Escapology
- Thread starter Reapx
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Any good books? How about a webpage with only the best things escape?
Just click here and you will get the whole enchiladas. I personally have the book on the one hundred foot rope escape and the chain escape.
I'm sure there's some stuff over at the learned pig. I don't do any escapes, but I got the Penguin DVD's free. They seemed like a nice introductory set with lots of ideas.
If the type of escapology is based on escaping from locks and the like with the surreptitious use of picks, most books by magicians will be rather useless. There will page after page of false knots, faked locks, and how to switch a falsified apparatus for a real one. If you want to learn what I wanted to learn when I got into escapology, which was using a bobby pin or a likeness to pick a real police lock, a book on impromptu lockpicking is the way to go. "How to Open Locks with Improvised Tools" is amazing, recommended to me by lockpickers rather than magicians, and their handcuff escape section is second to none.
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Locks-Improvised-Tools-Non-Destructive/dp/0966608712
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Locks-Improvised-Tools-Non-Destructive/dp/0966608712