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The books are very clearly written. There is a diagram in the front cover labeling each part of your hand and each side of the deck so that you understand the terms used in the descriptions. There also are drawings of the hand positions in the description for each sleight. There also are tips...

It really depends what you want to do. If you want to learn tricks, buy downloads and DVDs that interest you. If you want to learn card magic, buy Card College. Books are always LESS EXPENSIVE than DVDs and downloads because a book has lots more material than a DVD. Notice that the various...

#1 - Exactly. The Royal Road DVDs cover what is in the book. #2 - The 5 Card College Books will cost around $160 (on Amazon the total was $167) http://www.llpub.com/zenshop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21&products_id=1744 If you order 2 other books, you get an additional 10% off at...

You didn't annoy me in any way. I like your enthusiasm but I think you may be asking the wrong questions. Royal Road to Card Magic was written by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue in 1951. Both R. Paul Wilson and Rudy Hunter have put out $60 DVDs teaching what is in the $9 book. Neither DVD is...

Agreed, but the Overhand Lift Shuffle is more for controlling a packet, not two cards. Also, the second and third shuffles bring the card from 2nd from the top to 2nd from the bottom and then from 2nd from the bottom to the top. I agree, your time is better spent learning the foundations than...

The best way (which I think you know) is an overhand shuffle. A little more difficult is a right hand bottom palm with a replacement on the top of the deck. I understand from the video you posted showing the control you came up with why you are interested in this. But, as a note, you will...

Chirag: You seem to be asking a lot of questions for guidance in learning sleight of hand for cards. The best way to learn this is through books. You had mentioned in another thread that you want to be a professional with cards. There are no professionals that haven't learned from books...

This avoids the "click bend" in the cards. After the shuffle, you have half the cards face up and half the cards face down. If the deck has a slight warp to it and you don't do this, the deck looks like this: ))))))))))))))) and the Porper Clip will reduce that a bit. If you shuffle it...

Typically, I have a deck of red Bicycles and blue Bicycles that I use for practice and a red deck and blue deck I use for performance. When the performance decks get worn, they become practice decks. When the practice decks get worn, they become fodder for cutting, tearing, splitting, burning...

I don't put decks in the refridgerator. I don't use powder to clean decks. I don't alternate decks that I'm using. The best advice is to wash and dry your hands before using a deck. The reduces the dirt from your hands getting on the cards. Other than that, decks are disposable. The main...

The only Ellusionist deck that seems to me to have a noticably thicker stock are the Bicycle Masters which are designed to last longer. With the Artifice and other E decks that I have they just seem like a step up in quality from regular bicycles. There is no difference in handling for magic...

Cards are cards. I have a bunch of specialty decks because I like they way they look and occasionally use them to perform. But the vast majority of the decks I use for practice and performance are Bicycles. I typically buy them in bulk for around $15 for 12 decks. If you live in Asia, your...

Steinmeyer's Lesser Dictionary Test in Further Impuzzabilities (he needs a dictionary) Steinmeyer's Password Fallacy in Subsequent Impuzzabilities (he needs 9 cards) Also check out Tamariz's Verbal Magic

Timewise: I don't like the clown costumes, mainly because I don't think magicians should act like clowns. I don't buy into the idea that kids magicians have to behave like a buffoon to be entertaining. Start with the character you want to be and build the costume around the character -- not...

All of us have effects that appeal to us and effects that don't. Many methods are not practical or don't fit the way we perform. That is perfectly normal. My suggestion is to get some books. There are special media rates for shipping from the U.S. to almost any country. If you want to avoid...

How much money do you think you need to be comfortable in life? How would you make money performing card magic? How much money could you make and what do you have to do to make that much money?

Oops. I'm sure Wayne gave credit on the DVD and it was taught with permission (as below in the description) but I learned it years ago and only remember that Wayne taught it: CARBON PAPER - An incredibly powerful effect contributed to AOM by Jay Sankey. The back of a playing card is burned -...

Check out John LeClair's Who's Afraid of Invisible Thread or Michael Ammar's Easy to Do Thread Miracles.

Let me add another fact to the mix. The books Million Dollar Card Secrets and The Magic of Eddie Fechter are both out of print and run around $150 each. So purchasing the original publications of those effects is absurdly expensive. For those two effects, I think you can perform them without...

It depends. I think it is in very bad taste to use someone's presentation of an effect without their permission. For example, I've seen people copy Jeff McBride's Miser's Dream presentation. As for effects, if you have purchased the effect, you are free to use it anyway you want (unless...