Description
The Paradigm Shift Volume One features groundbreaking essays that will change the way you think about your magic, beautiful sleights that will deceive both laymen and magicians, and commercial, devious routines you will enjoy performing. Included are ideas and routines from Ariel Frailich, John Carney, Simon Aronson, Bob Farmer, and Michael Weber. As with our previous ebooks, we have used text, photos, and video to provide an optimal learning experience.
After more than a decade, Michael Close has finally released his long-awaited ebooks, The Paradigm Shift Volumes One and Two. They are being released at an introductory price. If you buy them both you’ll save even more!
Here is the table of contents:
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Our Story So Far
About this Ebook
About the Material
A Tale of Two Systems
System 2 and Conviction
A (Mostly) Simple Start
Repose, Chaos, and Action
The Chaotic Cross-cut Force
A Simple Effect
A Running Cut Combination
As an In-the-hands False Cut
A Useful Bit of Information that Doesn’t Fit Anywhere Else
The Slip-shoddier Shuffle
But Here’s the Problem
Finally, the Work
Getting into the Zarrow Shuffle
Final Thoughts
The Shoddy Rosetta Shuffle
A Touch on the Bobby Bernard False Cut
In Praise of the Lift Shuffle
To Shuffle a Specific Number of Cards above the Top Card
To Maintain Cards at the Top and the Bottom
As a Card Control
As a Full-Deck False Shuffle
Give Me A Break
The Basics
The Convincers
Reestablishing a Diminishing Break
Obtaining a Break from Other Starting Points
The Verdnase Break
The Heel Break
The Heel Break Add-on
The Heel Break Multiple Top Palm
The Heel Break Palm Switch
A Momentary Diversion – Card Control
Using the Break to Prepare and Delay
The End Tap Palm
Flat Out Quick Change
Student Exercises
A Better Jacks or Better
The Card Expert as a Dramatic Persona
1002nd Aces in Transit (Aka Decisions, Decisions)
Brain Scam
Interlocked Ambitious
A Perfectly Ordinary Deck of Cards
Final Display for Ultimate Three-Card Monte
These Used to be the Droids You Were Looking For
Not a Chance
Base on Balls
Grand Slam
The Farmer Connection
The Casino Inspector
Svenvoodoo
Monte Bones
Two-rigami
The Farzapu Shuffle
The Topsy-turvy Automatic Gambler
The End (of Part One)
