Price$19.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedNov 10, 2007
Very Best of Modern Coin Magic
Various
(Based on 2 reviews)
Sleights
- Classic palm
- Thumb palm
- Finger palm
- Back palm
- Slide vanish
- Bobo vanish
- Watch vanish
- Shuttle pass
- Bobo switch
- Utility switch
- Click pass
- Coin flip
Routines
- Pulse
- Winged silver
- Coins to glass
- Multiple sleights routine
Running Time Approximately 31min
Reviews
(Top ▲)
I was watching this the other day in our local magic shop because a customer had asked me about it. I am a coin specialist so I thought I would have a look at it just to see...
Blah, blah blah, blah-blah-blah blay blay BLECH!
If you really watch the faces of the people on the streets in this video, the look on their faces is one of confusion, rather than being a look of astonishment. Magic is not confusion, and if you are confusing your audience/participants to create/accomplish and effect, then that is not magic. The only reason my rating is a half-star is beause that is a minimum requirement.
The only thing I can think to say about this video other than that, is that it does absolutely no justice whatsoever to the book from which it takes its inspiration. If you want and excellent video detailing the work in the book, then get the Ben Salinas videos.
Blah, blah blah, blah-blah-blah blay blay BLECH!
If you really watch the faces of the people on the streets in this video, the look on their faces is one of confusion, rather than being a look of astonishment. Magic is not confusion, and if you are confusing your audience/participants to create/accomplish and effect, then that is not magic. The only reason my rating is a half-star is beause that is a minimum requirement.
The only thing I can think to say about this video other than that, is that it does absolutely no justice whatsoever to the book from which it takes its inspiration. If you want and excellent video detailing the work in the book, then get the Ben Salinas videos.
(Top ▲)
The contents of this DVD couldn't be further from what the title suggests if it were called "Tricks with Silks" and featured a documentary on ice cream. People seemingly unaffiliated with the publisher of Modern Coin Magic or its author (J.B. Bobo) purport to have combed the massive tome for its shiniest pearls, resulting in this 31-minute DVD that delivers nothing of the kind. 13 basic techniques are demonstrated with a degree of proficiency that ranges from poor to adequate, followed by four routines that are similarly marred by flashes, flares and tells.
If the DVD had been marketed as a general introduction to coin magic I would probably be less irked, but to sell it as the "best" of Bobo's seminal text is just insulting.
Bottom line - anyone interested in learning coin magic from the ground up should spend the extra twenty bucks and buy New Modern Coin Magic (the revised edition of Modern Coin Magic). For the difference, you'll get hundreds more tricks and sleights, not to mention an interesting prologue on the history of coins in conjuring.
And if you're looking for a visual aid to see how effective basic coin techniques can really be, check out David Roth's excellent Expert Coin Magic Made Easy, Volumes 1-3 (all on one DVD). By watching him execute even the most fundamental sleights, you'll see beyond the mechanics and gain an understanding of how to imbue every action with intention and motivation, which in turn defuses suspicion. Ultimately these nuances make the difference between performing coin tricks and coin magic, and that's a level of instruction Best of Modern Coin Magic doesn't achieve.
David Acer
If the DVD had been marketed as a general introduction to coin magic I would probably be less irked, but to sell it as the "best" of Bobo's seminal text is just insulting.
Bottom line - anyone interested in learning coin magic from the ground up should spend the extra twenty bucks and buy New Modern Coin Magic (the revised edition of Modern Coin Magic). For the difference, you'll get hundreds more tricks and sleights, not to mention an interesting prologue on the history of coins in conjuring.
And if you're looking for a visual aid to see how effective basic coin techniques can really be, check out David Roth's excellent Expert Coin Magic Made Easy, Volumes 1-3 (all on one DVD). By watching him execute even the most fundamental sleights, you'll see beyond the mechanics and gain an understanding of how to imbue every action with intention and motivation, which in turn defuses suspicion. Ultimately these nuances make the difference between performing coin tricks and coin magic, and that's a level of instruction Best of Modern Coin Magic doesn't achieve.
David Acer