Description

The Paradigm Shift Volume Two features groundbreaking essays that will change the way you think about your magic, beautiful sleights that will deceive both laymen and magicians, and commercial, devious routines you will enjoy performing. Included are ideas and routines from Mick Ayres, Roy Walton, Harry Riser, Norman Beck, Michael Weber, Jason England, Aaron Fisher, Joshua Jay, and Ton Onosaka. As with our previous ebooks, we have used text, photos, and video to provide an optimal learning experience.

After more than a decade, Michael Close has finally released his long-awaited ebooks, The Paradigm Shift Volumes One and Two. They are being released at an introductory price.

Here is the table of contents:

Acknowledgements

Dedication

About This Ebook

About the Material

Fair and False Faro Foolery

The False Faro Placement

Homer’s False Faro

The FFP and the Classic Force

The FFP and Vernon’s Key Card Placement

The FFP and Charlie Miller’s Spread Force

The FFP and the Open Index

A Chaotic FFP

The Mickey Location

Roy Walton’s Shift Work and the FFP

The Forgotten Sunken Prediction

Why it Works

Seven-Second Delay

The Shuffle

The Way of the Duck

Some History

I Know What You’re Thinking

Duck Danger – Third Eye

Jogging My Memory

Some Good Books

Some Good Tricks

Complementary Tricks

Card Control by the Numbers

Here’s What’s New

Some Useful Memdeck Drills

Now That’s A Coincidence

The Guatemalan Miracle

A Little History

Self-Working Tricks – What’s the Price

Understanding the Method

Here’s the Work

The Five Cards that Don’t Work

Aronson Stack Chart

Tamariz Stack Chart

Trust No One ACAAN

Not ACAAN

Tantalizing Tricks

Norman Beck’s Tantalizer

How Did I Screw That Up

The Royal Tantalizer

End Game

A Few Ideas From Jason England

Finding the Tipping Point

Defining Our Terms

The Christ Twist and The Mechanical Reverse

The GHP

Close’s Handling of the GHP

Incorporating the GHP

The Deja Vu Trick

The Paradigm Shift

What’s Different About This Shift

What I Misunderstood

The Overt Action

Gripping the Deck

The Opposing Pressures

The Devil in the Details

Some Things to Think About

Who Has the Power

Venue Considerations

Social Skills

Who Has the Power

My Favorite Things

The Atheist Card Trick

The IKEA Card Trick

The Matching Miracle

A Trick for Sheldon Cooper

The Trick that Fooled Houdini and His Whole Fricking Family

You Bet Your Life

The End (of Volume Two)