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    The Master of Misdirection Part 2 of 2
    The Master of Misdirection Part 2 of 2
    The Master of Misdirection Part 2 of 2
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    The Master of Misdirection Part 2 of 2

    By D. Angelo Ferri

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    This is my 2019 Edition of my e-book on the Magic of my Teacher, Slydini. (including new text and photos.My book was too big to upload as one document.) My book is the result of eight years of private lessons. In Part One You learned the guiding principles. In part two You will learn how to apply those principles in the performance of: The Torn & Restored Cigarette (unlit), The Helicopter Card,Coins Through the Table, Knotted Silks, The Paper Balls Over the Head, and the One Coin Routine.
    Section Three (of part 2 ) is about the other things that made Slydini the great Magician he was. This is a two e-book set

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. Angelo Ferri
    Release dateJan 28, 2019
    ISBN9780463909621
    The Master of Misdirection Part 2 of 2
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    D. Angelo Ferri

    Thank you for taking a look at my profile page. Welcome! My magic e-books are dedicated to my teacher Slydini. It is my sincere hope that some Magicians will take up a serious study of his Art and pass it on to another generation of Magicians. My e-book: The Glass through the Table is a free download, my way to introduce you to the Magic of my teacher, Slydini. . Ever since I was a kid I’ve been fascinated with Magic, those old time private eye movies, especially the Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart, playing cards, and all things Italian. One night, while walking through the San Francisco Financial District, the idea for my own detective stories came to me. I’ve written two e-books that will teach you how to play some great Italian Cards games. My e-book: Scopa is a free download, my way to introduce you to my detective and the Italian Card Game Scopa.

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      The Master of Misdirection Part 2 of 2 - D. Angelo Ferri

      The Master of Misdirection 2019 Edition Part Two

      by D. Angelo Ferri

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Copyright 2019

      D. Angelo Ferri

      Part Two The Master of Misdirection

      Contents

      A Fantasy

      A Message to all Magicians.

      The Knotted Silks is being offered as an example of how Slydini took existing techniques available to magicians and crafted a unique entertainment. The routine does not depend upon Timing Sequences and is therefore available to those magicians who would like to add this routine to their act without having to devote their entire way of accomplishing necessary mechanics to the Slydini System of Misdirection.

      The Paper Balls Over the Head is a complementary study of the published lessons on this routine written from the perspective of a student struggling with the fear of getting caught while tossing the ball over the head of the spectator. Mechanics are reviewed but the major focus is on the performer’s belief system and interaction with the impromptu assistant. This lesson is intended to give the student a greater insight into what was being communicated to the assistant by Slydini and therefore why Slydini was able to control the assistant’s perceptions so completely.

      The One Coin Routine is the ultimate conclusion of Slydini’s way of performing Close Up Magic. In order to perform this routine, the student will have to master Timing Sequences, The Revolve Vanish, The Imp Pass, and The Fake Take. The fundamental principles are all present here. To understand this routine is to understand how Slydini performed Close Up Magic.

      Section Three Spirit A closer look at the way Slydini treated his audience, impromptu assistant, and the life experiences that made him the Magician he was.

      Conclusion

      My Dream

      About The Author

      Bibliography

      una fantasia

      by D. Angelo Ferri

      The people ask me, how did you become a magician?

      It began with a wonderful dream.

      The moonlight lit my bedroom.

      The fog streamed in through the open window.

      The wind blew the fog into circles.

      The fog changed its form. I saw an old man, very old, with a long white beard.

      Long, white, white like the fog. I could not see where the beard ended and the fog began.

      He was dressed in rags but his hat was beautiful.

      He looked ridiculous and incredible at the same time.

      He walked towards me, slowly. His eyes were gentle so I was not afraid.

      Tell me why you want to be a magician, he asked?

      Why? Because I love Magic.

      He smiled at me sadly.

      My son, the life of a magician is not easy.

      You will live day by day. You will talk to mirrors. You will see things other people do not see.

      You will die rich or poor. Most likely: poor. There is no middle way.

      But I am poor!

      The old man’s face became gentle.

      My son, reality and fantasy are not the same thing.

      But it is my destiny.

      His eyes smiled at me. The next thing I knew we were in my Grandfather’s tailor shop.

      He put a thimble on his finger. It disappeared and then came back. I did not know how.

      He touched my grandfather’s yard stick and it flew in the air.

      This is your magic place, begin here.

      Now, go back to sleep.

      A Message to all Magicians.

      Slydini was 74 when I began studying with him; I was 28.

      As I write this, I am approaching my 70th year.

      I am very honored to say that Slydini picked me to be one of his featured students, in his final book, The Magical World of Slydini, written by Mr. Karl Fulves, and published by Tannen Magic, Inc. in 1979.

      Slydini also picked me to be photographed as the assisting spectator in the chapter on his Linking Rings. I remember the day those pictures were taken, very well. Those pictures of my teacher and I together are precious to me.

      Tannen’s also published The Best of Slydini and More in 1976.

      This book was also written by Mr. Fulves. He, and Slydini spent many hours together creating these two master works.

      I was with Slydini in those years. I know how important these books were to him. I believe they are still available from Tannen’s.

