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THEGUY26 (Will Swanson) Inner circle Minnesota, USA 2379 Posts |
SANKEY UNLEASHED:
WRITTEN BY JOHN RACHERBAUMER http://themagicwarehouse.com/cgi-bin/findit.pl?x_item=BK8432 This is an amazing book on over 80 effect by Jay Sankey. The book is 178 pages, and every effect is easy to understand. BACK IN TIME: This is a quick little impromptu Triumph effect, where the presentation relies on the deck going back in time, hence the title. This is a nice, simple trick, that is so easy you just need to worry about presentation. FRAGILE HARBOR: This is a fun little trick. You have a card chosen, and you draw a ship and a bottle on the face of the card. Next, you visually push the ship into the drawing of the bottle. This really surprises your spectator, and there is only one real slight, which you should already know. LEAVING HOME: This is an effect that has been marketed by Jay on its own. You start out with a shoelace tied around your neck, with an ordinary house key strung on it. You proceed to cleanly pluck the key directly off the shoelace, and toss it back on. This is a simple quick effect, that is fun and easy to do. BIG TIME: In this quick effect, a freely chosen card is seen to perfectly match a jumbo prediction card. This is yet another simple effect, that is also easy. SLICK SPLITS: This is a great 4 coin production, that involved splitting the coins out of each other. The actual move is a very clean way to apparently split 2 coins, and looks good with practice. Yes, it will take some practice, but it is a nice little opener. PUSH BUTTON: This here is one of the highlights of the book. You place 4 coins into an empty card case. One at a time, by pushing the spade on the card case (the push button), a coin visually pops right out. This is a very clean effect, but does take quite a lot of practice and is well worth it. HOT TOMATO: A folded tomato seed packet is brought out with empty hands. After dripping invisible water into the packet, you produce 2 real tomatos out of the flat packet! This is an interesting one, and is very simple. WICHITA SLIP: This is a card force, but is pretty difficult. It is basically a Dribble Force, but the spectator can really stop wherever they want. This is used in a few routines in this book. WHAM BAM!: In this effect, a card is selected (a 5 for example). # differemt spectators each select a 5 also. The 5's are turned over to have the name of that card written on the back. The rest of the deck is blank! This is a simple effect, that only uses one real slight, and you will love it. UNSCREWED: This is a quick torn and restored borrowed bill, where you don't ruin a bill each time. It is incredibly easy, and a real worker. The bill can be signed too. DIVINE: A spectator is told to think of a card in one half of the deck. This half is covered by the spectator's hand. Without looking at the faces, the performer removes a card from that half, and places it in the other half. The mentally selected card is gone from the spectator's half, and is in the other half! This is a very simple effect. It is basically an impromptu version of Jay's marketed trick Astral Projection. FORBIDDEN FRUIT: In this fun little effect, a stick of gum, still wrapped, changes into a selected card. This is very easy, and quick. EXTENDED CREDIT: A credit card, is borrowed, and placed into a coin envelope. The card is then seen and heard to be cracked inside the envelope. It is then removed, and completely unharmed. This is a really cool, and smart effect that can really freak people out. JAW DROPPER: This is a nice effect where a signed card travels to an empty card case twice. It is pretty easy, and a real fooler. GOING DOWN: This is a nice follow-up to Jaw Dropper. A signed card is pushed into the deck halfway. The deck is placed on top of the empty card case, and is slowly pushed inside. The signed card is then found inside the case. This is a nice quickie, and is extremely easy. INSIDE TRADING: This is a quick signed bill in glass bottle effect. It is very, very easy, and practical. You'll probably use it. YO-YO MON: This is a cool cut and restored yo-yo effect. It's very easy, and strange. SHORT FUSE: This is an amazing effect, where a 2 of Diamonds is signed on the face, and an Ace of Diamonds is signed on the bast. The 2 cards fuse together to make a 3 of Diamonds with the signature on the face and the back! This is not too hard either, and will fry laymen as well as magicians. JUST JOKING: A card is selected, and returned to the deck. 2 Jokers are placed on top of the deck, and instantly vanish into the deck. The deck is spread to reveal the selection in between the 2 Jokers. The 3 card are removed from the deck, and the selection vanished, and reappears face up back in the deck! This is a really good effect, and not too hard at all. SEVEN: A card is selected, and returned to the deck. The top card is dealt on the table, but it is not the delection. 