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I forget where I read this today, so if I'm stealing someone's post, sorry. According to... the person I forget... there are three performance types in card magic: Sloppy, normal, and flashy. Sloppy can add comedy to a routine and makes the magic moments seem like real magic ("He can...

Thanks for the input.. very helpful I'll have to work on that then

When you have them cut the deck, they cut it to the table I'd assume. I can't think of how to cut to the key without a step, jog, crimp, or break.

I guess the thing that makes me dislike it is that I get accused of using it when I'm not.. which would make it hard to get away with if I did use it. I'll take everyone's advice and study the chapter in Card College.. still not sure I'll use it though

I've read in a few threads on this and other forums that the double lift is the most well-known slight for the layman, but I think this one beats it. While doing tricks involving other slights, I have been "called out" on using a key card - "He's just remembering the card above" - many times...

When I got married. When we got a private sonogram done and found out it was a boy. When my son Sean Liam was born. Those are the three biggest magic moments in my life. And the magic trick that still makes me feel like a kid; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yw7oX5CXhk

I think it is showing off. And that's what makes it so cool. I think of it as the X games of cards. Not everyone knows what the moves are, but even not-skateboards are transfixed. If card magic is the poetry of magicians, cardistry is the ballet.

Could someone who has "Burn" from Daniel Madison pm me.. I have a fire/card idea for a trick, and I don't want to thief it.. I do not have "Burn" - yet. I just want to make sure I can do this trick with a clean conscience. I am not looking for any exposure.. just pm me and say "I have Burn,"...

I like the invisible deck and the burnt card the most. Svengali decks are cool.. I had one bartender place the force card in the register's till and performed it for the other bartender and a few on-lookers. I did a standard Svengali routine, then at the end I "threw" a card (mimed the...

How do you get the decks printed? Is there a company that does this? Do you get to design the face cards too? Cost? Too many questions?

you could use pseudo-scientific patter.. the way the molecules line up allows objects to seemingly pass through each other.. incorporate it with card-through- window effects as well..

I was out at a bar last night making lighters vanish with my Gecko, and had an idea for this.. Ask someone for a light and vanish the lighter, saying something like, 'You know how you lend out your lighter and never get it back?' <vanish it> 'Well that's how it happens.' Then a simple...

I can't see myself using this and leaving a force to 'chance.' Do you use it? What kind of success rate do you have with it?

The shapeshifter works ok if you execute it shortly after the dl and replace it to the deck quickly.. there's less time for the corner discrepancy to sink in, I think

the CC version requires you to get a huge break in the deck and stick ring and middle fingers in, angle the deck and use pressure to slide the card out to the right (assuming left hand dealing grip is used) while dribbling the cards.. pain in the rump. not only do you have to dribble with a...

wow. thanks. That's so much easier.. and without the break, there's no clunky dribbling. excellent description, too I'm still going to work on it as described in Card College.. I'm stubborn. Even if I never use the version in CC, it adds to finger desterity, I would think.

I'm having a hard time with the one card middle pass in vol. 1 of Card College.. It's clunky. I can't get the card free in time.. it's way early, and the break makes the dribbling seem clunky.. are these just 'keep trying - you'll get it' issues or do I have a problem here?

I like you:D but I do hate when that happens. QH to QD. oh well, cut the deck and do it again.

Before I learned guitar, I thought the solo to Pearl Jam's "Alive" was awesome. Now that I have learned to play, and have studied music theory, I am even more impressed, but for a different reason. Before, I thought it sounded cool. Now, I think of the techniques used, the syncopated...

That was actually pretty neat.. I've been under deep hypnosis (guided meditation') and was heavy into self hypnosis (meditation) and have felt similar things.. but it takes about 10 minutes of meditation to give suggestions of levitation.. that wasn't bad for being 2 minutes.