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I aim for nuanced, layered, with call backs, maybe foreshadowing and structure. The goal is to make every word tell, to be as clear, illustrative, and easy to follow as possible. It's much easier to do so when you work from a script. It's easier to improv bits off a script.

Cups and balls or a chop cup are both great If you miss for busking. A ton of buskers do it, and it isn't coincidence. I do it to close my set, and one of it's strengths is that it's modular. People can start watching partway through (as happens in busking), and they can still get it. Balls...

I think the original post may be too vague; 'purpose' in what sense? In one sense, it's to earn money. In others, it's to be a creative outlet, a way to get validation from others, to be a personal challenge of dexterity, writing, and acting, etc. The purpose of theatre (of which magic is a...

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After a while, it all seems to be the same thing; that the performer moves the cards around secretly to make the reds and blacks separate, or to sneak it to the impossible location, etc. The same props doing similar things. (Just being devil's advocate here.) To critique the analogy, cards are...

I think that the real issue is that some do too much card magic in their performance, and lack diversity in the props. Just as a film festival would be criticized if there was only buddy comedies, or the Shakespeare festival performed only one play every performance, or the guitarist only...

Usually, it's to solve a problem. How can I strengthen the weakest part of this trick, how could the effect be made more clear, that kind of thing. If you liken a trick to a syllogism that is sound and valid, and it leads to an impossible conclusion, then you look at the premise is the...

Repeat cards to pocket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW4h9XK2DhY The crimp change is a super-useful move as well - a one hand coin switch that has strengths that differ from Roth's move.

Expert Coin Magic - David Roth

Jimmy Talksalot is a busker - there's a difference. I'd guess the best tip I could give is 'really create an act, don't do it halfway.' That means really put in the hours; write a script, as tight as you can make it, one that reveals character, that tells the audience what they have to know...

Winter. Can't busk with gloves on, when the wind chill hurts your face. Can't build the tip when everyone is in a hurry to get indoors.

David Roth's three ball routine, coins across, copper-silver and Hanging coins Call Shot (Dean Dill) A couple things from Doug Brewer's book Unexpected Visitor; 'the famous three coin trick,' and 'backhanded' Kozmo's coins to cup.

I'll second that. I have some of Roy's work, and it's outstanding. I met him at my local magic shop. He had a story about meeting some guys that worked at the Royal Canadian Mint; Roy was unsure if altering currency was a crime in the way he did it. The guys from the Mint said that legally, he...

Chicago Surprise Multiple Cards to Pocket Triumph

Then perhaps do a different routine? There's no requirement for a one-coin routine to be part of anyone's act. IMHO, a one-coin routine is pretty tough to do well - moreso when there's a very useful sleight that's not available (and the ones based on that, like a spider vanish). If it's any...

I would suggest learning an existing routine, and perform it until you really know what makes it tick. Then, you can make up your own once you really know what makes a routine work. Take advantage of the experience of those that went before you. Master your craft first by imitation...

I had PMed you with as best advice as I could muster (I had even transcribed the video to give you a more accurate critique). Your last post didn't really make clear what it was you were after - maybe spell it out more clearly, and tell us if you'd like an honest critique of your performance...

An offset press takes a bunch sheets run through before it will print optimally; sometimes the pressure on one or more plates has to be adjusted, sometimes the plates are misaligned, it takes a little bit of running to get the ink flowing properly to the plates, and to the substrate that is...

I feel that for those not really into cardistry, it doesn't really offer anything. Earlier in the thread, the comparison to sport was brought up, and I think that's a flawed analogy for many reasons; first and foremost, that "sport" (which itself is a pretty broad term, covering everything form...