Excellent Post Lucas!
and towtox, i don't mean this rude, but, considering that your excuse is that in real life you have misdirection, you should probably know the word misdirection.
I want to quit!
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Excellent Post Lucas!
and towtox, i don't mean this rude, but, considering that your excuse is that in real life you have misdirection, you should probably know the word misdirection.
It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with "performing the sleights wrong". One HUGE plus that comes from reading books instead of watching dvds is your own interpretation of what you read. That is how new a handling of an effect or sleight can be found in some cases.
This is entirely different. This is a person reading something or seeing something on a video, practicing it for five minutes, and believing in his own mind that is is passable on video (only because HE can't see the palmed card, or the split double, or his thumb counting off cards to catch a break for a double). If he would leave "youtube magic" and his webcam alone and actually sit down and read Royal Road he would be doing himself a favor. If he would read the book word for word with a deck of cards in his hand, instead of worrying what we thought of his palm, double lift, decks of cards, and the ridiculously too big list of magic he wants for Christmas, he would be 100 times the magician he is by the end of the year.
Go look it was my reversal trick filmed earlier I figured out why i get all stiff and nervous when preforming its cause im worried about getting flammed DUR!!!!!!
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If you want to learn a trick where the card is reversed in the pack I suggest the biddle trick. I think every serious magician that does card magic should know this trick
That was the selection....
Hey towtox, since no one else is really giving advice, I'll make you a vid on this. Since this is a relatively simple trick, no offence, I don't think anyone will mind if I go over this on a magic forum like this...
[video=youtube;ySFDStoyFCc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFDStoyFCc[/video]
Yeah there you go....
Yeah there you go....
No, you're just hamfisted, don't practice enough and dramatically overestimate your skills.
Actually, a much better source for benginners would be Aaron Fishers DL download, on his web site.
Sorry. My favourite DL is the strike. No breaks, and looks pretty damn natural. Just out of curiosity, how come you guys prefer DL's with breaks/other methods.
Because they are a lot more safe than strike DL. If your hands are burned, and you are nervous a little bit, you will mess up your strike, you will hit 3,4 cards, or just the top one. If you have a break already, than it is "guaranteed" to hit two cards only.
Because it doesn't matter. Multiple, fancy DL's are only to impress magicians and give you something to practice at with not much real world value. If your performance is good and if you follow "tension" and "off beat" lessons like the ones shown in Aaron Fisher's video, then a plain old double turnover is good enough. It's not a move...it's not suppose to be a move....it's not suppose to be anything to a spectator. So why go through all the gyrations of spending time on moves that are unnecessary?
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