Price$49.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryGeneral
Date AddedOct 03, 2006
On The Spot DVD
Gregory Wilson
(Based on 1 review)
Imagine showing up at your next gig with no tricks in your pocket. That's right, no tricks! This video teaches you to entertain professionally with normal everyday objects.
With these simple but stunning routines, you'll be able to turn everyday objects into weapons of deception.
Complete routines strong enough for your next paid performance!
Ticker Taker - A super-simple and perfectly motivated watch steal that doesn't take tons of testosterone to perform. Learn how to repeat steal a spectator's watch up to 4 times in a row.
Quick Silver - A quarter disappears and reappears three times - in your eye socket (like a monocle), on the spectator's shoulder, and finally under their watch. All you need is a quarter.
Sponge Napkins - The impact of a sponge ball routine with ordinary cocktail napkins. Greg's gone beyond the ordinary spongeball moves and has them reappearing in surprising places. Greg also introduces a new concealment that will fool you and your spectators.
Open Palm Coins Across - A clean and slick impromptu Coins Across. All you need are 3 borrowed quarters. Better start doing your Pinky-Pushups for this incredibly fair handling.
Head Trip - A Paper Balls over the Head routine with anything - and everything. Gregory grabs glasses, plates, and saltshakers - anything he can get his mitts on!! This routine alone is a postgraduate course in misdirection.
Glossy Finish - A smear of borrowed lipstick penetrates a spectator's tightly clenched fist. This is perhaps the most motivated and natural routine in the series! Even if you're familiar with the method, you'll still be fooled watching the performance!
Toll Free - A Close-up miser's dream that ends with a jumbo production! Multiple methods ensure that spectators never see the same move twice.
99 Cent Trick - Multiple coin vanishes topped off with a dizzying transposition. That's all I'm telling you.
Florida Keys - Ordinary keys and their key ring become a mini Linking Ring routine.
Ring Fright - You toss a borrowed wedding band into the air and then stab it with your finger!
Trick Question, Questionable Trick - A very convincing copper/silver transposition with the spare change in your pocket - a penny and a dime. Now you can perform Scotch and Soda anywhere, at any time.
Playful Pickpocketing - Rob your spectators blind - they'll love your for it. Greg demonstrates how Close-up Pickpocketing can transform the audience's definition of you as an entertainer and erase the lines between performer and audience.
ReCap Revisited - Gregory's classic, as you've never seen it. Greg's added new subtleties, moves and brilliant new ending where the pen is pulled from the pen cap!
Featuring:
- Multiple live performances so you learn the subtleties of performing these effects for real people.
- Comprehensive explanations so you can cut down on practice time and start performing.
Running Time Approximately 123min
Reviews
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Obviously that’s an extreme example, but we need to consider the current market. Even L&L would not charge $49.95 for this DVD. On a couple of the effects, Glossy Finish for example, while the effect is good, it appears that they “cheated” a little in the performance section. In the explanation, he talked about the get ready for the effect, and it seemed a little bit contrived, and watching the way he performed the effect, I would be hard pressed to believe that he was actually performing it the way he claimed.
Having said all of that, I still believe that the DVD is worth getting. Florida Keys is a brilliantly constructed routine where the key penetrates on and off of the key ring, no gaffs or gimmicks. The explanation of this was a bit rushed, and he left out a few points of the presentation, so a minor disappointment there. 3/4 coins across was a great routine as well. However, it pretty much is Jay Sankey’s Mr. Clean Coins Across. Other than the way Wilson stood and held his body as he performed I really didn’t see a difference between his routine and Sankey’s.
Questionable Trick and the 99 cent trick, were by far my favorite. I also really liked Toll Free. These are three very good coin tricks that are very impromptu and very much within the range of just about any level of experience and most of all they have excellent presentational hooks.
If you didn’t already know, it’s clear by this DVD that Wilson is a real worker. These are real routines that he does on a regular basis, and everything on the DVD is stuff you can do without having to carry around a bunch of “props.”
The effects are performed out “on the streets.” The explanations are then filmed in the studio using a beautiful model as an assistant. He then performs the tricks again for her followed by the explanations. Then after the explanation, there’s another clip of him performing the effect in the streets again.
Another thing I really liked about the project is that you see a few times when he gets caught trying to steal watches, etc, and you see how he handles it and how he recovers. Also, you really get to see him in his element. It’s very entertaining.
There is a section in the performance where he is just doing a bunch of seemingly random stealing and pick pocketing, etc. There is so much going on that when they do the explanation, some stuff is left out. Lots of pros and cons to this project. Overall, I say get it. It’s got a lot of great material, and the “missing” stuff and production issues are minor compared to the many Gems you’ll find.