is similar in method to Shin Lim’s Switch.
Coin Matrix: This is similar to the gimmicked vanish mentioned above. Shin uses the same method to vanish a coin. Personally I’m not a huge fan of this, on video it may work but I feel like a coin is too much to conceal using this method.
Ace Production: This is an easy, flourishy 4 ace production. There’s nothing outstanding here but it is a fine production. It works well routined with the 4 for 4 change and Shin Splint.
4 for 4 Change: The 4 aces are placed face up on the deck and with a wave of the hand they visually change into the 4 kings. This is a tough move with some angle sensitivity but when performed well it looks really nice. With a snap you can make the cards turn back into the aces if you’d like.
Shin Splint: This is a very visual, one handed twisting the aces routine that happens at the fingertips. It isn’t as easy as the classic routine but the tradeoff is worth it in many conditions. You can’t be completely surrounded but it is a great update to the classic.
Card Shintrol: This move was based on a color change, it has been changed to be used as a top control. This isn’t groundbreaking but it is a nice simple control that definitely gets the job done.
Reverse Snap Change: Shin has taken this to the next step. A card changes and changes back repeatedly. It is crazy difficult. I’m not sure how real world this change is but it looks really cool. He also uses it as a sandwich vanish.
Multiple Snap Change: Shin has become well known for his handling of the multiple snap change. He touches on a couple things and jams for a bit on the Snap Change but does not go into depth on the move.
Fism Act #2- The Dream Act (Performance Only): This is may be released at some point but he does not explain the routine in its entirety. Basically a card is selected and signed, and teleports to the magicians mouth. It is then placed in a bag and changes in the bag to another signed card. There is a fun bit with a Sharpie Marker as well as a card and deck transpo. It is all performed with a bunch of smoke effects and many magical, impossible moments.
To close up he covers a few pieces of theory as well as his tips on the mercury card fold.
Overall, you will get 2 basic types of magic here, very difficult magic and very gimmicked magic. I found a handful of things that got my mind going, but over all I was not a huge fan of the lecture. It seemed kind of unorganized and in a few spots I feel like he breezed through an explanation so quickly that it will be extra difficult to learn. I found that Lim’s style is very niche oriented and does not necessarily help out my style of magic. His teaching also left something to be desired.
FISM Act #1: I believe this is Lim’s act titled 52 shades of Red. Later in the lecture he explains most of the act, not play by play but you get the main idea. This act looks nice on camera, which is what it was designed for, but it may have some difficulties when performed close up or live. At one point he uses his SSS smoke gimmick, he does not explain it. Most of the deck is gimmicked in some way and you learn most of the various techniques Lim uses to gimmick it up.
F*** Cards: Shin’s version of this classic gimmick is solid and deceptive on stage. He warns against using this in a close up situation but after you put the work into making the gimmick you have an almost self working color changing card that could be used on stage.
Tips and Tricks on Silent Acts: Lim covers various tips and the theory behind his competition acts. He explains some of the history behind his competition acts as well.
Twirl Change Variation: This is a variation inspired by Kevin Ho on the classic change. It cleans up and fixes some problems with the actual classic version of the change.
Thoughts on B**** A**: This concept has been used on stage by many but Shil Lim has applied this to a closeup performance. He covers a handful of vanishes and appearances using this concept. Some of the moves used here could be applied to an act with a normal deck of cards.
Gimmicked Vanish: Using some very cool technology you are able to make a card vanish cleanly or perform an impossible tabled color change. You will need to perform some heavy duty arts and crafts to make the gimmicks but Lim has some great applications throughout the lecture using this item.
Tic Tac Box: This is a very cool prediction trick, similar in effect to David Regal’s clarity box. A card is folded up in a Tic Tac box from the beginning, a card is chosen signed and vanished. It is then found to be the card in the Tic Tac box. This requires a lot of prep and is similar in method to Shin Lim’s Switch.
Coin Matrix: This is similar to the gimmicked vanish mentioned above. Shin uses the same method to vanish a coin. Personally I’m not a huge fan of this, on video it may work but I feel like a coin is too much to conceal using this method.
Ace Production: This is an easy, flourishy 4 ace production. There’s nothing outstanding here but it is a fine production. It works well routined with the 4 for 4 change and Shin Splint.
4 for 4 Change: The 4 aces are placed face up on the deck and with a wave of the hand they visually change into the 4 kings. This is a tough move with some angle sensitivity but when performed well it looks really nice. With a snap you can make the cards turn back into the aces if you’d like.
Shin Splint: This is a very visual, one handed twisting the aces routine that happens at the fingertips. It isn’t as easy as the classic routine but the tradeoff is worth it in many conditions. You can’t be completely surrounded but it is a great update to the classic.
Card Shintrol: This move was based on a color change, it has been changed to be used as a top control. This isn’t groundbreaking but it is a nice simple control that definitely gets the job done.
Reverse Snap Change: Shin has taken this to the next step. A card changes and changes back repeatedly. It is crazy difficult. I’m not sure how real world this change is but it looks really cool. He also uses it as a sandwich vanish.
Multiple Snap Change: Shin has become well known for his handling of the multiple snap change. He touches on a couple things and jams for a bit on the Snap Change but does not go into depth on the move.
Fism Act #2- The Dream Act (Performance Only): This is may be released at some point but he does not explain the routine in its entirety. Basically a card is selected and signed, and teleports to the magicians mouth. It is then placed in a bag and changes in the bag to another signed card. There is a fun bit with a Sharpie Marker as well as a card and deck transpo. It is all performed with a bunch of smoke effects and many magical, impossible moments.
To close up he covers a few pieces of theory as well as his tips on the mercury card fold.
Overall, you will get 2 basic types of magic here, very difficult magic and very gimmicked magic. I found a handful of things that got my mind going, but over all I was not a huge fan of the lecture. It seemed kind of unorganized and in a few spots I feel like he breezed through an explanation so quickly that it will be extra difficult to learn. I found that Lim’s style is very niche oriented and does not necessarily help out my style of magic. His teaching also left something to be desired.
(Top ▲)
This lecture was interesting to watch because there were many items that were original and others which were not. My biggest issue with the lecture as a whole is that it felt disjointed and it seemed to lag because of the obvious lack of preparation.
Shin explains the items in the ad copy, but there were a few of the explanations that were just glazed over (you may need to watch more than once) while other things were very well explained.
There are some arts and crafts projects necessary if you want to make up some of the things in this lecture - one of the best in my opinion was his Tactic box. While alternative items for the Tactic box (other than cards) are not discussed, with a little bit of thought you can use other similar items with it.
There were some clever ideas and effects presented but not everything is necessarily suitable for all venues or performances as they require certain (controllable) conditions.
Mike Hankins does a great job as usual in hosting and if you are a fan of Shin Lim (even if you are not), you may get something out of this lecture.
Shin explains the items in the ad copy, but there were a few of the explanations that were just glazed over (you may need to watch more than once) while other things were very well explained.
There are some arts and crafts projects necessary if you want to make up some of the things in this lecture - one of the best in my opinion was his Tactic box. While alternative items for the Tactic box (other than cards) are not discussed, with a little bit of thought you can use other similar items with it.
There were some clever ideas and effects presented but not everything is necessarily suitable for all venues or performances as they require certain (controllable) conditions.
Mike Hankins does a great job as usual in hosting and if you are a fan of Shin Lim (even if you are not), you may get something out of this lecture.