Wow!? "Wouldn't fool a magician today"... I am a magician I just learned about The Throw Change, fooled me hard. It's explained in an $8 book: Arthur Buckley's Card Control.
@respectthemagic6 жыл бұрын
I fell in love with magic 48 years ago and went on to perform professionally for many years. No longer a performer I work behind the scenes as a creative consultant, producer, and creator of magic for other magicians. One of the most important things anyone serious about learning magic should do is start collecting magic books. Old books, new books, books on all topics of magic should be collected. You may be interested in card magic, but that doesn't mean you should not be studying other forms of magic as well. Magic is a complex and varied performing art, and methods from one branch of magic may be useful in another branch. Too many amateurs today want instant results so they look for self working tricks and props that do all the work. That is how you become a trickster, not a magician. A magician STUDIES the art in all its forms and is willing to put in the countless long hours it takes to master the secret methods and difficult sleights. He also studies and practices his performance and presentation skills. A professional magician who has spent his time studying and learning, and mastering the various art forms, including honing his presentation skills can take a simple $5 trick and make it look like a miracle to his audience. I absolutely 100% agree with this review. The books reviewed in this video have been in my personal library for many years. They sit among over 650 other magic books. Sure I own magic DVDs also, but in my opinion, and the opinion of most of magic's biggest and brightest stars, books are still the number one way to learn magic. When I am working with a performer developing new routines for a show, whether in Vegas, Monte Carlo, Branson, or for a touring show, I often refer back to old magic books where some real gems are buried and are mostly unknown to today's performers. Read not only books filled with tricks. Read books written about other magicians, especially those in Houdini's day and earlier. The old masters were truly masters of the art and you can learn so much from studying their styles, methods, and performances. Magic is the most ancient of all the performing arts. Treat it with the love and respect it deserves and it will be an important part of your life until you breathe your last breath.With time and patience you could become one of those great masters young magicians will look back upon with highest regards in the future.
@magicorthodoxy6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a wonderful comment
@Pianoken1237 жыл бұрын
i love expert at the card table
@magicorthodoxy7 жыл бұрын
wow.... ok
@tonyrazzano99123 жыл бұрын
I am so glad you are a proponent of books!!!
@magicorthodoxy3 жыл бұрын
I love books
@anglonicus5 жыл бұрын
I've seen tons of your videos and I just want to say that you make great videos. Thanks for making them!
@magicorthodoxy5 жыл бұрын
thanks Watermelon
@snickelman7 жыл бұрын
The best, and only important plus to using a book over a video is that when you read the book, you are forced to understand the move you're about to do. In a video, oyu can very easily just copy the move without understanding it. It's a huge difference if you read a book, and it says: "Hold the deck in the left hand so that the first joints of the second and third fingers will be against the middle one side..." It contains more detail than if you were to just see a video of the move.
@magicorthodoxy7 жыл бұрын
agreed
@TrackHustlersENT6 жыл бұрын
I'll forever prefer books. I learned how to do all the basics. fans, one handed cuts, DL, ect ect from books ( mostly mark wilsons book actually) i guess its a generational thing. But i really absorb and learn if I'm reading it off the page
@rogersmith9628 Жыл бұрын
What is old is new. I do Old West living history with a gambling routine, and I do "A Poker Puzzle" from The Royal Road of Card Magic. Even an effect that is 80 + years old gets great reactions.
@magicorthodoxy Жыл бұрын
nice !!!
@eddyss62855 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this review. I’m going to get the royal road to card magic book and the dvd version made by r Paul Wilson for my birthday next month. I got the expert card technique book but I find it hard to understand, so I going to try the royal road first with the dvd so I can have a better understanding of the moves and sleights. Thanks again for helping young magicians like me trying to get started on this stuff😀😀😀👍🏾
@teddylockhart39569 жыл бұрын
PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO LIKE THIS! I loved it!!! :D
@magicorthodoxy9 жыл бұрын
Teddy Lockhart oh I will, I have BIG plans for more book reviews
@waywardspirit78983 жыл бұрын
Except next time show your whole head verses, from the nose down.
@thebudapestgambler88328 жыл бұрын
Great video! The best place to hide secrets, is between the pages of a book. Also a lot of dvds are built on these ideas that are in these books. Paul Wilson said something like: if you study(read books and practise) you will be better in anything. Like a surgent. I dont want the surgent who watched the videos. I want the surgent who studied.
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
surgent?
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
Surgeon = doctor
@joshcoleman99567 жыл бұрын
I have to say i agree with you so much, I am a young magician and have been for the last year and it is only now that i am realizing how good books are and i have ordered my first 2 ''The royal road to card magic'' and ''The Expert at the Card Table'' and i notice now that to go from beginner to intermediate youtube videos wont do the job , because even though i have been doing magic the last year i would still say i could learn a lot from beginner magic books. Thank you for these reviews :)
@magicorthodoxy7 жыл бұрын
You're welcome Josh
@skyshadowkat65911 жыл бұрын
thanks for this! i was just looking at my local library for books on card flourish and magic and was astounded by the amount there were, and had no idea where to start. i did pick up The Royal Road to Card Magic because it was a great price on ebay for an old hardback copy. i too, love books! glad to have stumbled onto your review, i am now a subscriber! thanks again.
@messier13ify8 жыл бұрын
Bravo on the legitimacy of books!
