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Keep calm and perfect your double lift, is an advice that has never gone amiss.

This is one of my favourite quotes. It gives me hope. :) Wow. It's no wonder his views on magic and ideas are so profound and often out-of-the-box. I didn't know this, but it's a brilliant anecdote. Makes me respect him even more now! I agree, the most significant investment should be time and...

I'd say the problem of You Tube for me is the glossing over the minute details. Alex Pandrea is a really good teacher according to me, but even his tutorial on the Turnover Pass wasn't as fine and detailed as ECT's tutorial. He also mentioned a certain motion which might help in his hands, but...

Then you can honestly use any force you like. Almost all the commonly used and 'fair' forces have been mentioned on this thread.

I've seen this video and till date, irrespective of which magician I have seen perform on video or in real life, regardless of the many Shin Lim performance videos I have watched, this performance, by far, is the best. Magic. I. Have. Ever. Seen. I really wish I had the knowledge required to...

It doesn't matter that much if you judge by whether people 'catch' you out. Again, I think you can get ECT if you're prepared to do ground-work yourself. RRTCM is more rewarding than the ECT because it teaches tricks and sleights in a very organised, 'level-like' manner. Moreover, ECT and...

You can offer to teach them the same trick, but end up doing something entirely different, with the deck in their hands. However, there are infinite tricks which can be repeated, depending on how you structure them. The ACR is of course one, but there are several effects which haven't been done...

Is that the simplest method you've created for your effect? If so, carry on. As for other forces, the Riffle force and the Cross Cut force are my favourites. There's also a very clever 'force' by Henry Christ. It's pretty mind boggling if used correctly in context. A simple Top Change or DL can...

Depends on whether you've learned them from You Tube or not. :)

I had a terrible heckler one time. One must never reply back heatedly or argue with people like this, but in my case, even if I wanted to do that, it wasn't possible since this guy was my Uncle (hence older than me, hence non-insultable to say the least). A force took care of everything...

A question:- Am I the only (or one of the very few) magicians who strongly dislikes (read: HATES) puzzles? Till date I've only found 2 other magicians who dislike puzzles, that is Tony Chang and Darwin Ortiz. As Chris Ramsay (the most popular magician on You Tube right now) is graviating more...

Honestly, it's pretty easy to identify people who have clearly no point of reference other than certain famous You Tube channels. Mostly because they don't even change the suggested patter or video titles sometimes. Sometimes, I find it pretty funny :D The sad thing of course is, that the...

Great choice but remember, it's a level above The Royal Road To Card Magic. Hence the book will assume you know a lot of things already. Think carefully before making the purchase and if you do buy it first, then be prepared to do a lot of background work to work out the book. :) Exactly! Which...

Where are you from? That might help us recommend stores. However, till date, all the books I have purchased are from Amazon. When I said that reading a magic book for the first time would be tough, I didn't mean you can't read (sorry if it came across that way), but more that reading a magic...

Hey, I know right? What is the best thing about that book is that if you get bored with the current chapter, you can literally open it anywhere and start reading from there. The only thing is, Derren made me realise how small even my big-words-vocabulary is! :D I firmly believe that what people...

Hey Max! :) 1) What is the best and worst thing about magic today, in your opinion? 2) Why did you choose magic over any other art form to express yourself or why does it appeal to you so much?

I liked the structure and the way everything was arranged and presented in RRTCM. However, its successor, the Expert in Card Technique is a bit of a heavy read. If you choose on this 'royal road' instead of the card college, be warned about the above. However, I think you should combine the two...

Thanks to everybody! :)

Very true. Really, if a single card has to be controlled, it does seem strange to manipulate two entire packets. It is an unnecessary heavy actions. HOWEVER, I think it should also be said that while the Pass is not greater than any other seamless control out there, it's also not inferior. When...

It's alright if I do nothing with the hand or if I hold things, but the moment I start doing any twirls (yes, specifically twirls) with it, it is sore, which is sad. I was really looking forward to work on my Pinch :(