Par Ken Krentzel et Stephen Minch
Livre en anglais.
RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES is what result when an acclaimed master of card
magic sets out to explore how advanced sleight-of-hand can be made far easier
to attain through a perceptive study of economy of action married to efficient
placement of cards. By applying a lifetime of study and ability, world-respected
expert Ken Krenzel has developed innovative methods that will place techniques
long perceived as extremely difficult into the hands of card magicians possessing
average skills. Such advanced sleights as palms, steals, switches, side steals,
bottom deals and top changes, sleights previously used by only the most dedicated
and gifted card technicians, are ingeniously modified and re-imagined to put
them into your performing repertoire within a few weeks, rather than years.
After providing a variety of sleights capable of wide utility, Krenzel delivers
a collection of tricks and routines that apply these tools and others. The result
is magic that ranges from eye-popping visuals to logic-defying card mysteries,
many of which take place solely in the hands of the spectator! Indeed, this
type of hands-off card magic, designed to leave no easy answers for audiences,
is a special focus of Dr. Krenzel in this book. RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES
teaches material designed for those who desire to broaden their skills and give
their audiences an experience they've never before had. In its pages many new
pathways are opened and some stunning destination points are provided.
- Facial - A Wild-Card printing effect like no other. Four blank-faced
cards magically duplicate the face of a selected random card. Each transformation
is visual and instantaneous, all the cards are inspected before and afterward,
and with each performance a different card is duplicated.
- Fan World - A new approach to the Out-of-This-World effect in which
the deck may be shuffled at any point during the procedure, you do not look
at the faces of the cards, the duration of the test may be as short or as
long as wished, there are no packet exchanges and only two pilesone
red, one blackare formed. Yet, you have complete control over a spectator's
ability to correctly guess the color of each card.
- Strange Hummer - Anyone shuffles the deck (which may be borrowed),
deals off ten random cards and mixes them face up and face down under the
table, where no one can see what is being done. The mixing procedure becomes
more and more random, until everyone, including fellow magicians, must admit
you have no control over it. While the packet is still out of sight under
the table, you announce the number of cards that are face up and face down,
which proves to be correct. You also point out that the spectator has mysteriously
separated the red cards from the blacks!
- AUTOMACAAN - The Any-Card-at-Any-Number effect is given three new
treatments, including one in which the deck may be borrowed and you never
touch the cards. The spectator does everything. This trick may even be performed
over the telephonea genuine and exciting breakthrough in both method
and effect.
These are just four of the more than thirty new items in KEN KRENZEL'S RELAXED
IMPOSSIBILITIES. All are thoroughly taught, aided by over 170 expert illustrations
by Earle Oakes. When you add streamlined and accessible manipulation to new principles
of sleight-less card magic, the result is RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES. You
now can relax too, they are awaiting you.
Pages 254 - Hardbound with Dust Jacket
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