Al Baker is a name that pops up often, because he was a brilliant creator and wayyyy ahead of his time.

This effect is one that's often been overlooked, people tend to focus on Baker's mentalism, but THAT'S A HUGE MISTAKE. Ball Breaker has everything, it's compact, plays big and is very visual.

The options for presentation are also varied and wonderful, if you just put a little thought into it.

Which makes it the perfect first trick for our experiment... within this playlist will be a series of wonderful effects that all have something in common, they all use some combination of: Glass - Silks - Balls - Eggs.

What does the mean? Has Steve finally lost it? Well, duh..

BUT it means that once they're all uploaded, you will be in the position to create a sequence, your own sequence using a glass and a silk at the very least. WHICH MEANS (stay with me here) that you will be able to put together an original and organic mini-act of fabulous effects that play big, are super visual and best of all, PACK SMALL.

That's my evil plan, to give you a number of tricks using almost identical props, then challenge you to create an 'act' using some of these effects.

By routining them to suit your taste you will find that the previous effects cancel out possible methods of later effects and create an all-round air of impossibility.

It'll give you continuity, and stop that jerky stop and start 'next trick' monotony of the usual act, in other words you will have FLOW, and flow is everything.

FLOW. IS. EVERYTHING.

So watch these, think about how you'd piece them together, and then the final video will be about how I would approach the problem. If you have any ideas at the end of this series that you'd like to share, please let me know and I may even add some of them to the final videos.