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Thanks for the feedback, man.

I just read over it. No exposure going on. Peace

Good book to start with. Hit up your library or buy it (less than $12).

I've been using Smoke for about a week now and I've come to my conclusion on it: I love it. So far I've just been doing Portal--the same effect I can accomplish with DG's Warning. The advantage to using the Warning method is, of course, it's impromptu. The advantages to using the Smoke gimmick...

I suggest anyone interested in this topic to check out Making Magic Memorable by Michael Ammar. It's an MP3 download on this very topic, and it's only $8.95. As always with Ammar, its good stuff.

Sounds like you got some great ideas to share. Hope this happens. Any word on this yet?

Nice. Some good techniques. I've been thinking about putting breather crimps in at 13, 26, and 39. Think I'll give it a go and see how it works out. Appreciate the response, man. :)

Here is my advice... Try to create a show that packs small but can play big. This makes transporting your act easy. It's preferable to not have any (or many) angle issues either, as it will allow you to do your act in more environments. If you can, eliminate the use of a table as well. The less...

I just started playing with this effect a few days ago. I really dig it, but have yet to perform it. Do you use a riffle, thumb count, or an estimation cut to get to their card? All it says in the book is after they name a card you "secretly riffle to the card named and pass it to the top." I'm...

This isn't quite accurate. If I spot the four of clubs in my stack (#16) I don't have to calculate anything to know the next card because I have the deck memorized. The next card is just #17 (JS), the next 18 (9H), 19 (KD), and so on. No calculations needed at all. The BCS is a great place to...

Unlike most stacks it doesn't use mnemonics to memorize the stack. No calculating is necessary either. It uses a set of 14 rules that are extremely easy to retain. This page goes over the basic techniques, and what is the norm for most people in committing a stack to memory. I found the...

BCS was the first thing I started with. You can do some incredible effects with a system, but much more with a stack, which is why I switched over to the Joyal stack--you can do everything you can with BCS and more. For those just looking into systems and stacks, though, Osterlind's system is...

I would say pick up The Six Hour Memorized Deck book by Martin Joyal, but it's out of print. This is the stack I learned and I love it. Learned it on two plane rides to and from Florida to Vegas. The stack looks absolutely shuffled and it really only takes about six hours to master it. A lot...

What's the point of this thread? The link just leads to an advertised graphic of the product.

What is your favorite memorized deck effect? Mine is Steve Ehlers' "Three Card Location." It's very similar to Bill Malone's "Hands Off Memory Test," but I think Ehlers' is stronger (Ehlers' effect was published first). First time a friend did it for me and a few others it blew my mind. This...

I'd say the best places to start looking are... Paul Vigil's card work: Diplopia, Prime Cut, HCE, Sympathy (for the Devil) Cards Juan Tamariz's book Mneumonica Disc FOUR of Richard Osterlind's Mind Mysteries DVD series Disc three of Benjamin Earl's Past Midnight DVD trilogy Daniel Madison also...

This thread is kind of silly. Perhaps getting off the computer and going outside and performing magic for real people would be a good distraction from tracking every move T11 makes.

Ring Thing has become an instant classic. It's one of my workhorses. As for ring flights, nothing beats Ring Flight Revolution.

Part of the reason, I think, is a lot of the people who ordered Thread from WH were supposed to get the password into the forum but never did. I even emailed WH about it and never got a response. This happened with others too. So there's quite a few people out there (myself included) that would...

The classic Cards Across is definitely one of the top three in RR.