Michael Close – The Paradigm Shift Ebook: Volume One

The Paradigm Shift Volume One features groundbreaking essays that will change the way you think about your magic, beautiful sleights that will deceive both laymen and magicians, and commercial, devious routines you will enjoy performing. Included are ideas and routines from Ariel Frailich, John Carney, Simon Aronson, Bob Farmer, and Michael Weber. As with our previous ebooks, we have used text, photos, and video to provide an optimal learning experience.

After more than a decade, Michael Close has finally released his long-awaited ebooks, The Paradigm Shift Volumes One and Two. They are being released at an introductory price. If you buy them both you’ll save even more!

Here is the table of contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Our Story So Far
• About this Ebook
• About the Material
• A Tale of Two Systems
• System 2 and Conviction
• A (Mostly) Simple Start
• Repose, Chaos, and Action
• The Chaotic Cross-cut Force
• A Simple Effect
• A Running Cut Combination
• As an In-the-hands False Cut
• A Useful Bit of Information that Doesn’t Fit Anywhere Else
• The Slip-shoddier Shuffle
• But Here’s the Problem
• Finally, the Work
• Getting into the Zarrow Shuffle
• Final Thoughts
• The Shoddy Rosetta Shuffle
• A Touch on the Bobby Bernard False Cut
• In Praise of the Lift Shuffle
• To Shuffle a Specific Number of Cards above the Top Card
• To Maintain Cards at the Top and the Bottom
• As a Card Control
• As a Full-Deck False Shuffle
• Give Me A Break
• The Basics
• The Convincers
• Reestablishing a Diminishing Break
• Obtaining a Break from Other Starting Points
• The Verdnase Break
• The Heel Break
• The Heel Break Add-on
• The Heel Break Multiple Top Palm
• The Heel Break Palm Switch
• A Momentary Diversion – Card Control
• Using the Break to Prepare and Delay
• The End Tap Palm
• Flat Out Quick Change
• Student Exercises
• A Better Jacks or Better
• The Card Expert as a Dramatic Persona
• 1002nd Aces in Transit (Aka Decisions, Decisions)
• Brain Scam
• Interlocked Ambitious
• A Perfectly Ordinary Deck of Cards
• Final Display for Ultimate Three-Card Monte
• These Used to be the Droids You Were Looking For
• Not a Chance
• Base on Balls
• Grand Slam
• The Farmer Connection
• The Casino Inspector
• Svenvoodoo
• Monte Bones
• Two-rigami
• The Farzapu Shuffle
• The Topsy-turvy Automatic Gambler
• The End (of Part One)