Ken Krenzel's Relaxed Impossibilities

RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES is what result when an acclaimed  master of card magic sets out to explore how advanced sleight-of-hand  can be made far easier to attain through a perceptive study of economy  of action married to efficient placement of cards. By applying a  lifetime of study and ability, world-respected expert Ken Krenzel has  developed innovative methods that will place techniques long perceived  as extremely difficult into the hands of card magicians possessing  average skills. Such advanced sleights as palms, steals, switches, side  steals, bottom deals and top changes, sleights previously used by only  the most dedicated and gifted card technicians, are ingeniously modified  and re-imagined to put them into your performing repertoire within a  few weeks, rather than years.

After providing a variety of  sleights capable of wide utility, Krenzel delivers a collection of  tricks and routines that apply these tools and others. The result is  magic that ranges from eye-popping visuals to logic-defying card  mysteries, many of which take place solely in the hands of the  spectator! Indeed, this type of hands-off card magic, designed to leave  no easy answers for audiences, is a special focus of Dr. Krenzel in this  book. RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES teaches material designed for  those who desire to broaden their skills and give their audiences an  experience they've never before had. In its pages many new pathways are  opened and some stunning destination points are provided.

• Facial - A Wild-Card printing effect like no other. Four blank-faced cards  magically duplicate the face of a selected random card. Each  transformation is visual and instantaneous, all the cards are inspected  before and afterward, and with each performance a different card is  duplicated.

• Fan World - A new approach to the  Out-of-This-World effect in which the deck may be shuffled at any point  during the procedure, you do not look at the faces of the cards, the  duration of the test may be as short or as long as wished, there are no  packet exchanges and only two pilesone red, one blackare formed. Yet, you have complete control over a spectator's ability to correctly guess the color of each card.

• Strange Hummer - Anyone shuffles the deck (which may be borrowed), deals off ten  random cards and mixes them face up and face down under the table, where  no one can see what is being done. The mixing procedure becomes more  and more random, until everyone, including fellow magicians, must admit  you have no control over it. While the packet is still out of sight  under the table, you announce the number of cards that are face up and  face down, which proves to be correct. You also point out that the  spectator has mysteriously separated the red cards from the blacks!

• AUTOMACAAN - The Any-Card-at-Any-Number effect is given three new treatments,  including one in which the deck may be borrowed and you never touch the  cards. The spectator does everything. This trick may even be performed  over the telephonea genuine and exciting breakthrough in both method and effect.