Pocket Power
by Jarle Leirpoll

Jarle Leirpoll is one of Norway's leading Stand-Up and Close-Up performers. He received the Norwegian magician of the year award in 1998. You will find effective and deceptive ways to switch, ditch and steal - using only the normal pockets and occasionally a Topit. Several original routines and lots of techniques and ideas are explained in detail, including more than one hundred illustrations. On top of that four video clips are embedded in the ebook which show 5 effects. The chapter about Choreographic Misdirection has been significantly increased over the paper version of this book from 1995.

My favorite is his bill switch without any gimmick. This is the kind of professional thinking one rarely finds - eliminate the unnecessary leaving the effect as strong as before. Very clean! I am going to practice this myself.

1st edition, 1995, Jarle Leirpoll, ISBN 82-993648-0-9
1st electronic edition in HTML, 2001, Lybrary.com
2nd electronic edition in PDF, 2006, Lybrary.com; 70 pages.

4. Dedication
5. Foreword
6. Introduction
7. Toilet Paper To Egg
   7. The bold switch (fig. 1)
   8. The Tamariz switch (fig. 2)
9. Coke From Shoe
   10. Stealing the Coke
   10. Loading the Coke into the shoe
11. Palming Cards
    11. The Bottom Palm
    12. Cover for the Bottom Palm
    12. The One-Handed Top Palm
    13. Cover for the One-Handed Top Palm
    13. The "Pull Up the Sleeves" Bottom Palm
16. Norwegian Travellers
    16. Controlling the cards to the top
    17. The Hofzinser Spread Control
    18. The Topit Drop
    19. The Empty Hand
    19. The last card
    20. Alternative ending
    20. Killing time
    20. Gags as misdirection
    20. If at first you don't succeed
21. Card In Shoe
    21. Folding the card
    22. Creating the illusion
    23. Cleaning up
24. No Gimmick Bill Change
    24. Displaying the bill
    26. Folding the bill
    29. Displaying the new bill
    29. Cleaning up
31. The Perfect Out
    31. The Card to Pocket Move
33. Stealing
    33. From the side pocket
    34. From the side pocket, another method
    35. From the waistband
    36. The "simplest" steal of them all
    37. Scooping
    37. The Thumb Clip
    38. Straightening the jacket
39. The Almost Ultimate Newspaper Trick
    39. Preparation
    41. Performance
    42. Tearing the paper
    43. The restoration
    43. Cleaning up
44. Tips And Techniques
    44. Take out something else first
    44. Impromptu card holder
    44. Handkerchief
    44. The breast pocket
    45. Objects inside objects
    45. Deck switch
    46. Angle proofing
    46. Into the sleeves
    46. Post-It magic
    46. Velcro magic
    46. Sound FX convincer
    47. Magnets
    47. A tip on ditching
    48. The vanishing Gimmick
49. Good Enough for TV
50. Drama
    50. The Premise
    50. Kill your Darlings
    50. Forward Movement
    50. Pang, puff, puff, BANG!
    51. Eliminating Dead Time
    51. Parallel Action
    52. Energy
    52. The Dilemma of Magic
    52. The Art of Suggestion
    53. Play it Big
    53. Timing
    53. Aim at the Heart
54. Choreographic Misdirection
    54. What is Choreographic Misdirection?
    54. Point of Interest
    54. Norwegian Travelers - the second card
    55. Eye Scan
    56. The Bottom Palm
    57. Naturalness
    58. Gags as Misdirection
    58. Establishing a norm
    59. Your own body language
    59. Conditioning for misdirection
    59. Don't forget the palming Hand
    60. The Off-Beat
    60. Speed attracts the eye
    60. Simultaneous Actions
    61. Misdirection on TV
    61. Practice Misdirection
    62. Final words
63. Confidence
    63. Practice
    63. The brain learns how to be effective
    63. Bombing
    64. Hakuna Matata
    64. Wireless Microphones
    64. The Transmitter Pocket
    64. The Microphone Stand
    65. Applause
    66. You can't always be confident
67. Video Evaluation
68. Magic on TV
    68. Beyond the Ordinary
    68. It's a Battlefield
    68. Everyone wants it to be good
    69. Know the Language
    69. Everything can be Big on TV
    70. Be Prepared