WZRD by Noel Qualter Review

Hi my name is Steve Faulkner and today I will be reviewing Wizard by Noel Qualter. Before we do this please like, please subscribe, share it if you like, just tell people about it, talk about it on the forums that'll be lovely because I have not enough time to do any proper marketing because uh yeah not very good at that so if you could do it for me that'd be great and actually I've got some work that needs doing around there if you can pop in and do that as well that'd be awesome and if you could pick the kids up uh later on that'd be great as well because uh so if you could help me out and do all that kind of work for me rather than uh rather than me doing it that'd be fine and then after this go and see onlinemagic.co that is my spectacularly impressive online magic resource with 600 700 um tutorial videos live sessions everything with live guests loads of stuff on there and people love it have a look at the reviews. I've been working on a groundbreaking app that will stun the scientific community and I want to share with you guys right now the most uh sciencey way possible as the vehicle for a card trick. I'm gonna put the card face down when you're ready all good okay ready yeah give me a really good shuffle I'm gonna slight of hand proof the cards so even if I want to I can't do anything sneaky at all now I sense some doubt in the room as to the validity of my app but I've got a way to prove it to you guys I'm going to ring a couple of showbiz icons that we all know but I'll ring them from a very long time ago sorry guys don't want to scare you my name's noel I'm calling from the future can you introduce yourselves hi my name is pen and this is my friend teller no I don't have any idea where the card is I've got a plan though I am going to ring a close personal showbiz friend of mine but a few months from now he will have seen this episode of fool us he'll know what the card is and where it is in the deck he's always super helpful I'll give him a call give me my boy I thought I told you to never call me no yeah don't be like that you know I've got a better idea I'm here today on fool us so if I ring myself in the future then future me will know what the playing card is and I can ask him what position it was in the deck makes perfect sense I'll ring myself in the future what is it now what was the card the card yes four of hearts right and what's the position six in the deck six Matt did you by any chance pick the four of hearts yes future me future me got that right and he said it was at position six now you shuffled the cards you put them into the box I haven't touched them one two three four stop okay so when we deal the next card that'll be the fifth card and the sixth card we're going to see whether it's right or not can I get you to carry on same pile yeah same pile yeah oh my god you've got to be joking me future me you is the four of hearts in the sixth position I'm going to go before my actions end up deleting Penn & Teller from history I'm out of time good night this is Noel Coulter's method for his performance on Penn & Teller I'm not going to put all that on here but do go and watch it just google or you know YouTube search Noel Coulter Penn & Teller and it's great and on the Sunday service Penn said which is Penn Jillette's podcast I can't remember what it's called doesn't it Penn Jillette's podcast they talked about it the next day and it said one of the next show after the gig uh one of the greatest methods I've ever seen and he did talk about that and it's it's great and it is a brilliant method but does a good method make it a trick well not always but you know I've talked about how when we love our methods and we and we sort of trans communicate that it's it's kind of people can feel it you know so I think that liking our methods is very important if we enjoy doing them because of how they're done we can telegraph that and Noel Coulter is a very creative person and I've been a big fan for a long time and he's a friend okay so you know transparency he's a mate might have gotten really well um which is kind of why I wanted to do this not just because he's a mate because I would not ever review something from a friend that I didn't really think was great but there is a couple of little caveats in that this isn't something that's going to be mass produced it's not something that everybody's going to want it's not something that fulfills all those criteria the tricks you know easy yes it is easy uh self-work in no angles all those things it's a different kind of thing you're not really buying that what you're buying is the creativity the inspiration and the method because it is a usable method that is different from most things you've probably seen now if you watch that performance I was there I had an idea but I was very wrong about how this was done completely wrong so it's really really clever it's a kind of I'm not going to go into it but kind of any colour any number but with all this lovely stuff built in but it's all there for a reason not just for comedy value so this is a kind of exercise in creativity when I said it's not for everybody this is a high-priced product okay for 100 quid he doesn't want hundreds of people out there doing this so you know there's not even a website for it you get this by emailing him there might be at some point or buying it off from his lectures um and he's no not interested in kind of getting people to spend the money and for them to take it home and be like oh um so he's you know he wants to be honest about what it is so I've just read out the uh the first bit thanks very much for purchasing this booklet and you're interested in learning more about wizard a trick I have spent nearly a decade perfecting which for pen and teller I'm incredibly proud of this routine and my performance on fallers and I'm excited to finally be able to share my thoughts on performing it as well as some other approaches that I've never shared with anybody and that is true he also says in one part of the book you'll never perform my full of routine in exactly the same way as I did I wouldn't want you to and it's far better to find your own voice but I think there are important lessons to be learned in construction from it and there really is what no is very good at is taking sort of simple ideas and when you read this you go it's just great there's kind of this delayed thing in it which you just think it's it's really clever and making sure that he can perform them under pressure now so this is a slight of hand free routine there's no slight of hand in this there's some arts and craft which is about three minutes and there's just a really really clever method and he goes into detail about everything so at one point he puts the glass over the box um over the box of card box cards deck of cards and uh and he says what the best glass is to use you know the idea of putting elastic bands why you would do that so there's always a why why why why why you got all that and I think if you study this book not just flick through it there will be versions of this that you will go I could do that there's an impromptu version which I think is actually really good that you can do with a borrowed deck when you know what card the number is at and it's um I when I read it I was kind of delighted reading it but I did think and this is the caveat I thought this isn't going to be for everybody and that's kind of why I've made this review really so if you're interested in this stuff if you're interested in something that isn't going to be available everywhere you know he even says um all rights reserved etc all copies of this manuscript are individually marked with open and hidden markings should have any particular copy of wizard or any of the contents arrive so have a look at the the um the pen and teller performance if you want to delve deep in as pendulat says one of the greatest methods he's ever seen then this is the only way you're going to get it and if you do get it you know I don't usually say this sort of stuff but kind of keep it to yourself don't share it with everybody because I think it's it's lovely that we still keep this kind of this old school kind of stuff going on and I know you know I don't get really offended at some exposure on youtube that people do it's just the way it is now but with things like this but no less sort of it's kind of his baby he's worked on it and he's done it and he's as he said he it's he's kind of he don't want it all out there I think we should respect that so some of you can look and go 100 quid for that for a book and you go fine don't buy it but for those of you who just want that thing um and you want to get inspired by it which I have been and I've looked at this you know how can I use that same method in other ways I think it'll be it'll be a good investment uh so that's uh Wizard WZRD by Noel Coulter thank you very much it is just available by emailing him and that'll be what's just noel.noelcoulter.com I think but I'll also put that below please like and subscribe uh 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