Kung Fu Foot (Gimmick and Online Instructions) by Héctor Mancha

How do you reveal a card onstage? It has to be something dynamic, physical, and memorable. Cue Kung Fu Foot! Created and honed to perfection by FISM Grand Champion Héctor Mancha, this hilarious card revelation allows you to stab a card from midair… with your foot!

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El Libro Verde – Frank Garcia

Este libro puede considerarse la segunda parte de ‘el libro rojo’ y, como en aquél, he estimado mucho el valor del truco, y me esforzado para que las dificultades del manejo sean las mínimas. Habiendo sido siempre un profesional, conozco la importancia de los llamados efectos comerciales. La clave para que un efecto sea comercial, es que sea ‘sencillo’.

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Nick Trost – Gambling Tricks with Cards

Contents:

1 Introduction (Nick Trost)
2 Contents
3 Various Card Games and Swindles
4 The Canfield Solitaire Trick: a winning hand
5 Odd Man Wins!: man with the odd colored card wins; requires an accomplice
6 The Trick of Thirty-One: a card game of 31 in which the performer always wins
10 The Horse Race: a horse race with cards, of course the performer always wins. Two methods supplied.
13 The Siamese Aces: A story demonstration in which the spectator’s think the Aces won’t be brought out together, yet they are anyway!
15 The Circus Card Trick: The next card selected will be yours (spectator thinks you’ve missed…)……..

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Simon Aronson – Simply Simon

Simon’s biggest book to date, exploring classic themes such as the Birthday diary (with the full year Calendar Card), a hefty chapter on the memorized deck (including Simon’s essay on the Open Index, Past, Present and Future, and his famous Everybody’s Lazy). In This Side Up, a spectator-signed card literally transforms into an Instruction card that has been in full sight the entire time. The triple prediction Point Spread will fool the most sophisticated mathematician – yet it’s entirely self-working.

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The Story deck Jermay

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The story deck is a classic demonstration in card magic. It has stood the test of time. In thin short manuscript Luke Jermay provides all of the real information needed to put his story into your show.

More importantly he provides all the insight into presenting the story deck to a modern audience.

Including fresh new presentational points, a presentation especially designed for mentalists and a new approach to shuffling the deck during the story being told. This is a new way to tell a story with a normal deck of playing cards.

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