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Not bad! Keep working on your smoothness and speed - both will come with continued practice. Also, be careful with "Waiting Hand Syndrome" - the tendency for the non-dominant hand to awkwardly hang in place when the dominant hand is doing a move. It's best to either do something with the hand...

Patience is good - but it's important to be active. Build a name for yourself in the community. Release videos, perform, improve, refine, get stuff on the Wire to help test market viability, scale up, scale up, scale up. It'll take time for sure, but that time has to be filled with you being...

I gotcha. Sounds cool, man - I wish you the best with it. :) And good on you for getting something like this going! Best, Vince

Let's remember, though, that for the purposes of this industry and any printed training material a person would release - we're rarely talking about something as complex as the above. That is certainly the process for getting a standard book published and out the door, especially when more...

It's a growing process. You can network and partner up with people who have access to this kind of equipment, borrow said equipment from friends / family, save up money (via a job or whatever else) and get the equipment yourself, etc. Lots of possibilities. Best, Vince

Cheers, man. Give it a watch sometime! :) As for the prod. company - I don't have experience in the area of getting gigs, since the company only works on my own projects (currently a network of a dozen-or-so niche content websites monetized with Adsense.) From there it will be expanding into...

Word up! Thanks for watching, mate. :D Best, Vince

Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j1502QSaLr4 Best, Vince

True - but in most (if not all) applications a silent pass will do you more good than a noisy one. Best, Vince

Professionally I'm an actor and business owner - and occasionally perform with cards. I'm most well-known for an online show called "The Guild", starring Felicia Day. My three businesses are a marketing firm, a New Media production company, and an acting school that I manage. I cook avidly...

Hey Fran, Send a PM to one of the Theory11 staff to make sure they see it; they may not come across this thread. Best, Vince

No problems there; my post wasn't intended to elicit a response, only to clarify our (specifically my own) actual position and the intention of the thread. :) Best, Vince

While I generally agree with the above, I would like to add another take: If you're entering the world of entrepreneurship or trying to build a business or income stream for yourself, the first most important thing is action - and the second most important thing is the result of action applied...

You're essentially repeating the same point we've been making throughout the thread. At no point did anyone disagree with that, and it is what we have been making a case for this entire time. Bear in mind that not often did I mention "story" - and when I did it was often only as an example...

Let me clarify: my point is that a deck of cards can be fanned, spread, sprung, cut, dribbled, tossed, and juggled. Pins or balls have far fewer possible combinations than those listed above, given their shape, size and quantity. While 52-packet displays are possible, they are butt-ugly and...

I'd say we both seem pretty "convinced" of our individual ideas. ;) To summarize the entirety of my point: I don't care about or have personal bias as to what people want - I simply observe it and deliver it. Whether that is story or not, skill or not, etc. It doesn't matter to me. I don't...

Again, I won't reply to the points that will get repetitive, just the ones I think we can continue to get some mileage out of for the sake of the conversation. :) As below: You just described two acts that were not pure-manipulation. People came to see Amazing Jonathan - a comedian and...

I really can't say it enough: everyone who takes the art of manipulation seriously needs both of these products. They teach such a fantastic breadth and foundation in the art that they cannot be overlooked. As for the hand exercises - yes, they help. It's good to learn them. I don't do them...

I can't comment on why you were rejected, but consider a couple of tips: 1. The move is very similar to a few things that are already out there, such as "Vertical Spin" - published by De'vo but the motions of which date back farther, the Hotshot Cut by Daryl, and others. Each differs a bit in...

All said, we've each made our case and had it out. I don't feel the need to respond to the majority of your post, as it would just end up with you and I repeating ourselves. However, I wanted to respond to the last paragraph or so. I've broken it down below: That depends on the craft. Not all...