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Why do you think that the impossibility should be played stronger than the coincidence, premonition, predestination, etc.? I'm sure it fits your routine though.

As long as it's framed properly, any magical plot has the capacity to have an impact on lay people.

or you could have the most obvious pass of all time, and just misdirect them.

it's true that they don't limit what you do, but I'd rather perform using a deck of Arrcos than a $2 bridge sized deck from a gift shop. I'm able to do all the same moves with a crap deck, I'd just prefer to have a higher quality deck. Cardistry, Flourishing and XCM is somewhat a different...

still your opinion. You're being way too over general. You're doing the equivalent of stereotyping. If you applied to humans the same thought pattern you are applying to these cards, it would be called racism and xenophobia.

prae beat me to it.

yes. but what's the point in doing different flourishes with the same openers and closers anyway?

And herein lies our problem with the "art" debate. Everyone's opinions differ on what makes an art, because there is no concrete definition of it, and nor should there be. Trying to convince someone of your opinionated point of view is completely pointless, because it's their opinions vs yours...

I do completely consider flourishing as an art.

i made the comment in jest, because i don't believe that 10% of people who practice cardistry, flourishing or XCM actually perform them for laypeople as standalone acts, with no magic.

whaaaaa? performing flourishing for spectators? surely you're not serious.

Have you heard about Shoot Ogawa coming to lecture in Brisbane in a few weeks?

I'm pretty sure that the Greek Deal refers to the action of taking the second from the bottom card. Anything apart from that wouldn't be a Greek Deal.

I think this sums up just about everything that needs to be said.

so what are the actual rules?

He is amazing. Just everything about his performance is so fine tuned, so well timed, so thought out, so detailed, so natural and so perfect. Pure genius.

??? who are you referring to?

I'm not going to say, "it's not anything new, it's been done before", because that's already been established. I've been doing that snap change clean up like this for about one and a half years now, though I hold the cards horizontally for the change, not vertically. By the way, you hesitated...

I die a little inside whenever anyone calls bikes "shotty" or something similar.

Strike doubles should look exactly the same as get ready doubles because both should look exactly like a single card being turned over. If the strike double isn't as clean, relaxed, and natural as the normal turnover, it's not being done correctly. But it's mainly personal preference over...