Card College Light by Roberto Giobbi - Book
From the author of Card College, the
world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card
College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on
professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill.
For whom is this book intended?
It is for beginners, of course, but by no means in total. This book is
intended for everyone who has always wanted to perform card tricks, but
who didn't have the time necessary to learn complex routines, or the
years necessary to master difficult techniques. So, yes, this book is
certainly meant for beginners. However, it is also directed at those who
are already proficient in the craft.
Card College Light is in a class apart from other books that focus on
sleightless card tricks. When it comes to artistic considerations,
interpretation, staging, communication and psychology, other books
seldom even recognize such concepts.
Card College Light strives to remain as simple as possible, yet to
identify concepts and to open doors that put sleightless tricks into the
context of artistic and utterly baffling card magic. Although other
books consider the same type of material, their approaches to it are
quite different from Giobbi's.
Most of the tricks taught are from Mr. Giobbi's active professional
repertoire, with which he baffles the public and magicians, too.
Every trick can be done with any deck of cards of average quality, and
many can be done under all performance conditions, with a borrowed deck
and no preparation.
With these sleightless tricks, you can easily acquire a reputation as a magician who can really make magic.
When it comes to great card magic, there is more to the secret than just the secret!
Countless books on card magic promise tricks that "require no skill" and
are "easy to do" or "self-working". They expose the method behind the
tricks, but they fail to explain how the tricks are made genuinely
amazing. Card tricks that allow the fingers to remain idle require that
their methods be cunningly protected through presentation and
psychology, which in turn amplify the feeling of real magic. Without
these things, all you are left with are mere puzzles.
Giobbi brings his widely respected talents as both teacher and full-time
performer to bear on tricks he has selected from time-tested classics
and little-known modern miracles by world masters, taught with a
thoroughness that includes psychology, presentations, scripts and
invaluable performance tips.
21 Tricks - 7 full routines!
Giobbi has also organized these tricks into powerful routines, which
teach the reader how organization and combination can be used to make
good tricks even more inextricably baffling. These lessons serve not
only the beginner, but also the advanced card-magician who wishes from
time to time to include a trick wherein the audience can stare
relentlessly at the fingers without discovering a thing.