Some of the sleights I would like to work on are:
-Half Gravity Pass
-Outjogged Herman Pass
-Pinky Count
-Rifle Stacking
-One Handed Pop Out
-Clip Shift (trying to make silent and angle proof if possible)
-Palming Techniques
-And others more as well
Cardistry
-Jackson 5
-Pandora
-What the Hell Happened to Sybil Series
-Erdnase Go Around
I would also like to work on the presentations more on my routine as well.
*The gravity half pass alone will take you the whole summer to get down, but it's totally worth it, believe me
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*The mechanics of the outjogged herman pass are somewhat easy, the problem is to actually make it look smooth in one fluid motion.
*About the clipshift....well you know my opinon
As your username says, I am sure that you love good sleights and the reward that it is to accomplish the sleight after months of hard work, but before you start practicing a "hard sleight" take in consideration if you are practicing it because it will actually go into your arsenal of sleights for future performances or if you just are practicing it because you can have braggin rights about it
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*About palming, I have been playing with palming for a couple of months now, and In live performances I doscovered that the catched me not because of my sleight to actually get the card in palm position, they catched me because my hand was very akward and I wasnt doing the palm in the off beat.
instead of practicing palming techniques ( of course they are also necessary) practice in front of the mirror how the card looks in your hand palmed, if you have clips of yourself performing for real audiences, watch how you make poses with oyur body without a card palmed and then try to recreat those postures with the card palmed in your hand.
Another note, look for ways to blend or justify your two hands grabbing the deck toguether, remember we do not normally grab the deck with two hands, so if you just take your two hands and palm the card right away, they will catch you for sure.
On a final note on palming, the best top palm that I recommend is definetly Dai Vernon's "topping the deck" you palm the top card under the action of raising the deck to your finger tips.
