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Day 10 So Tom wasn’t at the shop...which is good, because he gives me bad advice anyways. That magic book I got for free didn’t teach me anything and books are hard to learn from. Magic shouldn’t be hard, so I am going to buy videos. Some guys in the shop said that videos are the best way...

Day 9 I tried to get into the bar last night, but the bouncer wouldn’t let me in with my Hippity Hop Rabbits. He said they were dangerous. What an idiot! The Bouncer said I could leave them at the front door, but I was worried someone would look at the trick and figure out how it was done...

Day 8 I saw Tom again today. He was at the magic store. He wasn't mad at me though. He was in there talking to Jeff and he said to me: "I can tell you're new to magic so there are a few things that you need to know." He tried to tell me that I should be performing tricks with BICYCLE...

Day 7 Guess what? That magician was there again. His name's Tom and he's a real A-hole. I went in and Tom was doing a trick for a bunch of people. (Some lame thing where someone's card appears in his wallet.) So I walked right up to him and said I was going to show him a trick. I did...

Day 6 I decided to read the card trick book I bought at the store the other day. I don't have a deck of cards but my Mom said she has one at her place that I can have. She says it's missing a 7 of Clubs but it's still in her desk drawer. I said I didn't mind. I've been reading the book...

Day 5 I think I need to buy more magic stuff. I can't do the sponge balls at all. They keep falling out of my hand and I can't do the RETENSION VANISH that it says in the instructions. I practiced it over and over again yesterday while I was waiting for the bus and it didn't work. The...

I also respectfully and totally disagree - the flustration count does not fool as much as people think. In proper context it is a convincer from a previous phase...like in Jumping Gemini by Ortiz - but if the move is expected to act as the actual proof to the claim all the cards are the same, I...

Day 4 I just got back from the bar. The girl doesn't like me. She told me to f**k off. Her name's Sylvia and she's a real b****h. I went right up to her and showed her the LF monte. I thought she'd think it was funny but she didn't. She doesn't have a sense of humor. (I bet she's a...

Day 3 I bought more tricks at the store today. I went to the bank and got $20 because I decided that magicians should be able to do more than one trick. I bought a trick called MIND CONTROL, where you give someone three cards: a yellow one, a green one, and a blue one, and you tell them...

Love David Williamson - hate the Flustration count - least convincing move in magic. Love to hear the Ambitious psychology SharpestLives.

Day 2 The magician wasn't there last night but the girl we were both trying to pick up was there. I showed her the vase trick but halfway through it her girlfriends came up because they wanted her to dance. So I waited for her. When she got back she wasn't too interested in seeing the rest...

Why is it funny? I wrote it this morning... Day 1 I have been a magician, including today for exactly one day, but really since I was younger if you count knowing a trick, as I would FRY people with this trick where you deal out three rows of seven cards. Man it KILLS! No joke. Do you...

wait until I tell you how that stupid restaurant magician reacts to my totally wicked trick!

It is something that takes a knack - is it only shooting the card out that is the problem. I recommend just outjogging a card and trying to get it to sail...it helps with the ending, as that seems to be the problem. Good luck.

Day 1 Guess what, Diary? I'm a magician!!! That's right. I went into a Magic Shop on 8th Street this morning and told Jeff, the guy that owns the shop, about the guy I saw in the bar last week. This magician guy was doing tricks. He had me take a card and sign it. Then he asked me to take my...

Hi Kal-el, Just wondering what source you are learning it from? Are you learning the original, or the modified easier version? Anyhow, it is not an "easy" move, it's only easy once you can do it. Keep working at it, try different things to make the card fly out. I think I learnt it from...

Hi guys, Nice to see this is still a topic of interest. To steal the concept of Dunniger’s quote, “For those who (understand), no explanation is necessary – for those who do not, none will suffice”. I am starting to feel this way about the topic – Shane, thanks for understanding and doing your...

Tyler Wilson writes about this kind of thing in his book Domina-tricks. The concept of the ambitious card plot is that the card...despite all efforts STILL comes back to the top. I never understood two things: 1) What is with all these non-sequitur endings? Card in mouth, card in pocket...

Reason can be found though - and real reasons...at least real logic - it could be a metaphor, a story, a challenge, a demonstration of skill or an educational lesson...magic can be what you make it. If you make it just a trick, or just neat - that is fine - but I hate when people ask WHY? Why...

Even though this forum is about method - we can talk presentation briefly, and I have in the past with many - there are many reasons one could rip up a card, to put it back together...none I am willing to share on this forum. Good points Rmana, but I don't understand thet importance of having...