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That's looking like you haven't taken the good advice you got on the Magic Cafe forum. Stop shuffling face up, try a stacking method that doesn't take so long, and, while you're at it, maybe learn to deal tops in a natural manner.

If you do want learn these moves, don't take this guy's performance as your model. He's not exactly brilliant, plus he doesn't even seem to know what the moves are called. Anyway, you can learn all of those moves from Expert Card Technique by Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, except for the mucks. The...

My answer to "Is it real?" is usually, "Yeah, sort of", which is true, but also vague enough for them to put their own interpretation on it. We could very easily stray into the philosophy of mind here, because, after all, what is "real"? If you see a coin go into my left hand, then a moment...

Well, you've convinced me...all this time I thought I (and Milton Erickson, Richard Bandler, Ormond McGill, David Berglas etc.) was hypnotising people and it turns out I wasn't, it's all bull****. Penn and Teller make a valid point, in that the word "hypnosis" can describe a multitude of...

Sorry, I obviously haven't explained myself very well. In Twinsplit Remix, two hands are used in the split. The move I use is in one hand, the effect being that a four instantly changes into a fan of four aces. Anyway, I know this "multiple snap change" idea isn't original with me, but I'm...

I'm talking about the Marlo-style snap change, or Goldin change, or whatever you want to call it. I've got a routine where I split a four into the four aces using this move. I know I'm not the first person to do a "multiple snap change", but I was wondering if anyone knows who should be credited...

Just want to point out that Rick Smith Jr (the card throwing guy), isn't the same person as Ricky Smith (the guy who invented the Cherry Control).

What is it about magic that used to motivate you? What's changed?

I assume you're joking. As far as I can see this is the Ego Change, as taught by Daniel Garcia, which is, as far as I can work out, exactly the same as George Pughe's move. I admit, I haven't read the original description for Pughe's Pass, so I'm basing this on the teaching on Avenue. If...

I'm going to do some cold reading on the Theory 11 community, the UK based ones anyway, and suggest that not many of you are avid Radio 4 listeners. So, here's a link to a documentary you may have missed, featuring Paul Daniels and William Kalush talking about Houdini...

Where did you get that idea from? Flourishes, and card manipulation in general, have been around a lot longer than spelling stuff with an X when it actually starts with an E (in those days, they were using K's instead of C's...much cooler). Armspreads, fans, flourish cuts, aerials and any other...

It was originally published in 1980, in Secrets of a Puerto Rican Gambler by Stephen Minch. This is now out of print, but there are second-hand copies available in a few places.

I think it's important to realise that you can become a famous magician without being a professional performer, or even a good performer. Magicians can make their name through creation, writing or consultancy, as well as through performance. Daniel Garcia admits he isn't a performing magician...

Ranges from pretty much self-working through to proper advanced sleight-of-hand.

100% definitely yes. I learned so much about performance, the relationship between sleight-of-hand and magic, card handling, and obviously loads of quality tricks, sleights and principles.