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And no, i dont trust you on this one. Because i know a lot of card "experts" that would disagree when it comes to this, its much better to know a few things very well then being average on lots of things. If you dont want to spend your whole days on card magic you cant be good at everything.

Well its unnecessary to fill your toolbox with tools you wont need. I found this post on another site by Jason England. "But before you embark on a costly and time consuming quest for 'the pass', I recommend you are completely certain of what it is you are after. The pass is just a tool...

Sadly you are right, its not just color changes. Its everything, controls, double lifts etc. As long as it fools other magicians, it must be good right?! And then it sells. The magic community seems to have gone on some kind of creativity craze, because magicians everywhere seems to come up...

Not going to name any names. But i have heard quit a few well known magicians claiming copyright and performance right for their effects.

I think that most moves should look the same throughout the routine, If you do a pass as a control and a simple double lift the first time it will look wierd or maybe suspicious if you start doing it in other wierd ways afterwards.

I found this video and its quit interesting, its about copyright in the fashionindustry or i should say, the lack of one. Magic is also mentioned and why it cant be copyrighted. So this one crushes the myth that there is some kind of copyright on magictricks, even though some people and...

Then what is "Complete mastery of your craft"? I dont think having more tools gives you "more" mastery of your craft then someone with less tools. Its about mastering the tools that you are using.

I dont know if this is how it is, but i get the impression that you are rushing things and getting into things that are way above your skill level and doing so you will never improve. I saw that you were practicing sleights like The gravity half pass, The one handed pop over move, Tivo 2.0...

What books and dvds do you own?

Well, i think that also depends on what you are performing and what material that you are going to performe. Pick the effects that you want to performe and spend more time on the sleights used in the effects. Spend some more time on the harder sleights and sleights that your having problem...

The thing i would have done different would be : Focusing less on sleights and focus more on learning good tricks. In todays magic community its easy to get caught up in wanting to learn all the hard, impressive, magician fooling tricks and sleights that is loved by so many magicians. So i...

The thing is, magicians love to work and come up with new stuff just for their own amusment and to fool other magicians or for the most part, create things that will fool other magicians so they can sell it to other magicians. I would not bother with to many of them. The classic color change...

Get Jason Englands, its much much better. Paul Wilson is great but i find his DL download to be overpriced and Jasons techniques are more real world friendly. Much of what is on Pauls DL is more something that will impress magicians. If your going to get Jasons DL i would also pick up the...

If you would start all over again in magic, what would you do different? What advice would you give yourself? What would you have spent less/more time on learning? What do you regret?

I totally agree. Its fine to dabble with other things (Like the gravity half pass in this case) but this early in your magic career its a huge waste of time because compared to other sleights it has a very limited use. And as you said about hard sleights, DONT i mean dont go after them to...

I am actually mostly talking about the magic cafe, because i have never seen so much negativity against younger magicians as you can see over there. Its sad that they will do anything to put the younger generation down, i mean why?

No ofcourse every "older" magician is not like that, there are som very nice people in the magic community that will help you out with almost anything. I actually think that this can be quit a problem sometimes in some situations and i think that is that most magicians ends up almost the...

Why is that there lots of older magicians have problems with younger magicians? I think many of the younger magicians have more respect for the older magicians then the other way around. If you go over to the magic cafe where a lot of older magicians gather you can see a lot of talking down...

I think one of the most missunderstood things by Young/New magicians is that you have to learn lots of sleights and lots of hard sleights to be a good magician, most feel that they have to know EVERYTHING, but if you go after everything it will take you long time to get good. If you focus on...

Ask yourself what you want to do and what you need to do what you want to do and then learn what you need. Its a Huuuuuuge waste of time just to learn moves for the sake of learning the moves. Anyhow, i would recommend picking up a few of Jason Englands 1 on 1s here on theory 11. I...