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This. It may also be that your hand strength hasn't developed enough and hence you can only apply the required amount of pressure once the first bunch of cards is no longer involved.

In my experience, 100% plastic cards have lent themselves to all sorts of flourishes really well (sometimes better than paper cards, though the resultant "paper cut" with them might be worse 😬). Perhaps your issue is something else? What spreads or fans are you trying out and what is the exact...

Perhaps performing, but I'd also like to combine my passion for technology and magic by engineering props/gimmicks or helping keep companies functioning in a technical aspect, you know.

Two important things: I'm not Chinese so take my opinions with a fist of salt. Because the most important question should be how Chinese magicians (and non-magicians) feel about what he did. Secondly, I'll admit I wasn't aware of the issue before reading this (grateful because now I'm informed)...

Thanks for the reply! So in your opinion, does the audience, somewhere in their hearts, know what you did is impossible? Are they aware the world where magic is real, is an imagination? Or is it better when magicians actively aim to convince the audience that that world IS real (whether the...

For a year now, I have had a love-hate relationship with magic, after being obsessed with it for more than half my life. The love part is obvious, but the 'hate' was for several reasons that I could've never predicted (no wonder that my 'mentalism' is subpar). 1) Firstly, most of the magic that...

Paul Harris has famously said that properly done, magic should take us back to an infantile, child-like state of wonder. Derren Brown, in Pure Effect, agrees. I admire both of them immensely, but I think I disagree. Whatever I remember of my childhood, I remember a world where everything is...

...Bikes are 10$? Really? Amazon lists them as 5$...and I thought you could get them for a buck if you knew where to look. I am sorry, but you really have to pay that if you want them. There are alternate dealers but all of their websites look very shady (you can check them out though). I...

"Professional magicians" are just magicians who earn a living through magic. As far as I'm aware, magic performances, writings or recordings can be protected by copyright, and a method must be new, have utility, be inventive and not have prior use to be patented (which very few methods truly...

(Here's my entry, adjusted for viewing on a smartphone with saturated purples. Please consider the previous post regardless as I had to add a lot of grain to counter the saturation here. Not exactly how I intended my edits to look like, but hey...)

This is Erebus. She has the ability to meld into darkness, create shadows, even stop light itself, harness the power of dark energy, travel invisibly using shadows and vanish anything she comes in contact with at will, by making it a shadow. Erebus uses a knife as the weapon of her choice...

This is an interesting topic on its own, regardless, there was this story told by Ben Earl on Discourse in Magic podcasts, where he mentions attending a magic lecture, and in the audience, there were two people in the back of the room watching the magician giving the lecture, who seemed to be...

Frankly, it's the concrete idea that I will and I am making progress. There's this image which basically sums up why I not only never give up, but I'm often even scared to give up:- From the little first hand experience working on sleights, flourishes and technical stuff in general, it's not...

True. I'm trying. I'd have thought the same if my non-magician friend (who isn't even used to seeing a lot of magic) wouldn't have said "Wow, it's so cool how he hid the card in his hand". While that sounds like a compliment, I don't think it really is.

I have tried Royal Road, ECT, techniques from Revolutionary Card Technique, Vernon's ideas for doing the move and read several hundred (no hyperbole) threads on palming problems, tips, techniques and covers all over the internet. I have tried Gambler's Cop too, in a video Daniel Madison put out...

I've been able to do lots of things, from false deals to muscle passes, but a good card palm always eludes me. I must admit though, that's definitely for the lack of (consistent) trying.

I'm not sure what editing software Fontaine uses exactly (I'm guessing it's one of Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut Pro), but editing software itself contributes little to the overall style of the video (or at least, it shouldn't). It's the style of the director of the video that you like, not the...

Honestly, I think even the process of asking for help and taking in all the answers, then figuring out which answer works for you (because especially in cardistry and sleight of hand, what works for you may not work for me) is putting a lot of effort into things. What I tend to do is first read...

Do you already have the Royal Road to Card Magic by Hugard and Braue? It is a great book because it teaches one sleight (or a group of similar sleights) per chapter and then immediately after that, follows up with tricks to practice.

Theory XI conducts written Saturday Night Contests occasionally regardless, along with guessing locations, cards, creating routines and tricks, shooting photographs, contests involving crafting various items with cards and many more. There is also a pinned thread in the General Discussion forum...