Alex Elmsley – The Tahoe Sessions

Alex Elmsley is, quite simply, one of the all-time great close-up creators. And the Tahoe Sessions is, as you would expect, one of the great video collections ever recorded. We’re so happy that, in 1998, Louis Falanga captured Alex Elmsley on tape. Elmsley IS worthy of the hype, and then some. He is older here, yet the magic he performs looks FLAWLESS, and he exudes the energy and wisdom of the legend he clearly was. These four downloads are essential viewing for the close-up student, and anyone unfamiliar with the genius of Alex Elmsley stands to be fooled badly by his principles.

The sheer wealth of extraordinary card tricks on these four volumes makes it a great value. On all four volumes you will see tricks that were groundbreaking in their own time and continue to spawn variations today: “Between Your Palms,” “Diamond Cut Diamond,” “Dazzle,” and a dissertation on all the early Elmsley count material.

Does Elmsley still have chops? Yes! Just watch his insanely clean (and difficult) rear-palm card to wallet, or his fan steal. He was such a gifted technician and creator. And although he isn’t a strong force of personality, his charm and wit come through well.

Watch for his Cups and Balls. Whether or not you use his method, you’ll love the ingenuity that went into his bizarre final load, in which he pours TONS of loose salt from all the cups. Also watch for “Dazzle,” an early and perhaps BEST PACKET TRICK OF ALL TIME. And for the best two-deck effect ever invented, look no further than “The Red and the Blue.”

Volume One

Four Card Trick
New Four Card Trick
Interview – Early Days
Twisters Flush
One Poor Lion
Separating the Men from the Boys
Interview – The Professor
Power Poker
Spectator Aces
Economy Class Departure
Interview – Vernon and the Ghost Count
Dazzle

Volume Two

1002nd Aces
Repulsive Aces
The Elmsley Rising Card
Interview – The Faro Shuffle
Brainweave
Underworld
Interview – More on the Faro
Collinspell
The Floating Ladies
Cross-25

Volume Three

Fan Prediction
The Red and the Blue
Interview – Presentation
A Strange Story
Color Filter
Interview – Stage Manipulation
Multiplying Aces
En Voyage
Color-Changing Faro Shuffle
Interview – What is Good Magic?
Moveless Follow the Leader
Card to Wallet

Volume Four

Fate’s Datebook
Diamond Cut Diamond
Interview – Creativity
Pack of Lies
Half-Pack Vanish
Torn & Restored Newspaper
Between Your Palms
Multiple Mind Reading
The Four Blanks
Interview – An Encounter
The Cups & Balls

What is Hypnosis & NLP ?

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States, in the 1970s. NLP’s creators claim there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life. Bandler and Grinder also claim that NLP methodology can “model” the skills of exceptional people, allowing anyone to acquire those skills. They claim as well that, often in a single session, NLP can treat problems such as phobias, depression, tic disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, near-sightedness, allergy, the common cold, and learning disorders. NLP has been adopted by some hypnotherapists and also by companies that run seminars marketed as leadership training to businesses and government agencies.

There is no scientific evidence supporting the claims made by NLP advocates, and it has been discredited as a pseudoscience. Scientific reviews state that NLP is based on outdated metaphors of how the brain works that are inconsistent with current neurological theory and contain numerous factual errors. Reviews also found that all^{[dubious – discuss]} of the supportive research on NLP contained significant methodological flaws and that there were three times as many studies of a much higher quality that failed to reproduce the “extraordinary claims” made by Bandler, Grinder, and other NLP practitioners.

Alex Elmsley – The Tahoe Sessions

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