Manoj Kaushal – 10 Simple Astonishments

A fantastic new Ebook from India’s renowned master magician Manoj Kaushal. Its a book that will give your cards some rest and help you have fun with some NEW, different, forgotten and overlooked concepts and effects of magic.

Armed with 27 pages, 35 illustrations and 10 simple effects the book is embedded with simple closeup and mentalism effects. Everything from body parts to mirrors to empty cigarette packets are used to create these 10 simple astonishments.

So what are these 10 effects?

Crazy Magician’s Handcuff:
An effect inspired by Losander’s “Chain Breaker” and switched to impromptu mode by using nothing more then rubber bands.

Smoker’s Nightmare: A crossbreed between TnR and Cigarette production wherein a smoked out cigarette is resurrected to a whole cigarette again (oh – and by the way the smoked out cigarette is signed by the spectator!)

Smash (Vanish): Something you can use to vanish a coin or go crazy by using it as a coin thru table.

Nicotine: An impromptu coin in box effect that grew from an old old grandpa’s favourite effect 

Stapled: A prediction that comes correct everytime even though the billet is securely stapled and inspected by the spectator.

Easy Steal: Probably the simplest method to steal information from a folded billet WITHOUT EVER HAVING TO PEEK IT!!

Invisible PK: An old gag that has been given a mentalism cover to make the method even more effective. Where in you make things move invisibly without you ever touching them. Make sure you can act because that’s all you will have to do. Almost forgot, it’s impromptu!

Mirror: Again a wicked concept that was long forgotten or maybe overlooked BUT now is BACK. Imagine this – you write a word down and show it in the mirror. It, of course, looks backwards. With a shake of your hand that word now looks the RIGHT WAY ROUND IN THE MIRROR! The best part is that it’s IMPROMPTU!

Duh Gimmick: Using an everyday object and less than 2 seconds, to create a gimmick for coin, bill or even for a cigarette production! Duh!!!!

Top It: An impromptu coin production that lets you show both your hands empty. Nice effect to show when you are at bar counter with your friends. The method can be used to produce other small objects too and once again……IMPROMPTU!
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