Card College 1 & 2 Personal Instruction
by Roberto Giobbi

These are 8 hours of personal video instructions from Roberto Giobbi. This is almost like taking private lessons from Roberto. It is a one-to-one coaching from one of the world's premier card experts, who is considered by his peers to be one of today's finest and most influential teachers of magic.

"I was extremely impressed. Giobbi is an excellent teacher, he communicates his ideas clearly, and he's passionate about card magic - this is one of the best card magic DVD sets I've come across in recent memory. It contains a tremendous amount of solid material for beginning and even seasoned performers, and it's a perfect companion to Giobbi's terrific Card College book series." - Jason England in Magic Magazine

This course originally sold as a set of 4 DVDs. It is now available at very little cost as a download. This is a full video course (no ebook/PDF) as compared to Card College 1 & 2 which is a PDF with almost 200 short video clips demonstrating each move. Contents wise these two editions overlap to a good part. (Refer to the table of contents below for more details.) If you are primarily a visual learner then you will probably want to get these video instructions. If you prefer reading you will probably benefit more from the PDF edition.

The beauty and elegance of Roberto Giobbi's Card College course is that within a few minutes of learning fundamental techniques for handling cards, you will advance to tricks that can entertain and fool sophisticated audiences. Roberto not only demonstrates and explains the primary techniques of card magic, quickly giving you the ability and skills you need for performance, but also shares the wealth of his experience, based on years of successful performing. And if you're already a pro you'll find advanced material, moves, sleights and psychology to enhance your performance and shows.

1. FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES
   • Instruments and Tools
   • Basic Grip
   • Squaring the Deck
   • Cuts
   • Spreading the cards
   • Dribbling the cards
   • Dealing
   • The Break
   • The Step
   • Ribbon Spread
   • Card Case
2. OVERHAND SHUFFLE
   • Overhand shuffle
   • The run
   • Injog shuffle
   • Belchou Aces Revisited
   • Subconscious Poker
3. FALSE CUTS
   • Injog shuffle false cut
   • Optical false cut
   • Swing false cut
   • Actio interruptus
   • Triple false cut
   • Slip cut
   • Hat Trick
4. CARD CONTROLS
   • Overhand shuffle control
   • Diagonal push-in
   • Peek control
   • Post peek overhand shuffle control
   • Spectator peek
   • Two card peek control
   • The Question Is?
   • Think Stop
5. THE FORCE 1
   • The Crisscross Force
   • The cut deeper force
   • Further Than That
6. RIFFLE SHUFFLE
   • The Riffle Shuffle
   • Riffle Shuffle in the air with waterfall
   • The Mind Mirror
7. THE TRANSFER CUT
   • Double cut
   • Double cut control with overhand shuffle
   • Triple cut from top to bottom
   • Triple cut from bottom to top
   • 7th Son of a 7th Son
8. THE GLIDE
   • The Glide
   • The Coué Test
9. THE GLIMPSE
   • Top card riffle glimpse
   • Riffle shuffle top card glimpse
   • Bottom card glimpse (all-around square-up glimpse; situational glimpses; overhand shuffle glimpse; center card glimpse; easiest glimpse in the world)
   • Impossible!
10. KEY CARD
    • Key card in hand-to-hand spread
    • Ribbon spread key card placement
    • Glimpse and key card placement
    • To cut to the key card
    • To keep key card and selection together
    • A Phenomenal Memory
11. THE DOUBLE LIFT
    • The double lift
    • The double turnover
    • Displaying double card
    • Rise and Swap
    • Vanished Without a Trace
12. FLOURISHES
    • Turning the top card face up
    • One-handed cut (Charlier Cut)
    • The Swivel Cut
    • The Boomerang Card
    • The Fan, two-handed
    • The Fan, one-handed
    • Table Ribbon Spread Turnover
13. AUXILIARY SLEIGHTS
    • The thumb count
    • Little finger count
    • Secret addition
    • Braue addition packet switch
    • Multiple push-over
    • The buckle
    • Merlin's tip-over addition
    • Picking up deck from hard surfaces
    • Card easel
    • Dave's Delight
    • Transpo Excelsior
14. HINDU SHUFFLE
    • The Hindu Shuffle (glimpse; key card placement; force)
    • The Magus Card
    • Voila, Four Aces
15. OVERHAND SHUFFLE 2
    • Top and bottom stock control
    • The lift shuffle
    • To control the order of the complete deck
    • Aces off the Cuff
16. THE FORCE 2
    • The Classic Force
    • The Riffle Force
    • X Marks the Spot
17. THE PALM
    • Top Palm single card
    • Top Palm multiple cards
    • Homing Card Plus
18. THE SPREAD CULL
    • The Spread Cull (force)
    • The Magic Phone Number
    • Time Machine
19. FALSE COUNTS AND DISPLAYS
    • Elmsley Count
    • Jordan Count
    • Hamman Count
    • Buckle Count
    • Push-Off Count
    • Last card push
    • Twisting the Aces
20. THE TOP CHANGE
    • Top change
    • Covers for the top change
    • The Lucky Coin
21. THE CRIMP
    • Crimping with the index finger
    • Crimping with the heel of the thumb
    • Crimping with an overhand shuffle
    • Psychic Stop
22. THE REVERSE
    • The Braue Reverse
    • Center Card Braue Reverse
    • Two card reverse
    • The Whistle
23. FALSE CUTS 2
    • Techniques
    • Running cuts
    • Two straight false cuts
    • Triple false cut
    • Affas Gaffas false cut
    • Dai Vernon's Cold Deck Cut plus applications

1st edition 2009, video length 8 hours