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Rene Lavand is a one-handed magician who lost the use of his right hand. He teaches a lot of one-handed sleights as well. He always does one-handed false shuffles. Look into his Close Up Artistry series for that. Also teaches his famous "It Can't Be Done Any Slower" in volume one. You should...

Well unfortunately I think the counterexample is flawed in that it has a music component. Playing your favorite song on a fake guitar is a fun part of the game. DDR is the same way, is it going to get you to dance at the clubs, not really. But definitely fun because of the music. Subtract that...

Fresh out of the box, I powder my cards. They feel so much better afterwards and proper breaking in of the deck and repowder and the cards are tuned for performances. May seem a bit extreme to powder brand new cards, but trust me to get rid of that slippery-ness without destroying the stock or...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpuVUYx6TM Here's a one minute routine of several one-handed only items you can grab some ideas from it. Made this a year ago or so.

Why talk when you can train. I usually don't get involved in the discussions their usually very one-sided with just a few people contributing while the others pretend to listen. Just my personal thing.

Broaden your horizons, how can you create the next big move and so-called "move the art" if you don't know what's already been discovered and master it.

The title of the move is VERY confusing. Where's the double part? I don't understand that. Just because you release with your thumb and fingers makes it a double spring? A real normal double spring is two springs done side by side very fast. This is accomplished by springing only half of the...

Best attention getter and I don't even have to say a word, do the right moves at the right time and people will notice. I usually do a 2-3 minute XCM routine before stepping into anything magic, but usually the spectator will ask if I'm able to do some, but if I don't feel up for the magic I...

To me it's totally useless yeah this is opinion but really really look at it. One, how many times can you do this move with 100% success that the cards will "anti-faro" WITHOUT you having to readjust the deck. Two, what deck condition is exactly needed? Would it interfere with your normal...

Favorites to perform: upright armspread fan twirl, arm-roll close, spin giant fan and giant angle fans half turnover overhead armspread catch overhead spring long distance spinners and vertical spins L-cut sequences 6 packet display cut deck twirls tumble and twirl cut riffs triple...

^-- He doesn't know what he's talking about.

Color changes are no effect or tricks, their not flourishes either, their in a category of themselves unless purposely presented. By themselves, their just color changes. But Expert at the Card Table was printed 70+ years ago the terminology has changed. "card changing" is usually called a...

I highly doubt that's possible. For one, Japan is pretty low on the card manipulation. A penspinning anime/manga would probably come out before ANY card manipuatlion anime/manga. You don't know how rare this stuff is. Although there is anime/manga about tennis, football, POKER, Go, children's...

Xtreme Beginners is my only recommendation, everything else can come after that as suggestions.

I laugh every time I see that anti-faro and see people talking about it like it's revolutionary. What's the point? TOTALLY USELESS in a pure manipulation sense AND in sleight of hand magic sense. Now about people looking for new things to explore, definitely Handlordz and Decknique. Absorb as...

And I find it hard to take someone seriously who states that he can't take a title card seriously and finds the need to inform everybody about it.

The problem I see is that people seem to be relying on the fellow peers to motivate yourself which is sometimes necessary. Sometimes you have to be in it for YOU. There have been several things in my life that other friends have got me into it and then a year later my particular friend is no...

I like to watch penspinners, yo-yo tricksters, body tricksters, free running, parkour, flair bar tending, jugglers, pool trick shot competitions, and anything else skill related. I like to grab from the other manipulations to get myself motivated to become great in my skill.

I find it hard to believe you really "breezed" through XB no problem. How are your springs can you get 2 feet with them? Is it nice and fluid? How about your armspreads? Are the long and can you catch with confidence? Have you developed anything for perching have you messed and come up with your...

"There is more to life than fans and armspreads you know! *sigh*" True, but most people don't invest time into those moves anyway. You can get a lot of mileage in performances with just fan and armspreads. Like I said I don't care about the originality of individual moves but the grace and flow...