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There are two methods. One is the typical method used for a card to wallet routine adapted for whatever container you are using. The other is the method used in a card to box or a variation on that method. That being said, learn a couple of controls, a top palm, Mercury's card fold and billet...

The best source for Vernon's routine and for learning cups and balls is Michael Ammar's book, The Complete Cups and Balls. You can find a digital copy here: http://llepub.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=32 If you want videos, get Michael Ammar's DVDs.

Doesn't posting like this risk a Hawthorne Effect?

Typically, the phrase "The Next Level" is marketing. It is the idea that a single purchase can make you a better magician. It feeds on the idea that the quality of a magician is determined by the bundle of tricks he or she knows. The true next level cannot be bought. It can only be earned by...

Check out Juan Tamaritz's book "Verbal Magic." Many of the effects in Jim Stienmeyer's Impuzzabilities series also work over the phone. Just a note that many of the effects in Tamariz's and Steinmeyer 's books do require some props.

There is no reset. After an Elmsley, the cards are in the order for a Jordan. It begins with an H, but the Hamman is designed to hide a packet of cards.

Elsmley rhen Jordan. Then Elmsley. Then Jordan. Repeat. Again.

"Take a card...". not "Pick Any Card."

@GrahamHorgan you sound like you have the basics. It is always best to go with what you know. However, don't do the ambitious card routine - even using the blank deck. For a kids show, you are performing a parlor magic, not close up or strolling. An ambitious card routine will not play well...

As @ChristopherT said, be aware of body position and timing. Keep the cards close to your body as you spread them so that the spectator has to reach to take a card. As they reach, you move the spread toward them so the force card is at their finger tips. Also, don't make a big deal of the...

With all the magic effects out there, why would you waste your time learning and performing something that isn't strong? What is preventing you from performing only strong effects? So why not start with something else?

I still don't know the true extent of all the things that I don't know.

Simply put, most people who post on YouTube aren't performing the sleights correctly and don't have the ability to perform for a real person. If you want to learn from those folks, go right ahead. Also, I noticed you only listed four channels that are worth viewing. Can we assume you agree...

I think that a large part of it is that there is a disconnect from reality on magic forums. I see a lot of things said that people would never say face to face. Also, I think that people get too attached to their opinions in magic forums and in life. I try to follow Richard Covey's advice from...

Generally, YouTube is a bad resource to learn from. Books are a great value on a cost per trick basis. My recommendation is to get Scarne on Card Tricks. There is a lot of effects in that book that are easy to perform. Bobo's Modern Coin Magic is also a must have. Then get Card College...

We are not. You're wrong. You have no idea what you are talking about. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away before In taunt you a second time.

Tommy Wonder's Books of Wonder (out of print but pretty easy to find) Guy Hollingsworth's Drawing Room Deceptions Jack Lovick's Handsome Jack Eric Mead's Tangled Web Tom Stone's Vortex David Acer's Random Acts of Magic Jennings '67 The Secrets of Brother John Hammon The Card Magic of Nick Trost...

If you have a weaker effect, replace it with a stronger one. You should have no tolerance for weak magic.

What resources are you using to learn the pass from? The left little finger should be inserted into the break so that the first crease of that finger rests on the side of the cards of the bottom packet. The break is the width of your finger. The left middle and ring fingers should similarly...

The Ambitious Card Routine is a routine because it involves multiple effects (actually, the same effect repeated under different conditions) using the same prop that build to a finale. A Cups & Balls routine is a routine because it involves multiple effects (vanishes, reappearances under...