Paddle King by TCC Magic

Welcome to Real Magic Review, my name is Steve Faulkner and today I shall be reviewing, for your pleasure, Paddle King, nearly forgot at the end, by TCC Magic. That was a bit early wasn't it? I'm recalling this as live so I'm learning to press the buttons better, that's what I'm doing to do better. So before we do this can you please like and subscribe if you like it and you want to subscribe to it and check out onlinemagic.co that's my online magic resource program, over 800 videos now, over 100 something, 20 I can't remember now, 115 or something live sessions uploaded already, we do them every single week, well except the odd one when I'm somewhere else, and we have live guest entertainers, blimey I'm all over the place, I'm going to realise my face is not in the right place there as well. So have a look at that anyway, it's brilliant, loads of people love it, have a look at Trust Pilot Reviews and don't take my word for it, onlinemagic.co. Okay, this is a classic of magic, I'm, well I'm a sucker for a lot of things, but one of them are classic magic tricks, is classic magic tricks, and paddle move stuff, I think the paddle move is, paddle tricks are brilliant and people think everybody knows about it. I'll tell you what, I did a workshop a few years ago with the little paddle tricks you get with jumping dots, and it looks so good, it just really does look good, and I taught an impromptu version, the impromptu version really, knife and paper, straight from Tarbell on the course the other day, and it's just, it's beautiful, there's so much you can do with it, Richard Sanders of course, doing turbo stick, goes on forever, so this is nothing new, and that's the point of it really, this is a classic of magic, and this is going back to, you know, I remember seeing the note and the paper and the, with the big wooden paddles, and thinking that looks a bit odd, and what I like about TCC is that they embrace the kind of classic design of this, and it is, you know, this is something that is clearly a magic trick, it doesn't look like anything else, but I don't think that matters, I've really changed my tune on this, I think these kind of things, if you really just go for it and embrace the fact that you're doing a magic trick with an odd kind of prop, and rely on the strength of the magic, then for me that's good enough, and you know, I'm, you know, I love all the kind of ball and cone and all that kind of stuff, so you know, not for everybody, but, so we'll, well I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll stick the trailer on, and then we'll talk about it, I'll talk over the trailer, but I won't talk loads, because it says quite a lot, and if you want to see it without me talking, just watch it separately, so this is the trailer for Paddle King. How to combine industrial design and magic products. I'm going to skip that bit, because it talks about how to combine design and all that, yeah it's good, I mean basically it's been designed really nicely, get a little thing of it, that's good, isn't it? Lovely little carry case, which I do like actually for this sort of thing, because it's a classy looking thing, you know, if you get that out, it just, I'm not saying you should get the case out, but I think it's nice. Right, let's have a look at the trick. Right, here we go. Magic and products. This is made from black walnut wood, so it's not looking like wood, it is actually wood, but when we, before we, I just want you to look at, forget about the fact that it's a weird prop, and it's all that stuff, just look at how magical this looks, you know, I think, you know, pretend you're a leader, anything about magic, nothing at all, and you're just seeing this for the first time. Yeah, and this is the classic, you know, mark a dot on one side and a dot appears on the other side, you know, but you're doing a physical object, sticking a coin on there, the coin appears on the other side, and there's something nice about that physicality of that, isn't there, that you're making an appearance of another, I think it's great, you know, I think that's, so this is the main routine, it's not the routine I put on, I put a thing on social media last night, which I'll talk to you about in a minute, but I think that's, I think that's a lovely routine, you do have to provide your own coins, you do have to provide your own banknotes, you need two duplicate banknotes, duplicate set of coins, and you can do the same with a duplicate ring as well. So that routine you get with it, you can do all of that, the other you've got, you know, provide your banknotes and stuff, you can do this straight away, I think that kick is lovely, by the way, people, you can really take people down a path that know the trick, and then in the end you just, you've got that, and you can hand that out for examination, if you want, I probably as they are there, and then this is the classic, you know, the same trick that, which is a bit similar that Richard Saunders taught on turbo stick, which is just great, look at how good it looks, and you pop it back in your little case and everything's all good. So I think that looks brilliant, now that is done very, very well, I put, did a little experiment, what I do, when I post these things, I try not to, I say I try not to make them perfect, I have a choice, I can post something and see a little flaw in it, and think right, if people are going to pick up on that, they're going to pick up on it online, so if I post this, and I'm not happy with that, I'm not happy with that, if nobody mentions it, a non-magician, because when you put stuff online and non-magicians see it, they want to catch you out, I'm