Joshua Jay Live Lecture 2

Scott

One of my favorite lectures. Very well presented and organized and almost everything I haven’t seen him lecture on or teach before. I own his other online lectures and a handful of his DVD’s and he’s just one of the best thinkers, performers and teachers.

Zachary

Peter

Short wall of text,

I like Joshua's personality, that's why he is my number one, and I wasn't disappointed by this lecture. These tricks are awesome, not a hard to do, and still awesome and this is what I like. Personality/show/comedy which you can pull is the key to success in magic, magic was always about "comedy" in my opinion if you can make people laugh you always win.
At the end these tricks are hell good, and simple.

Great lecture., Sorry for my english but I hope that you ubderstand.

Pranav Harish

Great lecture! The theme for the lecture was 'method which was great. Joshua teaches, probably the easiest but most powerful trick on here 'Out of Sight, the trick that he used to fool Penn & Teller. He also taught tricks using a memorized deck which was really good. Overall the tricks were really good, and I would highly recommend it!

Krist Anthony

Joshua Jay is an excellent lecturer. I have watched and studied a number of the At the Table Lectures and I can say that Josh is one of the most organized and most skilled in delivering. For one, he explains beforehand the objectives of his lecture, gives the audience a preview of things that we can expect from this lecture, and ends the lecture with something that will leave an impression on the audience. As a teacher and lecturer myself, this is a sign of great professionalism in any field. I also am impressed with the editing and the pacing of the video download wherein the viewers don't see Josh fumbling for props and stuff under the table in between discussions, which is a great timesaver. Cuts had been done to eliminate these time-consuming parts. His effects, methods, and explanations are all top notch as expected of the quality of magic Josh delivers. And I appreciate that the material he shares are a mix of what he had already put out, what he had been working on and what has not yet been shared.If you are serious about taking your magic to the next level, consider purchasing this lecture, it is well worth every penny.

Jeffrey

It was a pleasure watching such a professional discuss and explain some outstanding effects. He combines great technique with logical methods. He is one of the finest of his generation.

Dwain

Simply put, Joshua Jay’s latest (second) At the Table lecture was ‘out of sight’.

He shared one of his best kept secrets, and believe it or not, easiest trick to perform. It’s the trick that fooled Penn & Teller. To watch his trick, Out of Sight, is to witness something with a deck of cards that is so clean, so seemingly move-less, and so straight forward that it’s almost too good to be true.

Although it’s probably not the best effect for a strolling magic job, it plays perfect in every other setting. What’s also great about what Joshua did is, knowing that it’s an item that needs to be purchased to perform, he taught another method to nearly achieve the same brilliant outcome – and most magicians and hobbyist will already have the props on hand to perform it immediately.

The overall theme for this lecture was all about ‘method’, and there’s probably nobody today in the field of magic who better teaches or explains what it takes to pull off a perfect effect with a deck of cards, or a tooth brush for that matter... (you’ll have to watch the lecture to understand the dental reference).

I loved the first trick he performed called ‘Signs’ and tried to reverse engineer the method before he gave it away. I was totally fooled. Again, a relatively easy trick to perform but all the better if you take the time to rehearse the story that goes along with it, or make your own story up, to achieve a minor miracle.

Another nice touch this time around is Joshua taught a few tricks using a memorized deck. Funny enough, I’m trying to memorize a deck of cards, so for me, I loved it. I can see how for some it may have been ‘tricks’ to come back to, but he didn’t spend too much time on it and it certainly didn’t detract from the overall value of the lecture, even if you weren’t interested to learn that area of card magic.

Joshua likes to perform a smattering of marketed items in his lectures, and for me, that’s all the better, because they are seriously quality items that I would want to own anyway. What’s more the nuances he teaches surrounding them sometimes surpasses the original instructions that came with the effects and makes them all the easier to learn.

I highly recommend this lecture and coming on the heels of his friend and business partner, Andi Gladwin’s lecture a few weeks back, October turned out to be a great month to learn some new things. More importantly, the two of them went beyond teaching tricks and covered off on how to make money performing magic and what it takes to create innovative effects to fool you badly...

Dwain Schenck

David

Well im really glad I bought this lecture but the big problem is that there are only 2 impromptu effects 2 effects you have to buy: triad coins and out of sight and 3 effects that either need a setup you cannot do on the fly or a deck with special cards.
Even though there are a lot of cons i think its worth the money hes thinking is very interesting and hes methods are unusually unique so 4 out of 5 stars