Bammo Backtrack Jack
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Bammo Backtrack Jack
Murphy’s Magic is distributing my new effect, Bammo Backtrack Jack, so it should be at your local dealer by the time you read this. It retails for $10, about one-tenth as much as it’s really worth, if it was really worth ten times more, which it just might be.
George Carlin once said that “Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”
The magician says, “I have here three cards, three Jacks of Hearts. Historically, among the court cards, the Jacks represented the trickster, the jester, someone who was completely dishonest.
“So I’d like to demonstrate why honesty really is not the best policy when cards are involved.”
Then follows a completely in-the-hands series of stunning visual effects.
A card magically jumps from the middle of the packet to the bottom. Twice.
It turns face up. Twice.
All the faces vanish—then the faces return.
Then—amazingly—the cards are handed out one by one for examination.
This is perfect for walkaround and every day carry.
No angles. Just three cards. No rough and smooth. Instantly Resets.
Nothing else like it on the market.
High quality cards and gaff made by Carta Mundi.
Detailed freeze frame instructions make learning the routine easy.
Sure, you’ve bought stuff for other people, but now it’s time to buy something for yourself before they sell out.
George Carlin once said that “Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”
The magician says, “I have here three cards, three Jacks of Hearts. Historically, among the court cards, the Jacks represented the trickster, the jester, someone who was completely dishonest.
“So I’d like to demonstrate why honesty really is not the best policy when cards are involved.”
Then follows a completely in-the-hands series of stunning visual effects.
A card magically jumps from the middle of the packet to the bottom. Twice.
It turns face up. Twice.
All the faces vanish—then the faces return.
Then—amazingly—the cards are handed out one by one for examination.
This is perfect for walkaround and every day carry.
No angles. Just three cards. No rough and smooth. Instantly Resets.
Nothing else like it on the market.
High quality cards and gaff made by Carta Mundi.
Detailed freeze frame instructions make learning the routine easy.
Sure, you’ve bought stuff for other people, but now it’s time to buy something for yourself before they sell out.
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Re: Bammo Backtrack Jack
What, no fancy trailer shot in a hip dive bar with young, heavily tattooed zoomers all agog over the effect?! Kidding. I trust Bob. Order placed.
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Re: Bammo Backtrack Jack
To be frank, I hate videos. Performance videos seem stilted and faked, so they have no effect. Explanation videos are tedious to watch as the explainer slowly plods through the explanation. Written instructions with lots of photos are a million times better because you can work back and forth without fumbling with a remote control or a keyboard. Videos are good for a single sleight because you can see the timing and moves but for a routine, they are torture. They are good for watching great performers but otherwise it seems to me that a lot of these videos come into existence because they are quick and easy not because they are a good method for learning something.
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This fine trick will be reviewed in the March issue of Genii. But why wait?
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purchased
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Videos are good for learning timing, misdirection, and presentation.
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Agreed.
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And there's another advantage.Richard Kaufman wrote:Videos are good for learning timing, misdirection, and presentation.
I learned an effect from a book, and reading the instructions I thought that the method is really rather obvious to any spectator. Yet it isn't.
Each and every time that I perform it, I wish that I'd been able to watch a video of it before I'd first learned it, so that I could know how good it looks before one knows the method. It gets a good reaction. But learning it from a book means that I've been deprived of experiencing that reaction personally.
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Re: Bammo Backtrack Jack
At the rate this trick is selling, it could be the next Color Monte (though it's not a monte).
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Anthony Vinson wrote:What, no fancy trailer shot in a hip dive bar with young, heavily tattooed zoomers all agog over the effect?! Kidding. I trust Bob. Order placed.
You sir are my hero
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For those of you who work in strolling environments, having a routine you can perform without a table and that (apparently) allows all the cards to be examined at the end are strong selling points. Considering the cost of magic tricks these days, the ten-dollar price tag is a steal. If the effects appeal, Backtrack Jack is well worth checking out.
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Re: Bammo Backtrack Jack
My set arrived yesterday, and while I have not yet had sufficient time to practice, the trick is good. Really good. It's a fun series of magical sequences using accessible moves, and Bob has structured the routine beautifully. It flows. I look forward to rehearsing and adding the cards to my packet trick wallet soon.
Good stuff!
Good stuff!
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Thank you, Anthony. I have to admit that the trick invented itself. It seemed to come out of nowhere as I held the cards. It did take a few days to come up with the ending where you hand the cards out one by one and that's the part I love to do the most because it is so sneaky.
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For those who wanted a video, Pete McCabe has unearthed (no relation):
https://sonichits.com/video/Wild_Whens/ ... ck?track=1
https://sonichits.com/video/Wild_Whens/ ... ck?track=1
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Re: Bammo Backtrack Jack
The trick is selling out everywhere but have no fear more supplies are on the way.
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