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If you are having trouble with the buckle, just practice that and don't worry about the bottom deal. Find a packet trick and learn to buckle with just 4 cards, or forget the trick part and just learn the buckle with the 4 card packet anyway. Then, when using the whole deck, try holding the...

I also enjoy practice routines. Sometimes it is the working part of an effect, other times it is just repetitions of a series of moves. That one Gabriel mentions from RRtCM looks good, I'll have to pull out my copy. Glad to see you got Card College. It's a great reference. A deck of slicker...

I am mostly into cards and have a large library of card magic books and videos and therefore I am only occasionally fooled by card effects, but it can happen. Coin magic and mentalism have a much higher fool rate for me and that's one reason I enjoy watching that kind of material even though...

Yes that is to be used with Mnemonica. Feel free to shuffle them and use them, you can put them back if you want. The book offers all of the things you mentioned. How to learn Menmonica, tricks, general advice etc. You can find free PDF called Memories are Made of This on Simon Aronson's...

Okay, I think it was Sniper. Carry on.

There was a DVD released a number of years ago and I can only recall the trailer. The basic idea as I remember it was to flick a single card into a deck or spread to find the selected card etc. There were a number of different versions of that shown and I also recall a couple of Asian...

As far as I can tell, this is available as an e-book and is also included in the physical copy of the compilation "THE ARTFUL MENTALISM OF BOB CASSIDY, VOL. 2: FUNDAMENTALS". He has a number of similarly titled publications, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I also enjoyed Pi: Ring on Band by Michael Scanzello, if you choose to go this route.

For me the closest thing to guitar playing would be culling. I use 'David's Cull', it is more guitar like, but Roadrunner is good too. But first, pick up Card College if you can. It has more modern methods, techniques and instructions. This by itself should help. At our age there is no time...

There are a number of different systems in addition to Si Stebbins and Mnemonica. Look around, you'll probably find something you like. https://www.theory11.com/forums/threads/what-can-i-do-with-mnemonica.56666/#/post-496881 and others.

I break in my decks for just the reasons you mention. I don't find it's worth it to open a new deck in performance. Kudos to those who take the time to learn to work with newly opened decks.

I like the Asi Wind version but I haven't learned the John Born version so I can't compare them

Try holding the deck at the ends (Biddle grip) with your right hand while you try to buckle the cards. Once you get the idea go back to doing it one handed. The placement of your left thumb in critical as it is what you are pressing against when you buckle.

Try different cards. If they are old it can be hard. Try the buckle with just 2 or 3 cards in your deck.

I second the card clip suggestion, but also the get a new deck suggestion. Card magic is indeed more expensive than coin magic. The coin gimmicks can be a bit pricey, but coins certainly last longer. I generally have a few different types of decks I' m using and if I'm practicing as much as I...

Yes Yikes. Definitely Yikes.

Go to your local coin show and buy some uncirculated coins from the dealers. Some come out better than others, but you can get half dollars with nice sharp edges if you look.

Aristocrats

The 605s actually came traditionally cut. And it seems his shipping rates are based on you buy only 1, 6, or 12 decks.

Those Art of Play Steamboats are my favorite deck, except I need them cut the the other way.