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Card
College 1 Roberto Giobbi’s
Finally,
a Definitive Course on Card Magic! Card College has
received the highest praise from amateur and professional magicians alike,
throughout Germany, France and Spain. Now it is available to readers in English!
Never before has a course in sleight-of-hand card magic been so thoroughly
illustrated for clarity and ease of learning. Clear engaging detailed writing
coupled with hundreds upon hundreds of professional drawings aid the reader in
attaining mastery over a deck in the shortest possible time. Card
College contains up-to-date developments in the craft, giving the reader the
best methods for creating amazement with an ordinary deck of playing cards,
ranging from classic sleights and ruses to sophisticated modern techniques.
Card College is the first course of its kind written by a
full-time professional magician, who offers his readers hard-won knowledge
obtainable only through long experience: the best sleights and tricks, along
with the psychology, misdirection and theoretical structures essential for
successful card magic. Card College is written as
both a course for the beginning student and a retraining course for the
experienced card magician who has likely picked up a few bad habits and inferior
techniques during previous study. Roberto Giobbi’s Card
College is a four-volume course.
Here are some of the topics covered in Volume 1 Overhand
Shuffle—False Cuts—Card Controls—The Glide—The Hindu Shuffle—The
Spread Cull—The Key Card—The Riffle Shuffle Transfer Cuts—Card Forces—The
Double Lift—Flourishes—The Top Change—Auxiliary Sleights Volume
1, with over 250 pages in quality hardcover, is now available.
Card
College 2 Roberto Giobbi’s
CARD COLLEGE, Volume 1 has
met with overwhelming success and is being hailed as The Definitive Course on
Sleight-of-hand Card Magic. We are pleased to announce that VOLUME 2 is now
ready. Never before has a course in sleight-of-hand
card magic been so thoroughly illustrated for clarity and ease of learning.
Clear, engaging, detailed writing coupled with hundreds upon hundreds of
professional drawings aid the reader in attaining mastery over a deck of cards
in the shortest possible time.
CARD COLLEGE, VOLUME 2 contains
up-to-date developments in the craft, giving the reader the best methods for
creating amazement with an ordinary deck of playing cards.
Here
are some of the topics covered in Volume 2 Palming—The
Pass—False Counts—Card Reverses—More False Cuts—More Flourishes—The
Glimpse—The Crimp—Routining—Psychology—Misdirection—Presentation—Advanced
Overhand—Shuffle & Double-Lift. ROBERTO GIOBBI’S
CARD COLLEGE, VOLUME 2 contains 250 pages in quality hard cover, matching
format to VOLUME 1.
Card
College 3 Roberto Giobbi’s
Eagerly
awaited, VOLUME 3 of Roberto Giobbi’s internationally acclaimed course on
sleight-of-hand card magic is now ready. This new volume is 50 pages larger
than the previous ones, and like them, contains only the best methods and
tricks, meticulously selected and taught by a full-time professional, drawing
from the world’s finest card magic.
In this third
volume, Roberto Giobbi includes sleights and ideas gathered from the
world’s masters, some never published elsewhere. In addition, this
English-language edition contains tricks, tips and information not included in
the German, French and Spanish editions. As in the preceding volumes, you will
learn not just the techniques, but the psychology behind their application,
along with professional caliber tricks and routines, drawn from Roberto
Giobbi’s own repertoire.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN VOLUME 3 BREAKS,
STEPS AND JOGS—CARD CONTROLS—ADVANCED DOUBLE LIFTS—MORE FALSE COUNTS—RIFFLE
SHUFFLE METHODS—THE K. M. MOVE— MULTIPLE SHIFTS—THE BIDDLE STEAL—MORE
PALMING TECHNIQUES —COLOR CHANGES—THE SIDE STEAL—THE FARO SHUFFLE—THE
DIAGONAL PALM SHIFT—AND MUCH MORE! ROBERTO GIOBBI’S
CARD COLLEGE, VOLUME 3 hundreds of illustrations,
300 pages in quality hardcover is now available.
