Card to Pocket
Normansell serves some excellent advice on performing card to pocket without resorting to palming. One relies on a gimmicked card and the other a subtlety. He presents a good method for controlling multiple cards in packets on a table.I particularly liked his approach to getting a second signed (duplicate) card that can be used in some “card to impossible location” effect. There’s lots of potential here. And throughout, Normansell offers excellent performance segments and thorough explanations.
Mixed Bag
While “Tempest Concept” delivers the goods, it’s a mixed bag. The card control and glimpses aren’t anything earth-shattering–I’m sure that many magicians have considered putting the two together. On the plus side, the controlled spectator shuffle and techniques for vanishing a card in a card box and getting a second, signed card are powerful.While I’ve had spectators ask to shuffle the cards during my close-up sets, it’s very rare. Perhaps two or three requests in thousands of performances. But if you like to perform card magic with seemingly the fairest conditions for spectators, you may find Andrew Normansell’s “Tempest Concept” useful.
-Wayne N. Kawamoto
MSRP (US): $39.95
Dealers can purchase from Murphy's Magic Supplies, Inc.
