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There are a lot of good table work books out there. But the problem I have found with them is that they don't show situations. I like videos to show a performance of the slight and then teach it as well. So I agree with you to an extent.

An effective card prediction would be nice. Like a mentalism "think of a card" kind of thing. I would like to see more from Chris Kenner's totally out of control :)

Funny you mentioned that. I teach a improv comedy troupe after school and one of the first thing I did with my kids (kind of an initiation) is get them one at a time up on stage and they have to just "do" anything. The audience has an important job. If they find that the lone actor isn't...

Just got an e-mail. RIOT is a signed card that rises to the top of the deck with "no cover, no funny motions, and with unbelievable finesse." Sounds good.

umm... welcome to the..... ... forums???? :)

24. It's a good number.

I only have one pack of split spades and even after I have abused the heck out of them and set them down for a month I come back to them and they act like a new deck. Well worth the money. But Guardians are still my favorite because of the design. :)

I agree. I think you need to just keep going until you do something that will make them say "Huh, I'm not too sure how you did that one." Even if they are not that impressed, you still get a reaction from them and they may not know how to do that trick. Now they may still go on to Youtube...

My students use to think that I would spend all day and night looking on youtube for videos. I soon found out which tricks were popular on youtube and that were easily searchable and tried to do them less and less. However, there is a few things that could be done here. Make sure you don't...

I am very impressed with the look of this from Oz Pearlman from Penguinmagic. Watch the girls reaction at the end of the video. It is priceless. http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=1895 Any thoughts?

I agree with most of praetoritevong. I think that the slieghts/pass/steal and everything else we do in secret, shouldnt look like a secret at all. If you get good enough these "secret" moves will look natural to the point that the spectator has no idea what has or was going on. If it look...

To be quite honest, I am sick of hearing Sankey whine about this stuff. It is impossible to create a trick anymore because Sankey released so much (and if you look on E under the clearance section you will find a bunch of his stuff) that there is obviously going to be someone creating similar...

I voted right. But I use both. I am right handed and I started out as a righty. But I have forced myself to use my left hand and become second nature with it. I can do most of the tricks with both hands now. It is also easier, because most books or videos have instructions from the left...

The pen seems to work better on smoother skin. When practicing on myself (I have very wide groves for finger print marks (not sure what they are really called)) for example, the pen may take more than one time to make a dark mark. When I did the trick earlier today on someone, it showed up...

Although I don't count myself as a magician (or sleight of hand expert) mainly because I think you need to have several years of practice to even be labeled that, I can answer the questions. 1. I started when I was very young. I think about 4th or 5th grade. However I stopped when I got...

I will keep trying, but I am sure that the ink is flowing corectly. I use fountain pens all the time for my work so I know when the ink flow is working. It just seems that the ink is very watery or weak in the rollerball. When I write an X on my hand sometimes I have to go over it like 4...

Regardless when you have time to practice, if you actually set time away to practice...you will get much more done than just randomly playing with cards. Not to say that it is bad to do that, but when you say I am going to work on cards from this time to this, you know how much time to play...

I know eXile is very new, and not alot of people have this yet. However, I was just wondering how thick the ink is on other members pens. Meaning, on the DVD it looks very thick and visible. However on my own hand it seems very transparent, almost like the ink is fake. Anyone else...

Not to rub it in your face (no pun intended) but I got mine today. If you remember they were having problems with shipments from France. It is worth the wate, but just try to be patient. Theory11 has always been good about shipping to me. Whenever I have ordered something (besides the recent...