Description

Get an inside look at the forbidden art of pickpocketing and learn how both street criminals and professional illusionists use these skills to separate you from your property. Featuring world-renowned pickpocketing master James Coats and criminologist/illusionist Nicholas Byrd, this DVD leads you step by step through the actual techniques of pickpocketing and stealing wallets, watches, belts, ties and other personal items without your target ever knowing it.Each technique is first demonstrated for real on unsuspecting subjects in live, unrehearsed street situations. The mechanics of the technique, as well as the various tactics of misdirection and deception necessary to make it successful, are then explained in painstaking detail. Coats and Byrd each share their preferred methods for each category of steal and even show you how to use commonly available items to construct pickpocketing training aids to practice your craft. Although presented primarily from the perspective of illusionists, entertainers and street magicians and offered for entertainment purposes only, this revealing look will give you an in-depth understanding of how pickpockets really work, as well as how to keep them from working on you.  Color, approx. 60 min.