Allan Ackerman’s new book set All-In Volumes I & II is now available for purchase at Vanishing Magic.
This is very exciting news as Allan Ackerman’s last published book was 30 years ago: Las Vegas Kardma in 1994. Allan has however remained busy creating quite a bit of magic over these past 30 years. All of it was available in limited run lecture notes or occasional video, most of which are difficult to find these days.
All of Allan’s best material he has created in the past 30 years — from his many lecture notes — are compiled into this stunning two volume book set. Allan has updated much of this material over the years and the latest is included in this two volume set.
Quote from Vanishing Magic website on Allan’s new book set:
Across the more than 400 pages of these beautiful hardcover books, you’ll find nearly 90 professional routines and over 50 additional sleights and moves. Everything has been updated and edited with help from one of magic’s premiere authors, John Lovick. All of the crucial nuances and subtleties have been included alongside full-color photographs to enhance the learning experience.
What’s really exciting as well is that Allan Ackerman introduces my Tetra-Red stack in the book and shares that it has been his tetradistic stack of choice for the past two and a half years now, having switched from his old tetradistic memdeck he used for over 50 years. The link and password to my Tetra-Red book is in All-In Volume I, on page 50, paragraph two.
From the Preface of Allan Ackerman’s All-In Volume I:
The reader will find a wide variety of card material in these two volumes, from the almost self-working, (e.g., “Grandson of Tetradism” and “Technicolor Splits”), to routines that will take a fair amount of time to master, (e.g., “The Extended Merlin” and “Two-Shakes”). I love memdeck work and have used the tetradistic stack that S.W. Erdnase describes in The Expert at the Card Table since I was nineteen. I am so excited to be able to include the Tetra-Red stack by Jennifer Gwinn in this book. She has made what I call S.W.E.’s 30-minute memorized deck into a thing of beauty. It is now the stack I use, and I feel it is the best.
Additionally there are a couple other articles of mine in his new book set, a tetradistic memdeck routine called Acrobatic Anything as well as a worksheet for coming up with a Chinese Shuffle for any tetradistic stack.