New albums

BlueCuzco · Apr 26, 2009

Last year I purchased the Trilogy as a near complete beginner, and have since gotten most of the material down. I'm looking around for new flourish albums and am interested in diversifying. I like how D&D's cuts work as complete units, but other things I've seen seem to be a little bit more "my style". Motion (D-M) looks pretty neat because of the motion's spontaneity and the flowing of the packets, but I'm interested in looking at other products as well. Products that are about as hard as what I'm used to doing, but offer a different style. Just names listed would be fine, or a link to a thread that might be helpful.

To be specific, I have achieved the following cuts: akira, mecka, eko, vertigo hackysack, maddona, genesis, molecule four, carnahan fan. And about half on tectonic verb and elements of jackson five.

Thanks.

Edit: Also, is there any product much harder than the stuff I've done with Trilogy?

SamRochon · Apr 26, 2009

If your looking for some really difficult stuff then check out some of Brian Tudor's work.

SKSleighofHand · Apr 26, 2009

As SamRochon stated, Brian Tudor is a great example. Get Showoff Volue and Generation Extreme. It should keep you busy.

Leon · Apr 27, 2009

BlueCuzco said:
To be specific, I have achieved the following cuts: akira, mecka, eko, vertigo hackysack, maddona, genesis, molecule four, carnahan fan. And about half on tectonic verb and elements of jackson five.

Thanks.

Edit: Also, is there any product much harder than the stuff I've done with Trilogy?

You still have a long long long way to go.

Instead of relying on new material, create your own.

BlueCuzco · Apr 27, 2009

"You still have a long long long way to go." To get to where?

"Instead of relying on new material, create your own." I'm not interested in that at this moment, though I probably will be in the future.

In regard to Brain Tudor: I looked at a few of his videos. The flourishes look massively impressive to me, but they're not the style I'm going for and I think a lot would be lost to spectators. To quote Penguin Magic: "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."

BlueCuzco · May 16, 2009

Any other suggestions? Thanks for any replies.

MagicLemonBird · May 17, 2009

Well, what type of field in flourishing are you interested in? Like who's flourishing do you like best? Do you like Andrei's, Tudor's, The Buck's or D+M?

BlueCuzco · May 17, 2009

I don't care too much for Tudor's stuff that I've seen (mostly impressive for magicians, not laymen, and I don't care for that), and though I like D&D's stuff for just popping a flourish now and then, it's not that great for improvising or doing a routine. I haven't seen much from Andrei, but I love the look of B4. And, of course, I do like D+M's style: the rolling packets, the body movement, etc. So I probably like D+M and Andrei the best out of those four, but again I haven't seen a whole lot from Andrei.

copperfield 14 · May 17, 2009

I suggest getting the EOPCF, and some of devo's dvds. There really good for laymen and also jerry's companion dvds show all the moves from EOPCF and it gives tips on the moves and tips on routining, etc.

RDChopper · May 18, 2009

BlueCuzco said:
"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."

They are talking about the magic right there, wich its true, the one handed cuts sequence that he does is pretty impressive.

BlueCuzco · May 18, 2009

Yeah, his one handed cuts are pretty neat, but they aren't really my style. I mean, I wouldn't pass up learning them, but I'm not going to pay $50 to get those skills. Overall of that kind of super skill show-off realm I like the Bucks' smoothness over Tudor's speed-brilliance.

RDChopper · May 18, 2009

well, there is no need to learn them as faaast as tudor, you could learn them and make them yours, add your own style to them, you know what I mean?

Why dont you check out decknique? there are a lot of pretty good tutorials there (and for free) I have actually have learned a couple, hope this helps friend.

http://decknique.net/forums/28