 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at five stunts from Taiwan Ben Magic and Chonghui Tong. Alright, so what is it? Basically, it's a DVD of card tricks and card slides. The DVD is 43 minutes long. There are seven tricks and two slides taught. And the first of which is what's in the box? What's in the box? You're getting a DVD and that's it. DVD, 43 minutes of content, no cards, nothing else. That's all you need. It's just a DVD and a deck of cards. Is it what I thought? I really didn't know what to think watching the trailer. There wasn't a ton of information given other than there's a DVD and there's going to teach you, you know, seven effects and two slides. And I like card tricks and so I picked it up. And this is what I thought. What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? This is kind of where it takes a hit. I would say that the production value is nominal. It's shot with very low level lighting and there's onscreen text for all your teaching. There's no audio at all and it's just a five minute synth track in the background that keeps looping and you're probably annoyed with it after about five minutes. The entire DVD looks like it was shot in Windows Movie Maker and all the wipes and screen text looks very cheesy. Is it well taught? One of the slides is called the CWT Double. It's a double lift from the center of the deck with kind of like a flourish added to it. Like I said, there's no audio to it and it's only taught really one time in kind of like the stop and go motion with an onscreen tutorial. And you're going to have to know how to do that slide for several of the tricks that are on the DVD. I would have appreciated better teaching. I would have even been fine with the performer teaching in his original language and maybe translated at the bottom because I felt like the onscreen text was way too minimal for a lot of these effects. Some of these card tricks are knucklebusters. There's stuff involved. It's probably for intermediate level to advanced level magic and so just using onscreen text with stop and go teaching where you pause the screen and say okay now he's doing this really didn't work for me as a learner. How much practice does it require? I would say a lot. The sad part about this is it's a 43 minute DVD and you're going to have to sit through that 43 minutes to learn all these effects and with only onscreen text and no audio and annoying music in the background it makes it very hard to listen to. To be honest with you I couldn't even sit through the entire 43 minutes. I had to skip to the next trick just because I couldn't sit through all of that stop and go freeze frame onscreen instruction. It just felt tedious to me and the tricks because they require just a more intermediate level worth of magic. I think that beginners or people just getting into card tricks would be very frustrated with something like this. Positives. All right so what are the positives for the five stunts? I thought the tricks were unique. They were fun to watch. I certainly enjoyed watching them the first time but there's probably a lot of negatives for this at least for me. I did not enjoy this DVD. There's no line of performances that's annoying. The music in the background was annoying. The fact that there was no audio teaching. 43 minutes it's a long time to sit through a five minute bite loop and learn seven effects and two slides that are an intermediate to advanced level with no audio. Like I said they're fun to watch the first time but just that lack of audio the stop and go freeze teaching the entire project was just it was just too unbearable to watch. Is it worth your money? It's 25 bucks. For me I think it's a little bit high. I would have appreciated a little bit more time and energy put into this at least in the teaching aspect. Maybe found somebody that could teach it in English or even in this original language I think would have worked fine but that's just not the way that I learn and so this is kind of a pass for me. Who would like this? Patient people. Patient people who want to sit through this. Or you know people that like creative car tricks. These are definitely creative tricks. Probably haven't seen a lot of these before. I think the CWT double is a really cool slight and so I think you're going to learn that. That is a cool double lift and I think it's kind of flourishing and I think people that like to do flourish on magic would definitely like this. So maybe the 25 dollars is worth it for you just to learn that one slight and maybe this. All right so that was my review for five stunts from Taiwan Ben Magic and we'd like to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this for us so that we could review it for you. And if you'd like to purchase your own even after my terrible review you can find yours at one of your favorite Murphy's Magic dealers. Thanks. Bye.