 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy, my name's David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Elmsley Count project from Liam Montcher and Big Blind Media. What is the Elmsley Count? Basically it's a way of counting five cards as four or something similar to that. It was originally invented by Alex Elmsley and this is Liam Montcher's attempt to teach you as much as he can about this move. You want to see what the trailer looks like, this is it. This is not a quick throwaway blast through a move, it's an entire arsenal on counting techniques. Liam Montcher will teach you an absolutely bomb-proof Elmsley Count. Then there's seven incredible variations and a heap of other counts. And once you have that nailed, you can move on to an entire disk of killer material, including tricks from the likes of John Bannon, David Solomon, Peter Cain and George McBride. Disk one will take you through every aspect of this incredible slide. You're going to learn how to make your Elmsley Count completely invisible. You're going to learn how to take sticky, old, warped, damaged cards, cards that somebody might just hand you and still make your Elmsley Count look perfect. You're going to learn how to take two or three cards, count them and make them look like four. How to take a packet of five, six or seven cards and how to make that look like four. You'll also learn how to hide card faces, hide backs, anything, any combination that you need. We're going to show you how to do it and that's just the start. Then we're going to teach you some powerful variations like the Underground Elmsley, the Vertical Elmsley and the Split Elmsley and also the OPEC Count and the Snap Count. On top of that, we'll also teach you how to do the SIVA Count, the Spirit Count and the Jordan Count and John Bannon's absolutely awesome discrepancy city display and bullet party display. Oh, and we're going to teach you how to do multiple lists from small packets too. The Elmsley Count project, the ultimate course of false count magic. Get it? Alright, so that was Liam Moncher. This DVD was produced by the great people down at Big Blind Media. Alright, so a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get DVDs, two of them, two DVDs chock full of magic. You're going to get one whole DVD that's completely devoted to the Elmsley Count, teaching you a couple of different variations on the Elmsley Count, teaching you how to practice. Great, great resource. And then the second DVD is full of magic. So wow, what a great resource. So I think within card magic there are several moves, several counts, cuts, displays that would be considered essential like building blocks. These are the things you need to learn. I remember when I first learned the Elmsley Count, I found it in a little paper pamphlet booklet. So in a nutshell, the Elmsley Count is one of the cornerstones of card magic. It's one of the basic utensils you will need to perform some of the greatest card magic tricks of all time. And I would argue that if you learn this move, learn to do it well, you'll be able to do just a wide variety of some of the classic magic tricks. So this collection, this DVD that Liam has made, this is a resource that is going to help you make your Elmsley Count look natural, bulletproof, flawless. I mean, the very first time I watched this DVD all the way through, he quickly showed me that I was doing my Elmsley Count incorrectly, even though I had been doing it for years. He showed me a better way to do it and the way he showed me to do it felt more natural to me and looked cleaner to me. So just a one time through instantly improved my technique. And so I would argue that this is a great resource for beginners and for intermediate and advanced people. Anybody that, you know, this is something that has always eluded them or something that you're doing but you would like to improve. I think this is a masterful technique and what Liam has made is just a great, great, great resource. All right, so on the very first DVD, you're going to learn Elmsley Count, obviously, and a couple of different variations on that. He's going to teach you how to practice. He's going to teach you how it should look and give you kind of a couple of pointers and some corrections about how some magicians do it incorrectly. You're also going to learn a couple of different moves that are very similar to the Elmsley Count. So you're going to learn the Jordan Count, the Spirit Count, the Discrepancy Count, the Silver Count, and the Bullet Party Display. The second disc is full of magic. You're going to have eight different magic tricks, eight different card tricks that all utilize the Elmsley Count or variations of. You're going to get tricks from Alex Elmsley himself and, of course, Liam Montcher. But you're also going to see some of the tricks from Bannon at McBride, Vernon and Kane. All right, so what's the overall quality and production value? Hey, this was done by Big Blind Media. They always make great instructional DVDs. They always have really good and very clear menus. HD cameras, good locations, good sets, good sounds, great lighting and always very attractive assistance. Is it well taught? Hey, if you know Liam Montcher, he's well known throughout the magic industry as being one of the most refreshingly creative card magicians. He's workable. He's practical. Liam Montcher is just a fantastic guy to go to for things like card control, self-working magic, making complicated things easy, clear instruction. He is a great, great resource for all magicians, regardless of skill level. I can't recommend this enough. All right, so is it worth your money? Is it worth your money? It's $35. Like I said, you're getting two discs, two discs for $35, one whole disc full of information, one whole disc full of magic. You can't go wrong. Like I always say, when you spend your money on information and when you spend your money on improving your skill, that is money well spent. I highly recommend this DVD. Or what I suggest is that you just save your money, just save your pennies on Montcher's Essential Card Magic Toolbox from Big Blind Media. This is eight magic DVDs for $100. So if you actually do the math and you add up how much it would cost you if you had to buy all these DVDs individually, you would save yourself $140 by purchasing this. So even if you have one or two of these DVDs already, it's still a good investment to go out and purchase this. This is what I highly recommend. All right, so who would like this? Card magicians, beginner magicians, intermediate magicians, advanced magicians. Card magicians of all skill levels I think will benefit from this great DVD. And a super big thank you to Lee Montcher and Big Blind Media for providing this resource so that we can review it for you. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can find it at your favorite Big Blind Media retailer. Thanks. Bye.