What are your favourite IMPROMPTU effects for walk around/street use? What effects can be performed with a borrowed deck with very little to no setup and surrounded?
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What are your favourite IMPROMPTU effects for walk around/street use?
This is probably what the majority of my performances are, so I would need more detail to give you more effective recommendations.
The Biddle Trick is great; very simple, very flexible in terms of routining, and it's a double-climax effect that seems impossible. Most people haven't seen this trick performed. It's also nice because it starts out rather mundane.
Mercury is impromptu in the sense that you can get setup while introducing yourself, with an ordinary deck. Also very very effective for getting into a four of a kind routine, such as black hole [or even Chris Kenner's effect in the 1:1 section!].
Two card monte is alright, but when doing public walkaround I find I need to chose my spectators carefully, and have good control to perform this effectively.
Look into some impromptu card to pockets, those are great.
For card walkaround, I would DEFINITELY carry a 2 duplicates of any card, one with a different back. You'll be able to 'the best card trick in the world', card transpositions in the spectator's hands, effortless card to wallets.
Again, this is material that I work with every week, so ask away!