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I recommend picking up a pack of pre-tied loops first so you can see what they're supposed to look like, what size they should be, etc., then getting a spool of Mesika's IET Elastics and tying your own. I made a video on how to tie and store your loops that you can watch here. Any wax will work...

You shouldn't be so harshly prejudice. Perhaps he rarely performs magic for her except on special occasions; perhaps she's a magician herself; perhaps she's a girl who just loves to be surprised. Nothing wrong with giving advice against the grain, but let's not assume to have a better...

I suggest just giving it to her without using magic, but if you want to give her the ring in a magical way I suggest keeping the magic simple so you can focus on telling her how you feel about her, and making the moment about her, not you doing magic. Bobo switch a quarter for the ring, and...

The best version I've come across is Spooked by Nicholas Einhorn, but that's going to run you around $85. My preferred method uses Loops. Yigal Mesika teaches an easy and very astonishing version using loops in his book Animated Miracles as well as on his Loops DVD set. Loops DVD set + Mesika...

She said she was looking for effects that use only one four-of-a-kind. Great effect though.

Anna, I did not mean to insinuate you were wrong, or to "switch your words on you," but you equated amusement with magic, which I do not feel is the same thing. I agree such an effect can evoke laughter and be entertaining, but I do not agree with you when you say that a joke routine that...

Amazement and amusement are not the same feeling. "Our task is amazement, not amusement. Always amazement first." -Rene' Levand

I disagree with David Roth. In fact, I think that statement is a bit absurd. There are definitely bad tricks. Can you take the sliding finger trick and make it entertaining to a group of intelligent adults? Yes, it's possible. Can you make it magical and astonishing for the same group? No, not...

For card magic it's a tie between David Williamson's Torn & Restored Transpo and Steve Ehler's Three Card Location. For non-card magic it's a signed coin bend (Quantum Bender 2.0 by John Sheets).

Tailspin by John Guastaferro from his DVD set Brainstorm. Great piece. Spectator names any four-of-a-kind to use and the magician removes them and sets the deck aside. One-by-one each card turns face down, then they all turn to the Aces. You hand the Aces to the spectator and from a distance...

Magic dealers write the ad to sell the effect though--and collectively they have a bad reputation for how misleading they are with those ads. Look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on the effect.

I don't feel like I learned anything at all about the effect from reading your review. You wrote nothing about any of the key points for anyone considering the effect: Angles? Practicality? Pocket management? Reset? Examinability (I just made that word up)? How easy is it to repeat the effect...

While it certainly seems like he did something pretty horrible looking at the charges listed, to be fair, you're coming out pretty strongly against him when you know nothing about what actually happened. Might be best to leave that kind of judgment up to the people involved in the incident and...

Sounds like you're parroting something you heard someone else say without realizing it doesn't properly apply to this context. Mirror work has a place in practice. What you're referencing is practice regarding muscle memory, not correcting angles--which is what he is trying to work on. Different...

Yes. Practice. In the mirror. More than you have. Good luck.

Your expectations are unrealistic then. You want something incredible to giveaway without putting anything into achieving it. First, it's really not necessary to give the card away. Out of the hundreds of times I've performed the effect I can't recall anyone asking to keep the card. It wasn't...

The mock card load move into the box isn't original to you--it's been around for a very long time. Kudos for discovering it yourself though. As Toby said, all that cutting is unnecessary. I actually found it unintentionally humorous it went on so long. Otherwise, nice effect. Very direct.

The only gaffed cards I use are a moon-cut card for Lit (and the Lit card of course), and Twilight Angels. I keep them both on the bottom of my deck so when I uncase my cards I can either leave them behind, or take them out with the deck to bring them into play. Easy enough to manage. Gaffed...

It's having tea with The Wire.