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Whenever I see something as clean as you describe, I immediately think that it was done with some sort of nice routinning... and preshow.

The spread pass is a nice pass, however it does have its angle problems. It has a time and a place. IMO the best pass to learn is simply the classic pass. It seems to have the most possibilities in terms of times to use it while keeping the actions natural. Here's what I've always told people...

Why are there so many controls? Well that's easy, it's because there is no "perfect" control. There's not such thing as the do all control; every control has a place, a purpose, a time in which it IS perfect for that situation. A Lennart Green style shuffle control is usefull when you want to...

I believe youre talking about Tamariz's Total Coincidence (aka Triple Coincidence) which can be found in his book Sonata. Good luck finding the book though, it's out of print and pretty much unavailable anywhere. Cheers, Lucas EDIT: Scratch that, I just read you're talking about an Aldo...

First off, thanks. Secondly, when I say to literally not care, I don't mean that you do so in a disrespectful way; it's not an off handed and dismissive "I dont care". When I say this I mean that you should have a general attitude that no matter how special they feel that they caught you...

I've got a pet peeve about this. I had never seen anyone else talk about it until James Brown. And basically what it comes down to is hating those "Oh damn, who turned up the gravity in here?" one liners when you drop a prop. You're creating a moment in which the audience realizes you made a...

Great story. It's actually quite interesting that the flourishing wow-ed them most, and it makes perfect sense. Its not something I would have thought of, but now that you mention it, its actually really cool. The second thing you're asking for is a move I've generally seen used in sandwhich...

What stack you learn really depends on what you want from your stack. You could simply shuffle the deck and memorize the order, however if youre going to memorize the deck, why not put it into an order that has stuff built into it? I personally learned the Aronson stack, and it seems to be a...

Really guys? This bothers me. Now this might partially be the move monkey in me, but I think every move should be worked until its the best it can be. You guys are essentially telling him it's ok to do a half-assed job and not work on a move, so long as it flies in performance. Now I don't...

It should first be noted that this post makes little sense. Granted that the "Hate fights Hate" statement works, love doesnt fight love. The only reason "hate fights hate" is becasue fighting and waring is the action of people with profound hate. When we then look at WHY they hate each other, it...

As someone who is studying pure and applied sciences as well as a magician, i find this to be an interesting discussion. I feel though, that your friend simply doesnt understand the concept of magic and magicians. See, he talks about magicians having a self serving attitude, however i could...

...Sidesteal.

Honestly re-tabbed, post a video, do something, back up your smack or shut up. This is the most pitiful argument I've ever seen. Basically you started saying "I ain't buying something from a guy with a fade," which apparently means you judge your magic based on haircut; clearly making you a...

Its kind of... convoluted. The card is in the middle, then you push it into the deck, now the ace is on top rather then in their hand... It just doesnt really make sense. Its overcomplicating the effect. Rather then a straightforward transpo, its getting lost in weird things you put in there...

Check out James Brown's stuff. He's got a pretty cool coin flurry routine on his lecture DVD. Not to mention some other really great stuff.

The thing about the clipshift is that the move itself isnt all that hard. You seem to be doing well for 2 days, but we cant actually verify that. Why? Because the move isnt about the change itself, it's about the sound. When the clipshift is done well, it's SILENT, but we can't tell if yours is...

http://www.doublefacers.com/ And as to the distorion answer, if looking at distortion as the effect of pips being moved, Shoot Ogawa has something that accomplishes this. It was the tilt using a DB. But that said, it tricked Harry because he didnt do cards. As far as the sleight of hand vs...

I personally wouldnt go for something like having the ring on the shoelace in the end because the strength of such an ending is that you never went anywhere near the shoelace. By stepping on the ring and bending down to pick it up, you lose a majority of the effect. If i were you i would...

I think you guys are over assuming here. I mean, mizing flourishing and magic isnt necessarily a bad thing. TheBlack&WhiteIllusionist's example involving an ACR is obviously chosen to prove his point. See, the strength of an ACR is that it's essentially moveless. But just because flourishing...

Personally, I feel that my job as a magician isn't to actually perform magic. This may sound odd, but hear me out here. As a magician, I dont perform magic but rather give the illusion of performing magic. Let me clarify: I dont explicitly say what I'm doing; sleight of hand, gimmicks...