not saying they're going to watch it again and again and again, but if they see something obvious, they see something that gives it away, they usually will say, oh, I saw the thing. So I did this quite badly, I recorded it last night, I went home and I thought, no, I'm going to do it again tomorrow, I said no, stick it out and just get the feel of it, and see if it gets any negative comments. So this is my version, it's nothing like what they're doing, this is after me playing it, playing with it for like 20 minutes really. I hope you see the irony in the music. Right, so that, you know, I was just playing around with the idea of kind of justifying showing it back and front by cleaning it and all that, and you know, that wasn't sitting there spending hours on it, there's a little silent script there, I'm trying to clean the thing and then that's fallen off, where's the other one, all that. So the point was that you don't have to just go look, that you can find meaning within this, even though it seems like an unusual object. I also thought as well that, you know, this paddle with a mirror on it, you know, if you really want, I mean, I think you could just do it, say this is a great magic tree, we use the mirror, you know, but you can, all the lines, you can do them done with mirrors and all that kind of stuff, which is great, but I quite like the idea of this, I came up with this idea, I'm not saying it's a great idea by the way, just totally not, but I say this is one of those vanity mirrors, what do you mean, for people who don't want to be as vain, right, so you know, if you want to look at it, you can only look at the, you can only look at little bits of your face, the bits you need to sort of do, rather than, you know, getting caught up in how you look and all that and I just thought, you know, it only shows you a tiny bit of your face, for people like me that have real problems with vanity, I don't know, nonsense, but, you know, it gives you something and I think that's, you know, with no thought at all, so for those people who say, look, you can find meaning, you get an object like that, you can pretend it's a certain thing from the past and, you know, I talked about Derren Brown doing a piece in his show, where he had this board with holes in it and, you know, everybody bought it, nobody questioned it, so I really like it, obviously, it's a beautifully made product, I think it looks great, I think it's a very strong magic trick, am I going to go and do it at every corporate gig? No, because the style of it doesn't suit me when I'm performing that kind of thing, but it is something I'll have on me and it was something I would arguably do if it fitted into a certain show and I had a story around it, not a show on stage, but a little parlour show, I think it's really strong and I think that the appearance of the bells and the coin, I think that's strong magic, I really, really do and the idea that you can sort of hand it out afterwards, I think, is also a very strong thing. I'm really glad they're making this stuff, I'm really glad that they're bringing our attention to it, which is why I really wanted to review it. Now I'm doing that, you know, doing that quite badly, there are moments in it where you can see that I'm kind of getting ready for something and actually the only person that commented on it, I'm not saying there won't be more, that oh, you know, you're kind of re-gripping it there or something like that and you're giving it all away, was a magician and it highlights that as magicians we see someone re-gripping something as getting ready for a move, which isn't ideal, you don't really want to do that, but actually you might re-grip it anyway to show it, so the fact that no lay people and a lot saw it and actually gave it to about two or three and said can you watch this like five times and see if you can really, you know, a couple of people that knew the move said I think you're doing that thing, but what was the ending, so you've got that kicker ending, so I think the fact that I did it quite badly and still got away with it, I think shows that it's strong magic and the comments, you know, of people that went oh that's great, you know, not saying that likes mean anything, but you know, I mean I wasn't pulled up and if people are going to pull you up on something they are going to, you know, I don't get loads of views, but even with a thousand plus views there's going to be someone if they see something obvious that's going to say oh, and nobody did and I think that for me confirms that this, you haven't got to get this perfect for it to be quite strong, but of course you want to. I think Paddle King's great, I'm going to do a few more of the classics from TCC, it's not going to suit everybody, it's an honest trick, if you like the look of that trick and you think it suits you and you want to play with it, you want a really nice presented bit of kit, then you're going to love it, you're not going to be disappointed when you get it. Now there are a couple of sales on at the moment at time of, depending when you watch this, but they have a Black Friday sale on for ages and I have a, if you look below, there will be a code where you can get 20% off. Okay, so it's something like Steve20, but I'm going to make sure you look at it, so use all the links below and the code and you'll get 20% off. That isn't an affiliate link, I'm not affiliated, I don't get anything for this, they just kindly said look, you know, here's a code for you and that's I think valid for something like four months from the time of recording or maybe five months or maybe even six. 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