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Psypher looks great. I used to use Universal Impression. Although I liked it, I have since moved on to something else I prefer. But I have no qualms with it - it performed well, and has never failed me. I think the key with all such gimmicks though is how you use it. Please, for goodness sake...

Just one for now - take it slow. You know that you bought a lot of stuff, and you eventually stopped doing magic for some reason, and you sold everything. The fact that you emphasised "a lot" suggests that your buying behaviour outweighed your performance and practice. Don't forget that magic is...

After you mess up, there's very little you can do sometimes. You recover as best you can. Occasionally, it's a lost cause. But you get better at covering up. And you go home (well, you're already at home), you go back to the drawing board, and you work out what you did wrong, take note of it...

Agreed with the others. The sleight is pointless and illogical. Which is probably the reason why you've never seen it before. I don't really get it as a colour change. You put a card face down into the deck, and a different card springs out. That's not really a colour change... It's not really...

My essential list is as follows: -Strong Magic (Ortiz) -Maximum Entertainment (Webber) -Designing Miracles (Ortiz) -The Five Points in Magic (Tamariz) Only the last one hasn't yet been mentioned, I think. I'll get to your PM soon as well btw. :)

I won't tell you to practice more as you requested, but I will note that you should be aware that the harder the technique (and usually the better), the longer it will take to get down. I wouldn't be surprised if it took you years of practice to get them down perfectly and reliably. In the...

Hi Matthew, Welcome to the forum! Well, first off, this probably isn't the answer you're expecting, but I've recently made a lot of posts about this subject: tricks aren't hard hitting in and of themselves. It's all about what you make it - what you put into it, whether the trick works for...

This from the person who's amassed a giant thread out of his love for the art of magic? Hm. I've always been curious if that was true. I intend to find out next year. Will be interesting to see if there are any differences... :)

This post begins above. Ottozhen, let's look at your last post for a moment. You wrote: "I've heard stories on here before of people performing tricks that made dropped the jaws of the most stubborn spectators." Ok, so we have some stubborn spectators here. We have some stubborn but...

Your post is on the right track, in terms of what I wanted to say. It's about belief, but I'll talk about that below. A quick note on suspension of disbelief, though. I don't think this is a good term to use. It's a theatrical term, but ill appropriated into magic. The process of suspending...

No-one said that not clicking = not defining the magical moment... The absence of one method of definition does not exclude definition in its entirety. At its core, belief in magic is about emotional belief, not logical belief. I think that snapping one's fingers suggests the latter, although...

I think you guys are taking the wrong approach. The hurdle here is not the trick, it is the attitude. If a spectator chooses to view everything he sees as a trick, how will performing another trick help? It may, in a small number of cases, but I believe there's a better way. More on this later...

Misdirection doesn't hurt, though - executing the move on an off beat and such. The palm is one of the harder moves available to magicians. Everyone does it, and barely anyone can do it well. Try to work on being natural, and having a fluid palming motion. Watch as many people performing palms...

Apologies that they're not there 24/7 to respond to your every whim instantaneously. 2 days is not "never responded". 2 days is called impatience and undeserved entitlement.

That's because it's a Sunday! >.>

But sadly illiterate, apparently.

lol! I didn't think anyone would notice. You liked the previous one, huh? :P

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... Congratulations - you've basically invented a (not as good - sorry) rendition of John Cornelius' Winter Change... The mechanics are the same, applied to a card back, and the handling doesn't look as good. And yeah, you badly need to learn a different...

Evidently, Jesse wants clean, healthy-looking hair without the hassle.

24 Business hours buddy. They've been pretty busy lately, but I'm surely they'll get to you ASAP. They should email you back. :)