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Your hand position is wrong. Figure 100 in the book is badly drawn. Your right hand grip should be as if you pick up the deck off a table with your right hand. It is actually more on top of the deck than parallel with the deck. I also use both my middle and ring fingers on the right hand...

What you are describing is a "click bend" which usually results from using cards in a humid climate or having sweaty hands. The edges of the cards absorb moisture and expand while the middle of the cards remain the same. Take a piece of paper and wet the edge... you will see what happens. The...

I tend to think more in terms of performance routines and knowledge. For performance routines, I find a routine I like, learn as much as I can about what I want to do and then design, practice and perform the routine. My purpose is to develop magic that I can perform. You don't need to be an...

Learn magic that you would enjoy performing. There are no rules other than that. Something is only hard if you don't enjoy it and aren't excited about it. Also, with card, coin, ring and rubber band magic there are different effects that involve different levels of difficulty. The reaction...

When practicing moves that are designed to appear as something else (e.g. a side steal that looks like squaring the deck or a vanish of a coin that looks like placing the coin in your hand), start by doing the move it is supposed to look like and then by doing the "secret" move. This will make...

@Maverick85, the plot is similar to a some plots I've seen before using a variety of methods. Here is a list of similar effects: http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=1352 That doesn't necessarily mean that what you have isn't original as to method. I can look at what you have is you...

@Maverick85, there is a lot of information there that would take at least a year or more. My advice is to start slow and have fun. When you begin card magic, it takes some time to get used to handling cards. The best way to learn how to handle cards is to handle cards. There are some...

Magicians tend to overestimate their own importance. The real question is whether the item has a meaning or a story attached to it. Some weird guy pulled this out of the trash, sort of restored it and drank Coke out of it doesn't have a meaning. I picked this card or I gave him this coin does...

Welcome to magic. I started in my mid-30s too. You will find that there are a lot of advantages to starting later both in learning and in performing. Royal Road to Card Magic is a great start. However, the first two books in Card College are a better but more expensive start. I'd say get...

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You will have to give a better explanation of the routine as the design dictates the method. Christopher's suggestion of a cover pass is perfect for what I understand you are doing. You also can use any standard control to top and do a DL or deal a second. If you can do a pass, simply move the...

Muscle memory is like regular memory. The best way to commit something to long term memory is to recall it several times from short term memory. Each time you recall it strengthens the memory. The same with muscle memory. Repetition without recall beyond a certain point is...

Roberto Giobbi has a 2 DVD set that goes along with Card College. Michael Ammar's Easy to Master Card Miracles is a good way to start.

It depends on how you are performing. If you are in a more formal performance, the older coins are seen much like any other classic magic prop (e.g. linking rings). If you are on the street, your chance of borrowing a Walking Liberty is pretty slim. However, it can work if you can present a...

Making mistakes is part of learning to be a magician. We learn more from our mistakes than from our successes.

Most tutorials are done by hacks. Hacks don't take the time to learn anything that is challenging.

There are some sparker ignitor devices but I think your bigger problem is that the flash paper bursts up in a huge flame. Chris Ballinger demonstrates some different flash products here so you can get a sense of how they work and what the look like:

Sankey is good, Aaron Fisher's channel is great. I'd avoid the rest.

Flash paper is a paper that when ignited burns very quickly. You need an ignition source such as a candle to ignite it. It is like burning a regular piece of paper but quicker with pretty much smoke and no ashes. They do sell flash dollar, five dollar, ten dollar and twenty dollar bills.

I would use the same definition but instead of "same thing" I would use "same overall effect." I think that what @TylerScottIllusionist is talking about is a set which I would describe as a series of effects performed in succession. Those also would be "sets." I think the focus is the...