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Thank you very much, I appreciate your helpfulness very much!

Thank you very much for your answer, Mr Curtis! It is very helpful, though I think more so for somebody with a different objective than myself. Your advice is for somebody who actually wants to use the deals in a game for money. I practice the moves because they're fun; I don't really have any...

It does, thank you. Do you think that for strike second mastery you need to be able to deal it with such a tiny brief, at least in theory? Yep. I'm sending you a PM with a link to a song, but I can tell you: It's a tremendous pain to learn, but incredibly fun to play.

Spot on. You wouldn't happen to know his name, or whether he has done any more than that video, would you?

Thank you very much for your detailed answer! I really appreciate the time you take to answer questions as well as possible!

Hey, I personally don't have anything against this becoming a music thread! :D Anyway, thank you all for your responses! I agree with a lot of it, disagree with some; just a few things I wanted to say myself as well: I won't argue here, Martin Nash has an amazing strike second. The problem is...

Oooh, yes. I had to grin when I read that; it is very, very accurate. :D Though I would like to quote somebody else: "The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an ARTIST." That moment is what I'm aiming for.

That is a little sad, they're really fun to practice. Though I can of course perfectly understand why you wouldn't want to practice for years and years if it's hard to get any cheers for; gambling demonstrations just don't really make for good entertainment. Also, if you don't use them to...

I only know that he has a tutorial on his YouTube channel called "Muck : Shun". I think it's a technique invented by him (I'm not sure about that, but I think so), but it's very different from the other mucking techniques I know. If you take a look at his demonstration of it and for example...

Why is that? I haven't really read much magic theory, but I know of many magicians who will recommend Strong Magic over nearly anything else. Why do you feel Maximum Entertainment to be superior?

Hi guys, I know this is a controversial topic with no ultimate right answer, because it differs from person to person, depending on several factors, the most obvious being, of course, how much time you spend practicing it. However, I'd be interested in what time you think one needs to perfect...

As a teenager myself, please let me apologize for the impossible behaviour you encounter. Honestly, even though I don't do things like that myself (of course I, as a would-be magician myself, have a different perspective), I feel really bad about how some people behave. Even though I won't...

Kind of surprised I didn't find Strong Magic or Designing Miracles by Darwin Ortiz in here. Though I haven't read either myself, I've heard some great things about both books. Any particular reason you don't like them quite as much?

I'll take a look.

Thanks, I'll check it out! Do you know any books on that subject?

Hi guys, I've been really interested in learning hand mucking techniques lately. I got the Father Alex Download from Vanishing Inc., but as there are only three mucks taught there I'd like to have something more in depth. Plus, I'd like to hear another perspective on it as well. Do you have any...

Here's an excerpt from another thread about this book: "Steve Forte will be releasing a book in the course of the year. This has been confirmed by Jason England (on The Magic Café forums, in case anybody wants to see for him-/herself), who was present at three of the photo shoots for the photos...

Bill Malone is the best example you could have taken. When watching him perform I don't care at all what he does, I just enjoy. This one will be. There's a thread over at the Magic Café Forums where Mr England talks about it as well.

Thanks for the completion, my friend :) And from the Conjuring Archives section it seems to be more inner secrets.

I agree with the above - they look quite similar. However, as you said, they can convey different personalities. I think it depends on the situation. If you're performing - to exaggerate - in a castle, with all the gents around dressed up in their penguin suits and the ladies looking like they...