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Impromptu is is a state of mind. If you perform something as if the deck is FASDU, then the audience will believe that it is. Why? Because you're the only one who knows that it isn't. Get Card College Light. The first effect uses a deck that the spectator sees as being randomly shuffled and...

With the sponge ball routine, you put one ball mentioning something you learned in school in the spectator's hand, you then mention something you learned outside of school and when they open their hands they have two balls. You then put two balls into their hand mentioning two things you...

I think the script is good - I haven't had time to listen to the audio. As for sponge balls, I had a couple of ideas. I was thinking that the sponge balls would be in the small candy box (as Forrest Gump says, life is like a box of chocolates) you put out at the beginning. You could do the...

When I look back over the last 12 years, it seems like it took a long time to get here. But we all made it. Each of us made different choices along the way. We chose which classes to take (pull out a textbook), we decided how hard we were going to study or that we weren't really going to study...

Honestly. I don't think your opening jokes are funny. Also, they dont set up Dresscode well at all. Your invisible deck routine is simplistic say-do-see patter that will seem like a "trick". The way you present it, the audience will think you are using a stooge. Those that don't will search...

1. You need to perform in a way to creates a "fourth wall" like in a play. Kids don't try to talk to performers in a play. You do this by making your show seem professional. You also need to be in control. Additionally, you are there to entertain all of the kids and by letting one kid...

J Excellent idea. I'll review it and make suggestions for how to improve.

1. Let me dispel a common misperception - tricks are NOT for kids. I'll let you figure out what I mean. 2. There is a big difference between a 3 year old and a 10 year old. There also is a big difference between a 10 year old and a 18 year old. Heck, there is a big difference between an 8...

Credit goes to David Devant. If anyone doesn't know who he is read Jim Steinmeyer's Hiding the Elephant. Then read Our Magic. I'm pretty sure I would disagree with you if I could figure out what you are trying to say.

1. Gypsy Balloon is a closer. It is the most EMOTIONALLY powerful effect. Make it about friendships. "Sometimes the connections between friends are broken when we go to different colleges, or we move to different towns or we don't see each other as much as we used to. I think that he bonds...

Don't bother with the Jumbo Invisible Deck. You can do a better presentation with a regular invisible deck, a beach ball and a paper bag. I can also show you a better handling of the deck for stage. I like Gypsy Baloon - it would be a good closer. As for sponge balls, watch this as an example...

Invisible Deck Sponge Balls Cut and Restored Rope Maybe one more effect for a 10 minute show. Here is my recommendation - but the following: Mark Wilson's Complete Course (book) Wayne Dobson's WD-40 (book) A set of 4 two inch sponge balls 10 half inch sponge balls (same color as the 2 inch)...

YOU CAN'T MASTER A MANIPULATION ROUTINE IN 4 MONTHS. The videos you posted took 3 to 5 years to master. You don't have the background. Don't even try. To do this in 4 months, you need to get simple material. Let's start with a list of books and DVDs you have. Anything you've learned off...

Toby: Feel free to shoot me a PM if you need someone to bounce ideas, effects, methods and presentations off of.

JP: I like the idea of performing magic, but I'm not sure about performing for disadvantaged people. Those people aren't necessarily in need of positive message (which may be counterproductive to a child with a terminal disease or an older person with Alzheimer's disease) but are more in need...

Get a book. Nobody posts tutorials of effects in books.

The easiest ways to try. Try to write your own script. Try out different ideas for each effect. The more you try the better you become. There is no one place to start. Sometimes I start with an effect. I brainstorm different presentation ideas. Pick one. Script it and them go with it...

No, that was my wife. However, it wasn't peanut butter. That time, I was glad that I hadn't showered. Then it turned blue and I've regretted it ever since.

About $5K from my bank account. But I do have lots of pretty books and toys to show for it.

Those are different then the typical idiot on Youtube trying to get views by exposing the effect they just purchased. You know that. If you don't, there is nothing I can say to enlighten you. Let's stick to the topic of hecklers and skeptical spectators.