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Your experience sounds right. I would have guessed three in the first hour. What @Timewise said is correct. Gently stretch them before using. Also, move more slowly with the haunted deck.

Ultimate Marked Deck. Bicycle Rider Back. Check out Kirk Charles book Hidden in Plain Sight for some great routines. You Pick My Card is a lot of fun and leaves spectators amazed.

In the absence of something else to latch onto, people will view magic as something to figure out. The engineering / scientific types more than others. If presentation is say-do-see (saying what you are doing, doing it and telling the audience to see what happens) then you are putting the...

My suggestion is to focus on things you will perform, be it coins or cards or other effects. Make a list of what you want to learn. Start with effects that are easy to learn so you develop a bunch of stuff you can do. Then move on to the more challenging routines. For coins, Bobo is great...

I guess the question is what advice should we give people? Should we give advice that we haven't tested (@Lord Magic I've seen your posts and you seem like a good kid who wouldn't do ANYTHING that Ramsay suggests in that video)? Should we give advice that won't work for the vast majority of...

Roberto Giobbi has a DVD set to go along with Card College 1 and 2 (excluding the classic pass). That is different than the lybrary.com videos.

Get Scane on Card Tricks. It's loaded with great material. Card College Light, Lighter and Lightest have self working effects that are routine do together. Karl Fulves has some great self working material. John Bannon's book Destination Zero has some great effects. You also can't go wrong with...

Magic is the ability to reflect ourselves in a performance for others.

I'm going to agree a bit and disagree a bit with @TylerScottIllusionist. I'd go with the first two books in the Card College Series, the first Art of Astonishment book and Expert Coin Magic. While you are at it, pick up Bobo's Modern Coin Magic. I wouldn't recommend Tarbell. Not for doing...

Michael, EXACTLY.

Priceless smiles. Well done my friend.

His advice is RUBBISH. 1. He says to let a spectator shuffle the deck. Wrong. Surrendering control to the spectators just encourages them to keep interrupting you. The best way to avoid hecklers is to project that you are in control of your performance. 2. His first suggestion is to...

It's all good. The ideas for using the various gaffs ate excellent. Read it all.

@RyanMagician, you can do whatever you want. o_O I don't take notes as part of learning a sleight or method. It is there in the book. I do keep notes on effects that I like in a separate document. Those aren't about the effect itself, but more my ideas on how to use it or how to improve it...

One of my son's friends is very scientific and skeptical about magic. To him knowing there is a method is enough. One time, I performed the Omni deck for him. When he ended up with clear glass block in his hands he was speechless.

@kennethcmerrill - Check the position of the right first finger - it should cover any discrepancies and keep the front of the deck mostly squared. Also, make sure that the break is evenly spaced on the back left and back right sides of the deck. As @TylerScottIllusionist said, check your right...

@Lord Magic, I do not think that Chris Ramsay's approach is the best approach. It is apparent from his videos that his approach to magic is that the secret methods he knows give him an advantage over the spectators. He appears to view magic as Magician v. Audience... fool them or be figured...

Magic is reminding us that nothing is impossible.

Need more info. Give me a sense of your age - Middle School, High School, College, etc. How long have you been doing magic? Name some effects you like to perform. Name some DVDs and downloads you have. Name some moves you know that make you intermeddiate. Where do you intend to perform?

The best way to handle hecklers is to design your character and presentations to be engaging. Connect with the audience. Smile. Don't create an "I know the secret and you don't" challenge. Make your magic about more than what you are doing with your props. Be entertaining. As Tamariz says, show...