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Ok. I got it. You want think like Vernon. Think like a card shark (which is what he was also.). Say to yourself "If this looks like a move, they will drag me outside and beat me to death." apply that to coin magic. The hand washing stuff can be over done and yeah sometimes its used as an over...

And whats wrong with failure? Isn't that how humans learn. That's my problem with it. If you present it has a "I take this coin and put it here." type of thing, there is no logical reason for WHY you put it there. I am thinking in more of a theatrics kind of way. Now not everybody can do...

Who says I am worried. The problem is that this is an old line and its what sets up stereotypes.

Without actually saying and without making it look like the cliched line. All I can think of it either "Think of a card." "Name a card." "Touch a card." or whatever else. Tho even if you spread the cards it can look tired and lame. There has to be a non cliched, interesting way of saying that...

Which still goes to show why a lot of hypnotists joke about not being able to use it to get girls. I did see the Mythbusters pretty much disprove the mind control thing. I think what they did was have somebody hypnotize grant to write a heart or whatever on one of his battle bots whenever...

Well that's the problem with most magic. It doesn't let the magic happen in their hands or them. They either see you doing something so it's like they are watching TV. In opinion in order to take people into the boat ride from Charlie in the Chocolate factory, you have to have things happen to...

True. That's just problem (specially with some people who tend to say what they are doing.) I've always believed that if you want people to actually connect with what you're doing you have to tell stories that happen to everybody. Coin to anywhere could be something a long the lines of you...

Well yeah I see what you mean. The point is that they have no frame of reference on what you are doing. They know you are doing SOMETHING, but they don't know what it is. It's like if you did a classic pass. They saw you do SOMETHING, but they have no idea what exactly. Doesn't mean it's a bad...

The problem I have with coin magic is that often times the major sleights that are used tend to make you look like you are hiding something no matter how long you have been doing coin magic, and some of these sleights are pretty much impossible to replace (IE: classic palm and finger palm). So...

I've always read that you can't hypnotize people to do something they normally wouldn't do. This this begs the question why you can get them to cluck like a chicken or think they are naked. Specially the X rated guy who can make people think they are in orgies.

It why I mentioned the ACR. Its rights have expired eons ago.

Well as Eugene Burger as said. There is nothing wrong with a stunt. People still remember stunts, just as they would remember XCM. Just that if you do XCM. Don't try to play it off as magic.. Because you would end up looking silly. I say that the Bucks and other XCM guys do a lot of...

Not really, you could continue talking about books and reproduce the coins as if your were getting a refund for them. The T & R plot is basically me talking about seeing Copperfield do the same thing with a 50 grand base ball card, but sense I don't have his budget, I opted to use a playing...

You don't really need much besides 2 or 3 quick visual tricks. The Bizarre Twist would work great and so would a short ACR routine as well.

If you are doing a coins across routine for college students, you could talk about how you spend too much money on books when you are vanishing the coins.

Well that's the main problem, not everybody can come up with logical reasoning for why this and that happens. Life is just that way. have you studied hard for a test and then ended up failing it, but didn't study for another test and ended up passing it. That doesn't logically make sense now...

I don't really consider what they do "magic". It's impressive and neat looking but other than that there isn't any other form of amazement in the effect and all the fancy cuts and flourishes end up undercutting the actual effect. Here's and experiment: Try doing your basic Card in Hand or...

Go back and re learn all the classics and then try to come up with new ways to present them. Old School things to lay people is actually New, because they have not seen or heard it before. "It's new me!"

Yes I know that, that is the problem with a lot of coin magic even if you add a story to it. The story is most likely the thing they were a bit more interested in than the actual magic. Yeah, the story/emotional hook made them feel like they were involved, but honestly if you were do it with the...