The Genii Forum

I want to highly recommend to those of you who read Genii the first in a new series of columns by Aaron Fisher.

"Tension, Focus and Design" is the column name, and "Shattered" the trick under consideration. It's a lot more than a trick -- in the column Aaron explains the Art Altman Double Undercut Bottom Palm, a beautiful move which was accessible to few cardmen since it appears in the hard-to-find Marlo's Magazine No.4. Also taught is Aaron's own Gravity Palm Replacement. These moves are carefully explained in 4 1/2 pages of text and 17 photo illustrations.

What Aaron has accomplished is to write a column that will be of interest to card enthusiasts of virtually all levels of expertise. This is a very difficult thing to do.

I can't congratulate Aaron (and Editor Kaufman)enough for having this tremendous resource in an already great magazine.

Matt Field

I second that Matt. I also welcome this column and look forward to studying Aaron's refined approach to card magic. I consider The Paper Engine nothing short of a masterpiece in card handling instruction. His Gavity Half Pass and refined handling of the Slip Force and Diminishing Lift Sequence are superb. I hope Aaron will share his handling of the Top Card Cover Pass in a future issue of "Tension, Focus, and Design."

Not to mention the fact that Aaron is one of the nicest guys in magic. Congrats on a great new column making the greatest magic magazine even better!!!

Glen

Hey Guys,

I would further like to add that the new issue features one of my actual favorite card tricks. Enjoy this one, because the few that actually run through it will have a MEAN piece of business to deal out!

A

I've really been enjoying your column so far. Great stuff!

Hi Aaron:

Bill Goodwin fooled the crap out of me when he showed me this a few years back when he was travelling with Lee Asher on Lee's lecture tour and they stopped at Midwest Magic. I bought a set of Bill's notes from him that day that included this trick. I played with it a bit but could never get it right. I really like your handling and am going to be working on it. Thanks for putting it out.

I look forward to your columns in the future.

Thanks again Aaron.- Tom

AaronFisher wrote:Hey Guys,

I would further like to add that the new issue features one of my actual favorite card tricks. Enjoy this one, because the few that actually run through it will have a MEAN piece of business to deal out!

A

Which issue is this? The Uri Geller (I don't see the trick/column in the TOC) or the following?

It's in the March issue with Geller on the cover: it was accidentally left out of the table of contents.

Leonard Hevia wrote:I second that Matt. I also welcome this column and look forward to studying Aaron's refined approach to card magic. I consider The Paper Engine nothing short of a masterpiece in card handling instruction. His Gavity Half Pass and refined handling of the Slip Force and Diminishing Lift Sequence are superb. I hope Aaron will share his handling of the Top Card Cover Pass in a future issue of "Tension, Focus, and Design."

I like the trick with seven half passes (to eliminate an add-on move). I can't remember its name, but I think it might have been called "The Trick with Seven Half-Passes".

There WERE a lot of half passes in that trick! I'd forgotten that one (I wrote the book about 11 years ago). THANKS!

Has it really been that long? It feels like just yesterday.