CARD COLLEGE VOLUME 4
ROBERTO
GIOBBI’S
Get Ready To Graduate ! CARD
COLLEGE, Roberto Giobbi’s acclaimed course on
sleight-of-hand card magic, has received the highest praise from amateur and
professional magicians alike, throughout Germany, France and Spain. Now, with
its appearance in English, acclaim for CARD COLLEGE has grown even more
enthusiastic. The idea of producing a thorough course in card magic has seldom
been attempted, and those few rare efforts are dated and often difficult to
obtain. What Roberto Giobbi has done far surpasses his predecessors in a number
of ways
Never before has a course in card magic been
so thoroughly illustrated for clarity and ease of learning. Clear, engaging,
detailed writing is coupled with over twelve hundred professional drawings to
aid the student in attaining mastery over a deck in the shortest possible time. CARD COLLEGE contains up-to-date developments in the
craft, giving the reader the best methods for creating amazement with an
ordinary deck of playing cards, ranging from classic sleights and ruses to the
most sophisticated modern techniques.
CARD COLLEGE
is the first course of its kind written by a full-time professional magician,
consisting of material selected from his own repertoire. Giobbi offers his
readers hard-won knowledge obtained through experience, and teaches the best
sleights, methods and tricks, along with the psychology, misdirection and theory
essential for successful card magic. CARD COLLEGE is
written as both a course for the beginning student and a retraining course for
the experienced card magician who may have picked up some inferior techniques
during previous study. Giobbi has selected only the best
sleights and handlings from thousands of books on the subject, saving his
readers countless hours of research and wasted effort spent on inferior
approaches and ideas.
ROBERTO GIOBBI’S CARD COLLEGE
is a four-volume course, containing over 1000 pages of easily understood
instruction that starts with the fundamentals of card handling and progresses to
the craft’s most advanced and secret techniques and each step of the way the
reader is given astonishing card tricks, which provide practical applications
for the sleights and concepts taught.
CARD COLLEGE VOLUME 5 ROBERTO
GIOBBI’S
It's finally here! In the fifth volume of the acclaimed Card College series,
Roberto Giobbi has prepared a graduation party! In previous volumes the reader
has been given a remarkable collection of tools for creating astonishing card
magic. In the same vein, Volume 5 begins with a meaty chapter of new techniques
and strategies, which include methods for covertly arranging stacks during
performance, obtaining a duplicate of a spectator's signature with his
knowledge, and secretly conveying cards to and from the deck-powerful tools
indeed.
But then Volume 5 diverges from the established Card College
formula. Judging that the reader now has more than a sufficient number of tools
in his grasp, Mr. Giobbi provides eight chapters filled with tricks and routines
that illustrate how various techniques are applied to create world-class card
magic. These effects, however, are not mere constructions meant for teaching.
Most have been drawn from Roberto Giobbi's professional repertoire-and because
of this, even the classics of card magic are given a fresh gleam as Giobbi adds
refinements won from years of performing experience.
His choice of material is impeccable, featuring not only
original effects and handlings of his own, but tricks and routines by
world-masters as well. One finds such gems as Fred Kaps' presentation for The
Signed Card in Box, along with Giobbi's cunning treatment of this modern
classic, Henry Christ's fabulous Ace routine and a superb handling of a
forgotten masterpiece by Charlie Miller. And everything is taught with the
clarity and attention to detail for which the Card College series has become
known. Open this book and welcome to the party-prepare to graduate! Some of the
topics covered in Volume Five include:
Making Secret Setups
False Shuffles
Obtaining Duplicate Signatures
Quick Tricks
Openers and Routines with the Aces
Favorite Effects
Gambling Demonstrations
Mental Mysteries
All in all, Volume Five features 34 professional-caliber
routines that have astounded audiences the world over.
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Card
College Light
by Roberto Giobbi
This Is Not Your Father's "Self-Working" Card Book!
From the author of Card College, the world's most acclaimed course
on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto
Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card
tricks requiring no manipulative skill.
For whom is this book intended?
It is for beginners, of course—but by no means in total. This book
is intended for everyone who has always wanted to perform card
tricks, but who didn't have the time necessary to learn complex
routines, or the years necessary to master difficult techniques. So,
yes, this book is certainly meant for beginners.
