I never completley understood why people hate Ellusonist so much. I know that many products are a lot less than satisfactory, such as "Axis" and "Bullet", and that sometimes there teaching methods are horrible but does that really justify a reason to hate them?
I always believed that when you buy a product from a magic site or store you were paying for the reactions you get from your audience rather than method itself. Take "Control" for example. You payed $29.99 to learn how to stop and control your pulse. Personally I thought there would have been some setup method but I bet many of you, like I did, thought "holy crap its so simple!" after you watched how to do it. Now can you honestly say that the method for "Control" is work 30$? No its not, but the reactions its gets from your audience is ABSOLUTLY worth 30$!
Same goes for Ellusionist. Ill use "Revolution" as and example. For those of you who purchased it, you propbably hate the method and think it is impractical. So did I. I thought it was the worst 20$ I have ever spent. I have always believed in making the best out of a situation. So a couple days later I turned on some music and started thinkng of ways that would utilize the action that causes "Revolution" to happen. After thinking for a while I came up with a couple of ideas that used the "action" quite well. Now that does not excuse Ellusionist for selling a product that makes your hand look distorted while doing it. I can see where many people dislike Ellusonist, I really can.
This is what I think every magician should do when presented with bad teaching or horrible methods...Of course you can keep rewinding a video until you get the slieight you cant get down, that is perfectly ok but, why not think creativley and come with your own way of doing an effect or executing a sleight. Simply by changing one sleight for another you can turn a horrible product you bought to a practical and audience friendly magic effect, may not work for many effects but im sure you get my point.
We all have to see places like Theory11, Ellusonist, and Penguin Magic for what they are, a Buisness. Like every buisness sometimes they have homerun products, like theory11's "Dangerous" or Ellusionist's "Guerilla Guide to Loops" and sometimes they just plain strike out when they put out a product that makes you scratch your head and say "what the F&*k were they think?". If you dont like there products thats fine, move on and buy from somewhere else. But dont go on rampages saying how much you hate something or someone becuase at the end, I believe, it wont matter to anyone except for your own self gratification. Ellusionist, Theory11 , Penguin Magic, and another magic reatilers are all here do one thing, which is help inspire and better the art of magic.
I always believed that when you buy a product from a magic site or store you were paying for the reactions you get from your audience rather than method itself. Take "Control" for example. You payed $29.99 to learn how to stop and control your pulse. Personally I thought there would have been some setup method but I bet many of you, like I did, thought "holy crap its so simple!" after you watched how to do it. Now can you honestly say that the method for "Control" is work 30$? No its not, but the reactions its gets from your audience is ABSOLUTLY worth 30$!
Same goes for Ellusionist. Ill use "Revolution" as and example. For those of you who purchased it, you propbably hate the method and think it is impractical. So did I. I thought it was the worst 20$ I have ever spent. I have always believed in making the best out of a situation. So a couple days later I turned on some music and started thinkng of ways that would utilize the action that causes "Revolution" to happen. After thinking for a while I came up with a couple of ideas that used the "action" quite well. Now that does not excuse Ellusionist for selling a product that makes your hand look distorted while doing it. I can see where many people dislike Ellusonist, I really can.
This is what I think every magician should do when presented with bad teaching or horrible methods...Of course you can keep rewinding a video until you get the slieight you cant get down, that is perfectly ok but, why not think creativley and come with your own way of doing an effect or executing a sleight. Simply by changing one sleight for another you can turn a horrible product you bought to a practical and audience friendly magic effect, may not work for many effects but im sure you get my point.
We all have to see places like Theory11, Ellusonist, and Penguin Magic for what they are, a Buisness. Like every buisness sometimes they have homerun products, like theory11's "Dangerous" or Ellusionist's "Guerilla Guide to Loops" and sometimes they just plain strike out when they put out a product that makes you scratch your head and say "what the F&*k were they think?". If you dont like there products thats fine, move on and buy from somewhere else. But dont go on rampages saying how much you hate something or someone becuase at the end, I believe, it wont matter to anyone except for your own self gratification. Ellusionist, Theory11 , Penguin Magic, and another magic reatilers are all here do one thing, which is help inspire and better the art of magic.
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