Stretch Deck by Kyle Purnell Review.

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I love, love things that create that kind of cartoonish effect, it's punctuation, it's, sometimes it's an effect within itself but sometimes it's a moment it's, it's, Tobias Dostal's great at this as well, as is Paul Harris, you know, that moment of strange, that thing of, it's almost like it's sort of a, you know, that, not that, but I do that sometimes when I'm working, they just don't make people, it's just a funny thing. And I love those bits that you can, you know, that all that stuff, making the pen vanish and not, not mentioning it you know, all that and the bend, it's just, it's brilliant, and this is one of them to me, and that's not taking anything away from it, but it's not like a whole routine, it can be, but to me it's one of those things where you go whoop and stretch the deck of cards, and I delight in those things, so I'm biased with this, anything like that has got my vote, and Kyle again is brilliant, I haven't seen his masterclass yet, I'm really looking forward to watching it, I think he's so lovely, and he's so passionate about this kind of magic, so there's not loads to say about this, that's what it does, but what's really interesting with this is that when I got it, opened it up and played with it, I went I'm not going to get away with that, and then he says you're going to think you're not going to get away with that, and he explains why it works, which I love that, I love when people tell you why a trick works. Just as important as how the effect works, is why it works, so I want to take a few minutes to talk about two things. So speaking of Paul Harris, there is a kind of Paul Harris method within this, which is credited of course, but again it's one of those methods where you go really, and that's the kind of stuff I love. Now on camera and under scrutiny, I think you've got to be careful with this, I think it's one of those things that people might go I'm going to put a video of that, and you totally can, but because this is a kind of cartoony, potentially incidental, as in the routine, not in that it's an incidental thing, then you might think oh I could just bang a video up, I think it takes work, the move itself is pretty easy, but to do it in a convincing way that is relaxed and doesn't flash anything, or show you something where there should be something and there isn't, I think just takes rehearsal practice, but not much, it's just okay when I hold that, I've got to hold it this way, but I can't hold it another way, that's why I've got to hold it a different way, it's not going to work. So drilling that in, which some of us find quite boring, I do, and it comes quite quickly, is the work really, the move and the actual thing itself is pretty easy, but he says the hardest thing about this is trusting that it's going to work, and I really think that is, it uses an illusion that many of us know, but in a different context, and when you see it you do think yeah, it just looks really funny, it's just like that whoop and push it back, and it looks completely clean at the end, now there is a way of doing this when you do end completely clean, but that requires a little bit of slight of hand skill, not much, I think it's pretty easy, but it requires some boldness, if you do it the standard way, it's kind of, you've got to do something to clean up, and again, it could be the thing you finish with, or the reason I can do this is because we can't stretch, but then you put them away fine, but you don't end completely clean unless you start incorporating different things, but you do in the look of it, you know, you can kind of, after it looks completely clean, you're not kind of cagey with it, once you're done, you're done, but it's some practice to get there, so I think it's really lovely, again from Kyle, he's got a great thinker, I do see him as a kind of a modern day Paul Harris, in the way that he, he might not have written three books, but he has come up with, he's seeing magic in a different way, and you can use this with most decks of cards, you can even use it with a borrow deck, which I think is brilliant, which again, you might not think you can when you see it, but you can, watch the whole tutorial, I think it's, you know, Vanishing Ink are very good at not doing a seven hour one, but doing a tutorial that has everything you need in it, any questions, let me know, but there's Stretch Deck by Kyle Purnell and Vanishing Ink, and I think it's great fun, and Steve Faulkner.com forward slash newsletter, go there now please, I'd love you to do that, go there now and do that, comment below, that'd be lovely as well, and do all the other good stuff, and of course have a look at onlinemagic.co, which I'm incredibly proud of, take care, bye.