prepare to get textually melested. Even if you don't like the tricks taught on the dvd's there is still a lot of info there. Lots of controls, double lifts, and other sleights.
Arrgh! I've been molested!
prepare to get textually melested. Even if you don't like the tricks taught on the dvd's there is still a lot of info there. Lots of controls, double lifts, and other sleights.
Not liking the monotonous teaching is quite understandable, and at times I had the same feelings. But while you're never going to be entertained by listening to the explanations, the monotonous thing actually helps me focus on what's going on and makes it easier to understand. Maybe that's just me. I definitely do respect non-monotonous approaches, but monotonousness does have its advantages.
Maybe for some. Personally, how can I put this...
The reason I don't buy D&D stuff besides the fact that I don't care about cards that much is because all the previews seem to communicate to me that their teaching style is influenced by Brian Tudor. And anybody who's ever seen Brian Tudor attempt to teach something on DVD can speculate that he considers teaching to be time not spent drinking, which it seems is his least favorite kind of time.
Come on, that's like comparing various types of bowel movements to a parochial school nun.
It's a flourishers set. It's fast flash that doesn't really require you to speak. It simply depends on what you're looking for.
And I'm looking for teaching that actually, you know... teaches..
The reason I don't buy D&D stuff is because all the previews seem to communicate to me that their teaching style is influenced by Brian Tudor.
De'vo doesn't talk either, yet he has an effective teaching method that covers even the basics in excruciating detail..
And I like how you call a "flourishers set" as if that's an excuse.
You're not saying that you watched any of the actual material being taught, you're just saying that you're judging the teaching from previews, which I don't think is entirely fair.
You should be some what seasoned in sleight of hand before you pick up something like this.
I wouldn't expect this stuff to be used by stage performer types, or someone like you who want's his magic to have a good script, simply because it's show off material.
I wouldn't expect this stuff to be used by stage performer types, or someone like you who want's his magic to have a good script, simply because it's show off material.
Perhaps not, but if the preview isn't selling me on the whole thing, can you really blame me?
Yeah, I get that argument. But I don't like the, "Screw it," approach to teaching the fundamentals regardless of how advanced I supposedly am when I purchase something. It's a matter of principle for me.
And I do admit to having a Pavlovian reaction of intense stomach cramps to that sort of thing.
it's show off style material at it's core. I wouldn't expect this stuff to be used by stage performer types, or someone like you who want's his magic to have a good script, simply because it's show off material. And when you want someone to think what you're doing is magical, the less movement the better. It takes away suspicion. If you flourish, people expect you to know how to handle a deck of cards and to have fast hands. So, much else isn't going to matter in the mind of a spectator except that you have fast hands, so to them any magic you do after that can simply be explained on that basis.
I'm not asking them to go over basic sleights.....my original post made this clear.....in fact....my complaint is that they actually do go over some basic sleights (and in great detail) and only brush over the more difficult sleights.There are numerous DVDs and Books that completely neglect the basics of how to execute a proper Double Lift or Double Undercut (etc.) because they are things that you, should not only know at that point, but can also find numerous other sources on.
To me, this is not ok......if i made an instructional DVD....I don't think I would be able to not teach what i've performed on the DVD and then say but you gotta buy this other product to learn this move here and that's that. This almost seems Un-American to me or am I just taking crazy pills here? Perhaps they should have taught the performances that they could teach 100%.On "The Tricks" disc, they teach you what they have permission to, and reference you to where you can learn what they can't.
You hit the nail on the head here as far as I'm concerned. While others may disagree, no matter how you look at it, it's supposed to be an instructional DVD and that would imply that they teach what is being performed.And I'm looking for teaching that actually, you know... teaches.
I'm probably the only one on here who wasn't impressed with Dan and Dave...