The Ambitious Card is one of those rare things in magic
- a "perfect" effect. It is quick and easy to understand, yet has variations
limited only by your imagination. The performance transcends all language
barriers and can be as simple or as complicated as you wish. Freestyle routining
makes this effect a little like playing jazz - once you have mastered the basic
theme, you can weave in and out of it to create a unique and personalized
rendition for each performance.
Here you have the chance to witness the live
performance of Daryl's entire gold medal-winning F.I.S.M. routine. Daryl also
demonstrates and explains dozens of additional tips and subtleties he has
created and refined over many years to allow you to be the best you can be. And,
for the first time ever, Daryl reveals the real work on the most amazing finale
to this routine - Daryl's Ultimate Amibition
Improved!
Daryl's Gold Medal F.I.S.M. Routine - Riffle
Shuffle Control; Triple Lift; Snap Double Life (Larry Jennings); The Double Lift
Build Up (Verne Chesbro); Brrrrtttt! (Bruce Elliott); The Top Change; For The
Unambitious (Edward Marlo); The Double Whammo; Deck Switch (Daryl); The Bluff
Pass (Paul LePaul); Topper (Frank Garcia & Bill Spooner);Tilted and Turned
(Daryl); Up the Falls; Thin Ambitious (Daryl & Edward G.).
Additional Techniques - Control Knockout;
The Center Double Life (Jack Avis); The Hofzinser Spread Pass (J.N. Hofzinser);
To Boldly Go; The Push-In Change (A. Roterberg, Hatton & Plate, Frederick
Braue); The Ambitious Miracle Change (Edward Marlo); The Tip-Over Change (Jack
Merlin); The Tiltless Tilt; Bluff Insertion from the Front (Irv Weiner); The
Daily Leaper (Dr. Jacob Daley); The Impromptu Duplicate; Four - Fifths of the
Truth (Phil Goldstein); Ambitious Movie (Roy Walton); A One-Handed Sequence
(Daryl); Mexican Turnover Top Change Second Deal (Daryl); Diminishing Lift
Sequence (Edward Marlo & Daryl); Flustration Count (Brother John Hamman);
The Trick That Fooled Houdini (Dai Vernon); The Gaffless Houdini-Fooler (Daryl);
Nothing Changes (Rick Anderson); The Ambitious Twins (Frederick Braue, Jean
Hugard, Daryl); Ambitious One Way (Daryl); The Paintbrush Change (Stanley
Collins & Dai Vernon); The Pop-Up Card (Frederick
Braue).
