On Dec 10, 2015, RNK wrote:
I have always been curious about levitation effects so I went ahead and bought this to support my local brick and morter magic shop. The DVD is good quality and Apollo teaches you everything you need to know. You will have a gimmick in your deck. Though, the gimmick is easily hidden in the deck and the cards can be spread and shown within your hands for a clean display. The get ready position is easy to get into. The gimmick will take a little practice to get used to in order to make the rise and descend look good. But shouldn't take to much practice to get it right. Can you perform other card effects with the gimmick in your deck? I would say yes. Can a spectator truly look under the floating card and see nothing- with one of the gimmicks, yes. But if you are in a very well lit area that gimmick may be spotted. And Apollo mentions that on the DVD.

If you are holding the deck in the left hand, I would say you would have to watch your angle directly in line to your right (3 o'clock). But I think after practicing to perform the levitation flawlessly you might be able to get away with that angle issue. You don't want people to see behind the deck. But if people are standing behind you I do think you can get away with the levitation by holding the pack between chest and waist level close to your body. No one will see anything.


Do I like it? I think I do but I will have to play with it a little to give a more definite answer. After seeing the gimmick- do I think I would use this? Yes. I do like the fact that the gimmick is very well hidden before using it and the gimmick will not make you deck of cards look suspicious when not in use.


RNK

On Dec 12, 2015, Charlieherbertmagic wrote:

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On Dec 10, 2015, RNK wrote:
I have always been curious about levitation effects so I went ahead and bought this to support my local brick and morter magic shop. The DVD is good quality and Apollo teaches you everything you need to know. You will have a gimmick in your deck. Though, the gimmick is easily hidden in the deck and the cards can be spread and shown within your hands for a clean display. The get ready position is easy to get into. The gimmick will take a little practice to get used to in order to make the rise and descend look good. But shouldn't take to much practice to get it right. Can you perform other card effects with the gimmick in your deck? I would say yes. Can a spectator truly look under the floating card and see nothing- with one of the gimmicks, yes. But if you are in a very well lit area that gimmick may be spotted. And Apollo mentions that on the DVD.

If you are holding the deck in the left hand, I would say you would have to watch your angle directly in line to your right (3 o'clock). But I think after practicing to perform the levitation flawlessly you might be able to get away with that angle issue. You don't want people to see behind the deck. But if people are standing behind you I do think you can get away with the levitation by holding the pack between chest and waist level close to your body. No one will see anything.


Do I like it? I think I do but I will have to play with it a little to give a more definite answer. After seeing the gimmick- do I think I would use this? Yes. I do like the fact that the gimmick is very well hidden before using it and the gimmick will not make you deck of cards look suspicious when not in use.


RNK

Thanks for the info, is this an entirely new method?

On Dec 12, 2015, nattefrost wrote:
Angelo, I should have mentioned what you said before. To date, your floating card is my favorite of all that I own (Enlightenment, Lift Off, etc)- and sometimes when I do the rise in the mirror it really looks like there is nothing under the card! Depending on the angle and distance, you can sometimes get away with looking under the card. I guess I meant that this new effect there is actually nothing under the card to see. This one doesn't seem to float as high as yours, as yours you can really get the card up there.

On Dec 12, 2015, Bill08 wrote:

I'm sure there is something under the card to see, it's probably just very hard to see.