Description

The Paradigm Shift Volume One 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 Ariel Frailich, John Carney, Simon Aronson, Bob Farmer, and Michael Weber. 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. If you buy them both you’ll save even more!

Here is the table of contents:

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Our Story So Far

About this Ebook

About the Material

A Tale of Two Systems

System 2 and Conviction

A (Mostly) Simple Start

Repose, Chaos, and Action

The Chaotic Cross-cut Force

A Simple Effect

A Running Cut Combination

As an In-the-hands False Cut

A Useful Bit of Information that Doesn’t Fit Anywhere Else

The Slip-shoddier Shuffle

But Here’s the Problem

Finally, the Work

Getting into the Zarrow Shuffle

Final Thoughts

The Shoddy Rosetta Shuffle

A Touch on the Bobby Bernard False Cut

In Praise of the Lift Shuffle

To Shuffle a Specific Number of Cards above the Top Card

To Maintain Cards at the Top and the Bottom

As a Card Control

As a Full-Deck False Shuffle

Give Me A Break

The Basics

The Convincers

Reestablishing a Diminishing Break

Obtaining a Break from Other Starting Points

The Verdnase Break

The Heel Break

The Heel Break Add-on

The Heel Break Multiple Top Palm

The Heel Break Palm Switch

A Momentary Diversion – Card Control

Using the Break to Prepare and Delay

The End Tap Palm

Flat Out Quick Change

Student Exercises

A Better Jacks or Better

The Card Expert as a Dramatic Persona

1002nd Aces in Transit (Aka Decisions, Decisions)

Brain Scam

Interlocked Ambitious

A Perfectly Ordinary Deck of Cards

Final Display for Ultimate Three-Card Monte

These Used to be the Droids You Were Looking For

Not a Chance

Base on Balls

Grand Slam

The Farmer Connection

The Casino Inspector

Svenvoodoo

Monte Bones

Two-rigami

The Farzapu Shuffle

The Topsy-turvy Automatic Gambler

The End (of Part One)