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I thought your point was, "you don't practice as much as your perform", which makes me wonder how good or bad you are - as I don't know any decent magician that doesn't practice more than he plays. I don't know ANYONE good at ANYTHING that doesn't practice more than he plays!! So, if you don't...

again...you said it.

Umm...you said it. Do you think any sports figures play more than practice? I hope not. Preparation makes you a better...not stumbling through your magic until you get it right...wow, I don't envy your audiences...at all.

Shak - try to make your patter have more meaning to the effect. I am not sure what the story about the shoes had to do with the actual effect? You have got some good advice on some of the other aspects. I love how you had Backstreet boys playing in the Back(street)ground, haha, nice!

I hope this helps, as I have felt like you before...like everything, magic has it's dips on the love factor. When I was in University, I was performing 4 nights a week doing walk around gigs, and private parties on top. The audiences would make me feel like A GOD some nights, others...and I...

I think it would be neat to dress as a magician from the era...like Blackstone, or Doug Henning...I mean, both were young at that time, but really...you could dress up as the "spirit" of Houdini...and say, if Houdini would have lived past 1926, he would have looked and done magic like this. I...

Wow, the Invisible Palm thread...interesting. Are we talking about the best one? I would then ask - for what situation? Although, the first post - the guy was really clean and doing some high end handling that looked very nice...it wouldn't have looked like that from any other angle than...

Sean Raf's answer is a good one, but let's just, for arguments sake, say that you DO want to show something. I have not seen an abundance of good answers on this thread...parts of good answers...but nothing really usable. Here are some solutions: Consider effects that are self working...

Fans - glad you did - thanks for the kind words and I think what you wrote is good. I agree, magic has changed...but is it for the better? Are the changes helpful or do they hurt us overall? Pros/Cons?

A few things - first, you can do the "prework" as in unshuffled, to only have to do a few shuffles in performance. Second, doing a reverse faro - or an antifaro is not that easy. Jupiter, are you saying you can spring the cards so they reverse faro...or are you manually jogging back and...

I understand the usefulness of a Faro, I wasn't downplaying it - I was just saying, "how many effects do you use with it" and "even if you do 100, I don't find the knowledge of THIS particular move exposure". There are other ways to retain a full deck, outside of a faro, that is all.

First, the guy in the video has a little too much hand movement. The re-adjustments aren't necessary, and his rubbing action to start the weave on a few, is a bit amateur. However, it's a start...but if that is a finished product, meh. As for it being exposure - I am not sure...I can see how...

To fill you in a bit more - your presentation or "patter" should give a reason for someone to see what you do as more than "a trick", it is the narration to the plot. Many young magicians start off by giving instruction patter...like, I put the cards here, these are all read - but a more...

WOW - thanks RDChopper, a very kind statement from a very kind and talented magician. Please do PM me, if you want to learn more about presentation - I would love to share. PS - when I wrote the above, I had NO idea that the post above mine would recommend me...haha, you never know what...

Patter is a term used for "presentation", but I am sure once I post this...there will be posts above mine stating this. The only things I could recommend, and by the way, you did it well, but I would recommend not "sliding" your hand to the side, as that is a tell on the method. Consider...

Since you are asking for feedback – here are the things I picked up on that can be changed to improve your effect. - Don’t tell me you are placing the cards down, I can see that. - Showing all the cards, but one, looks very suspicious and leads me to believe that card wasn’t the colour that...

I liked number 1...number 2 was misleading...and this one is good too Lyle Borders. Would love to hear your thoughts on some of my writings.

I bet alll the girls think you are cool

Yes. Really.

It was called sarcasm...what a moron. Good to see you are still full of "mouthgarbage". Brian Tudor lover is back in the building? I knew I hated this guy.