haha... some kind of joke here...

Warning: Don't buy this DVD. Almost no one can actually do the stuff you're about to see. It's aggressive, showy, complex, impossibly fast, and freakish. Once you master it, your spectators may notice only one tenth of what they're supposed to see... and only one one-hundredth of what is actually happening. That's no way to live... pick up a svengali deck and be happy.

This is an instructional card magic DVD featuring routines that have won Brian Tudor International recognition as one of the leading card manipulators in the world. There are no camera tricks and everything is shown at actual speed.

That's true. You're going to have to watch each explanation hundreds of times before you start to get it. You'll have to practice even more before it looks good in your hands. In the process you'll drop tens of thousands of cards. Throughout your training you'll destroy five or more decks per day.

When Tudor performs, he just kinda does it. Like an Olympic athlete, he's performing a routine that's been practiced thousands of times leading up to this moment. When he's on stage his mind goes to a place where individual moves become instinctual... he doesn't have to remember to do a Riffle Pass one moment and a Throw Change the next, any more than he has to remember to breathe or flex his heart muscle sixty times a minute. Sports psychologists have a word for this place--they call it THE ZONE.

If a stranger walked up to us and asked if we'd recommend this DVD, we'd say no. We'd say he'd probably hate it. We'd guess that he's probably nowhere near skilled enough with cards, or devoted, or focused enough even to appreciate it. You have to earn this DVD. It's not for everyone. It's probably not for him, and it's probably not for you.

But if you are one of the few who MUST be at the cutting edge in the development of visual card magic, there is nothing we can say to keep you away from this DVD. And that being said, this is probably your best resource for what's new with cards.

Prerequisites:
Born to Perform Card Magic with Oz Pearlman
Pyrotechnic Pasteboards with Gregory Wilson
Card Stunts with Gregory Wilson
Minimum recommended daily practice time: 4 hours.

OMG!!!! the preview vid really shows the madness of the vid...

Can't find the preview for this.... could you post the link? thanks mate :D

Who's teaching all the stuff in the vids? Brian Tudor?

If it's Oz Pearlman, I may consider buying. If it's Brian Tudor, I won't. IMH Brian's not a good teacher. His teaching techniques seem to be an opportunity to show off his superior level of skills, with minimal concern over small intricacies and problems that the student may have, which is so different from OZ's style of teaching, which is detailed and concise.

Brian Tudor's teaching it...and yea..i totally agree wif u man! his teaching is really quite hard to understand :wacko:

It's by Tudor. Oz probably can't do half the stuff Tudor does anyway. :mellow: anyway, I already explained my stance on this at CC, so I'll just copy the damn thing over to here:

Generation Xtreme is basically just a remake of Generation X with better teaching. That's really like a slap in the face to anyone who bought Gen-X, because they bought it for 50 bucks expecting to actually learn something, and then they have to endure painful explanations, and then all of a sudden, Generation Xtreme appears! What is it? Gen-X with BETTER teaching! Wow, so now we have to spend another 50 bucks on the exact same thing just so that we can learn the freaking moves!

to me, that really doesn't strike me as professionalism. i call it "bullshit". Tudor's material is awesome and all, but all this Gen-X/Gen-Xtreme/penguin stuff is gay. What's more, penguin is taunting us with that verbal bullshit on their description for Generation Xtreme, saying that "virtually everything on the dvd is impossible", "only a few can master the dvd", and "only a few can learn the cutting edge material on this dvd", basically, they're saying, "most of you guys out there all suck and are incapable of performing any of the stuff on this dvd because you'll never be half as good as tudor." That just reeks of total arrogance. What's up with the "play with your svengali deck" comment?

Also, there was that De'vo dissing comment that wasn't very nice either, though it's been taken down.

The new demo video is okay, but not as good as the one for the original Generation-X. And like i said, it's just a remake with better teaching. The "better teaching " part should have come with Gen-X, instead of making a new dvd and charging an arm and leg for it. the material is awesome, and I love tudor's stuff, but that was just really retarded.

CLJ

Geez, that's real sad. I had a good first impression about Penguin magic because they are one of the few who post bad reviews in their online store, not just the good.

Then, there's all that hype about Jay Sankey and how some of his stuff were rip-offs, and with popularity polls dwindling, you have good 'ol Boris Pocus to compensate for it. :lol:

Now it's this Brian Tudor thing, and De'vo's dissing. Maybe it's cool being bad, but its not that cool to actually BUY bad stuff when we have to throw away our hard-earned beans this way.

there's slizzer and linking mints too lol both were ripped off

Geez, linking mints was a rip-off?! I almost wanted to buy that!

damn... gen X stuff damn complicated... especially the showoff and hypnotic routine... any card worker should get this. after practising, you can be the best around!!!

can anyone PM me wat penguin said bout DEVO