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Price$9.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedNov 01, 2012

Essentials In Magic cups and balls

Daryl

(Based on 1 review)

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This DVD focuses on Cups and Balls, an amazing magic effect, that is easy to do! In it you will learn...
  • A Basic Routine
  • The One Ahead Principle
  • Ball Variations
  • The Magic Wand
  • Wand Variations
  • Slightly Advanced (Sleights)
  • The Little Finger Hook
  • False Transfers
  • And much, much more!
The Essentials in Magic collection gives you the opportunity to enjoy one-on-one instruction from Daryl, the Magician's Magician. Internationally known and respected as one of the world's finest teachers of magic, Daryl personally mentors you through clear, easy-to-understand video segments and helps you to develop and perfect classic sleight-of-hand skills and techniques, in a way never before available without private lessons. As a World Champion Magician, creator, and teacher of magic, Daryl has distilled decades of experience and study into each DVD to bring you everything you need to know to perform miracles with sponge balls, trick decks, linking rings, cups and balls, and many other classic illusions, right away! Daryl is waiting to share these secrets with you in the Essentials in Magic.

Runniung Time Approximately: 46min

Reviews

Jeff Stone

Official Reviewer

Nov 23, 2012

The Essentials In Magic Series:

For Less than $10 bucks you get an incredible deal. This series of DVDs is one of the best "bangs for your buck" in magic today.


First of All, you get Daryl . . . one of the best teachers in magic. He's fun to watch and he makes learning whatever he teaches very easy.


Here's how I look at it . . . if it only cost me $10 bucks to learn how to remove black widow venom from a Cheeto and Daryl's teaching . . . I'm buyin'.


Cups and Balls:

This series of DVDs is just what the witch doctor ordered. You learn all the basics. It's almost like a mini (very very mini) Tarbell Course for the modern day. You learn about sleight of hand's basic principles, misdirection, fundamental classics such as (in this case) the Cups and Balls.


While the other DVDs in this series that I've reviewed are a fair mix of "good for beginner and experienced," this one is definitely geared for the beginner in mind. It's a very basic and simple tour of a brief overview of cups and balls and its many variations. That and a very simple (yet effective) basic routine are the two components of this DVD. There was a fun little discrepancy subtlety taught on here that I was unfamiliar with, but other than that, this is old hat for anyone who performs this effect regularly.


However, that said, I highly recommend this to anyone new to magic in general and to anyone looking to add a cups and balls routine to their repertoire. Further, you pros out there . . . I want you to buy it too. Not because you'll learn anything new (necessarily), but because you can afford to spend $9.95 to fund this valiant effort to improve the quality of new up and coming magicians.


Bottom line, if you're reading this review, you should buy this DVD.


Final Verdict:
4 Stars with a Stone Status of Gem.

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