The Paradigm Shift Volume One

This volume presents innovative essays that will transform your approach to magic, featuring stunning sleights designed to fool both audiences and fellow magicians. You’ll discover engaging routines from renowned creators like Ariel Frailich, John Carney, Simon Aronson, Bob Farmer, and Michael Weber. Our ebooks utilize text, images, and videos to enhance your learning experience.

After a decade of anticipation, Michael Close has unveiled his highly awaited ebooks, The Paradigm Shift Volumes One and Two. Take advantage of the introductory pricing, and enjoy even greater savings when you purchase both volumes!

Here’s what you can expect in the table of contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Our Story So Far
• About this Ebook
• About the Material
• A Tale of Two Systems
• System 2 and Conviction
• A (Mostly) Simple Start
• Repose, Chaos, and Action
• The Chaotic Cross-cut Force
• A Simple Effect
• A Running Cut Combination
• As an In-the-hands False Cut
• A Useful Bit of Information that Doesn’t Fit Anywhere Else
• The Slip-shoddier Shuffle
• But Here’s the Problem
• Finally, the Work
• Getting into the Zarrow Shuffle
• Final Thoughts
• The Shoddy Rosetta Shuffle
• A Touch on the Bobby Bernard False Cut
• In Praise of the Lift Shuffle
• To Shuffle a Specific Number of Cards above the Top Card
• To Maintain Cards at the Top and the Bottom
• As a Card Control
• As a Full-Deck False Shuffle
• Give Me A Break
• The Basics
• The Convincers
• Reestablishing a Diminishing Break
• Obtaining a Break from Other Starting Points
• The Verdnase Break
• The Heel Break
• The Heel Break Add-on
• The Heel Break Multiple Top Palm
• The Heel Break Palm Switch
• A Momentary Diversion – Card Control
• Using the Break to Prepare and Delay
• The End Tap Palm
• Flat Out Quick Change
• Student Exercises
• A Better Jacks or Better
• The Card Expert as a Dramatic Persona
• 1002nd Aces in Transit (Aka Decisions, Decisions)
• Brain Scam
• Interlocked Ambitious
• A Perfectly Ordinary Deck of Cards
• Final Display for Ultimate Three-Card Monte
• These Used to be the Droids You Were Looking For
• Not a Chance
• Base on Balls
• Grand Slam
• The Farmer Connection
• The Casino Inspector
• Svenvoodoo
• Monte Bones
• Two-rigami
• The Farzapu Shuffle
• The Topsy-turvy Automatic Gambler
• The End (of Part One)

When you acquire The Paradigm Shift Volume One, you will receive:

– A PDF file (ideal for printing and reading on your desktop or laptop)