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
+messier13ify Here's to books!
@GandharvChoudhry8 жыл бұрын
+magicorthodoxy Please Sir make more book review videos it's a request
@metaphor12209 жыл бұрын
Just purchased "expert at the card table" excited to read it!
@magicorthodoxy9 жыл бұрын
Stephan Antoine hope you like it
@themaggot89 жыл бұрын
+Stephan Antoine Great purchase. You should get expert card technique too, and boom!, ultimate card knowledge
@crawdini52443 жыл бұрын
Wow,old video. No glasses. Still have the Goatee . :D
@magicorthodoxy3 жыл бұрын
Yea I looked different 8 years ago
@graff52746 жыл бұрын
Books are by faaaar the best..... Its just nice to be able to hold something about your love in your hand and i think it's the easiest way to learn the tricks you are studying. I've noticed some youtube mavicians will do things a little incorrect compared to the original magicians boom teachings. Im really glad you did this review : ) id like to hear your opinion on the top 5 or 10 magic books of all time.
@magicorthodoxy6 жыл бұрын
of all time? these are my favorite card books kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2rLpYl6bt2kqq8
@coonymojo11 жыл бұрын
nice! would love to see more book reviews. There aren't many on youtube.
@mazmi41799 жыл бұрын
I have the royal road to card magic in a DVD but I would prefer the book.
@magicorthodoxy9 жыл бұрын
muhammad azmi I think having BOTH would be even better!
@sohailmalik526810 жыл бұрын
Nice review. Not many book reviews on youtube id like to see more keep it up :). Id like to point out some errors the correct pronounciations are Jean Ugard 'h' is silent and Fedrick Browee .
@calvo_en_moto Жыл бұрын
SO YOUNG!!!!
@magicorthodoxy Жыл бұрын
me? Never
@xJamieGames11 жыл бұрын
Hey! My bestfriend Allen, (daaparty) sent me :) I love cards as well!
@JiveDadson8 жыл бұрын
The illustrations in books do not need to be paused, rewound, or played in slow motion. I almost went crazy studying Kostya Kimlat's Roadrunner Cull DVD. I wanted to shout, SLOW DOWN!
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
+JiveDadson ha ha - YES YES! Books rule!
@cardsleightsandtricks86819 жыл бұрын
Thanks man, I'm looking for good books.
@magicorthodoxy9 жыл бұрын
Card sleights and tricks books are the best
@GarciaAndy336 жыл бұрын
Great video you are like a magic historian... like Gandalf
@magicorthodoxy6 жыл бұрын
...and I am probably as OLD as Gandalf
@ronfoss97235 жыл бұрын
Card books are the main reason I couldnt get into card tricks 40 years ago. Previewing some tricks in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, nothing has changed. Still confusing.
@magicorthodoxy5 жыл бұрын
Sorry man LOL
@dj.fimp13278 жыл бұрын
I love books
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
+K Fimple yay
@dj.fimp13278 жыл бұрын
+magicorthodoxy hi
@ModernBashFN8 жыл бұрын
thanks
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
You are welcome :D
@wizardwatching67107 жыл бұрын
I need some help, I want books for stage magic and I don't have a clue....
@magicorthodoxy7 жыл бұрын
"The Seven Basic Secrets of Illusion Design" by Eric Van Duzer and Paul Osborne has an illusion book series out. Stage magic is a very broad term. It encompasses everything from the egg bag to vanishing an elephant, with birds and manipulation somewhere in between.
@BZ_-zd3ph7 жыл бұрын
Is there any book that is for advanced magic and is fairly cheap?
@magicorthodoxy7 жыл бұрын
card magic? I guess advanced is a relative term - royal road to card magic gets pretty advanced towards the end depending on your skill level
@BZ_-zd3ph7 жыл бұрын
magicorthodoxy OK thanks
@Shaggy2shag6 жыл бұрын
the expert card technique is pretty good for advanced
@woopize6 жыл бұрын
I’m thinking about buying th me royal road to card magic, I habe the Expert Card Technique but being english not my first lenguage I find some things a tad difficult to understand, but I heard that The Royal Road is more for begginers than the Expert Card Tecnique so idk. Any thaughs on this? Is it easy to read?
@magicorthodoxy6 жыл бұрын
Probably the same
@hecto_bismo47908 жыл бұрын
Can I find these in places like barns and nobles ?
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
probably not, but they will order them for you for free - no obligation to buy
@BzBlade3 жыл бұрын
Card college vol 1
@magicorthodoxy3 жыл бұрын
toats !!!
@BaquePhotography4 жыл бұрын
Jean Hu-guard not hug-ard
@BaquePhotography4 жыл бұрын
Also books suck, dont ever read them. That way i'll always know a ton more than you.
@ricoweeland23018 жыл бұрын
iam a younger magician and i fricking love books! also people are just lazy and you could never get the knowledge of the great books, im revering to Vernon, erdnase and some ortiz stuff plus every magic is good! also you can never get the theory and amount of knowledge you would get from the books. conclusion: Books are fricking awesome! Ps, i hate the dover edition of the expert at the card table, its so sloppy made and its quite hard to find stuff in it
@magicorthodoxy8 жыл бұрын
+rico weeland THX
@ricoweeland23018 жыл бұрын
also really enjoyed the content, keep it up and if you ever need some one to discuss books with iam in for it ^^