7 more cards are dealt on top of that, and end up to be the performers phone number. The spectators call the number, and the selection is revealed in the answering machine! This is very easy, and will really stun people! BON BON: 2 coins are held in each hand, and they both turn into a piece of candy! This is very simple, and the spectators like this one a lot. ELECTRIC CANDY: This is one of the easiest effects you will ever find. It is also quick and good. A piece of a candy wrapper is torn off, and immediatly restored. You will do this one a lot. HOLISTIC MEDICINE: This is basically Holy Moly, but with holed drilled into half dollars.The effect is that you have 2 half dollars with a hole drilled in each. One is selected, and placed in the spectator's hand. The hole is completely removed off of the coin, and trown onto the other. Now the other one has 2 holes! A 6-phase routine is also taught using these coins. This is very good! TOPPER TACK: This is a great move that can be used as a force, or in an ACR. You will use this a lot. GROUP HYPNOSIS: A card is selected and placed into the performer's pocket. The deck is cut into 3 piles, and 3 different spectators gets to select a card from each packet. They each select the same card! That very card is removed from the performer's pocket. This is very easy, and also fun to perform. A STRONGER MAGNET: A blank card with a magnet drawn on the back in placed on top of the deck. A card is selected, signed, and placed back into the deck. The selection is sucked to the top of the deck under the magnet card multiple times. The next time, the card is pulled up to hard, and is the magnet card! This is really easy, and definantly a fooler! BROKEN ENGLISH: A card is selected and placed back into the deck. A chop stick is introduced, with Chinese writing on it. With a shake, the letters turn into the name of the selection! This is another very easy, and quick effect. FAMILY TREE: Half of an ordinary pencil changes into an actual twis from a tree! This s truly a bizarre effect, and makes a nice give-away. MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD: A normal pen is introduced, and the cap is taken of and put back on. The pen is handed to the spectator, and the cap is fused to the pen! They can't get it off! This is very easy, and is also a nice give-away. THROUGH AND THROUGH: This is a cool looking effect where a card visually melts through a dollar bill. It is very easy, and looks great. The bill is borrowed too. CROCODILE TEAR: A borrowed bill is folded up, and torn hald-way down the center. Next, it is magically restoed. This is very easy, and uses a technique a lot of you know. PERSONAL CHECK: A check turns into real money! This is very simple, and straight-forward. CORNERED: A corner of a bill is torn off, but then the tear moves to the other side of the bill! The corner still fits! This is a very odd little trick, but is also very easy. GEOMETRICK: A dollar bill is shown to have a circle cut out in the center of it. It is folded up, and when unfolded, it turns into a square! This is yet another easy, quick effect. GENUINE COUNTERFEIT: This is an extremely odd effect, where a corner from a folded up piece of paper is torn off, and handed to the spectator. The piece of paper changed into a real dollar bill, and the corner from the piece of paper fits the bill perfectly! And yes, this trick does fit the bill of crazy magic. VOODOO: A card is selected, signed, and placed back into the deck, and the deck is placed into the card case. A file card is introduced, and you patter about voodoo. The file card is folded up, and when the deck is spread, the selection is also folded up! The spectator is told to hold the flame of a lighter inder the corner of the selection, now the corner of the file card is burned! This is a really cool effect, but takes some practice. SWIDDLE KINGS: This is a nice little four king assembly, using a move called hte Swiddle Move. A CLEAR IMPOSSIBILITY: 2 card are freely selected, and each are placed inside a clear plastic envelope. The card change places 3 times under impossible conditions! This is a fun trick, and isn't too hard. POWER LUNCH: This is another strange trick where the magicians initials one of his business card, and the spectator initials the other. The spectator's initials are pulled of one business card, and thrown onto the other one!Now, this business card has both initials on it! This is an easy effect, and really fools people. HEALED: This is a simple effect where a business card (can be signed) is placed into a coin envelope, and has 2 holes punched into it. Now, the card visually restored inside the envelope! This is also very easy, and visual. XXX-RATED: This is a really impossible looking effect. an X is drawn onto 4 of the performer's business cards. One at a time, all the X's assembles onto one business card! This is a really cool effect, and pretty clever as well. SLEEVES-UP BLUFF PASS: This is a nice move that is used to control a selection. AMATEUR VS. PROFESSIONAL: This effect explains the differences in how and amateur finds a selection, and how a professional does it. It is a pretty cool trick, too. SUGAR RUSH: This is a very easy card to sugar packet effect. This is a really good restruant effect. A STRANGE JOURNEY: This is a very weird trick, where a coin is visually pushed through a straw! It is very easy, and weird! HARD TO SWALLOW: This is basically a vanishing cocktail sword trick, performed along the patter of sword swallowing. It is pretty simple too. TOUGH OF EVIL: This is a cool effeect where a burn mark travels from card to card. Not hard at all, and seems impossible! WORLD'S SMALLEST MAGIC WAND: This is a great card to matchbox effect, with the selection taking place of the matched that used to be in the box! This is very easy, and also clean. FIRE DOWN BELOW: This is a strange one, where a card is selected an returned to the deck. Then, an actual matchbook cover turns into the selection! Now, the selection is an actualy fully-functioning matchbook! FIREFLY: This is a really neat travelling match effect. Very easy too. LIGHTNING BOLT: A Joker is placed into a deck, and appears back on top multiple times. At the end of the trick, a bolt is seen ti be screwed into the