Triumph (review)

First of all, I know that I promised to review an awesome Magician  (Mirko), HOWEVER, I actually don't have all the time to check out all his info and nor could I find any performances other than his most recognised bubble routine at the IFSM. SO yeah, if you want to watch it, I have it favourited on my youtube page.

Again, this trick shows how noob I am. The lack of understanding of where the trick even originates from. To be honest, I am quite annoyed with myself, however, after googling something like Triumph magic etc. will usually lead to really weird and incorrect explanations of it on youtube.

Before I begin, again, I would like to say that this blog is for noobs only. Please do not waste your time reading this if you think that you are confident enough to choose your own tricks to learn or if you think that I am the big noob that I am. I am reviewing simple tricks for now, stuff like the Berglas Effect can come later when I'm a little more confident in my reviewing skills... or at least I get feedbacks that won't make me shit myself from embarrassment... that's right... if you get me too embarrassed, I will shit in your face! So don't do it!

Anyways, there are MANY variations of the 'triumph'. There are gaff'd and non-gaff'd versions of the trick. I mean, I personally prefer the non-gaff'd version, however, that is just a personal preference. I'm not saying that all of you must be like me and remain close-minded and bitter about life!

As usual, after around 20 minutes of rambling, I'm taking you to the effect.





Effect: The trick is simple, the effect is simple, everything is simple!

 So basically, from the video you could see that the spectator selects a card at random and then it gets shuffled into the deck. Now, unhappy with the current state of the cards, the magician makes his life around 26 times harder by offering to shuffle the cards up-side-down.

And men saw that it was leet!

So anyways, After some mumble jumble, the magician snaps his fingers, AFTER showing everybody that the cards are all mixed up, and turns the cards all the same side up.

Now... as if that isn't impressive enough as it is, the magician continues to show off by making one card appear face down. Which card? Why, of course it is the card that the spectator chose in the first place!

Anyways, my performance was a non-gaff'd version, I will now give a gaff'd version of the trick (courtesy of my friend David)

As you could see, using gaffs makes the trick look around 10x more leet.

So basically, the rule is that if you want to look awesome, use gaffs. :D


Spectator's View: Well, I have had mixed reactions for this trick. Some are unimpressed, some peed themselves a little.

SO yeah... later on, I realised that it was the way I presented the trick. People OFTEN care more about the performance than the actual effect. Again, I suggest following my principle of 30% magic and 70% performance.

Some really smart audience would obviously question everything but don't be scared, if you do this right, it's actually angle proof.

Speaking of angles, it brings us to...


Angles: This trick is ANGLE PROOF!!! Both versions are. If you are getting caught out, I suggest practicing with a friend and ask him/her to stare you down. Make sure that you can do this angle proof! This is very important. Because not only will it be well... you know... angle proof, it will also greatly improve the fluency at which you can perform this effect.


Overall: To be honest, I don't really like this trick. Well, not as much as the previous tricks that I have reviewed anyways.

SO, I will give this a 65/100. I mean sure, the effect looks good, I mean sure... you can do this with any ordinary deck, HOWEVER, the amount of work and risk you have to put in just to perform this isn't worth it.



Next Review: Jeopardy (by... I promise that I'll find out!)