Description
The Paradigm Shift Volume Two 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 Mick Ayres, Roy Walton, Harry Riser, Norman Beck, Michael Weber, Jason England, Aaron Fisher, Joshua Jay, and Ton Onosaka. 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.
Here is the table of contents:
Acknowledgements
Dedication
About This Ebook
About the Material
Fair and False Faro Foolery
The False Faro Placement
Homer’s False Faro
The FFP and the Classic Force
The FFP and Vernon’s Key Card Placement
The FFP and Charlie Miller’s Spread Force
The FFP and the Open Index
A Chaotic FFP
The Mickey Location
Roy Walton’s Shift Work and the FFP
The Forgotten Sunken Prediction
Why it Works
Seven-Second Delay
The Shuffle
The Way of the Duck
Some History
I Know What You’re Thinking
Duck Danger – Third Eye
Jogging My Memory
Some Good Books
Some Good Tricks
Complementary Tricks
Card Control by the Numbers
Here’s What’s New
Some Useful Memdeck Drills
Now That’s A Coincidence
The Guatemalan Miracle
A Little History
Self-Working Tricks – What’s the Price
Understanding the Method
Here’s the Work
The Five Cards that Don’t Work
Aronson Stack Chart
Tamariz Stack Chart
Trust No One ACAAN
Not ACAAN
Tantalizing Tricks
Norman Beck’s Tantalizer
How Did I Screw That Up
The Royal Tantalizer
End Game
A Few Ideas From Jason England
Finding the Tipping Point
Defining Our Terms
The Christ Twist and The Mechanical Reverse
The GHP
Close’s Handling of the GHP
Incorporating the GHP
The Deja Vu Trick
The Paradigm Shift
What’s Different About This Shift
What I Misunderstood
The Overt Action
Gripping the Deck
The Opposing Pressures
The Devil in the Details
Some Things to Think About
Who Has the Power
Venue Considerations
Social Skills
Who Has the Power
My Favorite Things
The Atheist Card Trick
The IKEA Card Trick
The Matching Miracle
A Trick for Sheldon Cooper
The Trick that Fooled Houdini and His Whole Fricking Family
You Bet Your Life
The End (of Volume Two)
