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Let's splash a little cold water on some of the premises here for perspective. If you can make a playing card rise to the top of the deck five times in a row, you are not going to inspire a religion or deceive people into thinking that you have super powers. Having the ability to make small...

I'm not sure about simplest method. Take an example. I need to remove a selected card from the deck after it is reinserted and place it in my pocket. Maybe a simple method is using a Feidler's Flyer gimmick, but I want the spectator to take the card and show it to the audience. The simplest...

Practice when you want to. Practice should be fun, not work. A lot of the books are available on Amazon but also magic sites like Penguin Magic, L&L Publishing, Hermetic Press. For color change and vanish type effects, your best bet is to start with Card College Volumes 1 and 2 and then move...

For card magic, Roberto Giobbi's Card College series. Start with the first two books (if you can't afford all of the series) and Card College Light. If you are on a budget, start with Royal Road to Card Magic, Scarne on Card Tricks, Fulves Foolproof Card Tricks and Expert Card Technique...

Don't learn off Youtube. Most of the technique taught by the popular channels is crap. You don't need to learn the classic pass. It's like killing a fly with a baseball bat. It might work, but there are simpler ways. @leumas196 - what effects fo you use the pass for? Not a good source...

"I can't do it any slower..." Rene Lavand.

You are off to a good start. Card College is great. In going through a description read it through once and imagine it -- understand how it works. Read through a second time with a deck in your hands breaking it down piece by piece. Then do repeat it so that you do the move more smoothly...

The better question is how do you find invisible thread if you can't see it?;)

Invisible thread. It comes in two types - regular (IT) and elastic (IET) which stretches and which is used to make loops.

Get a book by Robert Neale or Walt Anthony's Tales of Enchantment. Neale's The Four Gifts of Life is a classic and Anthony's Lette's Feather is the most powerful effect I've ever read. Also read books by Eugene Burger, David Parr and Larry Haas. Like music, magic is a medium for a message...

Look for material by Yegal Mesika, Finn Jon, John LaClair, Michael Ammar ("Easy to Master" series) and Daniel Garcia ("Loops" DVDs)

Houston: Welcome to the forums. The presentation is not original. I do something similar with a beach ball and music in a large group - the person holding the beach ball when the music stops makes a decision. I've seen or talked to a lot of magicians who use similar presentatations. I would...

Then try entertaining her with magic or, better yet, your personality. Too many performers rely on magic to speak for them. Their presentation is just "look" at what I can do. That creates a gap between the performer and the audience based on "I know the secret and you don't." It puts the...

A mentalism show should focus on a demonstration of the performer's ability. When you display too many different abilities, it weakens your performance. You start out with a demonstration of preminition or prediction in that you know what they picked for the celebrity name. You then go onto a...

It is, as Amber said, a process of finding your character through performing. My performance character is very different then my everyday personality. I'm typically reserved and serious (which works well for being an attorney). In performing, I'm larger than life with a very dry sense of...

Illusions generally refer to stage magic illusions like Sawing a Woman in Half, Spiker, ZigZag Girl, Sword Basket, etc. I'm not sure if you are using it in that context or as a synonym for a magic trick. If you are looking for low cost illusions, Andrew Mayne is the guy. Also, there are a...

What are the best books to buy? Sleight of Hand Royal Road to Card Magic, Expert Card Technique, Counts Cuts Moves & Subtleties, Card Control, Magic of LePaul Card College Series Self Working (Minimal Sleight of Hand) Scarne on Card Tricks, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, Self Working Card Magic...

I think one that should NOT EVER work, but always does is the Piano Trick. I do Steinmeyer's Apples and Oranges and am amazed that it completely befuddles people.

Interesting. Assuming you were using superhero figures that were in full view the whole time, I think your problem is that they saw who the choice was between. Using the football cards (one side has the NFL logo and the other side has team), they don't see which teams are facing each other...

With the PATEO force you need a justification. There is a routine in Magic and Meaning that uses tarot cards and has a presentation based on the black plague. Two people get sick, one dies. I do a routine based off a suggestion in that book. I have cards the the NFL logo on the back and the...