Learn a CLASSIC of Magic
ALL the sleight of hand, routining, and presentation you need. In one place.
Created by James Hessler
Published June 2021 | English
What you'll learn
How to ENTERTAIN with magic and not just do tricks
How to PRESENT & PERFORM your magic
How to STRUCTURE your routining
Killer Kickers - Card In Hat & Mouth - Card Under Watch - Card In Box - Drink From Shoe
Bonus 1 - My Coins Through the Table
Build CONFIDENCE through presentation and performance
Sleight of hand from BASIC to ADVANCED techniques
Direction control (AKA Misdirection)
Finales - Card In Shoe - Wiping The Signature - Card In Lips - Card Under Glass
Be the MAGICIAN that everyone will want to see
32 Tutorial Videos - Four Video Essays - Written Essays
Bonus 2 - Dr. Sawas Coin Slot Routine
AMBITION OMNIBUS is a full concise course on sleight of hand techniques, essays and presentation to learn one of the modern day CLASSICS of magic that will have you entertaining your friends, family, and colleagues with an eight minute routine that I still use professionally for over 20 years. It HAS to work or I don't get paid!
It may seem prosaic to teach 'such a thing', but there is a proper way to hold a deck of cards in readiness for accomplishing the sleight of hand techniques being taught in your course. Admittedly there will be many who know such, and include it here for complete fullness to enable those who use this course to learn how to present, perform and entertain. Not just with the Ambitious Card, but other pieces of STRONG MAGIC.
It's always worth mentioning that practice is key to any performance of any discipline. Magic is no different. It should be enjoyable, and looked forward to. Not something to 'just get done'.
It gives an extreme sense of achievement to fully realise a routine in performance, prior to which may have been just an idea or a work in progress. And you get the added benefit of entertaining an audience.
Breakdown Of Course Content
11 sections - 43 lectures - 4h 21m total length
Welcome To Your Course
In deciding to enroll you will be able to learn sleight of hand techniques from very basic handling to advanced as well as KILLER kickers that seem impossible.
The BIG Basics
Some Basics On Control
The Breaks (5:15)
Intermediate Sleight of Hand
The Double Undercut (4:59)
Advanced Sleight Of Hand
The Jennings Optical Toss (07.23)
The Vernon Push Off (4:48)
Stand Alone Effects & Routines
Wiping The Signature (4:36)
KIller Kickers
Card In the Hat & Mouth (10:08)
Huge KILLER Kicker
Drink From Shoe (6:16)
Video & Written Essays IMPORTANT
On Being Burned (2:38)
Direction Control (3:48)
BONUS ROUTINES
My Coins Through the Table (21.51)
Dr. Sawa Coin Slot Routine (17.30)
CONCLUSION
Studio Based Performance (12.51)
Performance Breakdown (11.23)
£24.95
Your course includes...
- 4.50 hours On-Demand video
- Over 10 PDF's
- Full lifetime access
- Accessible on any device
- Access to Private Facebook Group
REQUIREMENTS
Deck of Cards & A Willingness To Practice!
Description
The Ambitious Card is a modern day classic of magic, where a freely chosen card repeatedly rises to the top after being lost in the deck, with no overt actions from the magician. No matter where it is placed in the deck, with it signed by a single or multiple spectators, it continually rises to the top of the deck under even the closest scrutiny.
This complete and concise course will take the newest beginner on the path to learn how to perform and entertain with just a deck of cards and not just 'how to do a trick'. Although the Ambitious Card is the overall routine, my course also gives you the ability to entertain with stand alone effects such as a chosen card appearing...
- Folded up in your mouth
- Stuck to your lips
- Under a glass
- In a small tin box
- In a hat
- Under a spectators watch
- Jennings One Handed Bottom Palm
- As well as the Top Change
- The Crimp
- And other ADVANCED sleights
- Produce a glass of liquid from your empty shoe
ACCESS to OUR PRIVATE Facebook Group!
I've always thought and voiced out loud that 'how a trick works is not how the magic happens' and my course discusses the importance of practice as well as rehearsal along with a variety of PDF's and video essays on the power of good structure within any routine that you can create using the material available here.
EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA!
As a MASSIVE extra also included is my version of COINS THROUGH THE TABLE which I currently use as the opener to my street show, as well as DR. SAWAS' COIN SLOT routine that I have used for many years in corporate environments.
It is with great pleasure that I am able to bring all of my 20 years as a professional busking street magician and teach a lot of what I have used in my travels around the world working my show.
James Hessler
Street Performing Professional Busking Magician
As an international street performing busking professional magician I've had the opportunity to travel the world with my show. For over TWENTY years, I have used the material in my course to help stop crowds, help make them stay, watch and and then help them pay.
Having learned from others I fully acknowledge the shoulders of the giants that I stand on and following their examples, am releasing this work to help others learn what I have used to entertain my audiences on the street and at corporate events.
Busking may not have seen as a career advancing move, but for me, it has shown me around the world, taught me new things, made me a better person, and given me invaluable opportunities to discover much of what others may not know exist.
It is my hope that my love of the work and what it has done for me shines through so that it may help you on any journey in learning magic that you may wish to explore.
A modern day classic of magic that will amaze and entertain your friends colleagues and family.