Allan Ackerman – Masterclass Week 1(VIP)

We’re delighted to announce that July’s VI Masterclass lecturer is card legend Allan Ackerman!

For more than four decades Allan Ackerman has been praised as an innovator and technician with a pack of cards. He has been on the cutting edge of the card magic scene for so long that his name—and his work—has attained legend status.

But Ackerman seldom appears at lectures or conventions, and particularly in recent years, has not been as visible in the magic community. This is why we're thrilled to welcome Allan Ackerman as our July VI Masterclass instructor.

Allan will be teaching 25 new moves and tricks most of which have never been in print before. There’s some incredibly versatile culls, including one from Brother John Hamman which is the world’s easiest cull! Work on false deals will also be covered including ways to make them really easy to handle. Just a few of the tricks taught are: Almost Impromptu Brainwave, The Grandson of Tetradism, Any Sandwich, Lucky, The Mix and Spade Book Trick.

VI Masterclass brings an incredible learning experience. For the first two Sundays of the month, you’ll be taught all the moves and tricks, then on the last Sunday, we all come together for a live Q&A session where you can ask Allan to go over anything he’s taught.

The chance to learn from a legend is rare. We urge you to join us in July for what promises to be an exceptional experience.

You can buy just this VI Masterclass, but for the best value, subscribe to VI Monthly. That way you’ll get all the Allan Ackerman sessions, plus access to VI Studio which is our highly-curated streaming library with exclusive material from Mac King, Juan Tamariz, Roberto Giobbi and many more. On top of all that you’ll also get free shipping with no minimum spend in the UK and UK. International friends can get 20% off any shipping fees. Oh yes, and it’s $25 cheaper to subscribe to VI Monthly. So it’s a no-brainer really!

Dates

Lecture 1 - July 3, 2022
Lecture 2 - July 10, 2022
Live Zoom Q&A - July 17, 2022

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Dani DaOrtiz – Semi-Automatic Weapons Project Chapter 6(VIP)

The Abracadabra Trick

Semi-Automatic Weapons Chapter 6:

Dani DaOrtiz shares with your an amazingly direct card location technique that is a real reputation maker. The spectator cuts a packet off the top of the pack, shuffles it, removes a card, and places the rest of the packet back on the deck. The card is remembered and goes back on top of the deck. A packet is taken off the bottom of the deck, shuffled, and put on top of the deck. The deck is cut again, and the card is hopelessly lost in the deck. The spectator thinks of any magic word they want and then spells their word, turning over a card for each letter in their magic word. Impossibly, the card they spell to is exactly their card. Dani is joined by some of his closest friends and students for a session on the incredible principles at play in this Semi-Automatic Miracle.

This lesson, just under an hour in length, will introduce you to new concepts using key cards in wild new ways. The principles involved will give you the ability to know where selected cards are under chaotic conditions.

Lesson six of this comprehensive course continues to reveal more of the powerful semi-automatic principles and effects that Dani DaOrtiz has used to thrill audiences around the world. This effect has been a mainstay in Dani’s repertoire and now includes his most up-to-date thoughts and secrets to make The Abracadabra trick a reputation maker. You are about to become privy to the secrets that make the magic of Dani DaOrtiz so disarmingly devastating. It’s time to go to school with Dani DaOrtiz in the sixth lesson of The Semi-Automatic Weapons Project.

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Penguin Live Spidey(VIP)

"You Killed us with that trick! Brilliant!" -Penn&Teller

"You're Awesome!" -Jennifer Lopez

"Spidey is one of the special kind of creators that actually tests, refines and delivers workable, practical and all around killer routines to the community on the regular. I can't wait to dive into this lecture!"-Adam WilberPenguin Lecture of the Year 2021 WINNER

"He's a Wicked Sorcerer!" -People Magazine

"Ridiculous! Just Crazy!" -Discovery Channel

"He'll Definitely leave you in Awe!" -Entertainment Tonight

"Exceptional!" -Entertainment Weekly

What will he teach?

Match-Match- The perfect mentalism opener. Always predict the exact number of matches a spectator chooses. Direct, powerful and so deceptive!

Elementary-  Using a notebook, a borrowed watch and their intuition, the spectator solves a mysterious crime. This one features a principle, created by Spidey, that took the mentalism world by storm.

Heroes- A perfect example of Spidey's structural thinking. Impossibly predict a spectator's chosen superpower and superhero name.

Ouija-  A close-up Séance trick like no other. Your audience will scream as a mysterious force reveals impossible information.

ESP Match-  A demonstration of 5 types of psychic phenomena. This is Spidey's go to routine with ESP cards and solves a lot of the issues with other methods. A real worker!

Connexion 2.0-  One of Spidey's most direct close up mentalism pieces, made even better. Reveal a spectator's intimate thought and then demonstrate just how connected they are to their selection.

Cold-Reading Masterclass- Spidey shares master tips on cold reading that he has created through years of experience as a certified body language and behavior analyst. Forget ambiguous and vague statements, Spidey will teach you how to instantly provide readings that connect HARD!

