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    Worst Way You Broke a Deck/Trick

    I'm a bad magician, or to rephrase, I'm not a magician. however I practice magic and every so often I perform an effect. now, when I mess up, whether or not they notice, I tend to lose my temper... and on more than one occasion I've sprang/thrown my whole deck into the spectators face. not...
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    Magic or cardistry?

    I first learned magic from jugglig, one day I found an odd coin (Australian half) and I learned to roll it down my knuckles. after that I learned to make it vanish. now I'm obsessed with the physical manipulation of objects and magic itself just comes sort of secondary. I honestly cant imagine...
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    What is the Best Card Trick

    exposure, though detrimental to magic, is the primary income of the industry. not only is it a natural response to the post-Copperfield magic boom that made magic more than just a passing obscurity, it is necessary to keep magic from falling into the dark cracks of a digital age and getting...
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    Magic Pet Peeve?

    My primary peeve involving magic is the advice found commonly in magic books and videos. Vague statements about how we as performers have to "just try" and figure it out. all too rarely are real world examples of how success and failure come from this tightrope act that is live performance...
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    New in magic

    bikes. something cheap that you don't care to ruin hundreds of boxes of. I suggest bicycles until you get good enough to stop dropping cards as you play with them. when you do get good; theory 11 cards last the longest in my opinion, but my favorite deck is still the black rounders for...
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    Best coin magic book for beginners

    the metal series by eric jones. honesty i find bobos hard to comprehend without seeing the moves in action. I would say all of written magic is hard to comprehend, and usually comes with the worst illustrations. I also learn kinestheticly so I might be an oddball, all it takes for me is to see...
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    Is failing worth it?

    Nope, its not worth it. unless your one of the lucky ones who has everything fall freely into their laps, your going to destroy yourself chasing a madman's dream.
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    The Fear of a New Magician

    as I understand it, you will fail, no matter what. even if you practice for years have done something successfully a million times, you'll mess up when you show people. you'll expose methods, make an as of yourself, and some of the people will hate you, it happens. I also understand that if...
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    What are Your Top 5 Coin Vanishes?

    5. classic palm false transfer 4. imagination steal ( only the steal, I dislike the vanish), Eric Jones. 3. g.o.d. h.a.n.d. (while not in itself a vanish, its one of the most magical uses of a coin I know) 2. the wolf spider vanish, Brandon Wolf 1. the grey vanish, Brandon Wolf also, I...
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    I have created something and need your feedback!

    I am skeptical of your pledge in the first video, the king is never shown the first time and in such a brash handling to the cards face up I find myself poking holes in your method. I may not know how its done exactly, but I believe I could recreate the effect. in the second video I can't...
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    How many dupes?

    when I need a deck of dupes I usually will take two new decks and switch a whole suit between them. so then I would have a deck with two full sets of one suit and two suits of indifferent cards and another deck with a similar setup with a different suit, that way, the value of the dupe changes...
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    Help guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    the wire, get some. so your saying you've learned literally everything on the wire? really? and I thought I had no life... rise - Michael James (I never see anyone do this ever, so cool) hook - Zach Mueller (really everything by Zach) any of like 30+ flourishes from the free section of...
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