Enigma by Christian Grace Review

hi my name is Steve fer I'd like to welcome you to real magic review and today I'd like to talk to you about Enigma by Christian [Music] grace before we do this importantly like And subscribe if you like it and you want to subscribe to it uh have a look at card no not card magic course it hasn't been called that for two years has it Steve at least online magic.com online magic.co uh previously known formerly known as CB magic course is now way more than CB magic sponge balls ropes mentalism special guests live sessions every week then uploaded uh a whole course on the Royal world to card magic currently up to page 200 every single thing in that book so it's a perfect blueprint if you're someone that wants to go back and kind of refresh your skills loads of Tricks loads of moves and of course loads of other courses on there uh including one on how to practice so have a look at that online magic.co ridiculous for $9.99 I will be lecturing we're talking about Blackpool so I'll get this one in couple of things about Blackpool I'll be lecturing at 4:00 on Saturday on the biggest myths in Magic those things that we're told that we shouldn't do or should do or if we do this and that and just kind of having a look at them and discussing them uh I have also finally put out another podcast you might be watching this way in the future so sorry if this is completely um uh not time friendly that's wrong but there you go uh it's with n qualter talking about it was recorded just after the session and talking about Blackpool and how to kind of navigate uh Magic conventions and importantly dealers you know we not sort dealers uh Magic dealers say is Blackpool magic dealers which is a lovely place um sorry that could have gone on for a very long time the the yeah how do you make a informed decision about what to buy I'll get there in the end It Go everybody lost everybody lost uh interest then didn't they but let's regain it now because I'm going to talk about Enigma oh yeah the podcast defa's magic show that was your point of that have a look at it wherever you get your podcast so quite controversial some of the views may be I am going to talk about Enigma and I am very much late to the party with this I'm not because I've had it and been geeking out with it but the I think my journey with it is maybe quite important and some of you may be able to empathize with it so I will share that and I'm not going to go into every single thing it does and how it does it because that is not my place to do so I think with things like this as with all apps I'm a little bit more careful so I may sort of talk around it but at the beginning when it came out I was like you know it's a bit this it's a bit that it's not really my kind of thing I think that was me kind of kicking back from the the hype about it then I saw Christian do it and went hang on a minute no idea then I was had an idea of what what it would be and then said there's no way I could do that anyway my brain doesn't deal with that and then I said I couldn't resist I said Chris I've got to have a look at this then I got into it and then went actually no this is not what I thought it was and then the more I got into it the more I couldn't stop thinking about it and kept learning it and kept doing it and haven't performed it in public yet but have showed a few people with varying results those results are now way better and now I think it's something that really really does need to be talking about after the hypers D down after it is I'm seeing it for what it is without getting caught up in that fomo and all that kind of thing these are my thoughts first of all it's not what a lot of people think people think you have to have a certain mindset to do this S I thought it was all Progressive anagrams and things like this and I had to think around that now if you look at the gimmick lless free or the tech free version of this kind of thing um is it Proteus oh I'm not going to I'm not going to quote cuz I'll get it wrong but but anyway there are ways of doing things like this that do require just a a process mentally now I'm not saying I can do that but that for me is going to be incredibly difficult and I am someone that can pretty much get his head around most things not because I'm talented in any way just because I've got ADHD and I hyperfocus and I will sit there for weeks months sometimes years not letting it go but for me it isn't isn't something I'm going to find easy at any point down the road I think this changes all that and gives me a similar thing and that thing is someone thinks of pretty much anything depending on where you want to go with presentation on this and depending on how far you are down the line of Performing this but let's say it's a man-made object and it's very easy to get to that point depending on what presentation you do you say I want you to imagine you're bringing it to me from anywhere and we're going to do some mind reading or whatever you want to say around words and around letters and I'm going to see if I can I can get to where you are you know in your head just with talking about the letters Etc then you go through a process and if you want to do this one you get your phone out and you say right I've got something here I've committed to this now you haven't said this word or this object or what this object is that you've bought to me at any time you can even hand the phone to them they say for the first time what it is you turn it around and they're looking at a picture of it right now you don't have to do it that way you can do it without the phone depending on what your situation is the F the more practice you've done with this you're not going to have to rely on the phone as much so when I say without the phone I mean it doesn't become part of it you can do it remotely there's a method that's totally different with this completely remoteless when the the phone doesn't have to come into play there are ways to use the phone what on the table when you're not getting it out that's why what I mean it's absolutely miraculous it's brilliant but is it practical and is it foolproof now I'm having a big problem with a lot of apps at the moment where I'm not going to do anything on stage if I read in the Facebook groups oh it went down again yeah sorry it's going to be sorted in a minute I can't do that this doesn't require again depending on what way you do any of that stuff that can go down there's no connections or anything like that this is so in that way it's completely reliable it's self-contained and that's got that's got you covered this whole idea about getting the phone out we do really have to stop saying when you get the phone out to write something or show somebody something people are going to think