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Curtis Kam LIVE 3(VIP)

"As always, Curtis brings a devastating clarity to coin magic, providing visual moments of impossibility that are sometimes dizzying to behold. Fearless in his sleight of hand, Curtis also has the key quality that many technicians lack: an intelligent personality that is driven to entertain his audiences. Perhaps most importantly for those who are just starting to study Curtis's material, he is a "big picture" performer: he carefully choreographs the individual moments that make up a larger routine, he recognizes the subtleties that make such moments work, and he deploys years of psychological and philosophical ruminating that allows all of the pieces to work together as a whole and create truly amazing magic."  -Kainoa Harbottle

"Curtis is my hero in coin magic. I got inspired by him a lot. He showed me his coin box routine few years ago, it changed my mind about coin box. If you want to become a "Boxer", this is the routine you can’t miss." -Max Li

"I hate coin magic. Like, I [bleeping] HATE coin magic. I hate all the stupid hand transfers. I hate all the stupid coins being pulled from elbows and knees. I hate everything about it.
I [bleeping] love Curtis Kam." -Tyler Wilson

"Curtis Kam is a rare combination of exceptionally creative magic and world-class technical skills. Consider me a big fan of his work!" -Andi Gladwin

"Curtis Kam possesses more knowledge of the art of magic, and its execution, in his little pinky than I do in my entire being. That's a simple fact." -Jack Carpenter

"Curtis Kam is EXACTLY what magic needs right now. He thoroughly knows everything that came before him; he's intimately familiar with everything happening now; and he has the experience, knowledge, talent, and insight to help us carry forward into the future. He's done it all: stage, platform, table-side, walk-around, mentalism, sleight-of-hand, and everything in between. This is all aside from his powerful and numerous contributions to the field of coin magic. Curtis is the real thing -- an allaround skillful magician, always delivering miracles as easily as a knowing smile." -Lance Pierce

"Curtis Kam is a man among men and a wizard among mere conjurers. His knowledge is all encompassing and you will leave this lecture better but still inadequate in comparison." -Farrell Dillon

"Curtis Kam... When I have a question about any kind of magic, or an idea I think might be good, he's the guy I call for answers and opinions. Regarding his lectures: if he has something to say, you should listen. Also, it's fun to watch him do tricks, if you like that sort of thing." -Bill Duncan

What will he teach?

STRANGER THINGS: Being a demonstration, in the form of a show and a lecture, of unseen, rarely seen, and never before seen coin magic. Exclusively new ideas about what magic with coins can look like, and even what it feels like when you can't see it at all.

The Big Silver Ball- Opening production of three silver dollars by carving them off a big metal ball with a switchblade.

RingWraiths- Easing the audience into the idea that some magic is weirder than others, we start with a simple three coins across, but done in a way that you’ve never seen, in, through, out of, and along with a magic ring.

CoinRoll- It's all downhill from here. The previous effect is repeated, but the audiences sees what's going on in our imaginations. Specifically, the coins become little silver spheres that roll across the table.

Not Unusual- The strangest take on the traditional Han Ping Chien coins across that anyone has ever seen.

The Impossible is Now- A coin, a ring, a dollar bill, and a trick in which the audience is told when the magic is happening, but they don't believe it until it's not happening anymore.

The Lawyer's Tale- A coin, which may not have existed, vanishes into a simple math problem at the center of a story of death, greed, and a lawyer who saves the day.

Coinspiracy Nuts- A heretofore unpopular and unusual instant coins across is made useable by the current political climate. Really.

Conservation- A quick silent bit concerning the conservation of momentum, sort of.

Unvisible- Recent coin releases have been touted as "visual", "extremely visual" and even "the most extremely visual". Suppose we try something else? What if the magic could not be seen, and only the evidence of it existed? You’d get this, a translation of Brother John Hamman's Magic Cards to coins.

Kekoassembly- This one is the most experimental. Where most barehanded coin assemblies rely on the illusion that you never touch the coins, suppose you did? Created by the Disclaimer crew from a longer routine by Kekoa that will appear in the magazine.

Science Project- Eddie Joseph's Shattering Silver Balls presented with a new method, and a celebration of the magician as a young nerd.

Six Cylinder- The effect Curtis Kam uses to fool magicians, routined to enchant general audiences. Six coins vanish from your hands and appear under a solid brass nut, the last one nearly visually. Then the process is reversed, with the nut gradually becoming more and more coins, and then the best part, the packing up. This is the first time Curtis has ever taught this routine on camera. If you know, you know, and you know you want this.

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Bond Lee, Hawin & MS Magic – Waken(VIP)

WAKEN by Bond Lee, Hawin & MS Magic

What is real magic? It might look something like this.

The true power of haunted deck

An extremely visual magic piece

Imagine finding your spectator's signed card with the power of shadow

Or using Psychokinesis to raise their card from the deck

Multi-card haunted effects and rising cards are all possible

The deck is self-contained, and can be performed completely isolated

Multiple applications and routines create endless possibilities

The power of a super human, are you ready to Waken

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Joseph B – Nothing More(VIP)

NOTHING MORE by Joseph B. (Packet Trick)

You will receive all the Gaff Cards that you need to perform the effect

Nothing More is a very powerful and truly amazing packet trick.
5 changes in one packet trick !
Four red-backed jokers change into four 5 of spades. After that, all the backs also change completely. Another change of the card faces into 4 animals cards and... the GRAN FINALE, all cards turn blank !
It is a killer effect!
Everything is done with no gimmick.
The only count that you need to know is the Elmsley Count.
Joseph will explain also the Elmsley Count ( and variations) into the video download.

NOTE : NO Sticky Stuff

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Breaker By Ade Rahmat(VIP)

BREAKER by Ade Rahmat Instant Download

You ask the spectator to choose a card (no forcing) and that card can be signed. Then with that card, you can make it penetrate the other the entire deck.

You can do this in real life in front of an audience but it is highly recommended to be performed on social media. Easy to create and easy to perform!
Download Now….!!!

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Boom! by Mario Tarasini(VIP)

Boom! by Mario Tarasini Instant Download

An interesting hole in the card variation.
Effect:
The magician shows a card with a hole.
Suddenly the hole stretches ...
And that's not all ...
The magician release the hole, and the hole jumps to the other side of the card!!!
Attention ...
Keep in mind that the trick is designed specifically for the social media magic.

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