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Then choose some other move. Using the pass to ONLY move one card to the top is silly, specially when there are better and easier ways to do it. Look into the Side Steal, and other such moves. Also worry less about fooling people on a message board and a webcam, and worry more about...

Reminds me of how they over priced the David Stone "Window" thing. I bought it when it came out and the thing was like 70 bucks, for one effect and the DVD had only like 8 mins of teaching on it. It "taught" like 3 methods and the rest were the demos that they already showed on the site. 70...

They're all you're pretty standard bottle productions that use the same gimmick and all. Ammar might not have used a balloon though.

Key card + glimpse= extremely easy and one that most won't be able to figure out or see through. Then you simply work your way up to the tricky stuff.

All I can say is to just do it. You're never to going to stop being nervous when performing. Pretty much ALL entertainers get nervous when they perform and no matter how long they've been doing it. They still get the jitters and shakes from time to time. Hell, there was an article about Mick...

That's pretty much your standard confabulation routine/effect. A ton of mentalists have done it over the years. I know the same basic type effect is in PMM or one of the chapters of 13 steps. It obviously won't be exactly like Copperfield routine because he has most like updated his act over the...

Through the ladies looking glass. Which is in one of the last chapters in Royal Road to Card Magic.

Alvo's version of it is kind of obvious. The original gimmick version looks less fishy.

There is one thing that practice won't help you all that much with. Misdirection. That one thing can actually cover a lot of your bases.

Also a lot of stores will most likely say no, because you are pretty much stopping the flow of traffic to their store. They may also have signs that will say "No Soliciting" thus meaning you won't be able to perform there. But if you are going to do it the right way, you should find a place...

News flash, you don't buy Instructional DVD's to feel "emotionally connected" to the teacher. You buy them so you can learn new sleights or effects. Personally I think he has an OK teacher. After awhile of buying DVD's you start to learn that often times books are usually the best. Because...

I think it's also in a Dan Harlan DVD and possibly another DVD as well that I can't remember.

No the best way to simply not look dorky or creepy. If you are sitting there with your cards or whatever. It will still look dorky and creepy, and people will still avoid you. This has nothing to do with people not liking you or anything. It has to do with the fact that most people are...

It also looks pretty creepy when a guy comes up to you and wants to show you a magic trick. Not everybody leaving a mall or a safeway WANTS to see magic. Hell, I can bet that most just want to shop and then head home. You're best bet would be to just perform for your friends and people you...

I would find it completely redundant to have to do this at each gig. There is no point for you to completely destroy a single deck of cards just for one effect. I have a better idea. You could simply end with Card to Wallet to Envelope and use the plot and methods taught in card college...

Eh you could simply do one of the effects in the first chapter of Corinda as a stage opener. Sure it doesn't deal with the ENTIRE audience, but it deals with 3 or 4 of them. The idea of opening with an effect that deals with the entire audience is good because it gets rid of the idea that...

15 effects for 45 mins? Yeah that's WAAAY too many effects and you're going to end up carrying waaay too many props or items. Honestly, I'd say you should limit yourself to maybe 7 at the most and just pace them enough to were people have time to enjoy them and understand them.

Another thing is that with Con games you REALLY have to be good at what you do. You can't use misdirection or anything else because people are ALWAYS going to be burning your hands like the fiery pits of hell. Like I mentioned before, even you do give them their money back. You will still...

For entertainment purposes it's OK, but if you're doing it on the streets and then pulling the whole "But I gave their money back." thing. You're still going to your ass in big trouble. Specially due to the fact tin some areas you need a permit to perform anything on the street.

Famous actors and Magicians are two completely different types of people, and really Hugh Jackman is pretty ripped (I think the dude benches around 210 or something like that.) Like the others have said, if you keep yourself in good shape. You won't be adding to the magician stereotype of...