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Just want to clarify something: The categorization isn't of magicians (meaning "if you can do this, then you're intermediate/advanced/etc."), but of the sleights themselves, categorizing them on the difficulty of the sleights themselves. At least that's the way I understood it and the way I...

In the example I gave my friend was in a situation where he could think a long time about what happened (in fact I encouraged him to) and he knew from the beginning that the order of the deck would be restored. Both these criteria aren't given in your trick, so you're probably right, most laymen...

Now you say it, and having watched it again, I feel a little stupid about my own "review" (I'll just blame the late hour, shall I? :D). Though even so, I still don't know what he did or how he did it.

Edit: Looking back on it, this got really long, sorry about that. Thank you for reading it all! Hi there, first of all welcome to the forum! It's great of you to share your work! While not strictly speaking a magician (aspiring card mechanic), I'd still like to give my 2p on the matter...

Thank you very much for your thoughts!

Thank you very much for your input as well! I'll keep out of the Ramsay discussion, as my own opinion isn't nearly well-founded (or articulated) enough to help the discussion in any way. But I'm looking forward to more on the topic!

Thank you! Honestly, this card bending phenomenon plays a prominent role in my nightmares. Thank you so much for the fix!

Wow ... Honestly, I think I'm learning more from 3 posts from your side than I've learned in the 8 months before. That's really something I'd never thought about. I never even thought of that problem. Thank you for the pointers! And, of course, many thanks for the examples.

Wow ... Honestly, I think I'm learning more from 3 posts from your side than I've learned in the 8 months before. That's really something I'd never thought about. I never even thought of that problem. Thank you for the pointers! And, of course, many thanks for the examples.

You wrote so much (not to be taken negatively!), it's difficult to respond to everything. I'll have to read a lot of what you said again a few times and mull it all over in my head. Just a few things: I agree 100%. One reason why I'm glad I started with Daniel Madison: Even though I use hardly...

Thank you very much for your help, everybody!

Thanks. Don't know that one yet, but I'll check it out.

Thank you very much for your input, everyone! It's really interesting to hear your thoughts. Actually, what ChristopherT said really got me excited for the future! From what you wrote I get the feeling that whoever wants to really be good at magic in the future needs to step up their game, not...

Thank you very much for your help! Still not quite sure which book to buy, but it'll definitely be (at least) one of those books.

"Moves that many today consider to be 'simple' are the moves that the masters of the previous generation built their careers on. Berglas' card work can be summed up with a good memory, a perfect fan, and the Glide (and the ability to jazz his way through a situation)." The above was written by...

Thank you very much! What you said about the difficulty of a sleight is something I need to remind myself of time and time again.

Thank you for your response! The problem is that, seeing as I have hardly any experience with magic as such, I don't actually really know many moves that are used often.

As I mentioned, I started with gambling sleights, which are (so I've been told) a lot more difficult than card magic, so now the prospect of easy (-ier) is (for want of a better word) somewhat boring. I understand that those fundamentals are absolutely necessary to getting good, but, well...

Oh, right. Forgot about that for a second there. Thanks for the additional info! Well, thank you for the recommendation. My problem with the Royal Road so far hasn't been the amount of practice I'd need to put into it, but that I have little motivation to learn these quite easy moves (as far...

Thank you very much for your response! I've noticed that you didn't include any passes, so you don't think that they are quite as important (for beginners)? As for the false shuffles: I can do the truffle shuffle and false overhand shuffles (control top and bottom card, top and bottom stock and...