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Rope magic is one of my favorite types of magic. However, if someone is going to do a casual performance, or one that is Guerilla or walk up style, a rope is kind of a weird thing to have with you. I recently read about a great rope trick, but didn't really know where to go with it in a more...

The left side will pretty much be exposed. You can turn it away from the audience a bit, and do it on the offbeat. Also, drop your hands out of frame when you do it. The most important thing though is misdirection. A poorly executed pass with a ton of good misdirection and audience control is...

First off, that isn't what I'm saying at all. I'm simply saying that it is different for each person, and one is not inherently easier than the other. Clearly, you think that coin magic is very difficult, which is absolutely fine, but that is you personally. Not everyone has that issue, but I'm...

You are looking at it from the perspective card only magician. There is stuff that you can do only with cards that you can't do with coins. There are excellent performances using coins, they simply aren't card effects turned into coin magic. There is nothing inherently personal about cards...

Again, it is all subjective. It may be harder for you specifically, but it isn't that way for everyone. Most probably, you are looking at it from the perspective of a cardician. Coin magic and Card magic are 2 separate things, with 2 separate learning processes, with 2 separate creative...

I agree, even though I don't have it lol Eric Jones clearly explains in the trailer that just learning these random coin moves isn't going to get you anywhere. It's confusing at first, and you don't know how 2 things might relate, but he goes over everything and it makes sense in the end. And...

We're magicians... .we spend our free time playing (with) cards by ourselves... we're not exactly the coolest people :D Seriously though, I know exactly how you feel. When you think magician, you think of this suave guy who can converse with anyone. In reality, very few people are like that, so...

"Self-Working Coin Magic: 92 Fool Proof Tricks" is a book by Karl Fulves, who you should know is a huge person in magic. Same guy who did "Self-Working Mental Magic" and "Self-Working Card Tricks". Bear in mind, these are without gimmicks. There are a ton of easy to do hard hitting coin...

2017 was kinda rough for me. I was injured the entire time, and performing was kind of hard (especially after spring of this year). However, this meant that I had a lot of time on my hands. I started out the year fully immersed in magic, very eager to learn. I learned how to truly develop my...

I would suggest buying a book: Card Control: Practical Methods and Forty Original Card Experiments by Arthur Buckley https://www.amazon.com/MMS-Card-Control-Arthur-Buckley/dp/0486277577

Lmao :D I was so confused at what the effect was, I read through it a second time just to make sure I didn't miss anything I believe the trick is called the "Goteem" by the revered Dr. Trayne O. Thouhd. Unfortunately, it the Dr. got lost one day and hasn't been seen since.

Yeah, it's crazy how he was able to balance the 2 things. Actually, it brings me to another point: I keep worrying about "If I become a professional magician, will I be giving up a job that I really like? And will it ruin magic for me by making it seem like my job?". But increasingly, I'm...

That's really cool! That's kind of how I do mine, I start mine off with a story, but I change it into a game that the spectators are playing midway through.

It all depends on if you work on it or not. I'm sure Eric Jones and Daniel Madison both have different views on this question (not saying that they can't do stuff other that what we see them do, I'm just saying that one specializes in coins and one specializes in cards). At the same time, Daniel...

I always assumed Dr. Daley was a fictional character for the "Dr. Daley's last trick" plot, but I was recently going through the Jinx magazine and the table of contents had another trick called "Dr. Jacob Daley's cups and balls" (or something). So I was wondering if he was a real person...

Oh that's right! I was thinking that I know the author created a book of nearly 100% self working card tricks, so that's why I thought Fulves. I also wrote Switchcraft for the 2 card monte, then said "no wait, that's backwards," and then proceeded to forget the name. Thanks!

I would change that. David Blaine has such a unique presentation style that he is one of the few people who can pull it off. Your patter needs to have a story. That's probably why your getting asked random questions. That type of patter is kind of... boring. You can do so much with the patter...

Don't ever give them the opportunity to do so. Have them hold it out there and immediately start talking about how they need to keep that card safe, then say something about their card being in the deck (not explicitly, but imply it, or make it a bit hidden in your words). Also, have someone...

A lot of times in trailers for products, you hear people say "I have been working on this selfishly for myself for [insert large sounding number here] years, and I am finally releasing it to you guys", or something along those lines. My question is this: If one were to spend a long long time on...

They list all the names in the descriptions of their videos