Well Eric Jones is slick and professional. His hands are amazing to watch. He is a great teacher and a good guide for this DVD.

The DVD is very well produced and easy to navigate. It has the feel of a kind of encyclopedia of coin magic. This is good for beginners to get a solid grasp on the basics. It is broken up into a handful of sections: concealments, productions, vanishes, utilities, sleeving, routines and flourishes. This would probably be best used as a reference if you had another coin DVD or book that went over specific routines. Talking about routines, there was a disconnect here. The whole first part of the DVD goes over moves but the routines use a whole different vocabulary of moves, so you are kind of left without any applications for many of the moves.

All of the moves are fairly basic and Jone’s teaches them all well. The only thing that bothered me is that while this is a beginning coin DVD claiming to teach the fundamentals some obvious things were missed such as the french drop, muscle pass and coin roll. Of course these are all moves that are easy to find elsewhere but I was surprised not to find them on the DVD especially when reference is made to these specific moves from time to time.

The routines get interesting.

Four Coins Across: This was published earlier by Eric Jones as Peregrination. It is a 4 coins across using 4 regular coins. He teaches how to do it using a table and performs it live using spectators hands without a table. It is a practical routine that I use all the time.

Simplex 3 Fly: This is a very clean and precise beginners version of 3 Fly. It does not require a table and is not terribly difficult as far as coin magic goes. It is very similar to Chris Kenner’s original with a couple different subtleties. My only problem with this is that no complete performance is shown.They show a live performance but cut out the entire second phase. It would be nice to have that for ideas on timing and such.

Loose Change: This is a copper silver transpo using regular coins. Just a penny and a quarter. It is very cool and visual which is not always the case with everyday coins.

Bluff Vanish: Really this belongs in the vanish section. There’s no real routine here.
Jones’ Spellbound: This is a good routine that looks great in Jones’ hands. I have worked with it for a while and still have trouble getting it down. It is very nice and has a small wardrobe requirement.

As a reference this is a nice DVD. I think I would have preferred having more applications for the sleights taught. Maybe a bit more like Royal Road, you would learn a few sleights then a routine that incorporates those sleights. Instead of that you get a little bit of a disorganized DVD that would be a great companion to a book like Bobo’s Modern Coin Magic.

This teaches most of your basic coin vanishes and concealments. It was shot fairly well I found at times maybe some different angels would have been useful. One thing that was annoying was Eric Jones is Left handed so you have to reverse all of his action for the routines. As far as the routines go for this product it was lacking however I did take Eric's 3 fly routine. Not a bad place to start but it didn't live up to its hype.