So, one of my friends have been trying to learn to do card magic, and I taught him the double lift and he has been practicing incessantly. To boost his confidence/check up on his progress, he approached his roommate, did a simple double lift, then turned it over, then turned over the real top card, and she was amazed. A couple days later, I was at their apartment, and I had her make a selection, and controlled it to the top. I did a double lift, and did a Cardini/Pughe's/Ego type change (very visual) and she nonchalantly said "oh, that's cool.... He [the friend] did that to me the other day"
She didn't remember the fact that he flipped over his card, and that she actually "saw the card change" when I did it. In essence, the end effect of the two methods were the same!
This incident made me start thinking, and I just started reading royal road to card magic. There are so many effects in there that just seem so simple, that I feel like people will not be impressed at all with them. But that's just because I'm looking at the effect through the eyes of a magician (or at least someone that has a very elementary understanding of sleight of hand). Any ideas on how to move past that?
She didn't remember the fact that he flipped over his card, and that she actually "saw the card change" when I did it. In essence, the end effect of the two methods were the same!
This incident made me start thinking, and I just started reading royal road to card magic. There are so many effects in there that just seem so simple, that I feel like people will not be impressed at all with them. But that's just because I'm looking at the effect through the eyes of a magician (or at least someone that has a very elementary understanding of sleight of hand). Any ideas on how to move past that?