Heres a effect called Non-Prediction that is from a book named 5 x 5 japan.

watch it and comments pls. Or give some review on it.

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:P

Here's another one performed by a friend in Taiwan

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SttDVy4I0RU&mode=user&search=

Take a look at his other videos, mainly from 5X5 and The New Magic of Japan.

Brillant Stuff...

The second clip is better than the first. I hope its not put up just to show people something. It's not that entertaining.

Nevertheless, even though the effect is amazing, I dun find the clip interesting. (As a matter of fact, 90% of all magic tricks video on youtube is far from appealing.)

I put this up for entertainment purpose, just for a few minutes, if its not entertaining then keep it to urself " Icy" . I just need comments to improve myself. Ur way of talking seems like ur just the same standard as Copperfield or something. :blink: :blink:

Nah...maybe Icy's not very appealing himself also.

The rest of the appealing 10% all belongs to Cyril's clip ;)

Well, its true that most of the magic trick video on youtube are not very appealing. One of the reason is that there are no audience involved in the magic clips. All you get to see is just a few minutes of performance to the camera.
I think most of these clips are not for entertainment purposes, they are there so that other magicians and maybe laymen could give comments on the trick. The magicians who posted the clip could then learn from those comments.

If you really want the clip to be entertaining, add in some audience to your magic clip. People are not satisfied with the magic effect alone; they wanna see what kind of impact the magic has on other audiences. That's why you seldom see those TV street magicians like David Blaine do a magic effect without any audience. He did one riffle thought f****though, and it is entertaining because it involves interacting with the audience in front of the TV.
A better quality video cam would help too. If you can perform your own original effect that would be even better.

Sigh that's why until now i don't wanna post something on youtube. First of all i'm not appealing lol . Plus it's not easy to get a camera on the street and film down you magic performances. -_-

And back to the topic. The effect is amazing. Hope I can get my hands on the book someday B)

The natural part of the classic force is good, my first thought of it, is that its randomly chosen. So not much comments can be made on the classic.

As for the second part, you wish to show there is alot of cards in the deck. Apparently, that move onli disllusionist it. it means, its only telling me that there is very little cards in the deck. Because, there is no deck that is so high, and in actual scene, the gaps between the cards can be easily spot.

So from my point, I will suggest not doing that. Jus keep your hand down, allowing the back to face your audience, and then you dribble the cards, explaining there are 52 cards and I going to make all the red cards disappear and only left the card he/she pick.

from my view, the dribbling makes it look alot, and the messy look on the deck also give some cover to the lack of card. and also it gives you the purpose to do one thing, an magic action. While you square, you move your hand up and down, and you give a story line based. then tell them, look its getting lesser and lesser.. Watch..

Maybe it works, you want to try it out.

Erm, dun mind me asking Larry....
Are you commenting based on what you KNOW is the method or are you comment on what you think is the method?
I have no idea on the method but from what I see, it seems what you are saying is not quite it.
But like I said, I really have no idea how it's done so I'm just checking.


I thought the effect itself looks quite amazing. In fact, at first i thought it's video editing because of certain "inconsistancies". Till I saw the 2nd video and see that it's supposed to be part of it. But even then I still don't know how it happened.

Nicely done. Would love to see it in real life.
My only comment from layman point is to be more careful about hiding the "inconsistancy" when you are dealing the cards for the spec to stop you.

My bad on this. I shouldnt enforced that it is a classic force without the prove that it is a classic force. In fact, It can be really random.

So, I send my appologises for binaryzero for the stand I made.