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Basically I want to know how he's managed to do the hard bit of this trick. The card is selected at 1'30", but there may be some mentalism work done before that, so it may be worth watching the whole thing. If you can deduce without watching; Derren tells Stephen he's going to spread the cards...

I just sit there with cards in my hand dribbling them constantly. I've been using cards practically every day for 15+ years, but it still helps. Once you're happy with that, just learning a fun double lift and doing that over and over is good. I do one that I think is similar to a ballerina...

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@Josh Burch - Yeah, I just cannot get behind that at all. I can understand people not looking cardistry, it's a niche within a niche, but to argue that it's in some way bad to learn things just for yourself is... So wires. Like, you can find somebody else to be shown things. There will always be...

That's a shame, because his actual sleights, like his repeated paintbrush, are absolutely incredible.

Michael Vincent, for me. So good. I keep studying what he's doing and I just can't see it. At all. I've learned so much of my stuff so quickly by just watching him over and over. Beyond that, there's a guy I've just learned about called Noel Albert Heath, and he is A Bit Good. There's a popular...

Now You See Me, with the important caveat that the second one doesn't exist. I loved that film, and I was properly blown away how not completely awful it was. Then I watched the second one... Yikes.

If you can do it lengthways, (or thereabouts) you could do a thing where you pass them the deck whilst doing it, which would mask some of the move, and then you show them, and put the card back on top. Then you could ask them to cut, for example, and continue from there.

How many of those podcasts and interviews were with/by people who aren't usually the ones on stage/camera, though? Those people will say performing, because that's true for them. That's why they do that. If you ask techs, they might give you a different answer. (Though some may also just say...

WRT 4) The problem here is that cards are used for games and tricks. They can be exciting and everything, but it's obvious something is coming. If you can do a trick with something else, it's less obvious what is about to happen, so the reveal of the trick can often involve the reveal that a...

Lol, so apparently I hadn't actually finished watching that video, I watched the initial performance of the move and then got distracted (I'm a little ill) and after finishing watching it there's a couple of things in there that are rather important that you don't quite get with a riffle, the...

Haha. I've been using cards for a solid 15+ years before I decided to start actually learning magic, so I'm quite familiar with how to handle them, in just learning the specific techniques. I've just checked out that link, and I don't tend to do much dribbling naturally, but I can look at...

Cheers for that. The trick does still work if I know the cards, but I think it's more impressive if I don't. I'll try out your suggestions and see what I come up with.

Hey! I've been practicing magic for about three or four weeks now, and I've come up with a bit of a trick that I'd like to refine. I get the spectator to pick two cards (or two to pick one each) and then I control one to the top and one to the bottom, then huzzah, magic happens. The problem I'm...