He was the editor of Pabular magazine and inspired contributions from the finest magicians of his time.
He could be found at the Magic Circle on Monday evenings and many well-known names from around the world paid homage to Fred and traveled countless miles to witness for themselves his legendary skills. It has been in the making for years and it was perhaps the most significant magic book of its decade.įred Robinson was a private man but his skill at sleight-of-hand with cards and coins was legendary.
The Magic of Fred Robinson was one of the most anxiously-awaited books among magicians the world over. "Always with a twinkle in his eye, Fred would fool you consistently." - Gordon Bruce "Your journey with Fred is about to begin thanks to Peter Duffie and Martin Breese. Meeting Fred was a highlight of my life." - Roy Walton "Card magic and techniques of card-handling have fascinated me for most of my life. "I state without fear of exaggerating that Fred was one of the all-time greats especially with cards." - Dai Vernon Paul Wilson from his 2009 review in Genii. More than that, it's a great read and takes me back to the feeling I had when I first read Vernon's Inner Secrets books." - R. The Magic Of Fred Robinson is an excellent book full of wonderful ideas, useful sleights, and powerful effects. "Peter Duffie's The Magic Of Fred Robinson is a wonderful book containing a gold-mine of ideas, subtleties and secrets from one of magic's finest exponents and thinkers. If it has too many phases or not it’s irrelevant (to me) as I know the routine can be adjusted to my wants/needs.Now available as a PDF ready for immediate download. In that sense the Daryl routine is superlative. When I study the routine I’m mostly interested in the construction: how one phase leads (or prepares) the others, the canceling out of methods, etc. The second consideration is a dramatic one: are people enjoying it or bored? So if that’s what you want to do, and people enjoy it - why not? That’s what Daryl did 😀.Īs a magician I see those considerations as mostly personal I’m not particularly interested in that type of choices. If that’s what you want to communicate to the audience or not. How many phases a routine has it’s actually two considerations: one, an aesthetic one - if that’s what you want to do artistically speaking or not. It would seem that when many magicians talk about The Ambitious Card, the only comments are “too short” or “too long” (sounds funny) or “too many phases”.
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