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    Magician need to know Flourishes?

    I think this depends on how well your character has been established and how believable it is. For example, if someone saw Uri Geller do a card flourish, I don't think it would do anything to dispel the aura of mysticism he's created. Those who believe in his powers would still believe in them...
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    Is this original?

    While I haven't seen that particular routine, it certainly shares some DNA with Ed Marlo's "Push-Through Failure". Given that, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a similar variant already out there.
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    I am new

    I wish I had started thinking about misdirection sooner. It's really easy, as a beginner, to quantify your success by how many sleights or tricks you know, skirting around the issue of misdirection and audience attention control because it seems too vague a concept and it's difficult to see how...
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    Tips On Reveals

    This is a fascinating subject, and one which goes right to the heart of strong magical performance. First up, I think we need to remember that a close-up magic trick is effectively a small piece of intimate theatre. Even if it's semi-improvised, it's at its most effective when there's a good...
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    Magician need to know Flourishes?

    I think it depends on your character. I used to play around with a card hustler type character, and clearly that guy should be good at handling cards. I was once asked by an audience member if I could do a spring. She didn't call it a spring, but she mimed it and I got the idea. Every card...
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    About yesterday part three.

    People didn't hire you because you dress well, they hired you because of YOU. Surely you wouldn't argue against a performer dressing appropriately for their character and the surroundings, though. People didn't hire you because your routines are your own original creations, they hired you...
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    Stand Up Monte by Garette Thomas

    Sorry, that's not really considered ethical among magicians. When one magician creates something and shares it with the rest of us in a book or video, it's generally agreed that we owe them the courtesy of not just taking it without paying the asking price for it. Magic is very hard to...
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    Top Changes

    Rather than "misdirection", perhaps a more useful concept in this context is "offbeat". It's surprising, but with a well-constructed offbeat, it doesn't matter if people are looking right at the deck because they still won't see anything. They won't be expecting to see anything, so they don't...
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    Looking for a name for this change.

    It's Paul Wilson's Fan2C (he was a consultant on the movie). However, Cheng's Change is a nice impromptu version from Paul Harris's True Astonishments set.
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    Perfect predictions are not so perfect...

    The dividing line between great reaction and no reaction can be a fine one. One issue Derren Brown has to contend with is that people expect him to get things right, to know what word they're thinking of, etc. For him to get a word right, compared with all the things his audiences have seen him...
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    Name of this trick please!

    Sorry Blast, that's not really the done thing among magicians! We call it "exposure", which sometimes seems like a bit of a nebulous concept, but it basically means revealing magic secrets in an inappropriate way. My advice would be to pick up a basic book on card magic. The Royal Road to Card...
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    Dec-5 Week two

    OK, cool. It's good to believe in yourself and single-mindedly follow what you think is the right path, even in the face of naysayers, if you're confident you've put in all the necessary groundwork. If you've identified your audience and you're content that you're speaking to them in a way...
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    Muscle Pass Progress.

    My tip is, get the Shoot Ogawa DVD set. I don't think I would have been able to learn it from Daniel Garcia's description as (as far as I remember) he doesn't really go into much detail. I imagine there's one crucial little point you're missing which will make it all come together for you.
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    Muscle Pass Progress.

    Shoot Ogawa's DVD is the only one I've found I've needed focussed on the muscle pass. After that, it was a question of building up my skill and trying to come up with my own applications Why do you think that?
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    Dec-5 Week two

    Sorry, have to agree with Christopher. The description got my hackles up before the video even started, then the titles over barren farmland weren't interesting enough to be intriguing or relevant enough to be justified. All of that could be forgiven and put down to the tortured ramblings of...
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    Muscle Pass Progress.

    Shoot Ogawa's 2 DVD set Master of the Muscle Pass has a lot of routines and ideas to get your own creativity going.
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    Muscle Pass Progress.

    The "expert" way to muscle pass is to keep your hand perfectly still. Some people can shoot a coin over a metre vertically with the back of their hand in contact with a table the whole time. For most magic applications, this kind of distance isn't necessary, but it just goes to show that there...
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    Squeeze cut help

    Yes. Slow the whole thing down to the pace of the slowest part. And then slow it down some more. Do it excruciatingly, painfully, slowly. Basically, perform the cut as smoothly and dextrously as you would like to eventualy perform it, but in slow motion. Give your mind and body time to absorb...
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    Muscle Pass Progress.

    You need to give your muscles time to relax and repair any damage after exercising them. Also, taking some time away from practice will allow your unconscious mind to process what you've just been learning and represent it for you in the most efficient way (what people call "muscle memory"). In...
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    Good resource on Equivoque?

    Max Maven has a great DVD called Multiplicity which is about equivoque and multiple outs.
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