      The highest compliment Slydini ever paid to me was: You understand my Magic.

      My books about my teachers Magic are written from the perspective of the student. That understanding came from eight years of private lessons with a teacher that held nothing back and encouraged my thousands of questions.

      It’s been over twenty-five years since my teacher passed away. I have to remind myself that most contemporary magicians never saw him perform or are aware of the most common objection voiced by the magicians of his era.

      ‘To do Slydini’s Magic, you have to become Slydini.’

      After a couple of years, he stopped charging me for lessons. I did chores for him, painted his studio, took him places. Sometimes I’d be working when a student arrived for a lesson. Slydini did not want the student concerned with my presence. I’d go into the bedroom and sit until the lesson was over. I could hear the students voice change as he went through his lesson. He suddenly had an Italian accent, an accent that he did not have before the lesson began, or after the lesson finished.

      Another Italian will intuitively understand and use the expressions and gestures of Slydini because he is Italian. We Italians have ways of expressing ourselves, verbally and physically that are unique to our culture. What is natural for us would be unnatural for a magician who is not Italian.

      This System of Misdirection is an integrated system of thought, movement, psychology, and above all belief. All Magicians, regardless of ethnicity, can benefit from this system of Misdirection because it is based upon what people have in common.

      Here is a brief physical example. While seated at a table, rotate your waist to the left. This ‘leftward rotation’ will carry your left shoulder away from the tables edge and your right shoulder towards it.

      Understanding how to employ natural body mechanics is part of Slydini’s System of Misdirection.

      To understand Slydini’s Misdirection is to understand other people.

      To understand Slydini’s Misdirection is to discover yourself.

      D. Angelo Ferri

      New York, 2018

      Slydini and I 1978

      From: The Magical World of Slydini

      Karl Fulves Author

      Tannen Magic, Inc. Publisher

      The Knotted Silks

      Sometime in the late 1970’s, I can’t remember exactly when, I wandered into Tannen’s Magic Shop. It was at 1407 Broadway in those days. You had to take an elevator ride and when you got off you were in a small lobby. The door to the magic shop was off to the left and on the outer wall of the shop were wonderful pictures of magicians, those old Hollywood style black and white portraits. When I opened the door, I usually saw Senior Mardo sitting in a folding chair, to the right just as you walked in. He was an old man by then, very friendly, always willing to give a bit of advice or share a story about his days in magic.

      On this particular day, when I walked in I saw Muhammad Ali standing at the counter. I think it was Presto, a New York City Magician from that time, showing Ali a trick. Ali loved magic. I had to say hello to him. He asked me if I was a magician and when I said yes, he asked me to show him a trick.

      I reached into my jacket pocket and took out my Slydini Silks. I did the knotted silk routine for him. When it came to the part where I asked him to hold the silk and pull it tight, he grabbed it, pulled me towards him and made that face he made in the ring as the referee was giving instructions. He was wonderful. As I did the routine, he kept saying You’re great! You’re great! He gave me a memory I will always cherish.

      Of course, I owe his compliment to my teacher, Slydini. It was his trick that impressed Ali so much that day.

      I am hoping you will learn to do this routine very well. I hope it will become one of your favorite miracles and that it gives you even more great memories than it’s given me.

      I’d read many books on Magic and Magicians before I began to study with Slydini. I found many references to tricks with handkerchiefs and knots. I read how Malini would secretly untie the knots in the handkerchiefs that were borrowed and used to blindfold him during his famous Card Stabbing Routine.

      John Scarne offers a trick called Air Knots in his book Scarne’s Magic Tricks; two borrowed handkerchiefs are tied in a knot. They are thrown into the air and fall ‘back to earth’ untied.

      I’ve come across many references to ‘upsetting the knot, a technique known to many ‘old time magicians’, but nowhere in my reading did I find a complete presentation or such a sophisticated method for upsetting the knot as Slydini devised.

      Imagine you have a wooden dowel, in essence, a straight line. Now imagine wrapping a silk around the dowel and then tying a knot. Since the silk is simply wrapped around the dowel it could be slipped off.

      When we ‘upset’ a knot, we are changing the relationship of one silk to the other. One silk becomes a ‘straight line’ and the other silk is ‘tied around it’ making it possible for us to separate the two silks, and, thanks to the construction of the knot, it ‘unwraps’ once slipped off the ‘straight line’, and so seems to disappear.

      We must understand how to tie what I refer to as the ‘Opening False Knot’; and how to upset it.

      Next you have to learn how to recognize, tie, and upset a Granny Knot and a Square Knot.

      Finally, you have to learn how to tie and upset what I’ll call a Wrap Around Knot and Double Wrap Around Knot for the Splitting the Knots finish.

      The beauty of the routine is in its’ timing and pace. The presentation, the tone of voice, the tempo, makes it the miracle it is.

      Slydini would begin by giving the two silks to his assistant to inspect. (They were actually fine rip stop nylon, also referred to as parachute silk. It is very strong and takes a lot of tugging and pulling. How magician’s like Malini performed the upsetting of the knots with cotton handkerchiefs that will cause knots to bind

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