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Get Complete Idiot's Guide to Street Magic by Tom Ogden. That is an underrated piece of gold for beginners and beginner-amateurs. Modern Road to Coin Magic and also get Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown. Not serious secrets there as such, but the simple theory told by Brown in a simple manner...

BTW, in the above post, reprimanding him/her for teaching coveted secrets I mean. If someone does that on You Tube, they will get famous among the magical fraternity for the wrong reasons...

Nope, unless it is public domain as in case of say, flourishes. But now-a-days people even credit for flourishes and refuse to either teach or teach in detail about a flourish that is not there's to teach. As for sleights, I don't think it is a very good idea if they have not been given...

Thanks about the suggestions mate. And about the Royal Road thing...the thing is I am more up for quick tricks where, say, I don't have to count 7 cards in 3 rows and 5 cards in bundles and stuff like that (the Royal does not have such tricks, 'm just sayin'). And since, maybe my bad, I have not...

I don't think that frankly speaking, there's anything wrong about making your own theories and versions about a trick you saw. If people did not do that, magic would die out very quickly. Just imagine:- Someone must have done the coin vanish. And he/she was probably one of, if not the only, one...

Hmm...Interesting thoughts guys...Thnx!

Okay...so that's a weird spectator and DEFINITELY among the rare ones who will pester you srsly to show the method to a trick. Usually, spectators just ask RHETORICALLY 'how did you do that?' and they know you won't tell them. But if the situation gets awkward and demands a reply from me, I...

First, you are right... And second... DAMN AUTOCORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(sorry if that was explicitly offensive) I never noticed they changed Dai Vernon to Daily Vernon! :-[

Well, when people say I do magic tricks...it has a weird ring to it. Even though I know that 'magic tricks' have come out a LONG way from the rabbit-stuff, I guess it is just the social image that pops in my mind when I hear 'magic tricks' of a typical magician pulling an endless stream of silk...

Sorry abt the title...just a random thought. 3 questions... Am sure you guys must have seen the effect where a chosen card is put in the middle of the deck out jogged and then VISUALLY jumps up a few cards, and then a few, and then to the top. What is the name of the effect? Also... Royal road...

Well, the title is kinda strange, I know. Here's the question, with respect to very simple flourishes like spreads and Springs, and even fans, which are the ones I can with enough practice do with old decks also? I know that with enough practice you can do anything but well for a I know that...

I will get straight to an answer...i think I have given this before... Complete Idiot's guide to street magic. It is the best book that I have read in a long time obviously the methods are nothing to compare with maybe the modern coin magic or the Royal Road...but whatever they have said is...

Thanks everyone! Am better prepared now! :-)

How about I become completely mad and say, Daily Vernon? Honestly I feel the professor was good at everything he tried.

Spread past is so suave looking AND feeling. Like the spread pass on you tube. Check out Disturb Reality! But for day to day purposes, I guess sometimes I just do the double undercut. Simple but does the job and audience don't mind. I usually shuffle it TWICE after double undercutting too. As...

I'll get straight to the point then. I performed a book test and people loved it but there was this ONE person who said "You have seen it from Britain's Got Talent, right?" Now this comment was not meant to be harsh, just like most laymen comment, to show maybe that they care about the trick...

Complete Idiot's guide to street magic by Tom Ogden. Works amazingly and is quite good for amateurs too.

Karen Singh Magic You got magic with Neel Madhav Richard Jones Not in any particular order tho :-)

I guess if I ever created an effect and saw another magician (hopefully famous) perform it, I would never be 100% happy, and that's obvious. But a little bit of acknowledging should make me pretty (again, not completely, that's impossible) relaxed. Say if someone says something like "This effect...

Thankoo! :-) :-)