deck! This is very odd! ONCE IN A LIFETIME: This is another interesting effect where you predict the spectator's birthday and selection. It really leaves an impact on the spectator. WHAT'S ON A NAME?: This is a cool trick, where a card is selected, and the performer names a name. The rest of the deck has different names written on the back, and the selection has the name that was called out written on the back. PRIME TIME BEND: This is really simple, easy, and visual coin bend. It really looks weird! SILVER LINING: In this quick and easy, effect, a spoon bends inside a napkin, held by a spectator. SPINACH: This is another weird one where a huge nail is seen to visually bend, and can be completely examined, and you end clean. TWISTER: This is another easy one, like Spinach, where the bowl of a spoon visually twists around. BETWEEN THE SHEETS: 2 business card are examined by the spectator. A card is selected and returned to the deck. Next, the name of the selection is seen to be written across both business card when they are placed together. MERGER: This one is like Between the Sheets, except the selection is drawn on the 2 cards when they are placed together. DREW AS I DREW: This is an awesome drawing duplication effect. It all happens behind the spectator's back. You will love this one! PAGING BEN FRANKLIN: This is another strange effect where a page from a book changed placed with a dollar bill, after 3 selections are made. The spectator turns to the page that the selections are put together, and in its place in the bill! GHOST: This is an amazing effect where any page is selected from a book, and appears in a sealed envelope! CREAMED: This is a nifty effect where the lid from a creamer container reappears unside the container a few times, the the container is full of cream! SECRET PASSAGES: A glass is placed on a table, with a napkin covering it. 2 coins are held above the glass, and one at a time vanish, and are heard to clink inside the glass. Next the glass penetrated the table along with the coins! HOT KNIFE: This is another fun little trick, where a candle stain vanishes and reapears on a dinner knife multiple times. SHANGHAI CHANGE: This is a nice color change, using a fan as cover. HOMIG BAND: A rubberband is taked off a deck of card, and shot into the air. Amagingly, it reappears back wrapped around the deck! SPECIAL DELIVERY: A sheet of stamps is folded up and placed into the sectatpr's hand. A card is selected, and placed back into the deck. A stamp vanished from the sheet, and appears on the selcection! GREED: 3 coin envelopes are displayed. One is randomly selected by a spectator. The other 2 are shown to have a high donomination bill inside, and the selected envelope only has a penny inside. A DELICATE BALANCE: This is a really good effect, where 3 nuts are balanced on top of each other, and ed up magically glued together! 20TH CENTURY FOX: A sheet of 3 theather tickets is displayed, and one is signed. They are all ripped apart, and then they are restored! This is an interesting little effect. NIGHTCAP: A cap is taken of a pen, handed to a spectator, and is now a solid tube! This is a really weird effect, and also easy. HOUSE BOUND: This is another great effect, where a signed card ends up taped to the card case! THE BLUES: A blue stone is placed inside a card case along with a selection. The red selection is now blue! Now, the spectator selects a card from the face-up red deck, and that card is blue! Next, the entire deck is blue. BOX 'N' RING: This is a strange effect, where a ring is placed into a card case, and a card is selected. The card is then found to be rolled up inside the ring in the card case! STRETCHING IT: This is a bizzare looking effect, where a borrowed finger ring is visible stretched out, and stretched back to its normal size. THE HUSTLER: This is basically the lipstick trick, but done with pool chalk, which is more practical. GLASS IN STEEL: A steel nut is seen to visibly penetrate a clear glass bottle. This is a nice quick effect, and everything can be examined. UFO. A silver ball inside a test tube is seen to magically rise out of the tube into the performer's hand. Everything can be examined. BLACKSTACK: This is a way to produce over 5 coins is each hand, with each hand clearly empty, and clean. BOUNCING BABY: This is another strange one where a white ball is bounced off the ground a few times, and changed to a real egg! PAPER CLOUD: This is the old card stab trick using a signed card and a dinner knife. It is very simple, easy, and effective! I really love this book, and the intro written by Jay himself is very entertaining! I know you will love it too! |
Peo Olsson Inner circle Stockholm, Sweden 3260 Posts |
Exellent review.
Please also note that Mr Sankey is the guest of honor this month
Pictured to the left my hero and me during FISM 2006 in Stockholm.
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THEGUY26 (Will Swanson) Inner circle Minnesota, USA 2379 Posts |
Yeah, I know that.
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magicbern Inner circle Hong Kong, China 1220 Posts |
Its now available for purchase as an ebook pdf download from Penguin Magic. I just bought a copy and the tricks in there are very varied and quite ingenious from Mr Sankey. There are details of many of his marketed effects eg. Leaving Home which contain tips not noticeable from the DVD instructions.
well worth the purchase as its out of print at most dealers now - and you don't need to pay postage too! http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=2083 |
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