However, it is also directed at those who are already proficient in
the craft. Card College Light is in a class apart from other books
that focus on sleightless card tricks. When it comes to artistic
considerations—interpretation, staging, communication and
psychology—other books seldom even recognize such concepts. Card
College Light strives to remain as simple as possible, yet to
identify concepts and to open doors that put sleightless tricks into
the context of artistic and utterly baffling card magic. Although
other books consider the same type of material, their approaches to
it are quite different from Giobbi's.
Most of the tricks taught are from Mr. Giobbi's active professional
repertoire, with which he baffles the public and magicians, too.
Every trick can be done with any deck of cards of average quality,
and many can be done under all performance conditions, with a
borrowed deck and no preparation. With these sleightless tricks, you
can easily acquire a reputation as a magician who can really make
magic.
When It Comes to Great Card Magic There Is More to the Secret Than
Just the Secret!
Countless books on card magic promise tricks that "require no skill"
and are "easy to do" or "self-working". They expose the method
behind the tricks, but they fail to explain how the tricks are made
genuinely amazing. Card tricks that allow the fingers to remain idle
require that their methods be cunningly protected through
presentation and psychology, which in turn amplify the feeling of
real magic. Without these things, all you are left with are mere
puzzles.
Giobbi brings his widely respected talents as both teacher and
full-time performer to bear on tricks he has selected from
time-tested classics and little-known modern miracles by world
masters, taught with a thoroughness that includes psychology,
presentations, scripts and invaluable performance tips.
21 Tricks - 7 full routines!
Giobbi has also organized these tricks into powerful routines, which
teach the reader how organization and combination can be used to
make good tricks even more inextricably baffling. These lessons
serve not only the beginner, but also the advanced card-magician who
wishes from time to time to include a trick wherein the audience can
stare relentlessly at the fingers without discovering a thing.
Pages 170 - Hardcover
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Card College
Lighter by Roberto Giobbi
Roberto Giobbi's newest survey
of sleightless card magic, CARD COLLEGE LIGHTER, gives the famous
Giobbi treatment to 21 baffling card tricks by some of the craft's
greatest masters, including Vernon, Annemann, Leech, Maven, Fulves,
Hummer, Vollmer and Krenzel. These tricks do not require sleights,
but they all show the cunning perspective of a professional
performer, guaranteeing astonishing and entertaining results.
Following in the footsteps of his Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi
teaches the secrets of professional-caliber card magic, providing
insights into the presentation, psychology and routining that make
these simple tricks into seeming miracles. He gives the reader all
the tools necessary for a professional-quality performance.
21 Tricks
175 pages in hardcover
Giobbi also explains how these tricks can be arranged into highly
effective and entertaining routines. The reader will learn the
secrets of expert organization and combination that make good tricks
even more baffling. These lessons serve both the beginner and the
advanced card-magician who wish to do magic that allows the audience
to stare relentlessly at the fingers without discovering a thing.
Pages 175 - Hardbound w/ Dust jacket
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Card
College Lightest by Roberto Giobbi
Lightest and Last!
Card College Lightest is the final volume of Roberto Giobbi's acclaimed 'Light'
trilogy. In it are taught 18 thoroughly astonishing tricks of professional
quality, complete with performing psychology, presentations, valuable tips and
insights, all of which contribute to making these sleightless effects into near
miracles.
The tricks Giobbi has selected this time range from time-tested classics to
little-known wonders by masters of the craft, including Larry Becker, Henry
Christ, Aldo Colombini, Paul Curry, Alex Elmsley, Karl Fulves, Martin Gardner,
Stewart James, Howard Adams, Richard Vollmer and more.
Also explained are simple methods for achieving false shuffles, deck switches
and other techniques usually attainable only by demanding sleight-of-hand.
Roberto Giobbi is acknowledged worldwide as the finest living teacher of card
magic. His Card College series is a best-seller in five languages, and Card
College Lightest is the newest example of why he and his works are held in such
high regard by magicians of all levels, from rank amateur to seasoned
professional. If you have read his books, you will need no urging to buy Card
College Lightest. If you have yet to encounter Roberto Giobbi, you will find
Card College Lightest a delightful introduction.
Pages: 152 - Hardcover
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