Today I was doing magic and I was doing a version of hand sandwich and they could see the cards underneath due to the angle I was at. Then I did a different trick (btw my hands were extremely shaky and sweaty) and I was doing a double lift and completely messed up. It was extremely obvious it was a DL and they called me out on it. I'm not sure how to come back from that and second the double lift I use is blaines DL but without a pinky count. I don't find it very reliable. What is a good DL to use?
Your hands shake too? High five!
Although the difference is that mine shake most of the times while yours was THIS ONE TIME THAT THE SPIRITS OF MAGIC WERE AGAINST YOU! Lol...
I have never used a KM as a saver before, partly because my DL is pretty fool-proof after practice. I guess I will PM it to you.
And know what? For situations like this, you can just prepare on what your hunch says. If you feel that the audience will notice a sleight, try to modify it or keep practising it. There's is not really a way to avoid such situations COMPLETELY. We can just tip-toe our way around such difficulties. Remember Murphy's Law?
If something can go wrong, it probably will. I add 'at the worst possible time', but that is irrelevant.
Treat this as an oppurtunity to learn. Now you know what angle that effect looks bad from, right? This is mostly an experience thing. No way to avoid it completely.
But don't worry, such things happen, like, once a year! And if you practice a lot, once a decade! Anyways, am not a big fan of Blaine's DL, which is not even Blaine's, he popularised it. The DL looks great on Blaine but it leaves so much too factors you can't control, like the sweatiness of your hands, angle at which you have held the deck, etc.
And something a little off-topic, but I wonder if this happens to some others as well.
Sometimes (very rarely, and only when I am practising) everything I do fails! I try a DL, it looks jerky. I try a flourish, cards fall. I try hot shot, I can't catch the card. I try a muscle pass, the coin does not jump properly. Do the gods have a particular liking for me or do these weird things happen to others too? They last for just a few minutes and after a break, prob resolved. But it is so irritating.