Product Details

• Actors: Michael Ammar
• Directors: Louis Falanga
• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: April 21, 2000
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0970297513
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,755 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn from the BEST!, January 1, 2001

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"quackmagicphil" (Parsippany, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Introduction to Coin Magic [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've been involved in magic for over 40 years. Michael Ammar is known in the magic community as one of, if not the best teacher in magic. This video is all you need to get started doing coin magic. Even being familiar with all the sleights, this video will teach you the right way to execute them as well as showing you tricks utilizing them. I can't recommend this video enough. You will not be disappointed whether you are starting out in magic, or you just want to improve, or learn the proper way to do coin magic! This is probably the best beginner video I've seen.

5.0 out of 5 stars The classic coin-magic tutorial - all you will need, September 16, 2007

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J. Schmidt (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Introduction to Coin Magic [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Lately, a lot of magicians have been picking up some extra cash by selling out their secrets to whomever wants to pay for them. Most of these newer videos that teach magic tricks are lacking in some way.

However, Mr. Ammar's video is still the gold standard.

He is a patient, thoughtful teacher with an impeccable presentation style. He teaches magic for magicians -- not to show off.

In this video, he first presents a set of related basic techniques, then follows them with a "live" demonstration in which he does some routines for a small group of people, then finished up by explaining how the basic techniques are used to build the routine. Each set of basic techniques receives this same treatment: palms, vanishes, false transfers, etc.

If you want to learn coin magic from a video, this is the best video for you. Everything about Mr. Ammar's presentation -- from his easy-to-follow teaching style to the placement of the (multiple) cameras -- makes him the best magic teacher available on video.