A COMPLETE COURSE IN CARD MAGICIf you are If you are seriously interested in learning card magic, there is no better place to start than The Royal Road to Card Magic with R. Paul Wilson. Since its initial publication, The Royal Road to Card Magic by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue has been regarded as the most complete course in sleight of hand with playing cards ever written, teaching essential sleights from the Overhand Shuffle to the Pass and Palm. Each chapter explores a new sleight followed by several tricks using what the student has already learned-tricks that, incidentally, include many of the best card effects ever created. Many of today's finest magicians began with Hugard and Braue's classic book, including world-renowned card expert R. Paul Wilson. On these downloads, Paul guides you along this Royal Road, demonstrating the sleights and effects from the book along with many important touches from his own repertoire. Paul guides you effortlessly through each chapter, using clear and concise instructions combined with multiple camera angles. He also performs most of the tricks in the book for an informal audience, allowing the student to see each effect before learning it. This download series is a complete course in card magic that expands and updates the material from The Royal Road to Card Magic with new effects, improved methods, and advice from many of today's finest exponents of card conjuring. If you follow this course from beginning to end, learning each sleight before moving to the next chapter, you will soon be on your way to becoming an excellent card magician. R. Paul Wilson teaching the Royal Road is one of the very best ways to learn card magic. The production values are superb! This is the best download course on card magic available today! -Bill Malone Paul Wilson has performed card magic since he was eight years old and hasn't left home without a deck of cards since! Now a world-renowned, award-winning magician, Paul is respected not only for his creative approach to magic but also for his remarkable skill with cards. He is a regular performer at the Magic Castle in Hollywood and has traveled the world performing and lecturing on sleight of hand. Paul has also authored fifteen booklets and manuscripts on his magic and has also produced five instructional videos of his work. Paul now works in film and television. His credits include technical advisor and second-unit director of the movie Shade, producer of A&E's Mondo Magic, co-producer and star of Court TV's The Takedown, producer and star of the BBC show The Real Hustle, and technical advisor on the movie Smokin' Aces. VOLUME 1IntroductionOverhand Shuffle Hand PositionExecutionControlling the Top CardControlling the Bottom CardTop Card to Next to Bottom and BackThe RunInjogDouble UndercutControlRetaining Top StockFull Deck False ShuffleTopsy-Turvy CardsPoker Player's NightmarePocket DiscoveryTelepathy PlusThought StealerPinkie Does ItA Card and a NumberRiffle Shuffle IntroRefinementRetaining the Top CardRetaining the Bottom CardIn the AirAn Instinct for CardsUltra Card DivinationFlourishes IntroRuffleSpread and TurnoverSpringing the CardsWaterfall ShuffleThe FanOne Hand FanOne Thumb FanBonus MaterialVOLUME 2The Glide IntroThe GlideGlide RefinementDesign for LaughterObservation TestGlimpse Intro & The Bottom Card GlimpseThe Top Card Glimpse #1Gray's Spelling TrickKey Card / Undercut / Card UnderDo As I DoThe Three PilesThe Twenty-Sixth CardMeeting of the MindsNon Poker VoiceSliding Key CardBonus MaterialVOLUME 3Palm IntroTop Palm 1Holding Card / Holding DeckMultiple Top PalmPalm GlimpseReplacing Top CardRefinementCard in PocketNow You See ItGathering of the ClanSpring CatchPiano TrickBack Slip IntroBack SlipLightning CardThe TantalizerUnder Your HatOverhand Shuffle 2 IntroOverhand Break ControlOverhand Lift ShuffleLift Shuffle ForceSpread & BreakHolding a BreakSpread & Break ControlRefinementObliging AcesLeapfrogSpectator's CardPoker PuzzleFalse Shuffles and Cuts IntroOptical ShuffleCharlier ShuffleFalse CutsPalm CutAn Incomprehensible DivinationCircus Card TrickBlackjack DetectiveBonus MaterialVOLUME 4Double Lift and TurnoverRefinementDouble Lift GlimpseReverseRapid TransitAmbitious CardThroughth and ConsequencesInsidious Dr. Fu Lui TuThe Pass IntroPass TechniqueRefinementRoy Walton's Pass at RedKangaroo CardRighting a WrongBlindfold PackDouble SpellerColor ChangeThe Changing CardSelf Cutting DeckA Pretty CutPop-Up CardCharlier CutAcrobatic AcesReverses IntroFirst MethodSecond MethodThird MethodFourth MethodReversed LocationTipsy TurvyDouble ReverseMentalivityMountebank MiracleBonus MaterialVOLUME 5Hindu Shuffle ControlHindu ForceHindu GlimpseThe StepNatural InjogAll Change HereClassic Force IntroNow You See ItOne Hand ForceBottom ForceTwo Card ForceRiffle Break ForceSliding Key ForceDouble Lift ForceCut ForceJustice Card TrickFours of a KindPulse TrickTop & Bottom Changes IntroTop ChangeRefinementThe ChangelingBottom ChangeArrangementsJacks WildThink StopReds & BlacksMatching the CardsPlatform Intro3 Cards AcrossLadies Looking GlassPaul's TipsBonus Material