 Hey everybody, welcome back to another Hocus Pocus magic review. My name is David and this is Over the Edge From Landon Swank. What is Over the Edge? Over the Edge is a DVD. It's a video instruction tutorial tons of teaching About how to use an edge marked deck in your gambling and card Proficiency routines. You want to see the trailer? This is it. All right, so that was Over the Edge Landon Swank This is being brought to you from Hydra Entertainment. The DVD is roughly two hours long Okay, it's two hours long in teaching cost about $40 and I would say this is for an intermediate level magician All right, you order this in the mail. What are you gonna get? You're gonna get a real live DVD Okay, a real live DVD and then you're also gonna get a deck of cards Now you're gonna want to use the B casino back. Okay, the full bleed edged Cards that have markings all the way to the edge. Okay, so no white borders No white borders. You want your red or blue edges to be on the sides back top everywhere When you do order this you will get the option to purchase a red deck or a blue deck All right, so just some FYI just so that you know and are in full awareness You will have to mark the deck yourself. Okay, so you will need to go through the video Watch it and I would say watch it first Watch it first so that you know where all these marks go and that you're not gonna be confused about it at all in any way Because the thing you don't want to do is make a mark and have it be wrong and then that card is ruined Okay, so you're gonna watch this all the way through make sure you get all your questions answered Then you're gonna go back through and mark your entire deck. That's right All 52 cards have to be marked by you. Okay, so just know that going in it's probably gonna take you about an hour Okay, about an hour or so to do this from beginning to end But then once you have it you'll have a marked deck of cards that'll do miracles now a lot of times when You have a marked deck people who haven't purchased it yet or haven't seen it yet Questions they ask are you know, how inspectable is it? Is it gonna fly by your spectator? So they're gonna notice it because they want to know if these marks are gonna stand out You know, what are the angles like on a marked deck? I would say these are perfect These are really super duper clean. I think the only way the marking stand out really boldly is when the deck is in new deck order Okay, but when it's shuffled which you know Landon does all of his tricks by giving the deck out and allowing the spectator to shuffle the cards So just know that going in these are full shuffled tricks. Okay, once the deck is shuffled The spectator will never see a thing. They won't even know what to look for It won't look like anything. The only person that's gonna recognize these markings are you. Okay? And so as far as inspectability goes You hand the deck out multiple times and ask the spectator to shuffle So they're never gonna feel the need to pull these cards back and inspect them What's the overall quality and production value of the video? How good is the teaching? Landon is miked in this, but just for me, he's just a little too far away from the camera There were just too many times where I felt like I would rather have the camera zoom in Especially when we're talking about marking cards. I really wanted to see okay where these marks were going what they look like I don't know that they spent enough time on that for somebody that just wasn't paying attention Okay, so that's why I just want to stress pay attention to watch this through make sure you understand where all these marks go So I would have appreciated a little bit more close-ups Especially on the gimmick construction. I felt the camera was a little too far away But again, it's shot in HD. It's well-miked doesn't have annoying background music You'll like the video after he goes through the gimmick construction. He will teach you some effects Okay, he'll show you the effects first like in order and then he'll go back through all of them And then do the explanations for them He's gonna do a trick on there called full control where the magician allows a spectator to select any four-of-a-kind And shuffle the cards and then the magician cuts to all four cards He has a routine on there called omniscient again allows a spectator to shuffle the deck And then the magician proceeds to do kind of like a deck memorization routine calls out suits pips Top cards cuts to all four aces, etc There's also an unnamed poker deal demonstration on there that I would check out There's a trick on there called homing beacon where he has a selected card Marked on the fly so he actually tells you how to use a borrowed deck and then mark one specific card To turn it into a key card on the fly There's an instant aces trick where he cuts to all four aces There's a trick that he does which is based on out of this world He does another thing on there called beyond a flourish where he cuts and shuffles and reveals all four aces There's a trick on there called double estimation where a spectator shuffles and calls out either red or the black aces And then you call out the exact position by number Where those aces will be stacked from the top and then you count down to those two aces and you're right So as far as the explanations go and the effects another thing I want to say is a lot of this depends on your spectator They shuffle the cards right they shuffle the cards So you get the deck back in an order that you're not going to know So you really need to know your edge markings You really have to have this memorized in order to do these effects because you're going to get this deck back You're going to glance at it right because you're not going to sit there and stare at it and go okay Where are the kings? Hang on a second Okay, I found him right you're gonna have to glance at it Quickly find it and then cut to these so a lot of these tricks. He's teaching you like the The overarching like framework of it But he can't really go into the specifics because he doesn't know where those cards will be in your deck So a lot of the things that he does in his tricks is he's moving very organically With a spectator so if he gets the deck back and he sees oh all the aces are grouped together I'll do the ace thing first right or if I see two kings grouped together I'll do a little something with the kings so he's getting the deck back Examining it and then he's moving on the fly so it's almost like a trick in progress. Okay, so for these kinds of effects Every single time you perform them. It'll be a different trick So this is where the practice practice practice practice practice comes in okay The more time you put in the more you're gonna get out of this the more time you put in the more time You practice the more magical these effects will be you're gonna look like you are more Proficient at cards than you really are That said he does kind of expect you to have some proficiency with cards And so that's why I would say this is at an intermediate level. He does reference Slides okay, he does reference slides and said this is a good place to do a you know a false shuffle or a second deal So he's not gonna teach you those moves. He's not gonna teach you those moves. He's just gonna reference them This is probably better for somebody who's at an intermediate to advanced level So positives and negatives real quick positives again like I said you put the time in to look like a miracle It's gonna look like magic. This is what real card magic should look like negatives I kind of felt like the camera was too far away from the from the performer I really wanted more close-ups especially on the cards while they were being marked so that I could kind of see that through Is it worth your money? It's 40 bucks $40. You're getting over an hour's worth of instruction and a deck of cards It's definitely worth your money it definitely worth it just for the instruction just for the teaching and the knowledge That he's gonna impart this is these are all tricks from his working routines He still does some of these tricks on a daily basis. So that's something special when you get something special like that It's gonna cost a little bit more definitely. I think it's worth your money I think anybody who uses casino cards in their magic tricks right now anybody that do is gambling performances or shuffling Demonstrations or anything like that is gonna love this. This is gonna fit seamlessly into a lot of the magic you do You definitely want to check this out add this to cart at hocus-pocus Com thank you hocus-pocus for allowing me to have this and I'll see you guys next time. Thanks. Bye