ok i have a good start on a new routine using the tricks mindbender, spin, and control. and i think i have a good patter for it. I was thinking of using the patter of "our minds can do incredible things. most people dont realize it. But if i where to focus enough i could do near impossible stuff." then i go on to say to preform mindbender, and so on using the patter of if we focus enough we can do the impossible.
What do you all think of this routine idea.
i don't think always combining effect are the most effective things to do, what i have been known to do is take an effect, "cut it up" (learn all the indivual moves for each sole purpose) and add a part to the effect making it totally different) and perform them....
today i blew people away with oz pearlman's blindsided, i was in class and the instructor basically told me that what i did could be acheived by anyone and said that i'm a fraud. of course there was a bit of resentment towards her. she said she studied everything there is for a magician to know and she challenged me to do anything and she was going to reveal. Of course i did some simple changes which she guessed correctly and revealed...
so it was the perfect setup, i did the twirl change which she didn't know what had really happened. i told her that i was gonna help her not only change the fronts but also changed the backs....i gave her the newly changed card and she obviously saw the the front was changed, but not the backs. I instructed her to sandwhich her hands on one card as will i do the entire blue deck....i said to believe in your mind that its going to change, when both of our hands were removed, she still had the blue card...
she then found out that there is a difference between a "magician" and a normal person. my entire deck was now red....not blue.....
that wasn't the kicker, i signed her card for it to be keepsake, i then said ohh i forgot and changed her card with my sig still signed....i just walked away and left her with her mouth open...