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You have NO IDEA what you are missing. A a non-card guy, a double-backer is you secret weapon for things like forces, Ambitious Card Routines and so much more.

Send me a PM if you would like to to provide you with feedback on performances or help on scripting your presentations.

Although research is good, it is worthless without knowledge. You need to start with a basic knowledge. If you are talking about card tricks, start with the five book Card College Series. From there, get more books such as ones by Vernon, Jennings, Marlo and then more books like those from...

Not really. There is a similarity inherent in all readings and a skill that is developed by practice that can apply to all readings, but each type of reading is different. For an artist, painting with oils is very different that painting with water colors -- even though most people think...

I agree with Christopher, hecklers are very rare. I've had some overly engaged spectators though. My favorite was when doing a card trick for a kids show, I had one of the kids pick a card. Another kid yelled out, "I KNOW THIS TRICK!" I asked, "are you sure?" He responded "YES. I KNOW THIS...

To understand Cold Reading, check out Craig Browning's Introduction to Cold Reading. Google it, its FREE. Also, check out Craig's Introduction to Mentalism -- also FREE. Craig is one of the most knowledgable mentalists around. The best way to explain the need for specific systems for...

Argentina -- the home of the most wonderful and amazing Rene Lavand... Find his performances on YouTube The pass is an amazingly difficult and substantially useless sleight. You could go a career in magic without learning or using that sleight. Focus on learning effects (what most people...

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Magicians should provide credit for sources for tricks, techniques and methods that the publish in books or videos. The crediting should be provided regardless of whether the magician relied on those sources. That means doing your research before releasing something. One problem is today's...

Start with the fundamentals. Get Card College Volume 1, Volume 2 and Card College Light.

Sponge bunnies with a little boy or girl. Miser's Dream Kevin James's Floating Rose

Part of the problem is that magic often is portraited as a game -- magician tries to trick spectator and spectator tries to figure out how magician does it. I've sat by people in magic shows who guess how things are done -- most of the time they are waaaay off. Part of the problem is that most...

What effects do you perform that you like? How long have you been in magic? How extensive is your knowledge of sleight of hand? What books and DVDs do you have? Depending on those answers, there are a lot of possibilities.

Hidden in Plain Sight is a great book. Probably the best book on marked cards. Worth the read. There is an "you find my card" effect where the spectator finds your card while you find theirs. I'm not sure Multiplicity is worth the price tag. Dominos - do you have the DVD? The concept of...

What kind of video should I send as an application, if I want to go as a mentalist on the show? (since mentalism is not that great on the camera). Do what you know the best. Having something polished and professional will show. Have an audience so they can see the reaction. If you decide to...

I have studied psychics and mentalists and have a good understanding of their methods and techniques. As others have said, predictions can be self fulfilling. If you listen to so called psychics on television or the radio, you will notice that they first "probe" for information. "I sense you...

Insomuch as it is a published effect, we're not going to try to reverse engineer it for you. You can purchase it from Mark Leveridge's website here: http://www.markleveridge.co.uk/bs.php it is in this book here: http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S12066 which for $7.49 is a bargain. You can also...

I think you mean Blizzard rather than Snowstorm unless you are intending to cut the blank cards up and use a fan. :cool: From the description, I suspect that the effect uses some combination of equivoque, the principle behind an Invisible / Brainwave deck and the principle behind a Svengali...

I think that using the classics with a twist goes best in competitions. So how about: Billiard Balls Miser's Dream Linking Rings

Send me a private message with the name of source you are learning from (so I can see what you are going from) and a video of you doing the move from your perspective.