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KingOfDiamonds Elite user Paris 426 Posts |
Effect: Four cards are selected from a deck and tabled face down in a row. The first selection is turned face up, it is the 10S.
The magician explains he has previously turned one card over with the same suit in a four-of-a-kind packet. An odd-backed packet is introduced as the magician says he was actually so sure of the spectator's choice that he replaced the other cards with Jokers. He displays one face down card between three Jokers. The card is turned face up, it is a Spade! The card is replaced into the face up packet that is placed momentarily onto the deck. The card has changed into the 10S! But we still have three selections left! The magician snaps his fingers and a Joker changes into a 8H! The magician snaps his fingers again and the rest of the Jokers change into the 8H! One 8H is rubbed onto his arm and changes into the JC! The last 8H is placed between his palms but nothing happens. The card is turned faced down so we see a mark onto the back that says 3D! The other selections are turned face up: They are the 8H, JC and 3D! The selections and their mates can be immediately examined! Requires a readily available fake card. Easy to do. Includes extra tips and some alternative handlings. I offer five review copies. I just ask for a (quick) review for next week so if you are pretty busy, you'd better not ask for it. ;-) Best, RAPH.
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Nicolino Inner circle 2893 Posts |
Too busy, sadly....
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KingOfDiamonds Elite user Paris 426 Posts |
So let's say until the end of next week?
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
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John C Eternal Order I THINK therefore I wrote 12938 Posts |
B'wave is a simple concept and method, which leads to it's success.
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KingOfDiamonds Elite user Paris 426 Posts |
I don't and will never pretend it to be a better version or whatever.
The title is just a "wink" to the original effect. To clearly say that it is NOT the original B Wave. It occured to be that the B Wave presentation fitted perfectly for what you have to do with the cards, that's it. It is not a mental effect. It is a magical routine filled with many tranformations. Hope it clears things up. RAPH.
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KingOfDiamonds Elite user Paris 426 Posts |
Release is on Friday. Three days left to get a free copy!
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KingOfDiamonds Elite user Paris 426 Posts |
Last day to get a free review copy!
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KingOfDiamonds Elite user Paris 426 Posts |
B'yond the Wave is now out and available at r.czaja@libertysurf.fr for $5 instead of 8$ until Sunday the 30th! And the first three customers get "Trimpromptu Card Magic" for free!
"Just tried it out and it works like a dream. [...] I like it. Keep up the good work!" - Stephen Tucker "I really dig the structure of the routine, especially all of the built in surprises. Plus, you end clean! [...] Great stuff!" - John Gelasi
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
All due respect and yes Tom Frame knows a hell of a lot more about cards than I do, but his not recommended begs the question of whether he field tested the effect on real audiences? I AGREE -see my review in another thread - that the Balducci force is not the best route to go [N.B. I do NOT use rthe Balducci for this effect], but, the reactions I am garnering with this effect have been excellent.
Reviews always have bias and we try to diminish that bias in favor of subjectivity, but, in reading Mr. Frame's review, I do not see how this effect can be so easily rated as not recommended given his suggestions to improve on it. I do not believe the effect is at all a Frankenstein construct. Colorful language certainly, but such analogy invites imagery of something mismade and unpleasing. However, Mr. Frame is an expert and I am a hack and his review will be regarded as the more accurate. That said, I think the effect is pretty ***ed good. Just fix the selection procedure and make the option of not directly placing the packet ON the deck the primary handling. No disrespect intended Mr. Frame. Vlad |
tmoca Inner circle 1113 Posts |
Wouldn't a review of the product be of the review of the stated handling as well? I mean if you have to change the handling or offer up suggestions to change the handling to make it work or to make it better then you are no longer reviewing the original product.
In my opinion if you review something, your review should be based on exactly how it is written up....factual. If there are flaws in the way that it is handled state that. If you offer up better solutions, you don't base your recommendation on the changes, you base it on the original handling. Not with hypothetical "what ifs" and "if you change this". Just my opinion though. Therefore the review is accurate IMHO. |
KingOfDiamonds Elite user Paris 426 Posts |
The alternate handling that Vlad is talking about IS is the ebook!
Yet, I think the original handling still works for a few reasons. For each change, you perform a different "magic pass" and the deck is a part of it at this moment, that's it. In my opinion, it's not suspicious because you do it with the FIRST selection. Then, the card that has changed at this moment is face up, second from the top so it's impossible to relate it to the deck. Plus, the different color of the backs helps to sell the fact that nothing has changed. You have four red backed cards at the beginning and still have four reds after the first effect. And Mr Frame hates the cut deeper force (unlike me!) so no matter what the trick is, he would have bashed the selection procedure anyway. I give an easy to do force for completeness when others may just say, "use your favorite force". I know some people are not confortable with the criss cross force or even the riffle force so whatever the one I will explain, it will never please everyone... Also, when I read "After the Jokers transform into Eights, why is the Ten still loitering in the packet?", I start to get why you may not like the routine! If that REALLY bothers you, we definitely don't have the same thinking process! That's just... weird but I'm okay with that. Finally I stand on my point that the writing on the back of the last card is a more surprising climax and in a good way. It "marks" the ending of the trick so from an esthetical point of view, it's justified. Well... to each his own! If any of you has any question, feel free to drop me a message. Best, RAPH
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
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On 2012-09-22 10:08, tmoca wrote: As is mine. As Raphael stated, and you can find my review in this section, I DO mention that Raphael offers alternatives. I would have been inaccurate in my review if I HADN'T mentioned them. Tom Frame's review and my review are both accurate; our conclusions are different. My response to Tom Frame if you read it closely was not a response calling into question the quality OR accuracy of his review. I did pose the question concerning whether or not he had field tested the effect. For me it has been a strong effect, so my conclusion was partly based upon the real fact that the effect plays well. But that still has nothing at all to do with accuracy. |
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