The book
A complete, illustrated book, chapter by chapter: the ideas, the concepts and the why behind everything, to read at your own pace.
Original audio of the videos, with subtitles in your language
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A new way to study magic
The video and the book,
perfectly in sync.
Read the theory. Watch the practice. All in one.
Until now you had to choose: a book or a video. PlayBook gives you both at once. The book and the video, in sync. What you understand by reading, you read. What you understand by watching, you watch.
Three things. One experience.
A complete, illustrated book, chapter by chapter: the ideas, the concepts and the why behind everything, to read at your own pace.
The tutorial you know, with the tricks, the techniques and the demonstrations. The practice, where it is best understood: on screen.
Book and video connected: every idea takes you to its exact minute in the video, and every moment of the video has its page in the book.
Everything in its place. Ideas are best understood in writing, calmly. Tricks and techniques, by watching them. PlayBook puts each where it works best, one click away.
Everything presented in the video —ideas, principles and the reasoning behind them— is explained in detail in the book, to read calmly and come back to whenever you like.
Right where the text reaches a trick or a practical part, one click takes you to the exact second in the video. You watch it and keep reading.
Perfectly in sync
The key is not the move, but what the spectator believes they have seen. Before doing anything, you must give them a reason to stop watching your hands.
This is how he solves it at the table, with a single question 12:04
Notice that the question comes right when the card is already controlled…
12:04 · The moment of doubt
How a PlayBook is made
Every PlayBook is born from the video itself. An AI listens to all of it, watches it frame by frame and asks it again and again —what happens here, why, at what minute— until it extracts everything in it. This is how, step by step:
It transcribes every word of the video with its exact minute, then reviews and corrects it so not a single term slips through.
It pulls thousands of frames and lays them out on contact sheets, each with its minute. It sees what the hands do, not just what is said.
It analyses the video section by section. When something is unclear, it asks to see that moment up close —again and again— until it is sure of what happens.
With everything it has understood, it lays out the structure: the chapters, their order and what goes in each one.
It writes chapter by chapter. Theory, fully developed; every trick, summarised and linked to its exact start and end minute.
Introduction, conclusions, glossary and the key ideas gathered in "Concepts and theories". Plus photos of the people mentioned.
It picks the images, prepares the video of every trick and passage, and redraws every illustration in its own style. The result: the book and the video, perfectly in sync.
On paper, too
Every PlayBook downloads as a PDF, ready to print. And even on paper, it stays in sync with the video: every trick and every passage has its own QR code. Scan it with your phone and watch it instantly, at its exact minute.
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The book and its video, together. Tap a cover and discover everything inside.
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