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No worries! On what you said, allow me to share with you my favourite quote on theatre (which was my first love), that I think is very applicable to magic, and remembering magic: "When a performance is over, what remains? Fun can be forgotten, but powerful emotion also disappears and good...

Practice. Sorry to be blunt, but it's true - you just have to develop the touch for it. Look up sources that you can learn the push-off double lift from. But there's only so much that can be taught - you have to put in the hours to get the right touch. During the EMC a few weeks ago, one of...

If you are referring to this passage: "Ladybug resource guide: You can easily obtain enough ladybugs for hundreds of performances. The ladybugs are shipped in a self contained package and require no feeding or care." Then what it means is that it includes a ladybug resource guide, that tells...

It's worth it if you will use it. Do note that you will also need to obtain ladybugs yourself. The gimmick is small, well packaged, and looks perfectly natural and easy to use. Obviously not a good walkaround piece - it's one of those "I know I'm going to perform, and I'm going to perform this...

anth0ny, There is a minimum word count on posts - I believe it is 10 characters. So if someone wants to reply with a response of "Idiot." then they have to make up the word count, 10 characters, some way or the system won't let them post. So many people put [Word Count] or something similar...

Interesting thread. In my opinion, there have been some valid and not so valid responses and theories here... CPR's post was a good one. Firstly, to address this. I agree with Justin - it is natural for people to try and guess how you do things. Especially if you put them up on YouTube. This...

If you're going to come up with your own ideas, then yes, it's probably worth it. If you're not going to come up with your own ideas, then no, it's probably not worth it. What makes Smoke "worth it" is its value in innumerable applications. If you're just gonna puff out smoke every time you do...

Maybe, but I'd like to think that people Battled because they wanted to get critique, and not just to prove how great they are compared to everyone else... I didn't like Battles for a few reasons, but I at least tried to give detailed critique of what was posted. But I'm not optimistic.

Firstly, and on an unrelated note, I think Brian Tudor has incredible chops - but being good doesn't mean being intelligent, and personally, I think that, second only to De'Vo, Tudor is the biggest douchebag in manipulation history. Secondly, to the people saying that speed = smooth... Speed up...

Hi Crimson Ace, I'm going to give you two answers to this question. One of them is along the lines of what everyone else has been saying. The other looks at your question from a very different angle and hasn't yet been addressed. I hope you'll consider them both. Firstly, I think it's more...

From memory, I think someone beat you to a thread about Danny Garcia's nunchuck skills, etc. :P But it was some time ago. Well, I don't really have anything for the other things, but here's a funny story I read last night I think about a would-be ninja...

JEN, that's a good point, but I don't think it applies here. For example. Take The Amazing Memory Test that was mentioned earlier on - $200 per manuscript. Now compare with: http://www.lybrary.com/amazing-memory-test-p-69781.html?osCsid=4e5941cae5cf24a5fbb172f4b2867d62 $25 on Lybrary.com Now...

Thanks for posting that ThisTwoGoesTo22. This is precisely the thing I was referring to - Luke selling "limited edition" manuscripts for several hundred dollars, before releasing the rights to sell them for $20 or $30. He's been called out on it in numerous places, and I think that it's just...

Non-Americans often use a different spelling of the word.

There is, but I think what he was getting at, and what I mentioned in the other post, was that it would be handy to have a "Mark ALL forums read" button on the main page - otherwise, there are still 6 or 7 forums that have to be marked read.

No worries Cliff. Apologies for possibly coming off a bit more counter-productive than I intended. :)

It's quite a common change in many older card magic books. Vernon has a version that is around that in his Inner Card Trilogy. But the technique used is so general, that it's hard to pinpoint one specific creator.

You're asking for a lot there. I'd be surprised if people could agree on many ratings at all. I mean, even something like thickness is sometimes contested - never mind things like how smooth the surface is.

Make your own card box window? If you really wanted to, but... I wouldn't want to show that to a spec. "Hey, check out this card through the hole I cut! I know it doesn't normally have a hole in it, but I cut one out just so you could see this!" Obviously, I'm exaggerating, but in good faith...

Hold on a sec here. Two things: 1) Having sleight of hand skill is a very different skill to being graceful with cards... Take for example the career gambler, like Daniel Negreanu, for example. He obviously can handle cards well... He has "skill" in that sense - but he has no, as far as I'm...