Flourishing routines

[BlueCuzco]

Street flourishing

If this has been posted before, please excuse me and direct me to a good thread with a link.

I'm interested in doing some street flourishing. I've never heard of anyone doing it before, but I think it'd be a fairly successful venture. It seems like a good way to start to learn out to perform for strangers without having to go up to the right off the bat. Maybe break out an iPod speaker doc, put on some good music... Of course, it's winter right now in Chattanooga, so I'll have to wait until I go down to Ft. Lauderdale in a few days, or until spring.

I'm thinking of performing here:

Here's the catch: When I do all the flourishes I know one after another, I can fill up a minute and a half of room. (Hardly enough.) So here's my question: Do you think I just need to learn more flourishes? Do I need to learn out to space them out/set them up so that they take more time? How do I compose a routine? Does anyone on this site actually street flourish?

Thanks, all. In advance. Shalom.

 

[MagicPros]

If this has been posted before, please excuse me and direct me to a good thread with a link.

I'm interested in doing some street flourishing. I've never heard of anyone doing it before, but I think it'd be a fairly successful venture. It seems like a good way to start to learn out to perform for strangers without having to go up to the right off the bat. Maybe break out an iPod speaker doc, put on some good music... Of course, it's winter right now in Chattanooga, so I'll have to wait until I go down to Ft. Lauderdale in a few days, or until spring.

I'm thinking of performing here:

Here's the catch: When I do all the flourishes I know one after another, I can fill up a minute and a half of room. (Hardly enough.) So here's my question: Do you think I just need to learn more flourishes? Do I need to learn out to space them out/set them up so that they take more time? How do I compose a routine? Does anyone on this site actually street flourish?

Thanks, all. In advance. Shalom.

Spend a lot of time practicing until you can go ten minutes without stopping or dropping cards or without repeating a flourish!

 

[MagicShadow9]

Ya you can keep reapeating flourishes, just not in a row. Like you could do some cuts, then do some fans/armspreads and then go back to cuts. Jsut make sure you dont drop any cards.

 

[adjones]

Of course, it's winter right now in Chattanooga...

You live in Chattanooga? Have you ever hugged and kissed the city limit sign? Eh, you probably don't even know what I'm talking about.

 

[b+w]

You don't really to know that many flourishes to do this, just some general knowledge of some of the techniques which make up these flourishes by Dan and Dan and Daniel Madison, such as sybil, where you can easily come up with variations on the spot. Aswell as this, I would proceed to do "big" flourishes like Jackson Five, Lethal x and Pandora, sort of splitting them up with quicker and "smaller" flourishes like Akira, Genesis and the Molecule cuts.
Hope this helps, because I myself have considered doing something similar. Good luck with it.

 

[trashmanf]

lol, b+w just gave you the theory11 answer.

you dont want to do similar concepts over and over, this is what you need to avoid. by all means use as many cuts as you know but don't make up your whole repertoire of the one type of move.

I usually just continually jam and mix in the following different concepts:

fans - pressure fan to one handed close, dual one-handed fans, giant fan stripout
armspreads - back-arm, turnover down/up catches, dual back armspreads
one handed cuts and aerials like hotshot catch - anything aerial is a crowd pleaser
displays stuff like the WERM

and don't forget to mix in a spring every now and then (they wont get sick of it) and wear a watch so you can do watchspins, another concept to mix it up on them...

good luck! you only need about a 1 to 2 minute set (as long as it has enough CONCEPTUAL VARIETY) and if you can repeat it over and over you'll do great use your biggest power moves to attract peoples attention and then keep it by following up with different types of moves. learn a backpalm vanish or two b/c people are gonna ask to see you do a magic trick also.