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  1. avihoffmanmagic

    Help with gaff cards ...

    How about blanks?
  2. avihoffmanmagic

    Three Effects

    Lee Asher suggests that a begginer in magic should learn 3 great pieces of magic, and do them better than anyone else. If you would be a begginer in magic, which 3 effects would you choose? (I would choose The Biddle Trick, Search and Destroy by Aaron Fisher, and Sloppy Shuffle Triumph by Chris...
  3. avihoffmanmagic

    My iVanish Video

    I realy like your performance. I dont do very coin tricks, but iVanish is one of the few, and I gotta say, I dont usually see a performance quite that good. If you perform for a live audience and you want to talk in middle of the effect, a good thing to practice is ventrilaquism. But you dont...
  4. avihoffmanmagic

    A good sandwich effect...

    AMAZING Search and Destroy by Aaron Fisher Catch by Daniel Madison Collectors by Dan and Dave Buck Just Joking by Jay Sankey Ishkabibble Sandwich by Eric Jones White or Wheat by Daniel Garcia OK Half Vanish by Daniel Madison Search and Destroy by Aaron Fisher is by...
  5. avihoffmanmagic

    TnR vs. Torn

    I have both TnR and Torn, and I was wondering which one you guys think is better to perform. And if you guys know about any other Torn and Restored cards I should check out, I would love to hear about them.
  6. avihoffmanmagic

    White Centurions Offline...

    I realy wish they would release them in large quantities, though. It realy does look like an awesome deck. I'd buy it.
  7. avihoffmanmagic

    Has David Blaine damaged magic?

    I think that David Blaine and Criss Angel help some peoples magic, and hurt others. The ones they hurt are the people who try to be them. The ones they help are the close up magicians who are themselves. There is much less talk of bunnies and top hats and tights in most laymen. Now, it is card...
  8. avihoffmanmagic

    Backpalming cleanup?

    Why dont you just clean up by apparently pulling a card out of thin air? If you dont want to do that, you can do what Keokesilverfang suggests, or what I sometimes do is in the action of showing both sides of my hand empty, I put my backpalmed card on the face of the deck. Ill try to explain...
  9. avihoffmanmagic

    How do you perform at school?

    Do a trick for just one kid, he will tell his friends, they will tell their friends, and so on. One thing I did once was I staged it with one of my friends. When the other kids saw what I was doing, the came over by themselves. At that point, the process was the same. Dont take performing in...
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    Why are we such bad audience members?

    I dont think that a person who does that can call themselves a magician. I was doing a trick for a group of people in a local magic shop, and a magician that most of you probably heard of, but will remain anonymous was present. He knew the trick I was showing, but for my sake and for the sake of...
  11. avihoffmanmagic

    Inovation: What's Your Creative Process?

    There are several ways it can happen. 1)You try to do one thing, and something totally different happens 2)You play around with a concept and find a different use for it that can be relatively similar or totally different(like the rising card deck to the rising card app) 3)You can think of...
  12. avihoffmanmagic

    Is Cardistry just "Showing Off"?

    Allright, listen up. a) Card flourishing is not juggling, it is a sport in itself b) True, it is not magic, but by God, it is damn cool c) If you do these flourishes, you will find sleight of hand 100 times easier d) It is a skill that should be more respected by magicians e) It is realy...
  13. avihoffmanmagic

    What flourish makes you feel like a badass?

    Gotta be either the Color Change from Dangerous 1, Andrei Jikh's B4 Cut, or most of all, Devo's Cobra Cut
  14. avihoffmanmagic

    GIMMICKS vs SLEIGHTS

    Your job as a magician is to entertain an audience, with gaffs, with gimmicks, with sleight of hand, and any other way you can. What you sound like you are saying is that using gaffs/gimmicks are cheating. I think it is important to do both sleight of hand and gaff magic. If someone asks you to...
  15. avihoffmanmagic

    The most effective color change...

    learn as many color changes as you can. you will eventually find uses for them. you will not get anywhere by just doing the shapeshifter and erdnase. there are applications for color, snap, click, glitch, fan, wheel, cardini, axis, airbrush, radical, and every other change on the planet. but if...
  16. avihoffmanmagic

    Trilogy (Flourishes) or Motion

    they are both realy good. but motion has more flourishes, that are also easier. on the trilogy-flourishes dvd, there is no talking, which i find to be a drawback. but get both of them, and if you are serious about card manipulation, get the system, xtreme begginerz 1-2, cobra cut, and cradle to...
  17. avihoffmanmagic

    How Do You Get Clean After A Shape-Shifter?

    one thing i do sometimes is execute the shapeshifter in the action of coming up and slapping the card on the face of the deck. this is good for 4 reasons. 1, it automatically ends clean. 2, it gives extra misdirection for those just starting the move or those not confident with it yet. 3, there...
  18. avihoffmanmagic

    Need feedback fairly quickly...

    shut it with the psychic scum, churchwell.
  19. avihoffmanmagic

    Need feedback fairly quickly...

    Search and Destroy by Aaron Fisher Sloppy Shuffle Triumph by Chris Kenner Stigmata by Wayne Houchin Election by Chris Kenner* Blind by Daniel Madison* 5 Speed by Chris Kenner* Blueprint by Chris Kenner even some simple changes hit hard I know some tricks here are not impromptu, but they...
  20. avihoffmanmagic

    Best Effect?

    Not taking into account practicality, or anything from a magician's perspective, i'd say Tagged by Rich Ferguson. But do what is good for you. If you can, check out The Trilogy by Dan and Dave, Dangerous by Daniel Madison, Ultragaff by Wayne Houchin and Daniel Garcia, and The Daniel Garcia...
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