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Reread what I said above about how experienced magicians view those who learn from and/or defend learning from exposure videos. You typically don't reference what source you are learning from. So I assumed you are learning from the combination of YouTube and books that you defend. Without...

I think this line is the most important in @ChristopherT's post. It is really an invitation. An invitation to consider how you can perform better. Every time I perform magic, I go over my performance in detail - what went right, what went wrong and most importantly, what I can learn from it...

Hold your hand naturally and look at it. There are windows. When palming you want to divide the "excess" card between the windows and the edge - a lot the wider windows and a little overlap at the edge. Also, play with the angle of the card in your palm. With palm up, the more clockwise the...

You need to understand the difference between a right (which is something possessed by an individual that government should not be able to take away) and an entitlement (which is thinking you should be able to have something because you want or need it regardless of the cost to others). To put...

My comment was specific to exposure DURING a show. I've never seen the "behind the scenes" footage during a movie.

If it doesn't affect you, why have you spent so much time discussing it? Actually, you did, quote below... Asked and answered. To put it simply, if you know the method to a magic trick, it is no longer magic. The method is not as exciting as the illusion. When the audience if focused on...

As we've discussed in our PMs, there is a difference between teaching and exposure. Teaching assumes the other person is a magician, exposure makes the secrets available to anyone. Wikipedia is making the secrets available to everyone. That is exposure. If someone goes to see a magic show...

@trapeze - the thread bumping rules apply to mindlessly bumping your own thread with a post like "IDK - what about Wikipedia" or resurrecting five year old threads saying "I have this problem too." I understand and share your weariness with this discussion. However, we want everyone to have an...

David Roth's knowledge and abilities are amazing. The first routine had too much handling for my liking. I prefer going magic that is slow and where the effect is clear. The second routine (Chinese coins) is a series of beautiful moves and is amazingly well constructed from a method...

It appears to come with instructions and a DVD. Watch them. I suspect from the description on the back of the box the paint can is a lota vase.

Tic Tax Toe and Chapstick Caper are in the last section. I don't think they are in the Table of Contents.

When we present effects without anything except narrating WHAT we are doing, the audience's tendency is to try and figure out HOW we are doing it. Years of magicians doing magic as a puzzle plus shows like the Masked Magician, YouTube exposure videos and even shows like Fool Us make people...

When Mark vanishes a coin or ball through a false put (as opposed to a false take) he says to point at the hand where the audience thinks the coin or ball should be. Although I agree with the concept of focusing the audience's attention, I think that the pointing is a little too much and it may...

The Slip Force, the Perfect Force; Short Card Force, The Bigger Card, Coin through Leg, Coin in Yarn Ball, Bill in Lemon, Cut and Restored Rope, Three Way Test, Center Tear, the Envelope Stand, Turned Up Glasses, The Sun and Moon, Wine Glass Production, Square Circle (still want to build one)...

John: Welcome to the forums! A couple of questions that may help us give you suggestions: What effects do you perform most often? Do you mostly perform standing up or sitting down? What resources do you have such as books and videos? If you were to pick a character from a book, movie or...

"I'm tired of eating meat and potatoes." "Go out and have waffles and ice cream."

It is what isn't.

I agree with what you are saying. I think that anything that hints that there is a method ruins the illusion of magic. Tamariz' theory is based on his belief that many spectators will look for a method and that by providing a possible method and disproving that method you astonish those...

@Al e Cat Dabra and @ChristopherT gave really good advice. I would add the saying... don't practice until you get it right, practice until you can't get it wrong. Try to practice under performance conditions. But also recognize that when you are starting out, all performances are practice...

Ultimately, this is about exposure. Anyone who teaches magic on YouTube is exposing secrets for non-magicians to see. You listed the reasons we gave you the last time you asked about YouTube exposure: 1) the teaching is bad; 2) people often are not teaching so other can learn but to expose...