Elmsley Series
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I most definately care, considering he is my magic idol.
When you say his lecture notes, what lecture notes do you mean? Low Cunning, Cardworks or Alex Is At It Again?
If you mean his Collected Works, then you will be very hard pressed to find better books on magic, obviously that statement is very subjective. But that's my opinion.
He has a lecture DVD put out by Five Of Hearts Magic that is a very nice 2 DVD set, including a worrkshop and his lecture.
His Tahoe session DVDs are also very awesome. If you've read his Collected Works you will be happy to SEE some of his work put to DVD. There are 4 DVDs and they're not that cheap, but so worth it. If you have seen his card to wallet, you will KNOW that he has some serious chops. One of the craziest and cleanest card to wallets I've seen.
I own pretty much all the Elmsley material available, so if you want to discuss further with someone who knows their stuff, send me a PM and I will be happy to help
Oh btw, I wouldn't be worried about purchasing a lemon. Elmsley was pretty much a mathematical genius, and this is refelected in a lot of his magic. So so often after learning a trick, I am completely awestruck at the method and how clever he must have been to come up with this stuff. By the way, if you're into Faro work, you'll be happy to know that Alex Elmsley is possibly THE biggest pioneer of the Faro shuffle to date.
Good luck
thanks man I'm going to check out the books. I'm new to magic and lookin forward to learning.
Unfortunately, the books are reasonably hard to find and will cost you around $150 for both of them.
How new to magic are you? I'm not sure that I would recommend these books to someone unless they are at least an intermediate card handler.
How new to magic are you? I'm not sure that I would recommend these books to someone unless they are at least an intermediate card handler.
I'm agreed with Jupiter. The Alex Elmsley books won't be suitable for beginners. If you're new to magic, there are definitely better books to check out, including Royal Road, Card College, Tarbell, Mark Wilson and Joshua Jay's Complete Courses in magic, to name a few. Collected Works are great books, but hard to find and expensive. I wish I had a copy. :/
Spot on Prae. When you get a little later down the card track, the Elmsley resources will be good for you to look into, until then, look at the advice above me
I've been performing magic for around 3 months. Got a few select card tricks under my belt. Illusions.