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It's on the Tricks DVD of The Trilogy, it's taught in the trick Deja Vu.

I agree with everyone else, this needs a lot of work. Your sleight of hand looks so awkward, there's just no way to justify the movements your doing, it looks suspicious, anybody watching will be able to tell that your doing something even if they don't know exactly what. Watch videos of some...

For the classic pass, I find that it just needs a lot of practice, i've been doing it constantly for a year and it's just getting to the point where i'm kind of happy with it. If you're looking for some different passes or want to improve your technique i'd recommend looking into some material...

I guess it's a combination of misdirection and obscene amounts of practice, to be honest I found this move to be far more trouble than it's worth considering it's very limited applications. If you are going to perform it make sure you don't do it as your first effect, everybody will be watching...

I agree, donating money to cancer research is a very worthwhile thing to do and I have a lot of respect for anybody who goes out of their way to do this. However, I seriously doubt you have anywhere near enough experience to make a DVD. You should at least make a few Youtube videos so we can see...

There's no way to say if it's new or not without seeing a performance of it, I can think of several ways of achieving it and various similar effects. It's possible you've found a new method but you've not really given us enough information to say for sure.

I had this problem and I solved it by performing more frequently. I always used to shake even after i'd been doing magic for over a year, it can be a really horrible thing to have, it can make difficult sleights almost impossible. As soon as I came to university and started performing...

I would advise using the first version. The effect is based around 2 spectators seeing a single card differently, the deck is not really involved in it. I seriously doubt the deck being shown blank will make the effect any more powerful. It just isn't particularly logical for this to happen...

What you say is very true, although we get threads about it very frequently. I'd simply advise not watching the battles if they annoy you that much, I don't bother. The whole system is a joke in my opinion, people give out stupidly specific challenges obviously based on what they've just been...

As always that was an interesting and thought provoking post. I don't really have much to say on this one as I completely agree with you and I don't believe I can add anything meaningful to what you said, just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to write these posts, I appreciate them.

You can get through decks very quickly when practicing a lot, a deck rarely lasts me more than a week. Sometimes I have to throw it away after a day if i've been performing all night, people quite often have dirty hands or spill drinks on it etc. Just keep them around for practicing any tricks...

Oh my god, I can't believe you're still persisting with this. I've been away from the forums for well over a month and it was getting really tiresome then. You really need to get over yourself.

I always want my spectators to remember me and the experience of watching magic. The tricks I do are almost irrelevant. When i'm doing magic for people I never plan what i'm going to do. I don't want my spectators to feel like they're watching a scripted show, it should feel spontaneous and...

This isn't a good attitude to have when learning magic (or when doing anything). If the move is useful then it's worth putting in the effort. The Dribble pass isn't even that hard, it's one of the easier passes i've come across and it probably has the best angles. If people are burning your...

It sounds like you have more than enough material to perform. I seriously you doubt you have learnt everything on these DVD's. There's enough on those DVD's to do an entire show. If you have actually learnt everything then i'd recommend looking at Surfaced by Chad Nelson or Past Midnight by...

I think you should always be yourself. Look at magicians such as Wayne Houchin, Daniel Garcia, Lee Asher, Daniel Madison and Chris Kenner. Their personality doesn't change at all when they're performing. I would never use a character, it would feel very unnatural and I think it would make...

I'm not interested in new decks at all, i'd rather have new material.

A little flash can completely expose the method, as it does in your video. I wasn't watching closely but the flash was really notceable. Also, I don't think saying 'they probably won't notice' is a very good attitude to have. I think you should try and make your sleight of hand as perfect as...

I guess my hands are reasonably long, I have fairly thin fingers but I when I have a card palmed it's competely invisible.

If a routine requires excessive repetition of a particular sleight then I would suggest restructuring the routine. I try to never use more than 2 Double lifts in an ACR. There are many alternatives that will accomplish the same thing as the Double lift. If I think people are getting a suspicious...