Links and sources
Links and sources
Magicians with books or lecture notes with items about Cardshooting
•Ricky Jay - Cards as Weapons
•Pollux (Poland)
•The Tarbell course in magic vol. 4
• Sid Fleishman - The Charlatans handbook
•Joseph Leeming - Tricks & stunts with playing card
•Walter B. Gibson - The complete illustrated book of card magic
•Arthur Buckley -
•Jean Hugard - card manipulations and expert card techniques
•Ian Adair
•Mandrake
•Martinez - secrets to the portorician gambler
•Paul le Paul
•Paul Harris - Art of Astonishment
•Harry Lorayne
• Jean Pierre Vallarino
Magicians from the past with card shooting acts
(source: Cards as Weapons by Ricky Jay)
• Alexander Herrmann
• DaKolta
• Maskelijne
• Robert Houdin
• Houdini
• Will Rock
• Jean Valton
• Frederick Eugene Powell
• Felicien Trewey
• Howard Thurston
• Benjamin Frankline IV
• Finn Jon
• Richard Ross
• Whitley Roberts
Videotapes and DVD’s about cardshooting or with card shoot versions:
•Jeff Mc Bride - The art of card manipulation vol. 2 and 3
•Greg Wilson - Card Stunts
•Daryl - Encyclopaedia of card sleights volume 7 and 8
•Lennart Green - Green Magic vol. 1
•Paul Harris - Art of astonishment Video 1
• J.C. Wagner – Doc Eason – Bar magic video
• Juliana Chen - Original Card Shooting
Magicians with shooting/flying card act:
•Jan Vorg - www.artisten.com/janvorg/cards.htm
•Jeff Mc Bride
•Juliana Chen - Seen on World's Greatest Magic IV
•Gregory Wilson
•Lennart Green
• Flip Hallema
• David Stone
•Jean Pierre Vallarino
•Peter Marvey
•Roy Davenport?
•Nicolas Einhorn
• Ilkay Tercan from Turkey - http://ilkaytercan.isfunny.com
• Marc van Venrooij
Card tricks which shoots cards from the deck:
•The Gun Trick (Michael Ammar - easy to master card miracles vol. 5)
•The Improved Card Pistol (with gaffed joker) 4 aces shoot out of the deck after each other.
•Deck that kicks out selected card (with rubber band)
•The Gymnastic Aces (cards are weaved into each other and top cards leaves deck first)
•Mendes' Shooting Card: uses invisible thread (page 132 The Tarbell course in magic vol. 4)
• Audley Walsh's Long Distance spinner - the thumb shot (see page 127 The Tarbell course in
• magic vol. 4)
•Tommy Shot Technique (www.magic-library.com)
•David Stone's "Rocket card"
•Sankey's "Flick production"
•The Dart (can anyone give me more info on this one?)
•Paul Harris - Zen and the art of Boomerang
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