John Riggs - Masterpieces of Mentalism Volume one - The Hull Card

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Masterpieces of Mentalism will showcase professional techniques of interest to the discriminating Psychic Entertainer. This series focuses on time-tested routines and presentations which have been forged through the only real proving-ground that matters: live audiences. Volume One concentrated on Burling Volta Hull's Reversible Card, first introduced in The Volta Hull Supper Club Mind-Reading Act. Over the years John Riggs has experimented with various handlings and with the help and advice of Dr. Charles Cicardi Scott, taken the Hull card into new and hitherto unexplored directions.

This DVD covers every aspect of the Hull card, including a live performance of the act before a real audiencenot a staged audience; with a commentary track available explaining the various moves and strategies in real time. Altogether there is almost two hours of instructions on this amazing technique.

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I'm sitting in a New York coffee shop talking with a couple of mentalists. (That sounds spiffy, huh? It was.) I tell them I'm getting increasingly interested in Q and A routines and ask for some recommendations.

Sebastian Black looks at me and pulls out his version of the Hull Card. He tells me he loves this routine so much that he's set everything else aside. He talks with such enthusiasm about this teaching from John Riggs that I pretty much have to buy it.

A few weeks later I am sitting in the Sanctum Sanctorum (okay...my den) watching Riggs talk about the Hull Card.

I'll be honest -- I'd never heard of the Hull Card until SB showed me his...and even then I didn't have a very good idea what I was looking at. (Yeah...yeah...I know...but there's a LOT of STUFF out there, okay?)

But I digress (again). I am watching John Riggs teach me about this Hull Card thing. He discusses the layout of the card. He talks about how to get the pe*k. 'Hmmm,' I think to myself. 'He's sharing the good stuff.'

Then he shows me the Bumpershoot move. (I'd never heard of the Bumpershoot move either. I thought it was maybe what a redneck did to a pinball machine when the last ball rolls between his flippers.) And I find myself sitting there in the dark saying to myself 'Oh....my....God.'

It's brilliant -- one of those little gems you instantly KNOW you will use...a thing so clean and perfect! THE thing, actually. It's bold and efficient and...well...brilliant. And it makes the whole routine sing.

There's a live performance. And there's the same performance with a commentary. There's an explanation on the other props you need and information on where to get them. There are Acrobat files for designing your own card. There's the original Volta Hull routine...and much more.

Here's my point: I knew next to nothing about the mechanics of a Q&A routine. But after watching this DVD I know I have been taught by a master.

The production values aren't all that high. The performance video was shot in a low light -- and tends to be muddy in places. (It's not that you can't clearly know what's going on -- but HD it's not.) The points are clearly made. You get close-ups when you need them and Riggs is an outstanding communicator.

The DVD has nearly two hours of teaching, graphics and background information. This is an outstanding package which has put me much closer to a routine I've wanted to do for a very long time.

It's not cheap...but you get much, much MUCH more than you pay for.

David