I was wondering if someone could give me some good sources to learn mental card forces? I don't care if it is a book, video, ect. Any info will help. Thanks in advance.
Mental Card Force
- Thread starter Magic swag
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Peter Turner is generally considered a great modern mentalist, at least from what I've seen. His stuff is a bit pricey, but you can youtube him and see if you like it and if it's what you're looking for. Darren Brown is another one to check for. They both have many books and DVDs. Thats one idea, I'm interested to see what people recommend too
Peter Turner has an amazing mental force, its actually called a psy- force, check out freeform mentalism! Its amazing!
blind deception ,
could you please (without revealing anything) describe the psy force found in freeform mentalism in a bit more detail? I've been considering buying it for a while now and would love to know a little about that particular force
magic swag,
google "freeform mentalism peter turner" and youll find it the DVD he's talking about.
could you please (without revealing anything) describe the psy force found in freeform mentalism in a bit more detail? I've been considering buying it for a while now and would love to know a little about that particular force
magic swag,
google "freeform mentalism peter turner" and youll find it the DVD he's talking about.
Derren Brown teaches one or two in The Devil's Picturebook - but I no longer know where to find it. The sale page he used to have for it is gone.
Luke Jermay, as previously mentioned has some work on it.
Daniel Madison has a few in Psycho (I think - I have it in Anthology).
The thing to remember here, though, is that even having the exact script will not make this work all that often. You have to develop your own wording, pacing and body language to suit yourself. When you start moving into psychological methods, it's never 100% and it absolutely requires trial and error to develop your own way of making it effective.
Luke Jermay, as previously mentioned has some work on it.
Daniel Madison has a few in Psycho (I think - I have it in Anthology).
The thing to remember here, though, is that even having the exact script will not make this work all that often. You have to develop your own wording, pacing and body language to suit yourself. When you start moving into psychological methods, it's never 100% and it absolutely requires trial and error to develop your own way of making it effective.
They can be acceptably reliable. 80% or more, which is more than enough for a mentalist but magicians tend to get skeevy when something isn't 100% sure fire.
You only need an out if failing is a big deal to you.
With a quick search on thus forum or the magic cafe you will find TONS of threads about this with a ton of recommendations.
Good luck!
Good luck!
@EricShoff, Pull the video to 27 seconds, and watch the performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpi6ZZ4X3JU
Just go into a different affect with the named card. You go through the deck and cull the card or if you are working with a stack you could do any number of things with it. The spectator doesn't know what is going to happen so the trick never fails unless you let it. Many people use in invisible deck as an always-ready-out but I don't think it makes sense to be caring around a bunch of different decks.