Critique to your Sleight of Hand video:
0:03: Nice splash screen. Ditch TowToxGTA. It's a childish tag name. Either perform under, and tag your videos with your name, or create a stage persona and character and use that. None of this Xbox live or AOL sounding stuff. Doubly so considering that GTA is commonly associated with Grand Theft Auto. That has NOTHING to do with magic.
:13: Now you're just bragging about your deck, stop it! No one cares about your deck. Yes that was a phallic joke, and I meant every word of it. Seriously, the ONLY person you will EVER impress with the type of custom deck you are using is another magician. A layman just simply won't care. You're certainly not good enough skill wise to impress other magicians (yet) so just stick to amazing the laymen for now. To that extent, use regular bicycle cards. Red or Blue backs. They're cheaper. The money you save, you should invest in Expert At The Card Table, or Royal Road.
:17: What, a wrist kill? I wouldn't call that a "move".
:19: Your right hand looks WAY unnatural. It looks like a zombie trying to palm a card. If you are in palm, then you need to work on it more, if you aren't then you need to relax.
:20: Why are you introducing yourself again? Thirty seconds hasn't even passed yet... I don't have that short of a memory!
:21 - :44: Your double lift is rough. You handle the deck of cards like it was a fragile piece of glass. Looks very unnatural. You need to work on making things look more fluid, and less like you have a death grip on the cards.
:51: The hell just happened? You just did a hard cut with no transitions into a completely different frame... Don't do that. BAD!
1:38: Somewhere in this area you do a palm... It's obvious what you're doing. Your body language SCREAMS palm. More natural, less obvious movements are needed. Quit covering the deck so damn much with your hand. When you continue doing that all the time it makes me suspicious of what you are really trying to do. Then when you do such a sloppy sleight like that, it just sticks out to me like a sore thumb.
1:59: Yep I saw what you did. Because you did the same sloppy movements as you just did the last time. Except this time you didn't drop the cards and then expose the palm.
2:13: Quit pointing at your crotch. That's really disturbing. Use subtitles. They're fairly easy to do in even the simplest of video editing software.
2:37: No your hand isn't "empty". It's painfully obvious your in palm again. I can tell by how firmly your hand is pressed against your leg even though your bouncing around like a monkey on speed. No body holds their hand in that position for that long while their body is going through that movement without a purpose, and that purpose being to hold something in place.
I really think you need to ease up on the video production and go back to studying your books and DVDs. Your moves are really sloppy, and you come off in this video like a child begging their older siblings to "look at me, look what I can do." -and then try to do something that obviously requires more skill than they currently have, fail, and then they end up saying "Oh no wait... I can really do it! Just watch me!" Repeat et nasium.
Further, when you don't even know the word "Misdirection" is a serious indication of your current skill level. You don't even know the language yet, let alone the moves, and if you don't have those two down then it's no wonder you're not fooling anyone with your magic.
I believe that misdirection can help, even in real performances in real life outside of the camera, but trust me man.. the camera doesn't lie. I can tell by your patter, your movements, and the way you handle yourself, and the cards, your not ready to perform for anyone yet.
We were all there at one point in time. You can get better. You just really need to practice, and maybe come to the realization that you're not as good as you think you are.
