Thank You, David Roth!

I am reflec­ting on the magni­fi­cent magi­ci­ans and peo­ple who brought all that joy to my life. Wit­hout them, I wouldn’t be what I am.

Par­ti­cu­larly, I would like to express my sin­ce­rest thanks to Mr. David Roth. When I was a youngs­ter, his coin work shaped me. Now I am ‚old‘ and he still shapes me 🙂

He tea­ched me so many things, after stu­dy­ing the clas­sics like Bobo’s and so on, what ‚hip‘ coin magic has to look like. He showed a new world. Mr. Roth ope­ned doors for me. That was not only inspi­ring, but brea­king all exis­ting rules.

Mr. Roth, thank you for what you have given to us all. You are the undis­pu­ted modern mas­ter, who really shaped a generation.

In my upco­ming lec­ture on mis­di­rec­tion, I will demons­trate (NOT explain!) a cer­tain thing of yours, which I con­sider to be just bril­li­ant (O.S.). Some­thing I saw, and which foo­led me BADLY. I had no f*** idea. That was bril­li­ant. It doesn’t hap­pen often, but you foo­led me. Thank you for that. That fee­ling of magic again was on me …

All the young ’stars‘, com­plai­ning about the way Mr. Roth per­for­med on the Penn& Tel­ler show, com­plai­ning he trem­bled a bit, etc. – keep in mind: It is still this David Roth, on whose should­ers we stand. The young ‚I know it all and can do it bet­ter‘ gene­ra­tion. We were the same, young and cheeky lads. Maybe also David was that way when he was young. But then – he com­ple­tely chan­ged the way coin magic was done. And most of us did not achieve that. A bit trembling doesn’t mat­ter so far, because it is the ideas and con­cepts, which he gave us, that count. How many do his sleights, moves and rou­ti­nes in regu­lar work?

Thank you, David Roth. Thank you for what you have given us. Thank you for brin­ging really inno­va­tive thin­king to a ran­dom area of magic: coin magic.

I am still won­de­ring about and stu­dy­ing your mate­rial. Only now with 52 years of age, I start to truly under­stand some of your thin­king and stuff. And I am proud to be allo­wed to stand on your should­ers. No mat­ter what other peo­ple will be there – you will always in my heart be ‚the mas­ter‘ of them all. I pull my hat.

Sin­ce­rely and with deep and mutual respect for your work and genius. Alex­an­der de Cova a ‚David Roth fan‘? No – a true belie­ver and follower.

Alex­an­der de Cova

Pass it on!