Weapons of Mass Destruction by Steven Youell ( Instant Download )

Content:

3 Preliminaries
3 – Acknowledgements
3 – Dedication
3 – License

4 Showpieces
6 The Card Trick That Has No Explanation: speller
10 The Ultimate Weapon: card photographic memory demonstration
14 The Image Fades: card in spectator’s hand looks like selection, and then it isn’t
16 Infamous Non-Working Self-Working Card Trick: Steven’s variation of a Sid Fleischman effect
18 Dead Solid Perfect: another speller
21 Gaffus Maximus: spectator selects the only blue-backed card in a red-backed deck
24 Te Perfect Choice: the magician knows the identity of the card dealt to by the spectator
26 Blinded by the Sleight: magician finds the card while blindfolded

28 The Hacker Stack & Sealed Deck Miracles
29 The Hacker Stack: a cyclical stack shuffled in less than 30 seconds
30 Flummoxed: hiding the stack
31 The Adequate Cardshark: version of Ortiz’ Ultimate Cardshark
32 Setting the Combination: uses Gene Finnell’s Free Cut Principle
34 Harry The Hacker: pseudo-mnemonics demonstration
36 Hacker Stack Basics: the order provided
36 – Step One The Phonetic Alphabet
37 – Step Two Turning Numbers into Pictures
38 – Step Three Translating Playing Cards into Pictures
38 – Final Step Learning the Stack

41 Hybrid Sleights:
42 The Power Of Peeks
42 – The Henry Hay Peek
43 – The Dribble Peek
43 – The Flex Peek
44 – The Riffle Glimpse
44 – The Flicker Glimpse
44 – The Pivot Glimpse
45 The Cardini Mulitple Shift

46 ProActive Control:
47 The Foundations of ProActive Control: performance principles
51 ProActive Strategies: mental strategies
55 Fail-Safe Guidelines: with many ideas for shifting what might have been a failure
61 The Implications of “Fight or Flight” Syndrome
64 Paul Chosse’s “Triple Header”: applying the ProActive concepts to a card revelation