Price$19.95
Media TypeBook, DVD
CategoryGeneral, Close Up
Date AddedNov 24, 2008
Magic The Complete Course
Joshua Jay
(Based on 2 reviews)
Joshua Jay took home the top prize at the World Magic Seminar (the Olympics of magic) when he was just 16 years old. Ten years later, he continues to perform magic, write about magic, eat, sleep, and breathe magic. Here, he brings all his passion and knowledge to teaching magic. Each trick is broken down into the Effect, the Secret, the Set-up, and, most important, the Performance, with lessons on what to say, how to direct the audience's attention, where to keep your hands, and so on. (In other words, how to be smart about the things your audience is surprisingly clueless about.)
Here are the Ten Greatest Card Tricks; tricks to dazzle a dinner date; tricks to perform for the boss (poke a hole through his shirt, then magically mend it); tricks especially for kids; and even tricks for an audience in another state - with "Australian Self-Help," you can find a participant's chosen card over the phone. It's the Aha! book for a subject whose time has come.
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About Joshua Jay
Joshua Jay was crowned champion at the World Magic Seminar in 1998, when he was still a teenager, and today is one of America's finest young magicians. He's performed and lectured in over 50 countries, is a headliner at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and writes a monthly column in MAGIC, the leading magazine for magicians. He lives in New York City.
"Finally a book that brings the art of magic into the 21st century!"
- Rick Merrill, 2006 World Champion of Magic
Every 10 or 20 years a book comes along that introduces a whole new generation to the art and craft of magic. This is it!"
- Stan Allen, Editor of Magic Magazine
"An exquisite and vast introduction to the world of magic."
- Jason Alexander, Actor and Magician
Pages 278 - Softbound, Photo-Illustrated
Reviews
(Top ▲)
This is a magic text book that is full of magic from creators like Alex Elmsley, Jim Steinmeyer, Jay Sankey, Max Maven and of course Joshua Jay. With a list of magicians like that you'll probably find some thing you like.
In my opinion this would fit an intermediate student who is looking to start performing regularly. The breadth of the material is wide reaching with every thing from close up magic, magic for kids, and even stuff you could do on a platform.
You get some real solid magic including the magic square, the linking rings (the rings aren't included), a newspaper tear, the invisible deck and a ton more.
At the end of the book you get some great tips on making a show and how you can put together the magic within to make a show.
This is not a children's book for the kid that will like magic for a few weeks and be done, it is more for the beginning magician that would like to start performing professional material.
If you are curious, stop by a Barnes and Noble and flip through its pages. If you like what you see take the dive!
In my opinion this would fit an intermediate student who is looking to start performing regularly. The breadth of the material is wide reaching with every thing from close up magic, magic for kids, and even stuff you could do on a platform.
You get some real solid magic including the magic square, the linking rings (the rings aren't included), a newspaper tear, the invisible deck and a ton more.
At the end of the book you get some great tips on making a show and how you can put together the magic within to make a show.
This is not a children's book for the kid that will like magic for a few weeks and be done, it is more for the beginning magician that would like to start performing professional material.
If you are curious, stop by a Barnes and Noble and flip through its pages. If you like what you see take the dive!
(Top ▲)
I occasionally teach magic and am always looking for a good text for my students to follow up with. This book has terrific tricks that are well explained. It teaches some basic sleights and their uses. The only reason I do not rate this book higher is the layout. It jumps around and in trying to look good only becomes hard to follow. If the same material were presented in a neater, better flowing format, this book would deserve at least another half star. For an adult or older teenager the layout may not be as serious a problem but it still interferes with the learning flow.