it's an app getting your phone out is now way more natural than pretty much anything on the planet you can do there isn't a person person on the planet that you will see in your everyday life depending on your situation I know but let's say 98% of the time you're going to see people constantly getting their phones out it's more common than anything it is be has become a natural gesture so when you do it people don't go oh here we go in the real world you go WR I'm just going to Google something you couldn't it couldn't be more natural getting a pan of paper out and doing that is going to be some people what you got that for I haven't seen Haven seen one of them in a while you know what I mean and not I do loads of stuff with Bits of Paper so I'm not belittling that but this idea of a phone be we're we're done right we're over that now get your phone out to write something people write songs on it people write plays on it movies that's where people do their writing a lot of the time so we're fine the phone thing is fine the fact that all your presentation completely gets rid of that it's 98% of it is off the phone anyway it's all done and then you get your phone out so that's sorted the Revel is brilliant it can play Big depending on how you perform it you can use loads of different ways of performing it as I've said and I don't repeat myself again I do apologize and this idea of how good you have to be at this kind of thing well that's the point of this this does all the heavy lifting for you is there a learning process absolutely you are not going to pick this up and do it straight away this is a skill to be learned this is a routine to be learned a skill to be learned I talked about fourth-dimensional telepathy the idea of it you know luch just bought his propop for it I've done it many many times the idea of it is quite simple but the the learning of it and the understanding of it and why does this work is part of it for me that is the joy of this this isn't a magic trick and I know it sounds like hyperbole I'm not affiliated it's not like Christian is my best mate we've had a couple of nice chats and it's been really great but we're not like hanging out every night I've met him actually in person like twice or three times properly so this isn't any of that this is genuinely this is something that I think has so much potential and is something that you could spend months and potentially years honing getting better at learning and mastering it is a concept it is a a routine and an idea that can go in so many different ways and once you get your teeth around it which I have done it becomes even more enjoyable I'm just not tiring of this I left it for a bit and then I was worried I'd forgotten it all and got back to it spent a couple of hours with it and it was great the instructions are brilliant he goes through so many different things with you the Facebook group's amazing you can tell the fa you know we're a few months down the line now and the Facebook group well more than that is still loving it and going this is just incredible has there been any little glitches yes not technically but in people's performances you know certain words that don't come out of this database that's being added to so at launch of course it's not Perfection as is nothing this is something I feel is going to be taken and it and Christian says it's he's got loads of ideas he's adding different ideas um he's got Shamir working on it uh a great app developer with him he's got a great team working with him you know team of friends really making this as good as it can be and that's um I'm having a mental block of shamir's QR Genie and the big one with Instagram sorry anyway that's irrelevant the point of all this and the reason I'm telling this is I got it I thought this is quite hard then it became easy then I forgot it for a bit and then I had to go and relearn it like any trick it's like a slight of hand triat you get kind of rusty you go back to it but it has legs and I cannot stop going back to it this is something that I will be amazed if anybody gets this digs into it and goes oh it's not practical it's not for me the people who have said such things have not done that I truly believe that anybody's you this isn't for everybody you know it's not necessarily something I do out there at a gig but in those moments when I'm with someone I think all this stuff about oh it's weird touching hands no it's not in certain situations it's really it's great you know watch Joshua day J do some of his performances where it's kind of you know it's intimate yes that intimacy isn't right in some situations but with the right people it's great and you don't have to do the hand touching thing the jewel reality is clever the learning that you'll get of just general mentalism dual reality performances verbal cues all of these kind of things you'll get just out of the teaching I think makes this something incredibly special yes it's kind of a couple of hundred bucks at the moment I think but that to me reflects not the thing of I'm going to charge loads for it and make loads of money it's the thing of I'm spending every minute of my life on this to create something special and it is something really really special this is Waffle I've been waiting months to do this I wanted to wait until I could perform it really smoothly and do it I can't yet because it's again I've been away from it but just know these things I'll be amazed if you don't think it's brilliant if you get it I'll be amazed if you don't keep going back to it and if you don't it may be the same reason as me that you get barried and think oh I've forgotten it and it's all psychological but do go back to it and I'll be amazed if you don't see the potential in this if you get it it is not for everybody of course there are couple of things that needed to be ired out that are now getting ired out the stuff coming up is very exciting it's all going to be kind of usable and I think this is something you're in for the long term and the fact you've got to you know at the moment get pay one price for this is is a great thing no doubt they'll be Pro Tools and things like that but you know I don't know that so that's Enigma any questions you've got there will be loads put them below um Christian will be at Blackpool still this is his baby this is every convention it's all about Enigma for him I know he's got some other great stuff but again for him it's not going away however and that should tell you something okay that's enough of my wafflin have a good one go up online magic.co as well that's my baby have a look at that and uh like And subscribe if you like it take care see you at Blackpool hopefully 4:00 Saturday afternoon cheers Steve F is online Steve FR magic show oh shut up [Music] Steve